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The number of Americans who even know what Das Kapital is or who Nietzsche was is exceedingly small. The number of times Shakespeare is mentioned in American f
by gnosis 15y ago
The number of Americans who even know what Das Kapital is or who Nietzsche was is exceedingly small.
The number of times Shakespeare is mentioned in American films (especially featuring teens) is also minuscule.
If a significant number of Americans were even pretending to appear intellectual, I would view it as a vast improvement over the anti-intellectual attitude that's all too common here.
- tluyben2 15y agoI would like to see a study of that; I think you watch too little bad television :)
- tluyben2 15y agoLooked up some stuff; 90210, Dawson's creek, CSI, numbers; all tons of references to Shakespeare and weird french stuff most EU people never heard of even. All US series have this though; nice example-to-prove-the-rule (if that's an expression there too) ; one of the shows I would expect this doesn't have it; Monk.