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Speaking in louder voice?

Everyone knows, if you speak to someone who doesn't understand English, simply speak louder, they will get it.

Oh, you can post as rough as you wish, that doesn't make you any more right. And your post is about 99% wrong... not 100% perhaps, but still close enough to be called totally wrong.

As far as your rather silly second paragraph... yes, I have done all that, and before jumping on your patronizing horse you should really first try to understand what I am talking about.

You write like someone who has never traveled outside the Boston-NO corridor, and certainly never opened up a fine European book, never listened to Mozart and never saw the 15th century Dutch paintings.

Let me break that horrible news to you - America has nothing of that. Get it? Zilch. It simply wasn't there when all that munumental world culture building was being erected. Therefore by late 19th century the best the American painters have been able to produce was riviling the Europeans ones of several centuries back.

American classical music? Opera? Poetry? Literature? There is some, absolutely, but the total body is nowhere near that found in Germany or France or Russia.

Deep, classical culture is not what America is about, and just a few trips to other parts of the world should teach you that.

BTW... planes, trains and automobiles are not part of culture, sorry to inform you. Well, maybe to you they are, but we are talking about fine aspect of same...

Let me give you another piece of news. When living in Europe, the high culture is everywhere, so one absorbs it by osmosis, you almost have to do nothing, and it still gets into you. By the time I was five I was able to hum most famous symphonies and concertos not because I was so smart of inquisitive, but because that was the only music I could hear all day long.

In America one has to search for high culture... it is there, but like gold, must be found and pulled out with labor.

Anyway, so far nothing in your post made me think anything new. There IS a strong nation divide, whether you wish to see it or now.

And last... America being rather poor on culture doesn't in any way make me lot it any less. I knew that before I came, and everything I had discovered since then only made me feel I had made right decision, and love it even more today. But apparently unlike you I am able to put things into right perspective.




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