Date: 2009-08-24 05:07 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sandelwood
As much as I hate to say it, a lot of Americans probably can't help their utter lack of worldiness, I guess. I mean, the vast majority of people here don't ever leave the country, and a lot of them don't ever cross state or even county lines. Take it from me, I currently live in a tiny town where... let just say the gene pool is limited because these people don't freaking migrate, and it's sort of boggling that they don't even want to acknowledge the rest of the world around here.

We're fed this BS all through school about how America is huge and powerful and awesome, all shall love us and despair, and a large number of people probably just get "institutionalized" to it. Ask a room full of us to draw a map of the world with no reference and I guarantee most will probably make America bigger than anything else. They don't even think of the fact that the internet is global. I'd hazard a guess that net suffixes like .uk or .ru or .fr may have even pushed that idea. If it's in English, and is a .com, then surely it MUST be American, and it's not just fandom that's affected, it's everything. It's stupid and naive, but true.

The movie was Two Hands, and it ended up being quite the ebay ordeal getting it, and being sure it was the right region so I could watch it. It was... weird. But hey, Heath and Rose Byrne, way before they were really known, and with added Bryan Brown.
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