How Americanised is your country?
>>60406300
*Americanized
Case in point I guess
Fairly.
>>60406300
Depends where you are here desu, we're very much so when it comes to media entertainment, although our own stuff is popular. Other than that all I'd say we have other than what I've mentioned would be fast food.
Australia seems very American to me, is that accurate?
A lot.
>privatized education
>no real health care
>obesity problems
>inequality
>>60406370
Yeah the spelling, pronunciation and just the different words we use is what makes us different, can't see that changing for a long time.
>>60406537
We have compulsory public schools
>>60406506
I always felt like it was more British desu.
Not at all.
Incredibly Americanized.
Pop culture, language, movies and music. all dominated by America.
I spent most of my time on this american website.
Mainly talking about west germany here though. I think east germany might be a little different.
>>60406585
So we do, and like yours, are crap. Private schools are somewhat better... like yours.
>>60406684
>language
how so?
>>60406300
Not enough desu
>>60406300
America is an evil country. I want it to die.
>>60406300
Chile is a smaller USA desu. We need Trump too
>>60406300
Is it even quantifiable? I suppose we consume a fair bit of American culture and know a lot more about it than most other European countries, but the primary culture is in no danger whatsoever.
>>60406792
Shamefur dispray
>>60406798
That's gonna be a long wall.
>>60406748
>how so?
Most Germans under the age of 20 speak better English than German.
In another generation or two, they'll have forgotten how to speak German completely.
>>60406748
So many Anglizismen, stuff like update, E-Mail, work-out, session etc is commonplace nowadays
>>60406748
Most Germans speak English, and it's usually "American English".
>>60406807
I knew two Swedish lads in uni that said Swedes speak together in English. They spoke in really thick American accents and thought the UK celebrated thanksgiving and played baseball.
>>60406850
Why would you want to be like America? The only good thing about America is their wealth. Everything else about them is terrible.
>>60406792
Never heard of your country until just this second desu.
Keep on not existing, friend.
>>60406872
wow that's kind of weird if true
>>60406748
Most Germans are decently fluent in English. American English
Even in german.
We call cellphones handys
We call Sweaters Pullovers
And often people mix the languages.
>>60406872
>Hide Them
Oh wish I could
But you're wrong, no one unironically doesn't speak German, except for some Türk diasporafags and the countless Arabs. Ethnic Germans are obviously fluent in their language
Chile is a smaller USA.
>>60406537
>inequality
>>60406963
>Never heard of your country until just this second desu.
You've never heard of Belarus? Jesus, man.
>>60406955
Shut up, Russian Canada
>>60406872
>Most Germans under the age of 20 speak better English than German.
No that is not actually true.
Do we have to turn this thread into /pol/-shit?
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>>60406300
Not Americanized
More like NYC/LA ized
Sorry bro but LA/NYC have replaced London as the capitals of English speaking cool things.
>>60406963
America does not own Belarus.
>>60407109
No.
>>60407008
>We call cellphones handys
What do you call handjobs, then?
>>60407090
Belarus is basically Russia for all intents and purposes tbf
>>60407136
>Sorry bro but LA/NYC have replaced London as the capitals of English speaking cool things.
LA, NYC, and London are all the capitals imo.
>>60406506
>>60406597
Australia is Western California. We more in common with the Aussies than with any Rube/Redneck states.
>>60407189
>What do you call handjobs, then?
The closest would be the verb runterholen.
They just opened a McDonalds down the road from me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM
>>60406300
not
>>60406419
This comment made me kek.
>>60407147
>America does not own Belarus.
He was joking, we don't literally think that other countries belong to us. Except maybe Puerto Rico, I guess, but that barely counts.
>>60407260
>runterholen
I love your language
>>60406300
Tbh, I'd say not at all really. The only difference I think I've seen is that politics has changed a bit, but I don't really know whether that's because of America or just the political situation atm. There was also a fad of "American BBQ" a while ago
>>60406300
A little bit but not a lot.
>>60407255
I agree, I used to agree with the other poster in that they were just english people but born somewhere sunny, but after speaking to more of them they really are just desert yanks
>>60406300
way too much
>turn on the TV american series
>go to the movies, 2/3 of the films are americans and the movie theater has a macdonald
Civilization is falling apart.
>>60407336
>Tbh, I'd say not at all really
Really? Weird, I thought American culture and products were everywhere in England (rock, rap, jeans, iphones, mcdonalds, hollywood movies, etc.).
