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Originally posted by katykater
The US felt for centuries as the undercultured/undercivilized one in comparison to the old world (Europe) and still is at least 3 decades behind in civil rights, electronic music,...
No matter how good America becomes in technology, making money,... Their society, mentality, psyche,... stays behind.
Their inability to produce diversity in art is also telling. If you give them a music genre, they tend to compete in producing it according to 1 recipe but louder, moaar, mooooaaar of the same and so it's made jokenly generic. In Europe it branches out and artists don't feel judged or having to fit in that 1 recipe.
Not just pop and EDM. Same for US metal vs European metal.
If you grew up in a society telling you that there is only 1 way, the white men's way. It's different from seeing 10+ countries around you doing things differently.
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EDM hit the US first in fact it was created by a Detroit based group called Inner City. The US milked it for awhile in the late 80s and very early 90's then moved onto Grunge Rock, Rap and R&B. When did Europe ever embrace R&B and Rap? They never did. Why is that? Is it their lack of artistic diversity?
EDM only came back into fashion in 2006/7 here in the US. Like most things... they come and go and comeback in a slightly different form at a later time. Europe never moved past the EDM phase. They don't now get to claim they were somehow first because they refused to move beyond EDM and really fully explore R&B and Hip Hop at the scale the US has. So lets not act like Europe has diversity in art. They simply have the same old same old art from years past that they never move past and sometimes it comes into style and sometimes it doesn't.
The scale of America's diversity racially, artistically, technologically and otherwise far and away outpaces Europe. Name a single country in Europe that has the scale of US diversity. You can't because one doesn't exist on this planet. Let's face it for all of the flack America gets how many racial minorities have been elected to the highest office in Europe? Europe simply doesn't have the scale of diversity to be a legitimate authority on the issue.
Let me know when a racial minority is leading the UK, France, Spain, Italy or anywhere else in Europe. Secondly, Europe has stricter immigration laws. Let me know when they are relaxed so Americans can more easily migrate there. Let me know when Europe has the scale of diversity the US has. So we can compare how they deal with it. Maybe it'll be how they are currently dealing with Syrian immigration.
It certainly works for white guys obsessed with Asian girls and the reverse.
