eddysterckx@hotmail.com
12/24/2009 10:18:00 AM
On 24 dec, 11:00, Giftzwerg <giftzwerg...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Feh. Probably outstripped the number of trees remaining in his country.
I see it as an example of how Hollywood is winning this war of
civilizations. I couldn't tell you when they hold their religious or
other festivities, but they not only know ours, but incorporate it in
their own culture.
A comparable example is how Halloween has invaded popular culture over
here.
You know that old line "Resistance is futile - you will be
assimilated" ? There are those who think that what we see today is
both a silent assimilation and a very much visible violent backlash
from those who see their own culture threatened by the Western way of
life.
Given time a stronger, more vibrant culture will always overtake a
backward one, not by force, but because members of that backward
culture will take over the traits of the superior one.
Gallic tribes became Gallo-Roman within a century, muslim tribes will
become muslim-western given time.
Buying Chrismas trees by the droves is just the start.
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx