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Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture"
An anonymous reader writes If you hate cat videos, personality quizzes, and endless list stories about a specific school or region, then you should blame the USA according to this story. From the article: "'In France, articles about cats do not work,' Buzzfeed's Scott Lamb told Le Figaro, a leading Parisian paper. Instead, he explained, Buzzfeed's first year in the country has shown it that 'the French love sharing news and politics on social networks – in short, pretty serious stuff.' This is interesting for two reasons: first, as conclusive proof that the French are irredeemable snobs; second, as a crack in the glossy, understudied facade of what we commonly call 'Internet culture.'....American audiences love animals and 'light content,' Lamb said, but readers in other countries have reacted differently. Germans were skeptical of the site's feel-good frivolity, he said, and some Australians were outright 'hostile.' Meanwhile, in France — land of la mode and le Michelin — critics immediately complained, right at Buzzfeed's French launch, that the articles were too fluffy and poorly translated. Instead, Buzzfeed quickly found that readers were more likely to share articles about news, politics and regional identity, particularly in relation to the loved/hated Paris, than they were to share the site's other fare."
How incredibly snobby to give a shit about what's going on in the world and how your country's being run rather than hur hur look at da crazy cat. The human race is filed.
Oh noes, people want quality content instead of yet another cat video! We're doomed!
When I was working in the UK at a wireless product design company, the American CEO of the American corporation that just purchased the company flew in to talk to us. We were all gathered in a big room. In his rambling talk, he referred to all the black people in the room as 'African Americans'.
Stupidity is not reserved for one nation alone.
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lately, US news and politics are more vapid and transparent than grumpy cat's take on things. the reality is that our political system is really because voters are gullible enough to thing they have a choice about what happens when it's really a one party system. the news spews lies about everything like it's DEFCON 1 everyday when they are speaking of meaninal bullshit. meanwhile there are serious matters that has caused a massive schism in the middle class and shit is hitting the fan. if you protest you are either cordoned off and ignored and/or abused by the police which are not help accountable for their actions. can you blame us for wanting an escape? (psst, the answer is here)
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Your comment is the most stupid thing I read this entire year. The entire audience is now dumber. I reward you zero points.
It's not about countries, it's about cultures.
Some cultures (e.g. Western European culture) favor more serious subjects versus others. Some others (e.g. Northern American) favor lighter subjects (unwind-type). Asian cultures apparently favor explosive feeling-related and augmentative headlines ("It's SUPER effective!"; "AMAZING performance!").
Nobody's to blame, really, except companies not doing their homeworks and trying to vomit their own culture-specific successes over other cultures and promptly failing.
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Someone modded that up ?
So who is Henri le chat noir?
An american cat, and its french is atrocious.
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The wife and I were standing outside Buckingham Palace one day waiting for the Changing of the Guard and making idle chitchat with a French lady next to us (SWMBO fluently, moi haltingly) when a group of teenagers came by, hooting, catcalling, playing grabass and generally acting like teenagers. She looked down her nose at them at first; then when they got close and she heard them speaking French she blasted them. "VOUS ETES FRANCAIS! HONTE A VOUS!"
by working a full day, you mean doing around 15 min of work, and then fucking off on the computer for 6 hours. Americans spent longer at work, but get less done. Thats actually been proven. As far as sit around bitcing "if I where king", I think Americans do that just as much as everyone else.
Funny but the Germans aren't tactful either but we generally respect them while we have nothing but contempt for the French. The reason is that most of the German arrogance is actually warranted. The French arrogance isn't.
like banning urinals.
That just makes me sad.
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Every generation everywhere has been a generation of fucktards, the internet just makes it more transparent.
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Funny but the Germans aren't tactful either but we generally respect them while we have nothing but contempt for the French. The reason is that most of the German arrogance is actually warranted. The French arrogance isn't.
Americans respect Germans because they're very different (but that respect doesn't go very far since they still have bases in Germany 70 years after WW2). The French are very much like the Americans. This is an unconfortable truth, and so the love-hate relationship goes on since the late eighteen hundreds.
