3 ms·
My friends in China (mid-2000's) learned about America through "Friends" and "Sex in the City".
by tzm 6y ago
My friends in China (mid-2000's) learned about America through "Friends" and "Sex in the City".
- philwelch 6y agoI wonder if shows like that—which portray middle-class Americans living in unrealistic material luxury as aimless 20-somethings in NY—give people in other countries unrealistic perceptions of the American standard of living.
- InitialLastName 6y agoForget people in other countries, those shows gave _their target audiences_ (young GenX and old Millennials, who mostly didn't live in NYC, when they were 15-27) unrealistic perceptions of the American standard of living. The scale of the unreality of living like that in NYC didn't register for me until I moved there (with a much more lucrative job that still didn't make that lifestyle a reasonable decision).
- watwut 6y agoYes, they do.
- 082349872349872 6y agoMy wife was shocked when I told her The Wrestler was closer to the country in which I'd lived than Friends.