said by Vendetta950:
Mashiki, you feel our Canadian culture is dying because of TV? Or am I reading what you are saying incorrectly?
I remember growing up before even cable TV was in everyone's home and how peaceful it used to be. Now, with the advent of kids watching TV from the major cities in the US, everybody wants to be a gang-banger wannabe.
The US Entertainment Machine has done (IMHO) more harm than good - to ours, and other cultures around the globe. I applaud what the CRTC has done and hope they continue to do so for it does help ensure that we become less "americanised".
Just as a note, from this message on my response may or may not make perfect sense. The ol migraines are kickin' in.
You are misreading. I have a feeling, I'm going to discuss the fundamentals of, evasive and invaseive culture and how it can strengthen and weaken other cultures.
What culture we have is and or dying because of the lack of choice IMHO or forced choice. Forceing ideals is always bad, giving a choice is good. The canadian goverment along with the CRTC, requireing the swap out of commericals and block american TV, along with news publications, and information in general.
When you force a form of media for the sake of "protection of identity" the goverment is nothing better then a dictatorship. It is after all controling what the populace sees and hears. Now, if a culture is strong, it will either embrace the outside influences, or can simply shrug them off. A society with a weakend culture either due to lack of intrest, or what people find boring, will eventually try to protect what little values it has left either by forceing what they will against everyone, or simply against everyone by folding in on itself, similar to the old days of china, and japan.
Now Vendetta, I'm not going to discuss parenting or lack of in current society(ala gang wanna be's and supposed hoods), that's a topic for another day. Make a new one up and I'll be glad to join in.
The thing that you need to realize is that we live in a world where communication is not limited, we can freely exchange and expand our knowledge by talking to people in other countries. I can't emphasize this enough that a culture that is strong in it's values needs no protection.
The main point is, if it's good people will flock to it. You do not need to force anything on anyone, people will watch and listen. If people didn't find american media appealing they wouldn't watch it, they wouldn't listen to it and they would ignore it.