>>60407336
I think as we take in more immigrants they'll rather adopt American culture than ours. I was in London the other week and there were these black girls calling each other niggas and talking all "yo yo" and shit. The fact that terms like person of colour and all the SJW shit is a thing here at all is bad sign.
I honestly think in the future the UK will just be shitskins speaking in American Accents. Tragic.
>>60406300
Very the only thing I notice when I'm at home is that we aren't as free with what we can buy, or are allowed to buy.
Go to a 7-11 in USAtown USA and you can buy booze and fireworks and whatever the fuck you want.
Go to a 7-11 in Canada you can buy smokes for 3x the price and you aren't allowed to buy like 5000 American-only candies, pop drinks, chips, ect ect
I'm blown away every time I visit with how much selection they have because Canada has strict food requirements / archaic booze laws.
>>60407436
They are, it's just that brits like to take credit for them.
>>60407544
>Go to a 7-11 in USAtown USA and you can buy booze and fireworks and whatever the fuck you want.
Depends on where you are, some parts of the Deep South can be absurdly strict about alcohol.
>>60407436
I dunno, are we calling iPhones and jeans part of American culture?
>>60407330
>I love your language
Is it common to learn German during school in America? I heard sometimes Americans choose it because they have German heritage but it seems kinda useless.
I mean I am glad I didn't have to learn German later because English is so much easier and more useful.
>>60407591
We are, but our culture is more predominant.
>>60407544
yeah it's pretty cool that you can buy beer just about anywhere. at least in the great lakes/midwest where I'm at, it may be different elsewhere
>>60406684
Movies and shit get dubbed though. But yeah, the language is influenced too much.
>>60407436
I don't really think that's jeans and iphones are American culture. We speak the same language, I could say you're "anglicised" because english stuff is popular in the US as well. People certainly don't want to be more like Americans, and your culture isn't really aspired to apart from music maybe, but we have our own twists
>>60407246
>>60407136
london and nyc are on the same level in terms of relevancy
>>60407773
>English is so much easier and more useful.
This is true, but I find German to be fun to speak and say your words, Shame it's not taught over here as mandatory, instead we learn French.
>>60407780
Really? Just checked your music charts and your current top films and most of them are American.
What are you talking about?
>>60407773
>Is it common to learn German during school in America?
Not really. Spanish is the most common by far, followed by French, and some schools offer Mandarin Chinese. My high school did offer German, but they shut down the program because not enough people signed up. So I got stuck taking Spanish for 4 years.
>>60407498
I know what you mean, but stuff like that is still a but minority. I suppose that's just JFs being americanised not the UK in general. Especially as the US becomes less cool I don't see that future of yours being a thing
>>60407754
Wew
>>60407330
It gets better, wichsen is my favourite term referring to hand stuff. Though that's more like Masturbating and not some one else getting you off.
Blasen would be oral sex, as in jemandem einen blasen (blow some one)
Ahh well hope you didn't mind my little German dirty talk rant
>>60407544
>archaic booze laws
Depending on the state or county, we have some of those too.
>>60407773
>I mean I am glad I didn't have to learn German later because English is so much easier and more useful.
German is a hard language, but it has a certain level of gravitas that the English language simply lacks (or at least, finds very hard to match).
Sometimes I give my feels German titles so that people will take them more seriously.
>>60407008
>We call cellphones handys
>We call Sweaters Pullovers
Isn't that bong slang?
>>60407979
yeah I was going to say exactly this. I was too old for Dora the Explorer (which teaches spanish) but I was hanging with my friend's nephew who is a little kid and they have a Chinese Dora now that teaches simple chinese words. shit was weird
>>60407773
I took a year of german in college which obviously was a waste of time (no offense)
>>60408003
>German dirty talk
I feel like that could be insanely hot or completely terrifying, depending on how it's being said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbWZCoYK8Zg
>>60407912
Not him, but watching and listening to American stuff doesn't make you "americanised". If it changed your culture then yeah, but people still act like English people, use english slang, have english hobbies
>>60407773
>Is it common to learn German during school in America?
When I went to high school (in the 90s) the three foreign language options were French, Spanish and German. Of course, it was kind of a yokel high school in the suburbs.
>>60407912
I'm taking other than media entertainment (because that's not all of what culture is), British music is also very popular around the world too I might add.
