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I'm not sure this is really sofa-related, but... > I've been pretty stunned during my travels to find that it's really only Americans who obsessively talk abou
by gumby 3y ago
I'm not sure this is really sofa-related, but...
> I've been pretty stunned during my travels to find that it's really only Americans who obsessively talk about or reference TV shows and movies in their small talk.
It's a slight exaggeration, but yeah. I've really started noticing it on HN and some news-ish sites too, over the past couple of years: where a book would normally be used as a reference point, now a film is more commonly used instead.
- vundercind 3y agoAdult Americans read so few books per year, on average, that it’s barely an exaggeration to assert that we don’t read books at all. And most of what we do read is romance novels or juvenile fiction. Been like that for a while.
- gumby 3y agoI tried to look this up but the numbers on different sites were all over the place.
- tomrod 3y agoWeird, I saw similar conversations in SE Asia many years ago, especially around popular soap operas. Maybe it's hindsight bias on one of our parts.