US culture

Interesting this.

I very much admire the capacity of the US to tolerate internal debate and dissension … to allow all sorts of liberal and alternative dialogs and ways of life … in general to be an open and enquiring place. Whenever I’ve been in the states (on business travels, some for few weeks, but Ive never lived there) I’ve found this intriguing and admirable. To some degree I find it schizophrenic! The classic being surfing the late night TV when I can’t sleep courtesy the time zone and being alternately bombarded with soft-porn and preachers. All very odd.

Of course the current admistration would have liked to change all this .. but hey, now the Democrats have the upper hand?

So I guess I’m a “phile” of sorts for the US way of open debate. For it’s intelligence and questing.

But not for the Top 40 and Maccas in your face consumerism. But that’s not culture.

So I would say, yes the US deserves a “phile” moniker.

BTW I’m saying US, not America. The Continent of America, North and South, is many many countries all with their own cultures.