See>>60406473
>>60407979
>So I got stuck taking Spanish for 4 years.
Same here actually.
English is mandatory but you kinda have to pick a third language and I picked Spanish because I couldn't get Italian.
>>60408003
Stop corrupting innocent americans!
>>60408141
>english hobbies
Such as..?
>>60408214
Drinking tea, playing soccer, raising taxes on the good people of Boston
>>60408141
It is not so much the watching it is the choice to watch it most.
I am not saying they are the cause I am saying they are the effect.
>>60408059
No, we call them mobile phones, everyone just says phone wether landline or not anyway though.
We call sweaters, jumpers instead.
>we will never live up to what japan expects of us
>>60408067
I also have seen dora over here. She teaches English.
>>60408058
It is kinda hard to gauge how much gravitas German has to a German.
It is just normal to me.
Your filename sounds like a dramatic movie title though.
>>60408446
>Your filename sounds like a dramatic movie title though.
Thanks, man. I appreciate it.
>>60408214
Binge drinking
>>60408329
Remember that we literally speak the same language. The US has higher budgets for films because it's a bigger industry, if they're creating lots of entertainment then why not watch it? 1 in every 7 albums sold worldwide is from the UK. Does that make the rest of the world anglicised? I don't think it does, it just means we make good music
>>60408329
Does it effect your culture though? Watching American films doesn't make Brits feel like we should arm our police and listening to American pop music doesn't make us want to be demolish the welfare state or change our manners and customs.
>>60408214
All English sports (which is a lot), American sports are barely ever played here.
Drinking/pub culture and more.
>>60407330
>we don't literally think that other countries belong to us
Fuck off liberal shit
>>60408550
>Does it effect your culture though?
Isn't media a big part of culture?
I am not saying it has to brainwash you but I still feel like looking at the box office or charts is a good gauge of how current culture operates.
TV and sport events would also be part of it of course. I don't really want to take anything away from you guys by saying how much you also get from america.
>>60406908
They were pulling you leg m8
>>60406872
That's a big nose.
>>60408529
also a nice title
It should be "Von dem Rand" and "einer Aufgabe" though in that context.
Also "nur einer Aufgabe" would be even better.
>>60408532
>>60408661
>drinking
Not uniquely English, though... I was expecting something more like trainspotting, making 'tut-tut' noises at things and finding the entire world generally displeasing.
>>60408791
Media is a part of culture but it isn't core culture like how people act, view the world and hold themselves etc. Watching American things shouldn't change how I view the world or conduct myself daily.
Let's be honest here we would all prefer to watch stuff made by our own countries but only watch American stuff because they have those really high budgets which btfo other countries.
>>60409048
>Watching American things shouldn't change how I view the world or conduct myself daily.
Again I didn't mean to imply that watching those Americanizes you. Just that you are already fairly Americanized if most British people chose to consume mainly American media.
>>60406300
0% no yankee influence here.
>>60408988
Drinking in the context of pub culture.
>>60408988
Well we do those as well. You're wrong about the drinking though, it really is quite different to the rest of the world as far as I know. I work in the financial centre of London, and it's totally normal to go to the pub at lunch. If you're important, you can come back 3 hours later drunk and noone will bat an eyelid. Then people go out after work and drink some more, get the train home at 1am and do it all again the next day. This happens all week. Pubs really the heart of the social life of an English person.
>>60409224
They may have failed in 1812 but they eventually got through.
>>60409207
We mostly watch British television and listen to British Music though, films are another story because our budgets are so low we can't compete.
>born too late to witness europe in its prime
>born too early to explore the cosmos
>born just in time to experience american cultural domination
>>60409504
Honestly, that's on the wane and has been for decades. America can't throw it's weight around like it used to be able to, and the average American definitely isn't seen as "cool" anymore
>>60409504
With traditional media dying and internet globalism on the rise America's cultural grasp on the world is loosening desu.
>>60409320
>If you're important, you can come back 3 hours later drunk and noone will bat an eyelid.
I'm pretty sure that's how it works here too, though maybe it depends on HOW important you are.
>>60409293
>pubs
Can you delineate how it might be different from bars in the US? Because it sounds like the same thing.
>>60409612
Bull shit, America will conquer the world by it's share numbers. The American population will continue to grow while the rest of west shrinks and their massive domestic market will spill over and consume everything.
>>60409688
>internet
That still counts as ours though.
>>60409767
Whatever you need to tell yourself bud.
