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Bizarre - the United States isn't culturally closed at all. It's just got a strong domestic market in cultural goods, so most people can get the goods they want

Bizarre - the United States isn't culturally closed at all. It's just got a strong domestic market in cultural goods, so most people can get the goods they want at the quality they want without needing to buy international goods (and especially international goods made in a language they don't speak). Those who disagree can get any cultural good they want. There's all kinds of foreign movie theaters in ethnic enclaves, and when there's a critical mass of people the market serves them rather well - for example, television networks like Telemundo.

pessimizer 14y ago
Telemundo is an American network based in Florida.
- gyardley 14y ago
  ... which shows a rather large amount of programming from other countries.
coldtea 14y ago
>so most people can get the goods they want at the quality they want without needing to buy international goods It's not like you need one book of poetry per year, and since you have american poetry you don't have a need for French or Chinese. That might make sense for cars, tables, cheese and the like, but cultural exchange is not about "goods" and "quantities". Either you are curious about what other nations cultural offerings or you are not. The US market, generally, is not curious at all. >Those who disagree can get any cultural good they want. Closed culturally is not about "availability". Especially ever since the internet where everything is available everywhere. It's about actual consumption of foreign cultural goods. Which, with the exception of anime and some such, is nearly zero. >There's all kinds of foreign movie theaters in ethnic enclaves, and when there's a critical mass of people the market serves them rather well - for example, television networks like Telemundo. How does the presence of "foreign movie theaters in ethnic enclaves" and some tv networks for the latin community in Florida, negate that the US is culturally closed? It only reinforces it: the foreign movie theaters are, as you say, targeted to their respective ethnic communities. Cultural openness would be for the average american to listen to foreign music, watch foreign movies, and such. Not for some Mexican immigrants in LA to listen to Mexican music.

pessimizer 14y ago

Telemundo is an American network based in Florida.

gyardley 14y ago
... which shows a rather large amount of programming from other countries.

coldtea 14y ago

>so most people can get the goods they want at the quality they want without needing to buy international goods It's not like you need one book of poetry per year, and since you have american poetry you don't have a need for French or Chinese. That might make sense for cars, tables, cheese and the like, but cultural exchange is not about "goods" and "quantities". Either you are curious about what other nations cultural offerings or you are not. The US market, generally, is not curious at all. >Those who disagree can get any cultural good they want. Closed culturally is not about "availability". Especially ever since the internet where everything is available everywhere. It's about actual consumption of foreign cultural goods. Which, with the exception of anime and some such, is nearly zero. >There's all kinds of foreign movie theaters in ethnic enclaves, and when there's a critical mass of people the market serves them rather well - for example, television networks like Telemundo. How does the presence of "foreign movie theaters in ethnic enclaves" and some tv networks for the latin community in Florida, negate that the US is culturally closed? It only reinforces it: the foreign movie theaters are, as you say, targeted to their respective ethnic communities. Cultural openness would be for the average american to listen to foreign music, watch foreign movies, and such. Not for some Mexican immigrants in LA to listen to Mexican music.