I haven't looked at my county's canon (Denmark), but tbh I assume it's mostly neo-liberal propaganda by now, so i'm not in a hurry to explore..
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American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the mental foundation on which their empire stands.
All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.
That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.
Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.
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You haven't read Hans Christian Andersen?
No :-) I mean, there must have been some reading in school tho, and I have been read to as a kid oc, so I remember the gist of the most famous stories, but I know other 'fairytale' authors just as well/little as HCA.
I can't remember how many stories he wrote, but it's a lot. With the little memory i have, I have a weak sense that he was actually more of a philosopher/critic and just wrote societal criticism as children stories. 'Emperors new clothes' is an obvious example of real life behavior.
Anyway, I suspect that I would need to go back to Authors at least 70 years if I want to skip the worst US liberal influence, and even more to get rid of UK influence. Not sure how much Danish culture we really have in our canon - or if I just don't like my anglo/saxon danish culture that much. Maybe the latter.
I would rather look at Chinese/Russian/whatever culture, so I could learn thoughts and ideas far removed from the anglo/saxon western nightmare.
I'm rambling a bit and need to sleep. Cheers :)
at least 70 years if I want to skip the worst US liberal influence, and even more to get rid of UK influence. Not sure how much Danish culture we really have in our canon - or if I just donโt like my anglo/saxon danish culture that much. Maybe the latter.
Bad news for you lol: Germanophilia is a big theme in 18th and 19th-century Danish literature
In my country we didn't know that was the canon with all the literature in it and we fired it. The confetti was amazing!