>>60409743
>numbers
>population growth
Funny you should mention that, when China has 3 times as many people as us and their population is still growing....
>>60409721
In Britain pubs are just a place to hang out, it is closer to coffee shops or cafe's in other countries, you don''t just go there to drink you just go there to do your socialising. It is really different than in the US.
>>60409612
>Honestly, that's on the wane and has been for decades. America can't throw it's weight around like it used to be able to
It's fun seeing this myth thrown around, as though the US somehow had more global influence back when it was struggling with the USSR for domincance.
>>60409721
Sorry, I didn't explain properly. It's not because you're a boss and people look the other way. If you're junior then yeah, it would be bad form to waste lots of company time drinking. Birthdays and that are still write offs. But for for people who make important choicess, all the important deals are done in pubs, and it's how business relations are created and maintained. Drinking here really is part of peoples jobs
>>60409477
Honestly now that I think about it it seems like the UK is actually pretty dominating when it comes to TV.
Even many American TV shows are just American version of British concepts.
Same over here actually.
>>60406419
this
>>60409886
I'm not trying to meme. Even in the 90s there was a sort of anti-yank drive, certainly within music, because people thought the UK was becoming americanised. That died a death though, not because we've become America but because the process stopped
>>60410180
The 90's were pretty great for the UK musically we didn't have American stuff at all and avoided all the grunge stuff but the 00's with the rise of hip hop they cucked us
>>60410266
Hip hop had already been "risen" for 20 years, the 00s were when we started making our equivalents properly ourselves. Especially from that era it was laughably english, people rapping about their nans and cheese on toast and bitter
>>60410440
I'm a pleb but I remember being in my early teens then and when eminem came out hip hop was everywhere and everyone was listening to it. I don't remember Tupac or NWA being mainstream popular when I was little.
50/50 i'd say.
In some ars their culture are pretty strong, like northeast and center-west.
>>60406872
this is not true
>>60411176
It was just some innocent banter.
You are kinda late.
>>60406300
Dubs checked.
The USA used to be Americanized, but not so much any more.
>>60408410
>>60409818
ya but they are dum chinks lol
>>60410180
>Even in the 90s there was a sort of anti-yank drive, certainly within music, because people thought the UK was becoming americanised.
I remember that, it was around the time you guys decided the word "soccer" was American and started hating it even though you invented it.
>>60413966
We stopped using that word like 100 plus years ago.
>>60406684
4chan is a Japanese owned website now.
Ameribros is Five Guys any good?
>>60415222
Yes, just make sure you only order a small fries to share between 2-4 people. They heap them up, even by our standards.
Too much
No offense but all the american holidays like Thanksgiving, Black Friday, 4th of July and stuff like St.Patricks day should get the fuck out of my country
We have a lot of traditions already, but in 20 years the young people will only know about halloween and all that shit
I Cringe everytime i see a commercial for black friday or watch pictures of danish teenagers doing halloween
>>60415366
>4th of July
Why would you even..?
>Black Friday
Not a holiday.
>St.Patricks day
C'mon now.
>Thanksgiving
You'd pass up a meal..?
>>60415366
Why the fuck would Danes celebrate 4th of July or Thanksgiving? They're literally American holidays created for Americans.
Black Friday is a business thing not a holiday.
americanization is actually Californization. even the rest of America isn't americanized as some other countries
>>60406792
It will soon, inshalla.
>>60407255
Only the eastern coast of Australia is California-esque
the rest of their continent might as well be Texas, but with more desert
>>60406955
are you retarded ? look up their dept. 20 trillion.
>>60415813
>>60415926
Its not that they are celebrated by the wide populace but there certainly is a niche that loves everything that is american and this niche is pretty big
these are the same people that watch the super bowl without knowing anything about the sport
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
USA is more greekcanised
tick tock tick tock...
>>60416202
The US literally can't default because the debt is in their own money. This clock is retarded.
>>60416202
We haven't exhausted our ability to print money.... yet....
very little.
>>60416339
Your country is japananized, so it's pretty americanized
>>60415926
>Thanksgiving
Don't you..?
>>60406748
>Ich habe ein Handy
>>60416401
It really isn't. Young people watch anime and listen to Taylor Swift, that's about it. Other than that, we're pretty isolated. We still have American sanctions.
