AMERICAN IDENTITY
The American identity is as much a complex and multilateral phenomenon that it can not be simplified easily and packaged for introduction to the world. Historically speaking, United States has been and is the youngest nation -state who has managed to conduct a universal super power. This relatively short history, combined with its vast geography has contained as many religions, ethnicities, races, types, fashions, life styles and... That it deserves the medal of "meting pot", reminding us of the oriental Indian nation well known as "the land of 72 nations". But how much are these two comparable in delivering a compact idea of their mind/identities in a package of cultural or else production?
One of the ways to globalize the identity for Americans is through the powerful industry of cinema. Hollywood is the emperor of this industry in the world. The bests of the world in movies are produced and spread by this artistic and trade center. Not only films, but fantastic cartoons are produced in this center to help embody the very purpose inclined by the films. Walt Disney is the queen of the Hollywood for the production of cartoon bests of the world.
The case for this simple study is not one from the Walt Disney neither Hollywood, but a TV serial cartoon called "lucky luck". It lacks nothing fundamental from the typical productions of Walt Disney. It has helped promote one essential part of the American identity, the western cowboy. yes, the guy with the typical stick stuck to his lip (instead of cigar to avoid malinstruction to children), blue jeans and the shapo of that era used by the wandering bachelors of the west, a horse who is not the only living partner of him, the lazy, stupid dug also attends wherever he goes, along with his riffle over which he has a great mastery.
Other things that are well reflected to the American youth and non-American audience include the specificity of the time and place, its characters, its economic condition, and its total sphere. gangsters hunt new comers; uncivilized Yankee brothers go after whatever chance they find in their lives; and they are the doomed losers in every chapter (again not to show a successful feature out of the thieves, in the tradition of police fiction films. do not go astray by assuming it as the manipulating of history to represent a healthy American society); the towns have trembling sheriffs and cafe holders. They pave the way for the American ever lasting appetite to promote the self ruled person to manage the affairs and well being of the individuals as well as the society; the gold hunters are the immigrants who come to the US to search for their opportunity in the newfound land.
It worth to go and search in the Indian bally wood to find out the answer to the question of whether the two countries are able to promote their culture and identity at the same rate, or even they have the same motivation to do so!
The American identity is as much a complex and multilateral phenomenon that it can not be simplified easily and packaged for introduction to the world. Historically speaking, United States has been and is the youngest nation -state who has managed to conduct a universal super power. This relatively short history, combined with its vast geography has contained as many religions, ethnicities, races, types, fashions, life styles and... That it deserves the medal of "meting pot", reminding us of the oriental Indian nation well known as "the land of 72 nations". But how much are these two comparable in delivering a compact idea of their mind/identities in a package of cultural or else production?
One of the ways to globalize the identity for Americans is through the powerful industry of cinema. Hollywood is the emperor of this industry in the world. The bests of the world in movies are produced and spread by this artistic and trade center. Not only films, but fantastic cartoons are produced in this center to help embody the very purpose inclined by the films. Walt Disney is the queen of the Hollywood for the production of cartoon bests of the world.
The case for this simple study is not one from the Walt Disney neither Hollywood, but a TV serial cartoon called "lucky luck". It lacks nothing fundamental from the typical productions of Walt Disney. It has helped promote one essential part of the American identity, the western cowboy. yes, the guy with the typical stick stuck to his lip (instead of cigar to avoid malinstruction to children), blue jeans and the shapo of that era used by the wandering bachelors of the west, a horse who is not the only living partner of him, the lazy, stupid dug also attends wherever he goes, along with his riffle over which he has a great mastery.
Other things that are well reflected to the American youth and non-American audience include the specificity of the time and place, its characters, its economic condition, and its total sphere. gangsters hunt new comers; uncivilized Yankee brothers go after whatever chance they find in their lives; and they are the doomed losers in every chapter (again not to show a successful feature out of the thieves, in the tradition of police fiction films. do not go astray by assuming it as the manipulating of history to represent a healthy American society); the towns have trembling sheriffs and cafe holders. They pave the way for the American ever lasting appetite to promote the self ruled person to manage the affairs and well being of the individuals as well as the society; the gold hunters are the immigrants who come to the US to search for their opportunity in the newfound land.
It worth to go and search in the Indian bally wood to find out the answer to the question of whether the two countries are able to promote their culture and identity at the same rate, or even they have the same motivation to do so!
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