A Frenchman is an unrealised American. And the same is true on the other side, an intellectual American (yes yes they do exist) is very frenchlike. Had France kept its empire it would bullying the world as easy as the Americans have done since the end of WW2. Don't believe those that say that the French hate America. Frenchmen look to America and it reminds them of the French Grandeur that's never coming back.
[quote] French idea of relief is a bottle of wine and watching women walking by the café. [/quote]
and what's wrong with that?
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Incorrect. The french are more productive per hour, but not by much. Americans work a lot more hours and have a higher sum of productivity.
I've worked across the world and the only group that beats americans for "nose to the grindstone" is some groups in asia.
There's also the matter of effectiveness, and americans pretty much have everyone beat.
The portion of the American population that actually does useful stuff like network computers is a tiny, tiny fraction that is pretty much considered a bunch of "weirdos" by the rest of society (and you know it). New technologies are almost all developed in universities which are mostly made up of immigrants. America is being propped up by immigrants and geeks, the very people everyone else hates. Wake up and realize that the country you're living in hates you and does not deserve your presence.
Yeah, as an American teenager who was repeatedly voted "smartest" in his class, I realized all that decades ago. That's why I've mostly lived in close proximity to academia for most of my life since then, and have associated mostly with a crowd that has a high proportion of "furriners". It also has a lot to do with my migration into the Internet-development field, where my professional connections tend to be the same sort of furriners.
Generalizations about the citizens of a country are generally nonsense. I have lots of friends in other countries that I've never met, and I personally don't consider that at all odd. It's one of the things that this Internet thing was more-or-less designed to encourage. The practice of categorizing people by the accident of where they were born is ultimately doomed, though I expect it to live on long after it has become nonsense. Sorta like categorizing people by their sex or age or race or religion or ... ;-)
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
Look, I love a good amount of "pointless" fun and frivolity, but my experience as a life long American is that 95% of people here don't want to ever talk about anything serious or consequential. I'm not talking about being a killjoy, a downer, or trying to shove unorthodox political views down someone's throat (most of the people I talk to share my general political views). Rather, let's say that just a couple of times a day I try to bring up a serious political issue that might affect how someone votes. By and large, whether offline or online (most of the day I'm working in a social environment with a variety changing faces), the response I usually get is either a kind of cold silence--as if I've destroyed the mood--or that I'm a loser for actually caring about something (i.e. sort of like "why are you talking about something serious when we could be having fun? We must be having fun at ALL TIMES!").
I have not experienced other cultures (never had the opportunity to leave the U.S.) and of course this is just my personal experience, but can any Europeans or other Americans chime in if they've experienced this sort of thing with Americans? If so, that could explain a lot about why our democracy is so dysfunctional (among other reasons, of course).
I might believe in it when you vote down the PATRIOT Act, kick the TSA bullshit out of your state, get rid of civil forfeiture... None of these things benefit the people, so why do they exist in a "direct democracy?"
Depends where you mean in Asia. East Asian cultures may seem like that, but it's mostly due to really poor translation. Well, that and the fact that merely translating the worlds rarely conveys the full meaning or gives you any kind of cultural context.
For example, Japanese people often refer to things as "sugoi", which is usually translated as "amazing". It can actually mean a whole range of things, from surprising to astounding but the exact meaning is conveyed by the way it is said and context. On top of that there is this weird stereotype of the over-the-top Japanese TV advert, but honestly they are on the whole subdued than British and especially American adverts.
South Asia I don't know much about.
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With their beady little eyes and flapping heads so full of lies.
they keep their government in check
What?!? If we really kept the government in check, the authors of "Responsable but not guilty" would be in jail. If you don't understand the reference, you don't know enough about french politics to be making comments.
and take the streets at the hint of an real or perceived BS coming from it
They? Who is this they? Ahhh, the lucky few life public transport workers who are in guaranteed life long jobs and can go on strike without any repercussions meanwhile forcing millions of others to spend hours more getting to/from work.
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There has to be at least one!
Maybe set it in the back of the bathroom like so:
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This way boys can still test their might and see how far they can peep without hosing a toilet.