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WCDT Strips 2996-3000 (6th to 10th July 2015)
snubnose:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 06 Jul 2015, 22:55 ---He's regressed about five to eight years and is a high school nerd asking out one of the cheerleaders again!
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--- Quote from: Akima on 07 Jul 2015, 02:20 --- The stereotype is not part of my culture(s), so I could be wrong, but Emily doesn't strike me as the cheerleader type. Clinton is definitely a nerd though.
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Oh dont worry, we have no cheerleaders here in germany (or europe in general, as far as I know) either. Thats a completely riddiculous tradition, is it not ?
Its just one of the many things that are weird in US movies, they expect you to know and care about stuff thats just weird and foreign and they dont even bother explaining them because yeah, there is no world outside the US territory, is there ?
Like I have no friggin clue how the US school system works. "Highschool" is in there somewhere, I think. That one gets mentioned a *lot*. Not sure what would be the german equivalent, if there is even one.
Or these US specific sports, like baseball. I've seen tons of movies that have baseball in them and still have no clue what that game is supposed to be about. Or American Football. I have the dim impression its about getting a ball into your enemies field, though.
Or these weird US style marriages. In germany, bride and groom enter the church together. In the USA, the father of the bride "gives" his daughter to the groom, or some such patriarchic crap from ages long past. Makes no sense to me in any way at all, why would one ever do that anymore.
Method of Madness:
To be fair, high school in US movies isn't really anything like high school in the US, either.
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 07 Jul 2015, 07:52 ---[/snip]
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Wow, lotta US hate there. The reason there's no explanation of those things is because those movies are made in the US, and are by and large consumed by US audiences - therefore, since the things you mentioned are things that just about every American knows, it be silly to explain them to them, and could, in fact, be taken as the filmmakers being insulting in treating their audiences like daft idiots that don't know their own country or its cultural quirks. It's not a case of 'Those US pigs make everything about them and expect everyone ever who watches their movies to understand everything', it's filmmakers knowing who their main, targeted audience is and making it relatable to them. If it's US-centric, it's because of those reasons, not because they're purposely trying to make their movies unrelatable to a foreign audience.
By your logic, Jeph's comics are US-centric since he doesn't explain every nuance that a person of another country wouldn't understand, and doesn't do so because he has no respect for his international readers. Bollywood movies favor Indian audiences and are selfish to not explain the points of culture that are complete mysteries to western audiences. I think you can see where I'm going with this.
Stoutfellow:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 07 Jul 2015, 07:52 ---Its just one of the many things that are weird in US movies, they expect you to know and care about stuff thats just weird and foreign and they dont even bother explaining them because yeah, there is no world outside the US territory, is there ?
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Well, I had a similar (though converse) reaction the time I watched Der blaue Engel, so I got in touch with a friend who had studied German and Germany in that era, and she explained it to me. It wasn't exactly an insuperable obstacle.
DSL:
--- Quote from: Akima on 07 Jul 2015, 02:20 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 06 Jul 2015, 22:55 ---He's regressed about five to eight years and is a high school nerd asking out one of the cheerleaders again!
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The stereotype is not part of my culture(s), so I could be wrong, but Emily doesn't strike me as the cheerleader type. Clinton is definitely a nerd though.
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What's a cheerleader "type"? Though it's true that the cheerleaders at the last game I attended of my alma mater had a similar appearance, I put that down to uniforms, a uniform hairstyle and hair-decoration nearly the size of then head, and a big helping of cross-generational blindness (one of them was the daughter of a classmate). The cheer squad during my high school days was in all shapes and sizes, and the girl who was then captain is now head of nursing and a nurse-educator at a metro hospital. I suppose I know what thenpop culture definition of a cheerleader-type is, but I've never seen one myself. (And M.O.M. is right: I don't think my high school ever had a "Breakfast Club," though Saturday mornings in the Driver's Ed car could get interesting.)
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