gmaverick019 said:
OT: watching tv is the worst way to know this country, im sorry, but it truly is, some of the shows on tv are absolute facepalm to anything that our cities and states are actually like.
Nothing better than people who have never been to an area of this country writing about it and fleshing it out with details gleaned from untrue stereotypes that nobody else knows aren't true because no one else has ever been there either.
True facts you won't find on TV or in movies: The Northeast is more racist than the South.
believer258 said:
That the south isn't chock full of fucktards like a lot of northern people think?
That "southern hospitality" means "I've had too much cornbread in my life, so everybody down here's got to move and talk slower than anyone else?" OK, maybe that's not entirely true - in college, there's a girl from San Francisco who says she likes how much nicer people are here than they are there. Bewildering to me, maybe she likes the cornbread too?
You really can't learn about America from its TV; for that matter, the only way to learn everything about all of America's nuances, you'd have to spend a fair amount of time in a lot of its different regions. There are a lot of shared ideas and things, but there's so much more than California's anti-game laws or New York's big statue or Chicago's crime rate. There's just more than that.
EDIT: Many Americans aren't born stupid, they just think that acting stupid is cool and funny and eventually they become stupid.
For anyone wondering, I don't really consider myself a patriot but I still get offended when America is generalized as a bunch of Californians or New Yorkers. We're just not all like that.
I've lived in the South for several years in the past. It's a wonderful place. People aren't stupid there, and certainly no less intelligent than people in the North -- and they ARE nicer, and the cities are cleaner, and the weather is better.
Plus they know how to handle snow -- that is, if there's half an inch, nobody goes anywhere or does anything. haha. I like that plan, I despise digging out cars >:|
Also re: Carson Daly
.. nobody remembers where he's from? Seriously? I suppose it does seem like a myth in this day and age.
Children, once upon a time, long long ago, MTV used to play music videos. People watched these music videos on MTV. As time passed, MTV decided to play fewer and fewer videos, and so gradually increased the breaks between one video and another with useless chatter.
Eventually, this chatter took form and name and it was Carson, and to him young girls made phone calls to vote for their favorite video.
Seriously though, nobody remembers Total Request Live? That was the late 90s.. that's not that long ago
