cherry

I'm sorry, I know your journal isn't the place to rant, but I have to disagree with all the people that say America does not have a culture. So many things that are in our world could not exist without the creation of America. Good or bad, you cannot deny the influence of what America is. To say that America is lost in a mix of culture is to deny the very culture that exists because of the many differences.

Just because you appreciate European culture doesn't mean you have to completely dismiss America as vapid and backwards.

Thanks again, Ms. Cherry.

[Edited on Mar 01, 2003]

I just got back from the urban insanity of New York and didn't read or comment on the previous entry ... and usually I don't, if it has to do with some political or cultural opinion ... but in your case, because you are you, and because I care about what you said, I am.

A horror at the emptiness of what passes for culture in most "developed" countries, I think, is pretty much avoidable for most thinking people, who end up on the fringes not because they are superior (I'm not sure "thinking/feeling" equates with "superior" at all) but because an aliveness such as you have will bring with it a cost, such as you are experiencing in what you think and feel. And write beautifully about. I feel ready for another voice clip now.