Sure, let them decide, this is probably how Bush did it. (3 Viewers)
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I wont disagree there Swagster. You're quite right: cool cheesy would be a fair summary on the whole. But having said that though I think Indians living abroad vis a vis Indians living in India have two very distinct notions of Bollywood. Its a lot more hyped there because they're away from the culture, away from home etc. Here, everybody is closer to the hype and hoopla to realise what its all about. When you speak of new school Bollywood though, are you referring to music or movies? As for the packaging, I think the producers here realise movie making to them is more than just a creative process and they definitely have commercial aspirations from their projects. And I think that packaging goes a long way in hyping up the movie or the brand of actor involved.
Of course I dont think we can find statistics or anything of the sort to back it up, but in general, yes I would agree, the school system in the Balkans is a lot different to that in the US. We do have to learn much more than they do, and IMO that is one of the problems here, there are just to many unneccessary things to learn. I've been in school in both Bosnia and abroad and I have to say that school here is much much harder. I would have to agree that an average high school graduate in Bosnia would have more knowledge than an average high school graduate in America. Remains of the old communist school system.
You must realize that the United States is about the size of Europe, and there is only one main language used throughout the country with exception to the emergance of Spanish is metropolitan areas. If you are talking about being exposed to other cultures and languages within Europe, of course you should expect that...with such a vast array of different cultures and languages in Europe, you need to be accustomed in order to survive. In the US almost every citizen can communicate in English, therefore learning about other cultures and languages is not neccesary for survival. Now that is not to say people do not care about such topics...hardly the case.
What is happen here is that we are confusing formal and university education with general culturization. Im agree with the fact that USA has probably the highest degree of formal education at university level, but at the same time the general culturization of the standart population is simply poor, if we compare it with most of the european countries and even with the latinoamerican societies.