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Re: You couldn't miss the point by more

Posted by Len_ (A) on March 14, 2004 at 12:21:50

In Reply to: You couldn't miss the point by more posted by Victor Khomenko on March 14, 2004 at 11:56:32:

I didn't miss your point. You have missed mine, so let me restate it for you again. This forum is extremely parochial in the scope of its discussion. It's really only a couple of people talking, and IMO, this has come to be by design. You folks drive off discussion of popular films, if you haven't noticed. It's nothing more then pigeon-holing in reverse.

You're arguing semantics. You read a lot of pretext into words instead of taking them for their literal definitions. I'll state it again: Foreign, to me, is anything situated outside MY place. It has no ulterior definitions beyond that. American films are foreign to the Chinese. Indian films are foreign to the French. German films are foreign to me. Isn't that simple? Judging by your post history, you love telling people what they should like; But please stop putting your personal definitions in other people's words.

American-centric does not have any negative connotation to me. Neither does any other ethnocentric viewpoint. We are all products of our upbringing and needn't make apologies for it. Again, this isn't to say we shouldn't broaden our cultural palette by sampling what the world has to offer (and more importantly to me, trying to understand how others' think). But seeing the world through ethnocentric eyes is perfectly reasonable IMO. And if someone doesn't appreciate other culture's works, who are you to tell them they're ignorant, arrogant, or stupid?

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