>>60416277
france and mathematics ;D
>>60416462
We celebrate a Thanksgiving, but it's not the same as yours, which celebrates the landing of the Pilgrims, as that had nothing to do with us.
Ours is just a Harvest Festival.
>>60406872
>In another generation or two, they'll have forgotten how to speak German completely.
that sounds fun
I pray for the eradication of the german language everyday, but they're pretty tenacious at holding out in pockets even in the US
>>60416604
>celebrates the landing of the Pilgrims
Nominally, to be honest. Modern US Thanksgiving is about eating a big meal with the extended family and maybe watching the football game. Nobody gives a shit about the pilgrims, so ours is as much "just a harvest festival" as yours.
Maybe the pilgrim thing is bigger on the east coast, I dunno.
>>60407544
>pop drinks
Good on you m8, using the proper term.
Less than the rest of Europe
hispanic americans are by far more americanized than us
we don't even know how to speak english properly. some media is of american origin, but we put our voices and never have anything in english in the tv
this is different of other european countries that emit in english some things
>>60407603
>TFW Jack Daniels home town is in a dry counts
>>60418166
> County
>>60416501
台湾,你的国家青年人喜欢日本和韩国文化吗?我听说很多的亚洲青年人喜欢看日本动漫,听韩国音乐。
>>60406300
We despise America here but goddamn it are we Americanised. American fast foods everywhere, American influenced entertainment eveywhere, fucking hell Selena Gomez going for a tour next month here.
>>60406955
Why wouldn't you want to be like America? USA all the way!!!
>>60415366
>>60406506
it always makes my skin crawl when wankers call prams "strollers"
My state has been forgotten by American government.
West Virgina has more in common with Russia than the rest of America.
That is why the Appalachians ate called little Russia sometimes.
We are dirt poor with bad roads and horrible winters.
Not at all. It's not like they're our southern neighbor and hugest trade partner or anything. Right?
>>60406300
I'd say on a scale of 1-10, we're a 6 or 7. Not sure if most Aussies would agree here, but I don't think Americanisation made too much of a difference or cultural shock, since we were very similar to yanks in a lot of aspects. If anything I'd say it's just globalisation in effect, and we consume what they export
>>60406300
Very
>>60420099
I used to unironically think Canada was just another US state
>>60417449
from my perspective you guys are pretty americanized despite being shit at english, only place in europe i feel isn't is the balkans
>>60420381
>>60417449
Spanish actually have a very strong culture.
They also have a lot of american things and elements but their primary culture is just so huge and influenced from their own colonies that it really outshines foreign influence.
Even in the U.S, spanish culture combines the strength of black and asian culture. Like blacks, spanish culture has a big effect of the average American but unlike blacks and more like asians they have a very seperate culture and their own unique set of entertainment that isn't assimilated.
>>60420694
there is no spanish culture here, aside from paella places making a niche in some parts of the country. it's mexican and other latin american culture that came here. i lived in spain for 6 months i know what im talking about.
>>60406300
Not at all. We are rather an antipode of America.
>>60421070
well, thats what your tv tells you at least
>>60421086
That's what i can see with my own eyes in real life. We are completely different from Americans, the only thing we have in common with them is belonging to the same biological species. While mentally and culturally America and Americans are absolutely alien to us.
>>60421416
According to my Finnish friend, the general populous of each is both retardedly fucking patriotic at times (he said this when people began chanting "USA" at a sport rally."
Again, you guys are probably more similar than you'd like to think.
Not much americanized aside from a few idiots from buenos aires and metro area, we have own media and movies, thou people kind of speaks better english tha average latin american, there's not much ameriboos here
>>60421416
The russian soul is a hard soul. The Russians are a steadfast and stalwart people,resolute and strong beyond measure.
I just wish theyd smile more
>>60406506
>>60406597
Ausnz as countries are more American but the people are more British.
Still use Americanisms for pretty much everything
>>60421702
argentina is shit tier
your white people are worse than slavs
>>60406963
>I'm cool because I'm ignorant
Fuck off
>>60421571
American patriotism is very different from Russian. Your patriots really love America, American values, American culture, American way of life, they love freedom, liberty, democracy and principles of the US Constitution, which in fact have established the American nation.
While typical Russian "patriotism" is nothing but aggressive jingoism. Most of our people who call themselves patriots don't really love Russia, they just hate non-russians and love the current regime, with Putin in particular.
>>60422286
>I just wish theyd smile more
We smile when we consider it necessary.
