American culture,: It is immigrant, buffer by a common language, laws, oppertunity and the home practice of ethnic culture, it is a grand and glorious acceptance of the polyglot, a rich stew of religeon, tastes, sound, colors, smells, joyous family warmth, And I am at a loss of words for the feeelings that I expearence in our culture, and if you come leaglly welcome to the family!
American culture: TVs in restaurants. You go to what they say is the restaurant with this incredible atmosphere. You arrive. You are surrounded by big screen TVs everywhere. You say: they have TVs here (translation for americans - i thought you said this place had an incredible atmosphere and it turns out that you can't have a decent conversation or enjoy the ambience because there are TVs everywhere tuned to MTV/CNN/Sports or whatever. I expected to encounter an authentic place filled with personality. What's wrong?) Answer: yeah sure. (translation for Europeans: of course they have TVs. How could that be a problem?)
you have obviously never been to a fucking english pub on a fucking footy match day where fucking hooligans scream at the fucking crappy TV which is fucking turned on too loud so you cant fucking eat your meal (which is fucking crap BTW) with anyone else while maintaing a fucking conversation. as you can see i hate english pubs
The example I gave is actually based on a real experience. It's based on someone's farewell dinner in the second hottest sushi place in town. I also have been to the hottest one. Also TVs there. (And the sushi in both places was mediocre btw, but better in the second hottest place.)
And it took German scientists to elevate American science to the atomic age, and an eastern european to move us to AC, and irish and chinese immigrants to elevate America to an industrial society and scandinavians to settle the midwest and africans and mexicans to create american music. So what. We're still the best. It's how we came to be the best. We can see how jealous you are of American, and then you can complain about our attitude of how we're the best, but guess what? We're still the best. Neener neener neener. What'd the Dutch ever do? Go bonkers over tulips? And legalize prostitution. I'd clap if I wasn't busy masturbating to internet porn (an American invention) and eating fast food (another American invention). Godbless America! Where our number one export is freedom! Fuck yeah!
Oh, what a big penis you have, Roman! Show more, show more! We're all so envious, we're going to castrate ourselves now.
I am still trying to figure out what constitutes French culture. Isnt it really Italian with different food? spuriousmonkey, FYI U.S has some of the best restaurants in the world and none have a "telly". But some dont consider sushi bars as food anyway.
After gaining formal independence from the Burgundy-Spanish Empire under King Philip IV, the Dutch grew to become one of the major seafaring and economic powers of the 17th century during the period of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. In the era, referred to as the Dutch Golden Age, colonies and trading posts were established all over the globe. Many economic historians regard the Netherlands as the first thoroughly capitalist country in the world. Many economic historians regard the Netherlands as the first thoroughly capitalist country in the world. In early modern Europe it featured the wealthiest trading city (Amsterdam) and the first full-time stock exchange. The inventiveness of the traders led to insurance and retirement funds as well as such less benign phenomena as the boom-bust cycle, the world's first asset-inflation bubble, the tulip mania of 1636-1637, and according to Murray Sayle, the world's first bear raider - Isaac le Maire, who forced prices down by dumping stock and then buying it back at a discount ("Japan Goes Dutch", London Review of Books [April 5, 2001]: 3-7). and let's not forget: "God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands." After the 1953 disaster, the Delta project, a vast construction effort designed to end the threat from the sea once and for all, was launched in 1958 and largely completed in 2002. The official goal of the Delta project was to reduce the risk of flooding in Holland to once per 10,000 years. (For the rest of the country, the protection-level is once per 4,000 years.) This was achieved by raising 3,000 kilometres (1,864 mi) of outer sea-dikes and 10,000 kilometres (6,200 mi) of inner, canal, and river dikes to "delta" height, and by closing off the sea estuaries of the Zeeland province. New risk assessments occasionally incur additional Delta project work in the form of dike reinforcements. The Delta project is the single largest construction effort in human history and is considered by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the seven wonders of the modern world. Not that americans could build something similar in new orleans of course. Source - wikipedia
