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  1.  @rorychivers8769  The US fills its movies with its ideology ie individualism, violence and consumerism. And as someone else said, the US treats all of Latin America as its backyard. I think Cubans would prefer to see pro-American maps in movies rather than having to deal with a 60+ year old embargo.
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  2. But it's literally the opposite though. Movies outside the US were Americanized not in order to cater to US audiences (it's a market that is hard to crack for foreign movies) but because American movies flooded foreign cinemas and attracted crowds who loved blockbusters. This inspired foreign directors and studios.
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  3.  @enginerdy  Reagan, W and Trump. The Unholy Trinity.
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  4. How is isolationism relevant? Not wanting to invade foreign nations and wage war all over the globe doesn't mean you want to be completely closed to the world and to cultural exchanges.
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  5.  @DumplingDoodle  I think it's more about the era the movie is set in (Meiji era so when Japan modernizes and gets rid of its samurai class) rather than just samurai movies in general.
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  6. America is truly a weird place. I didn't feel comfortable there, everyone and everything seemed so fake.
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  7.  @nicholasmiller9468  I expect a farmer to know a little bit about history because he or she is a citizen and a citizen must be enlightened.
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  8.  @badart3204  Just use Gringo or Yankee.
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  9.  @Rootiga  The 2 party system is definitely part of the problem and is blocking the solution.
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  10. Wakanda?
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  11.  @vylbird8014  This isn't necessarily true for local politicians. The more removed a political position is from you (let's say your mayor vs the president), the less you have an influence on them and their policies and the more likely they just follow the party line. That's why people should be way more involved in local politics (town/city), school boards, the elections of their county's sheriffs, their state's attorney general and other state elections, referendums. These are scales where you still have an influence and that greatly impact your daily lives (how your city and its public services are run, what innovative and new policies can be applied statewide etc) and the elected officials aren't necessarily blindly following the party. Federal politics is definitely out of reach and too corrupt. It's just frustrating to follow, it's basically a waste of time. Think big but act primarily on the small scale.
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  12.  @_Jay_Maker_  But we also have this type of education system in Europe but we still value general knowledge.
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  13.  @pz_faust6866  What misleading information? The Japanese actually thought it was the first American movie being respectful of Japanese culture and history.
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  14.  @DumplingDoodle  This. Identity politics and culture wars have been pushed to the max after Occupy Wall Street.
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  15.  @SD-iv4sz  The UK is the 51st state.
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  16.  @yeshuaislord6880  I live in neither of these hellholes.
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  17.  @pain3236  Black people and Native Americans: Are we a joke to you? The US doesn't have any moral superiority over China. You destroyed and massacred the entire Middle East just because you couldn't find your CIA trainee, Osama Bin Laden. You massacred Vietnamese people and Koreans because "communism bad". You supported crazy dictators like Pol Pot and Pinochet. You've done jackshit to solve the climate crisis despite being the richest country on Earth and the most polluting for a century. You export your crazy culture wars to the whole world, destroying the political discourse in every country. The US is a demonic entity.
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  18. Thank God there aren't more American tourists, the current ones are already insufferable. Such an annoying people. Edit: lmao "Americans don't have disposable income to travel". That's some BS. You guys are the richest among the OECD. But I guess it's still not enough. Let me set a GoFundMe for you guys.
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  19. We still produce a lot of movies in France but they tend to suck.
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  20.  @LancesArmorStriking  In France, we manage to make room for our own productions (200 a year), American movies and many other foreign movies in our theaters. We could let Hollywood monopolize everything but we don't. Aren't Americans tired of seeing the same stuff over and over? As for English being the global language, we dub everything in French here but there are subtitled screenings too. Why can't Americans? They can't even watch British shows or movies without remaking them...
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  21.  @Kaiserboo1871  They are nowhere near in terms of nefariousness. Did any of these three Democrats sell weapons to an enemy of America (Iran) to fund death squads in Nicaragua? No, that was Reagan. Which president destroyed the middle class and started our current era of unchecked capitalism/oligarchy/high inequality? Again, Reagan with his Reaganomics. Who let thousands die from AIDS? Reagan. Who started several enormous wars that took 20 years to get out of and that destroyed the Middle East? Bush in Afghanistan and Iraq. Who lied about WMDs in Iraq? Bush. Who let the biggest economic crisis in a century happen? Bush in 2007-2008. Who is so suspicious that only God knows if he wasn't directly involved in 9/11? Bush. Who completely ignored climate change? Reagan, Bush, Trump. Listen, I hate Dems as much as any other guy but Republicans, especially Reagan and W. Bush are in a whole other league. These two are pure evil. Trump is just a clown in comparison.
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  22. Are maps centered on the Pacific Ocean common in the US? I feel like they use them to throw people off.
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  23. But this was already the case before social media and the internet. Americans have had that reputation for being clueless about the outside world for quite some time now.
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  24. @@RandomGuy-qg9xf How is it boomer BS? We consume way more information nowadays and I think it leads to some kind of overdose because we don't have the time to process it.
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  25. But the US loves to brag about how they are a nation of immigrants (like when Americans claim to be Italian because their great great great grandmother ate a pizza once), y'all should have preserved immigrant languages. But yeah, Americans don't really have an incentive to study a foreign language... Y'all should do like Mormons and be forced to do some missionary work abroad. Wait never mind, don't want a Yankee to preach me the Republican Bible or something.
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