RUBBISH wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 9:32 am
Social_Drift wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 9:30 am
i just watched the first twenty minutes of an adam sandler movie.
americans are weird beings. i used to watch a fair amount of american tv, and you can, but have to really keep your distance from it for it to make sense, treat it like a mime show rather than a fairground ride.
i think it's about different conceptions of money and work, less resistance to the commodification of everyday life than you have in europe. or just different ideas of 'aggression'
American culture at its roots is English culture.
But Yes we Americans can be strange creatures...I blame that on the fact that our culture is new and after the English is made up of every other culture on the planet.
eh i read a vice article on the difference in ironies, which i think is pretty heavily linked to politeness.
comparing the two, i think english people are more tolerant the closer you get, but less tolerant of outsiders. just an impression. last time i was in london i sat next to an american couple, tourists, and their grown up son. it came as some relief that a canadian couple struck up a conversation with them, i was clawing at the window at that point.
just felt too close to them, like i was invading their space.