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DanS
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Kickball Capital of the World
Jan 1970
time: 00:21
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Only a nanny government can save y'all! It will wipe your bottom and nurse you to sleep. So says Chirac, who's worried about the onslaught of Hollywood movies on unsuspecting Vietnamese.
Maybe I should repost this in the "stupid people in the news" thread?
quote:
HANOI, Oct 7 (AFP) - French President Jacques Chirac warned Thursday of a "catastrophe" for global diversity if the United States' cultural hegemony goes unchallenged.
Speaking at a French cultural centre in Hanoi ahead of Friday's opening of a summit of European and Asian leaders, Chirac said France was right to stand up for cultural and linguistic diversity.
The outspoken French president warned that the world's different cultures could be "choked" by US values.
This, he said, would lead to a "general world sub-culture" based around the English language, which would be "a real ecological catastrophe".
Citing Hollywood's stranglehold over the film industry as an example, Chirac stressed that only with government assistance could countries maintain their cultural heritage.
Vietnam is a former French colony, but only around 375,000 of its 81 million people speak French. English is considered by most people a far more valuable and practical second language, particularly among businessmen. |
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Richelieu
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Gatineau
Dec 2001
time: 00:21
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He's right on that one.
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Space05us
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There already is a world-wide sub-culture based on the English language, its called business.
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Geronimo
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st cloud USA
Jan 1970
time: 05:21
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Does anybody apart from the French really care about non coercive cultural diffusion?
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FredKarno
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How many of yous have your minds sucked up by countless films - infinite corruption and rubbish and falsness stuffed into your brains?
France does not 'suck'. Chirac is a shite politician, he is not France. Is Holywood America?
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JimmyCracksCorn
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Macedonia - Sovereign country north of Greece.
Dec 2002
time: 05:21
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quote:
Originally posted by St Leo
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Originally posted by Geronimo
Does anybody apart from the French really care about non coercive cultural diffusion? |
Marketing is coercive. |
It is coercive, but not so much in a cospiritorial way.
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Geronimo
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st cloud USA
Jan 1970
time: 05:21
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quote:
Originally posted by St Leo
quote:
Originally posted by Geronimo
Does anybody apart from the French really care about non coercive cultural diffusion? |
Marketing is coercive. |
give me an example of such coercion then!
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FredKarno
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I know that this seems a contradiction, seeing this is the internet in which we state our views, but surely you cannot be serious?
..................Ha ha, I see your joke. Good one. I am a pompous fool. Cheers for reminding me. All is futility!
All the best.
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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
Aug 2001
time: 13:21
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quote:
Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
It is coercive, but not so much in a cospiritorial way. |
It's not coercive, but Chirac is right that American culture can be overwhelming. The economic power of the American entertainment industry, fueled by domestic earnings, gives it the potential to overwhelm smaller markets. This has nothing to do with the quality of the product, but rather the money available for marketing. If left unchecked, Amerian culture could choke off other cultures, although I think it is more likely that we'll see the rise of a multinational culture rather than a specific global Americanised culture.
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