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The most culturally influencial nations

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#1 ·
What do you think have been the most culturally significant nations of the past 150 years?
What specific cultural phenomenon do certain nations have reputations for.

Think of
sports
TV
cinema
language
fashion
street style
art
dance
various form of music
food
religion
popular thought
novels
science
 
#53 ·
If any of you :

1. Love pineapples
2. Depend on products made of rubber
3. Eat anything made from soybeans
4. Eat processed cornbeef
5. Love modernist architecture
6. Love landscaping
7. Love Jazz and or music played by a guitar...

then you forgot to add Brazil on to your list...
 
#58 ·
Even when Britain once was an empire, it never much influenced the rest of Europe. It's just the language. Enforced by America, not Britain! Try to imagine Britain: of little relevance to Europe but for some 2 centuries the global #1.
 
#59 ·
But you can give credit to 19th century Britain for the Industrial Revolution and naval technologies.

I agree, most of the English words flooding the world's languages today are due to American culture and technological influence, nothing to do with Britain. e.g. the Spanish word "software" is not a product of the British isles.
 
#60 ·
vincebjs said:
sports: U.S., with UK a distant second. Most sports are either American or British invented. Just look at the names of sports in other languages. "beisbol" (Spanish for baseball), "foot" (French for soccer)
TV: USA by a mile. Japan and the UK are a distant second and third respectively.
cinema: USA.
language: The UK spread English around the world, but nowadays, people aren't learning English for the UK, they are learning it to do business with or get into the culture of Americans.
fashion: U.S., Italy, France, UK
Music: USA by a mile, UK is a distant second.
food: China and Europe for traditional foods, but the U.S. for new foods (mostly fast food)
science: USA. Sure Germany, UK and Japan put out a lot of research. But the U.S. has vastly more, plus they have so many elite universities. Everyone knows Stanford, Berkeley, Brown, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, NYU, Princeton, Yale, etc.
Sorry Buddy, but you are very brainwashed and very biased. If you think about it realistically, the US doesnt have half as much of an impact as you like to believe.

Sports, US? How?

What are the 3 Most played sports in the world? ... Football, Cricket and Rugby (all British)

TV - US has some great shows and exports but influence culturally is something thats real, and thats something Americans cant do. When was the last time you watched an American sitcome that had any real relevence to normal live in it throughout the show?

Language - How are people saying American. Didnt the British spread the English language throughout the world during the greatest stage of the biggest empire even seen. It spread the language to over 1,000,000,000 Inhabitants from, India to the Virgin Islands. Think about it. stop trying to make out things which arent even close to being true.

Cinema - Yeh US has a juge impact, but believe it or not Bollywood and India has a larger impact on more people in the world.

Fashion - Italy, UK, France, Japan and US are all equal

Music - well culturally, I would have to say the US and UK are equal if not the UK being ahead. it has mroe recognised bands then anywhere and has probably had the most impact on modern day music. although nowadays US has more main streem proclaim.

Food - Traditional food's Italy, France, China, India, US, UK, Mexico, Turkey.

Science - UK wins this hands down, if you're talking about its impact culturally. like the chart submitted not long ago posted by a Japanese fourmer, the UK has been credited for 52% of all patents and has created probably the most important things in the world in this modern day. For instance - THE INTERNET which we are all squabbling on now ... Italy, Japan, US, France can all be credited for extensive breakthroughs however but in a much smaller proportion.
 
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