This is what Ang Lee, the non-american director of the Civil War movie "Ride With the Devil" said: "I grew up in Taiwan, where older people always complained t

This is what Ang Lee, the non-american director of the Civil War movie "Ride With the Devil" said: "I grew up in Taiwan, where older people always complained that kids are becoming Americanized: they don’t follow tradition, and so we are losing our culture. As I got the chance to go around a large part of the world with my films, I would hear the same complaints. It seems so much of the world is becoming Americanized. When I read Daniel Woodrell’s book Woe to Live On, which we based Ride with the Devil on, I realized that the American Civil War was, in a way, where it all started. It was where the Yankees won not only territory but, in a sense, a victory for a whole way of life and of thinking."