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Can we just skip ahead to where expressionism comes back in vogue?
Expressionism is never in vogue, dude. Unless you're German.
Yeah, my issue is more with the term "internet culture." Mostly it's more that each site has its own culture (sometimes more than one), with the internet as a whole kinda being a place where you see aspects of all of them. If I'm making any sense.
I think of it as pop culture. Everybody in the world knows about Superman and Mickey Mouse, for example, but only people of a certain region/interests know, for example of Diomedes Diaz or Manuel Belgrano
Most people outside of Australia have no idea who Steve Irwin is, for example, while he was really well-known in Australia.
^^True... to continue that metaphor, I think of it as kind of like the difference between knowing who Superman is and reading Superman comics, if that makes any sense.
Pretty sure that isn't true.
Are you sure you're not thinking of the guy from Crocodile Dundee? In my experience, most people confuse the two.
Pretty much. I remember at least one argument (Hell, who doesn't? It's like such an inevitable argument when discussing Superman) where the whole "Superman isn't cool because he's overpowered thing" comes around, which only happens when one of the involved is only familiar with the pop cultural impression of the character rather than the stories in which he's actually involved.
^Nope. I do know who Steve Irwin is and I live in culo del mundo, latin america.
Yes INUH and Forzare (and I) know who Steve Irwin is. He had, like... several TV shows that were pretty popular. His death was on the news and everything.
Everyone I know around my age group knows who Steve Irwin was.
huh
he had more shows than just The Crocodile Hunter?
^ again, huh
you guys are weird
Nah, he just had a couple of specials and a guest appereance in The Fairy Oddparents.
Well there were a couple spinoffs of The Crocodile Hunter but I guess yeah that was the only really big one.
He had like three shows, the Catholic channel here passed them all. They are pretty big on social issues, scientific education and ecology.
Man, you guys are more up on this than most Australians I know. That's... pretty sad.
Oh yeah, Croc Files and Diaries. I definitely watched those too. i weep for your people
I didn't watch Irwin's show, but I know who he is.
I just wikipedia'd the fuck out of Steve Irwin, actually.
I did know who he was before (Honest!)
A lot of the people I know really only know him through pop-culture osmosis here. Very few people I know actually saw his show. mostly because i didn't know a lot of people who had a TV but whatever
What the fuck? Don't they show nature shows in colombia?
I did know who he was. I just didn't know if he was in other shows besides The Crocodile Hunter.
Not only do I remember Steve Irwin very well, but I also remember his wife Terri came from not too far from here.
Everyone I know knows about Steve Irwin. Maybe not by name, but pretty much everyone has heard of the "Crocodile Hunter" or "that insane animal guy who was killed by a ray".
This reminds me of the term "crikey!", and how Australia can be both a cultural singularity and alien to itself at times. A lot of Australian lingo is accurate to previous generations, but my generation presumably considers it unbecoming and therefore does not use it. If you're a young person, especially in the cities, then commonly accepted Australian cultural traits can both seem extremely distant and be known as true things.
To me, this begs the question of whether the Australian identity is undergoing a process of change. Previous generations created a series of buzzwords, phrases and ideas that don't really sit well with my age group. Things like "She'll be right, mate" in reference to just about any problem, for instance. It's a trivialisation, because so often she won't be right and problems will continue to snowball if not confronted. There's also a tendency to shorten both improper and proper nouns whenever possible, or even extend them for some bizarre reason -- the number of men here named "John" but referred to as "John-O" is mind-boggling. Likewise with other comparable names. "Steve" becomes "Steve-O" quite often.
Australian culture is bizarre and, even though I've been surrounded by it all my life, I'm not entirely comfortable with it. As much as our various industries have made us economically advanced, I consider the culture here quite "backwater" in a lot of ways, although things are changing.
Wait a minute,
Aussie people still use the word "Crikey"?
Mostly when we want to take the piss out of ourselves, in my experience.
Largely.
But as I said, previous generations were much more enthusiastic about that kind of thing.
I see,
Well, its fallen out of use over here if you care