Hello Skip, Even though I don't think there is a real problem in American culture spreading, I have to disagree with you about forcing. It is quite obvious that American corporations use all their facilities to spread to markets other than American. It doesn't really matter is it KFC "restaurant", Madonna's music or Hollywood movie. The methods and results are basically the same: huge investments in ads, reduced prices in the beginning, prepaid critics' articles (so called hidden advertisement) and then big sales and dominating among domestic products, which often cannot compete with lower quality but bigger money American ones. Wednesday, July 24, 2002, you wrote to me:
2. America is destorying the culture of other nations to sell it's own
sH> at the risk of sounding antagonistic, we're not forcing anyone abroad to buy sH> our culture. you don't have to be an american to be tasteless. madonna sH> sells lotsa records in france because french people want to buy madonna sH> records. it ain't because of some big plot to thwart the success of alain sH> bashung. NP: Don Byron "Bug Music" (CD) -- Best regards, Peter Gannushkin e-mail: shkin@shkin.com URL: http://www.downtownmusic.net/