https://uncoy.com/2005/10/price_of_imperi.html (many) winters in vienna. theatre, dance, poetry. and some politics. Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:31:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://uncoy.com/2005/10/price_of_imperi.html/comment-page-1#comment-309 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:46:53 +0000 http://uncoy.org/2005/10/price_of_imperi.html#comment-309 This isn’t about “cultural imperialism.” If the USA is so reviled around the world, then American pop culture exports–movies, television shows, music, etc.–will die off a natural death, for why would you Europeans watch, for example, “24”, when it’s the product of a loathesome (in your eyes) nation? Why would you import our dreck when you’re perfectly capable of producing your own? No, this is about controlling the free flow of information. France financing “Asterix” is every bit as fascistic as China censoring Google. Americans are proud to have enemies like Red China and France.

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