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Originally Posted by james t kirk
Culture, surely you jest. France has nothing but a cultural history. The USA has McDonalds.
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Culture is culture, be it Whitman, Melville, the spiritual, jazz, rock-n-roll, the Broadway musical, Elvis, Hollywood, McDonalds, or Tim Hortons, Glenn Gould, & NFB films. Surely Canadians are aware of the immense cultural power of their neighbour to the South.
Back to the issue of French and the US culture: France and the US have shared quite a bit, too. Academic postmodernism would have been unthinkable without either the American academy or all those French intellectuals hanging out at SUNY-Whatever and UC-Whatnot. So, for about 20 years, there was a certain convergence of French and American culture at the level of philosophy. Philosophy isn't everything, but it's not nothing either.