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Being American Makes Being Creative Pointless
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It can help, though.
Because dude, the Culture. America has some of the worst cultural preconceptions in the history of civilization, and is populated by a people deluded enough to know this on one hand, but on the other somehow still convince themselves that they're doing it better than anyone else.
Most people in this thread have made the point that "creativity isn't everything, skill counts too." The problem is, Americans aren't exactly skilled as well, because culturally we've always had it too easy, so we don't know the subtle tricks and nuances and only know the surface. You tell an American, for example, that his story needs more political angles, and he'll throw in an obstructive bureaucrat who comes off to the reader as totally arbitrary. Americans just lack the proper cultural background to get things such as these, unless they're unusually educated or world-savvy--which is rare.
By the way:
I totally love the way this line shoots itself in the foot. Either way, the whole reason its "bad" is because you can't get over your morals. I can totally tell you're American just because of lines like this.
Love also, that this topic almost got locked just because I didn't anticipate such a rapid response.
Um...how much do you know about world history?
I am from New Jersey. New Jersey tends to get a lot more crap than the other states, but I shrug it off because really, does everybody think it's a smog-filled guidofest? No, of course not.
And then there's people like you, who think they know everything there is to know about a place because of some offhand anecdotes and out of context facts presented to you. To which I rebut:
Where do you live, Moe?