From: MorMovies@aol.com It's weird. Americans can be sorrowful and sentimental about Japanese coffee houses but if you get all melancholy about ANYTHING from America's past, you're considered a creepy fool and practically burned at the stake!
What are some examples of this? The ones that come to mind at the moment aren't really examples of America's past as such; they seem to be a longing for things that either never really existed----"family values" in America, Christian fundamentalism as an undergirding condition of the "Founding Fathers'" worldview---or things that probably shouldn't have, i.e. apartheid, chattal slavery economics etc. What forms of nostalgia are we punished for? It's a fact- U.S.
culture changes, transforms and is influenced by other cultures just as much as any other culture. People are basically the same EVERYWHERE and always resist change of any kind.
That's a really weird assertion, and I think you pulled it out of nowhere. What exactly is the same about people everywhere? I don't think people resist change wholesale at all times ina ll places. Conversely, I don't think whatever changes are happening in America should be seen as either inevitable or desireable. Also, what is so great about more and more being seized by fewer and fewer parties? What is acceptable about fewer companies controlling the way we do anything, from reading the news to buying coffee? I disagree with Patrice's implication, as I read it, that just because there is fiscal support of communities for a way of life, that way of life doesn't bear any alarming trends for those communities. What seems like abundance often yields oligarchy and price-gouging, not to mention, in this case, heart disease and incredible food politics. Has anyone here read FAST FOOD NATION? ---------s __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com