Sunday, November 18, 2007

Me and my ability to state the obvious

I've come to realize that society's likes or dislikes are based on standars, for example, here in the U.S. people fucking love their pizzas and burgers, while in Korea, people crave their dog soup, and that is because it's what they're used to, but, unfortunately, all that "ethnic and geographic cultural individuality" is going to hell, because most countries want to adopt American culture as their own. It is almost as if the world was a humongous middle school, where all the little wimps want to be like that cool kid, who even though could be considered mentally retarded, he appears to be so unbelievably cool, that he/she is admired by everyone. This, at least to me, is really fucking depressing, because all the world's differences are going down the drain, thousands of years of traditions, forgotten just because believing in Santa Claus and going trick or treating seems cooler than celebrating holidays or just life itself like we used to. I remember this one time, when I was a little 5-year-old and we spent Halloween with my grandmother here in Texas, there were tons of little kids asking for candy, and I didn't know what was going on, I mean at that time, my only connection with American traditions was the holiday specials on Latin Cartoon Network, I was used to celebrating Dia De Los Muertos, which is pretty different from the commercialized traditions celebrated in the United States, and now, when I'm in Mexico in mid-October, all you see on TV is ads about how Wal-Mart (that's another part of America slowly conquering the world) has the best Halloween decoration, and I think: "Fuck! We're Mexico, we don't need any shitty Hallween decoration! we need some candy skulls and flowers to bring to the tombs of our loved ones who have passed away! I don't need fucking candy!". And that's just one of many examples I can mention about other countries adopting American customs, but I'll spare you from that by just saying: PEOPLE, BOTH INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS, BE YOURSELVES, PLEASE.

1 comment:

Chompy said...

But candies are so sweet!

I think that everyone imitates the american way of life because is easier and it has 'better retributions', for example, candies instead of pan de muerto, or dollars instead of breaking your ass planting tomatoes in here, is understandable, fucked up, but understandable. People only want what they believe is the best.