Quote Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown View Post
...Now, can you do the same-- without getting up from your chair-- for Denmark? Probably not, which in no way implies that the Danes have no culture of their own. Rather it suggests a lack of awareness-- nothing more, nothing less. I would put it to you that the average "man in the street" in Glasgow is no more "aware" of Scottish culture than his counterpart in Chicago is "aware" of American culture because they both live it every day.

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I was thinking of posting something similar. We are blind to our own cultures, since we think of them as normative, especially in the case of American culture, which is huge and homogenous, with even little regional variation, compared to other countries.

Also, the rapidly expanding global culture is largely American-driven, with American movies, TV shows, books and other mass media at the forefront. It is fast steamrolling indigenous cultural expression everywhere. Blue jeans instead of kilts in Scotland is only one example. It seems everyone wants to like Americans, except perhaps for our habit of gratuitously invading smaller, weaker countries.