"S888Wheel" wrote in message
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Americans may wonder, but the act remains that to much of the world,
especially the Third World, Hollywood DOES represent American culture
and values.

the act remains very good.

It may be a sad fact but where to put blame and more importantly... how
to
fix it?

Are you happy to have Hollywood representing you?

No, Wake up world, movies and entertainment TV aren't real life America.
Oh my god.... the shockwave around the world.

ScottW


I got news for you folks. "Hollywood" as in American film to a large part
*is*
American culture and American culture was for the twentieth century the
most
significant and memerable culture in the world.

Main Entry: 1cul·ture
Pronunciation: 'k&l-ch&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin cultura,
from cultus, past participle
1 : CULTIVATION, TILLAGE
2 : the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties
especially by education
3 : expert care and training beauty culture
4 a : enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual
and aesthetic training b : acquaintance with and taste in fine arts,
humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational
and technical skills
5 a : the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior
that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to
succeeding generations b : the customary beliefs, social forms, and material
traits of a racial, religious, or social group c : the set of shared
attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a company or
corporation
6 : cultivation of living material in prepared nutrient media; also :
a product of such cultivation


Exactly where does the typical hollywood movie fit in the above?
I think a popular form of entertainment has little to do with culture beyond
some influence on attitude and values. This is fleeting at best and usually
insignificant. George had it right... the world views movies as far more
representative of America than it is.

ScottW