The American Homogenization of the World

We rule!

USA!

USA!

USA!!

I guess that answers the age-old question of which country really is the best.

It's the one that everyone else wants to copy and be like.

The USA is the ruler of the world.

I guess the sun DID set on the British Empire.

Years ago I was trying to look up some garbage service in the yellow pages (remember that?) and I couldn't find it. Finally, I saw the listings were under "Rubbish" and I had to laugh. Rubbish sounds fancy, must've been a leftover from the days of British rule.

Cookies and French fries slowly taking over biscuits and chips. If only the Brits would tell time numerically: 7:40 rather than twenty-to-eight!

r20 the Yellow Pages are leftover from the Truman era. You must be ancient.

Oh no, I hope valley girl vocal fry doesn’t become the only vocal type in the entire world.

[quote]Cookies and French fries slowly taking over biscuits and chips…

BTW, what are ACTUAL biscuits and chips known as in the UK?

Who gives a shit about the UK the fuckers burnt our Capitol to the ground.

Never Forget

R2 More like the destroyer of the world.

Most people are DESPERATE to fit in. And I mean desperate and destitute. With America being the single biggest content creator in the English realm, and with English (still) being the world’s default international language thanks to the Brits — here we are.

British girls with cute crooked teeth grow up with US-created content, they want to fit in and not be different, and so they conform.

I agree that it is beyond sad and it rapidly chips away at our cultures and identities.

OP, have your friends give their daughter a steady diet of improving British YouTube—some DL faves will even give her gracious lifestyle tips along with impeccable Received English diction.

It takes a global village...

I don’t understand why the British call lengthwise-cut potatoes “chips.” Are they just screwing with us?

This isn't too much different from the Anglophilia that's beset most of the world since the Victorian period, except that YouTube is more likely to communicate cultural swill than are the novels of Jane Austen.

As an American, all I can say about this thread is "BLOODY HELL!"

OP took his post verbatim from a Tweet.

R8, scones and crisps.

Op, ever read "The Waste Land" by T S Eliot (an American expatriate)?

If British people call their cookies biscuits what do they call the things we call biscuits?

STFU faggot

I can’t imagine what it is about the USA that draws people in. It’s horrible and insane. But the UK, since that seems to be what we’re talking about, is horrible too, just not insane.

OP, please post your gofundme so that I can contribute.

Scones

I don't believe you, OP.

Unless one of her parents is American, that would never happen here.

America’s “soft power” is the secret sauce.

They call biscuits scones? Do they have American style biscuits? I don't remember seeing them when I was there.

Wah! Wah!

British scones

How many cocks are ya suckin?

British biscuits

Those American homos!

In Britain, what Americans call crackers and cookies are both called biscuits. You have to use context in order to discern sweet or savory.

I don't feel like there's British cinema anymore.

Or Canadian or Irish or Australian.

They all seemed to have been incorporated into the U.S. film industry (i.e., Hollywood).

Hollywood films are simultaneously being shot in all those places every year.

And if something is touted as a "British film," for example, they are usually co-produced by Americans film companies -- like last year's AFTERSUN.

r34, it's because Britain has great rebates, the and the crew is cheaper- some departments are combined (hair and makeup, so you don't have to hire 2 different crews), and they seldom have overtime- they have to ask the crew if they want to work more than 10 hours that day, and if one person says no, they can't. Whereas American in productions, a 12 hour day is pretty standard (which includes 4 hours overtime in a standard contract) . I also think they have fewer or lower union fees that production pays to the unions. The art departments have greater experience with periods and just overall the stagecraft is better and more seasoned.

The reason why I know this is because I worked 2.5 weeks there on a project, and was surprised to find that most film workers there make a living wage, but not like the U.S. workers.

Take her into the water closet and box her about the ears. Then give her some bangers and mash. Brilliant suggestion I'd say.

I love when the Brits at work talk about “hitting the ball out of the park” or “throwing a Hail Mary”.

I think it is really sad that the world, on a very large scale, is becoming Americanized. I have no problem with America and Americana, but let's keep it on these shores.

It's great to see what passes for pop culture in other countries! That's what makes the world interesting. DIFFERENCES!

I kept reading about Halloween celebrations in....INDIA, of all places. When the fuck did that happen?

I can see Brits keeping biscuits for savory (honestly, crackers sounds a bit culturally odd for them), but phasing in cookies for sweet items.

In Britain an oatmeal raisin cookie is called a porridge sultana biscuit.

it would taste better as "oatmeal raisin"

I visited Austria last summer. Young people there spoke American English with impeccable American accents. It was pretty shocking, to be honest. Older Austrians spoke Austrian accented English, but the teens and twentysomethings sounded straight-up American.

I really think Italy was more enamored with the US years ago.

I just looked at the top 10 hits in Italy at the moment. Of the top 20, 19 are by Italian artists. It's been that way for a while now, previously it would have been overwhelmingly US and UK artists.

And the US doesn't have the films, the Hollywood stars that captured the world's imagination as it once did.

Week-end Top20 Italia del 17/11/2023

8 are Italian productions. With an Italian production a #1. 2 are French. The rest USA.

Very good considering Italy has a very minor film industry compared to the US.

Years ago it would have been overwhelmingly USA.

Hers the link:

Italy made the best tv series of all time-- Gomorra. Nothing in the US can compare.

Cultural hegemony is the only hegemony that matters.

Thanks for the link, r47.