It seems like (many) Europeans strive to imitate the worst a

Even the worst aspects of American culture are far superior to the best aspects of "European" ""culture"""
Europe is America's retard inbred cousin. They will always be outstripped by their superior overlord

>>9528168
Who discovered us again?

That's because there aren't good aspects of American culture

>>9528192
Metaphor still holds up, doesn't matter who discovered who.

>>9528160

See the thing about American pop culture is that it isn't original and is mostly a commercialized version of something anyone else has done, they don't care about the quality or depth and just use it as an excuse to sell slogans onto t-shirts as their media is nothing more than how much you can advertise an annoying catchphrase which will be forgotten about in a week.

I've considered writing an essay about this entitled "American Cheese", as American pop culture is the equivalent of those terrible cheese slices you find in really bad supermarkets which are just a knockoff of their European counterparts.

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>>9528160
Fareed Zakaria and Brian Edwards (After the American Century) have written books on that, but they are probably pop shit.

This looks promising:

Weber, Cynthia. International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction. 4th ed. London and New York: Routledge, 2014.

A wonderful textbook for teaching IR in its own right, the author sets out in simple but provocative terms the rationale for a poststructuralist approach to the analysis of pop cultural artifacts. Features chapters on all the major IR theories, each featuring a close reading of a relevant movie.


>equivalent of those terrible cheese slices you find in really bad supermarkets which are just a knockoff of their European counterparts

Land O' Lakes cut block American Cheese makes the perfect grilled cheese or western omelette you socialist shit.

>>9528160
Homo Zapiens (Generation P in Russian). Generation P is slang for people born in the USSR after Pepsi was introduced. Coca Cola was banned as the symbol of capitalist hegemony. In the 90's it became necessary to sell things to Russians who had only known state sponsored products. The novel follows a ad-man as he tries to create capitalism in Russia.

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>>9528216

These are the types of slices I'm talking about, the type so bad you question what kind of God awful cow they came from and what type of people eat it but then you should know the same type of people who buy this cheese are also the same types who flock to the latest capeshit film incessantly every time a new one opens up in cinema. It's a good analogy for how Americans consume mass products without questioning it leading to bad diets and develop horrible taste in food, culture, cinema, literature, etc. Directors like Tarantino and David Lynch are also knock off variants of this type of cheese, since they are servicing styles the French already mastered to a more commercialized audience but are being tricked into thinking they are on some next level artistic depth that no other talent has matched before.

>>9528247
No one pretends American Cheese is high-brow, but there are terrible brands that turn into what I imagine Adidas Track suits turn into when they catch on fire, and there are excellent brands like cabot and land o lakes and boar's head that are perfect for burgers or BLTs w/ cheese or to enhance meat sandwiches. Sometimes you just want creamy and you dont want smoked or aged flavor to permeate your entire meal, and you dont want to spend the money for imported baby swiss. To damn the entire American Cheese spectrum is to show culinary ignorance and pretension.

>>9528168
This simply is not true.

>>9528160
There's a book called the "American Ascendancy" it's actually written by a competent academic.
>>9528209
>I've considered writing an essay about this entitled "American Cheese"
woah man, that's like, way deep broo hahahahahhahahahahahahahah

Congrats on spending two weeks in the US, hopefully you'll be deported.

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>>9528168
It's true. Europoors killed their culture in the 40s and everything since then has been a weak imitation of the Americans.

>>9528160
https://books.google.fr/books/about/The_Americanization_of_Europe.html?id=DHccFniw4mMC&redir_esc=y

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>>9528168
American pop culture is just efficient/lowest common denominator capitalism.
For example, why waste energy following the latest fashion trends if the good old 90s shit works just as fine in [current year] America.