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I would think most are familiar with American television, or other cultural symbols like Coca Cola. Regardless of where they live. Whether or not that equates

I would think most are familiar with American television, or other cultural symbols like Coca Cola. Regardless of where they live. Whether or not that equates to understanding American culture I can't say..

gus_massa 2y ago
My daughter [in Argentina] knows more about Halloween than about the local Independence Day. Every kids show in Netflix has a special episode about Halloween.
- mc32 2y ago
  This not an apt comparison. Else we could say American kids know more about Anime than about our Independence Day. Kids like kid things. I doubt people in the Podunks of interior China have much awareness of what the US is about other than what their official propaganda tells them.
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    This sounds like an easily testable proposition... (for someone with better hanzi-fu than I?) EDIT: ok, so I was just on douyin.com (seeded with what deepl told me were "farmer" and "opinion of american people") and there's a fair amount of official line delivered by news commentators, a fair amount of not-the-best-of-the-Old-Country phone footage that's been helpfully subtitled in chinese, and not infrequent tubes of chinese-on-the-street commenting about the US or interviews in the US, eg https://www.douyin.com/video/7253009716257836347 https://www.douyin.com/video/7253009716257836347 (the latter two categories are easy to spot because they've been subtitled in english as well as chinese, but I'm most curious about if the people standing in front of tractors while speaking their bit are ranting as their stateside counterparts often seem to be?) Anyone with better language skills have a better site, or better query? EDIT2: finally found the deep link: just click X to dismiss the QR code popup; no idea what that may be...
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  There are companies in germany that sell red plastic cups in case you wish to throw an "American" theme party.
  - mc32 2y ago
    That’s great; we also have “Oktoberfests” and drink from big mugs. What does that mean; we know German politics or at least royal traditions?
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      That means that, beyond all the movies, although germans have been watching Magnum, The Denver Clan, The Duke Brothers, etc. I doubt their american counterparts have been watching DSDS, Die Rosenheim-Cops, GZSZ, usw. They're not buying red cups because they've heard about them, or have seen them on product tie-ins; they buy them because the american media they consume includes them, and red plastic drinking cups stand out as something peculiarly american.

gus_massa 2y ago

My daughter [in Argentina] knows more about Halloween than about the local Independence Day. Every kids show in Netflix has a special episode about Halloween.

mc32 2y ago
This not an apt comparison. Else we could say American kids know more about Anime than about our Independence Day. Kids like kid things. I doubt people in the Podunks of interior China have much awareness of what the US is about other than what their official propaganda tells them.
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  This sounds like an easily testable proposition... (for someone with better hanzi-fu than I?) EDIT: ok, so I was just on douyin.com (seeded with what deepl told me were "farmer" and "opinion of american people") and there's a fair amount of official line delivered by news commentators, a fair amount of not-the-best-of-the-Old-Country phone footage that's been helpfully subtitled in chinese, and not infrequent tubes of chinese-on-the-street commenting about the US or interviews in the US, eg https://www.douyin.com/video/7253009716257836347 https://www.douyin.com/video/7253009716257836347 (the latter two categories are easy to spot because they've been subtitled in english as well as chinese, but I'm most curious about if the people standing in front of tractors while speaking their bit are ranting as their stateside counterparts often seem to be?) Anyone with better language skills have a better site, or better query? EDIT2: finally found the deep link: just click X to dismiss the QR code popup; no idea what that may be...
082349872349872 2y ago
There are companies in germany that sell red plastic cups in case you wish to throw an "American" theme party.
- mc32 2y ago
  That’s great; we also have “Oktoberfests” and drink from big mugs. What does that mean; we know German politics or at least royal traditions?
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    That means that, beyond all the movies, although germans have been watching Magnum, The Denver Clan, The Duke Brothers, etc. I doubt their american counterparts have been watching DSDS, Die Rosenheim-Cops, GZSZ, usw. They're not buying red cups because they've heard about them, or have seen them on product tie-ins; they buy them because the american media they consume includes them, and red plastic drinking cups stand out as something peculiarly american.