To each his own disrespectfulness
15 April 2015 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixmann...You know what's missing? This culture needs a show which deals the same way disrespectfully with its celebreties as the American TV shows deal with theirs.
Not that it should lead to agitation, the reason is another: What are American celebreties to Central Europe? Do they have the same meaning to Europe than to America?
Sure most of the movie stars and musicians are known here, sometimes a few politicians, but, for example, does anyone know an NBA basketball team? The only person known to commercially play basketball is Dirk Nowitzki. And that's where things start off.
During the 90s, there was a show called Switch, later continued through the 2000s by Switch reloaded, which slightly took that line, but it mainly circled around TV shows current at that time.
Maybe there were some other, but even if they ever became equivalent to the US shows, they all have died meanwhile. What replaced them is more a joke as a show than it contains jokes. Heute Show is more political propaganda and agitation than anything else, other equivalents also only circle around the topic "week in review". And most shows, above all, also only circle around politics. Mostly around current politics.
There's no-one which rambles around being bugged by the popularity of German Schlager and Helene Fischer, there's no-one making fun of Tatort and the other crime series which are run in a predictable way - say, only if somebody makes a fool of himself like Michael Wendler someone comes up and pummels him for the hell out of it, or if he is one of those figures which they regularly make fun of.
In case someone already starts to wonder about all these names with a link attached - that's the way a European - rather: a German - feels when watching all these US-American TV shows and even cartoon series such as Family Guy and South Park and not getting for all one is worth what's so funny about it.
Disclaimer: This is not intended to create agitation or hate speech against a selected amount of people and their businesses. Names are only taken for showing examples currently common in German popular culture.
There already was a complaint about the domination of US culture throughout the world: https://matrixmann.dreamwidth.org/28590.html
Not that it should lead to agitation, the reason is another: What are American celebreties to Central Europe? Do they have the same meaning to Europe than to America?
Sure most of the movie stars and musicians are known here, sometimes a few politicians, but, for example, does anyone know an NBA basketball team? The only person known to commercially play basketball is Dirk Nowitzki. And that's where things start off.
During the 90s, there was a show called Switch, later continued through the 2000s by Switch reloaded, which slightly took that line, but it mainly circled around TV shows current at that time.
Maybe there were some other, but even if they ever became equivalent to the US shows, they all have died meanwhile. What replaced them is more a joke as a show than it contains jokes. Heute Show is more political propaganda and agitation than anything else, other equivalents also only circle around the topic "week in review". And most shows, above all, also only circle around politics. Mostly around current politics.
There's no-one which rambles around being bugged by the popularity of German Schlager and Helene Fischer, there's no-one making fun of Tatort and the other crime series which are run in a predictable way - say, only if somebody makes a fool of himself like Michael Wendler someone comes up and pummels him for the hell out of it, or if he is one of those figures which they regularly make fun of.
In case someone already starts to wonder about all these names with a link attached - that's the way a European - rather: a German - feels when watching all these US-American TV shows and even cartoon series such as Family Guy and South Park and not getting for all one is worth what's so funny about it.
Disclaimer: This is not intended to create agitation or hate speech against a selected amount of people and their businesses. Names are only taken for showing examples currently common in German popular culture.
There already was a complaint about the domination of US culture throughout the world: https://matrixmann.dreamwidth.org/28590.html