Is the destruction and annihilation of culture in the US inevitable?

[Antonio the Sixth]

an Upper East Side socialite who has been fawmed over in NY media circles since she was a child and has admitted to some odd sexual experiences involving her younger sister

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Are you talking about a fictional character or an actual person here? The former wouldn't be great (especially since as I understand it Girls is supposed to have a very realistic tone), but at least it wouldn't be the latter.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

an Upper East Side socialite who has been fawmed over in NY media circles since she was a child and has admitted to some odd sexual experiences involving her younger sister

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Are you talking about a fictional character or an actual person here? The former wouldn't be great (especially since as I understand it Girls is supposed to have a very realistic tone), but at least it wouldn't be the latter.

Now, how did simfan log into your account?

Of course Queen Lena is real!

[Antonio the Sixth]

There are a couple "social" issues on which I'm probably closer to Simfan than to most red avatars at this point, yeah.

[KingSweden]

an Upper East Side socialite who has been fawmed over in NY media circles since she was a child and has admitted to some odd sexual experiences involving her younger sister

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Are you talking about a fictional character or an actual person here? The former wouldn't be great (especially since as I understand it Girls is supposed to have a very realistic tone), but at least it wouldn't be the latter.

I'm talking about Dunham herself. Girls actually DOES have a fairly realistic tone in how it portrays some issues common to young women (at least in my interpretation. It's remarkably blunt and clear-eyes about things like sex, dating, relationship issues, body positivity, etc) but I've always chafed at its celebration as "THE show about Millennials!!" When it really just tracks four privileged New York girls and their experiences. Not that it's a terrible show, it's just it's not a quintessential story of young people like its promoters want you to think it is.

As for Dunham... While I lean towards "some" of her views politically, I chafe at the way she's rocketed to the top of the industry thanks to assists from heavy hitters like Judd Apatow, especially after I read up on her charmed upbringing amongst some of Manhattan's heaviest social hitters and how the New Yorker used to do reports on her extravagant birthday parties. As a child.

[Antonio the Sixth]

As for Dunham... While I lean towards "some" of her views politically, I chafe at the way she's rocketed to the top of the industry thanks to assists from heavy hitters like Judd Apatow, especially after I read up on her charmed upbringing amongst some of Manhattan's heaviest social hitters and how the New Yorker used to do reports on her extravagant birthday parties. As a child.

Ugh. Modern pop culture is sick.

The only time I saw Dunham (on a Daily Show episode) she sounded fairly nice and down-to-earth, but apart from that I don't know anything about her. Girls is not the kind of show I'd be interested in personally, but it seems like it could have a good social influence.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Girls is awesome. Like almost as good as Family Guy.

[KingSweden]

As for Dunham... While I lean towards "some" of her views politically, I chafe at the way she's rocketed to the top of the industry thanks to assists from heavy hitters like Judd Apatow, especially after I read up on her charmed upbringing amongst some of Manhattan's heaviest social hitters and how the New Yorker used to do reports on her extravagant birthday parties. As a child.

Ugh. Modern pop culture is sick.

The only time I saw Dunham (on a Daily Show episode) she sounded fairly nice and down-to-earth, but apart from that I don't know anything about her. Girls is not the kind of show I'd be interested in personally, but it seems like it could have a good social influence.

Out of all the actresses right now celebrated for their positive feminist influence, I think Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer are both more talented and do more interesting projects than Lena Dunham, and also seem less full of themselves (to me at least). Schumer in particular has impressed me with her range and influence beyond her pretty dark stand-up routine and touches on some of the same body positivity themes that Girls does.

[Antonio the Sixth]

J-Law is awesome, yeah. Haven't seen anything with Schumer, but I had a good impression from what I've heard.

[KingSweden]

J-Law is awesome, yeah. Haven't seen anything with Schumer, but I had a good impression from what I've heard.

Her stand up is great (she was, since I can't vouch for her latest special, basically a female Anthony Jeselnik), her show is solid for a sketch show (though it's no Key and Peele) and Trainwreck was pretty funny.

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Girls is awesome. Like almost as good as Family Guy.

This is accurate, but not in the same way that BRTD intended.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Hell I'd go so far as to way that I have more in common culturally with the people in the scene in South Africa than I do with other pasty whitebread white people in the Midwest who have never heard of the scene...

If you had really understood ingemann's post, even you would be hesitant to claim this.

Well I'll admit that might be a bit far fetched, but saying that the vocalist of Being as an Ocean has more in common culturally with me than Keystone Phil certainly isn't.

When I deal with a fellow Dane, we get the same cultural clues, which foreigner often don't. Let me come with a example, I read a foreign (American) article about Denmark, in this he saw the fact that so many used bicycles in Copenhagen as a sign of poverty. A Dane would see a entire different signals, here's the fact you use it on the way to work a sign of status. You show you have control over your life by using more time in the morning to go to work, you show you're environmental and that you' focus on your health. Everything people does are cultural symbols and clues, a wheat bread is a sign of a unhealthy diet, rue bread is a sign of healthy diet, to such a degree that giving you children wheat bread in their pack lunch makes the other parents look down on you.

In the same way you and Keystone Phil would get many of the same cultural clues, which the vocalist or I wouldn't necessary get.

Cultural are the overarching element of a society, a subculture is something which exist below it, which can't replace it, because it lacks the universality of a culture.

But the guy in the band I'm talking about is also an American, as said he lives in San Diego. So yes he would get the same cultural clues as me and Phil. My point is that being an Italian-American puts him in a different culture than me, supposedly, but he clearly has more in common with me than Phil, due to the shared subculture.

[Antonio the Sixth]

J-Law is awesome, yeah. Haven't seen anything with Schumer, but I had a good impression from what I've heard.

Her stand up is great (she was, since I can't vouch for her latest special, basically a female Anthony Jeselnik), her show is solid for a sketch show (though it's no Key and Peele) and Trainwreck was pretty funny.

I should watch Trainwreck. It's easier to catch up with a movie than a show (I have a long to-watch list already) or stand-up (can't see when I'd be able to see one).

[All Along The Watchtower]

Girls is awesome terrible . Like almost as good bad as Family Guy.

[Helsinkian]

lol at the idea that millenials don't care about their culture or heritage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders_presidential_campaign,_2016

uh, not sure what Bernie Sanders has to do with any of this??

His supporters were almost exclusively completely assimilated, detached from their heritage and ancestries, white people.

Not sure this applies to the conservadems who gave him victories in states like Oklahoma and West Virginia...

[they don't love you like i love you]

lol at the idea that millenials don't care about their culture or heritage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders_presidential_campaign,_2016

uh, not sure what Bernie Sanders has to do with any of this??

His supporters were almost exclusively completely assimilated, detached from their heritage and ancestries, white people.

Not sure this applies to the conservadems who gave him victories in states like Oklahoma and West Virginia...

You mean the people who just answer "American" as their ethnic background on the Census?