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Jim Carr wrote:

>  You are assuming a homogeneity in American culture that simply does
>  not exist.

_I'm_ not doing that, Red is. I get the feeling that some of the people replying
to my posts didn't read the post that started everything, in which he said that
American culture is the most advanced in the world. All I've been trying to do is
to show, and to get people to agree, that that's simply not true.

> What you see on TV is a particular subset of that culture,
>  depicted in a way that sells well.  The variety (and, in most cases,
>  tolerance of same) in the U.S. is often a surprise to visitors.  The
>  fact that TV takes the exceptional and makes it the story-du-jour is
>  more indicative of the fact that some of the things you mention are
>  the exception rather than the rule in the U.S.

Of course they are, I'm not suggesting for a moment that they aren't. But it
still happens more here than it does in Europe. And I'm not basing my estimate of
American culture on TV, by the way; I've lived here (= bay area) for almost a
year now and I've travelled across America quite a bit.

Pepijn