Not that long ago I had a funny discussion with a Mormon girl and boy from the US who came here to southern Germany to "evangelize" me. They even learned German to find new lambs for their church. Being brainwashed with their (to me) strange ideology and religion they were unable to understand that nearly nobody (including me) was really interested into their message. Two strange birds. Probably you will find yourself in the same situation like them if you argue with other Europeans on your basis and your conviction.
I wasn't evangelizing you, it was an observation. I don't argue with people about their faith, or try to convert someone who isn't looking for an an answer. Usually, if I go on a mission trip, I go to a third world country. I also don't tell people how to run their sex lives. As to the Mexicans overrunning Texas, yeah, and some of them married into my family, and I'm part Indian. I've got three kids and my brother has five, so we're doing our part, as best we can. I also find your post curious, because I rechecked my initial post, and I said NOTHING about religion, yet your response to me is full of references to Mormonism, Westboro Baptist Church, etc. and indicating that I'm trying to force some religious dogma on you. While faith is part of it, I was thinking more about what I perceive as a general European indifference to children. I saw a European ad, for example, that showed a young boy running around making problems in a store, tearing things up, stepping on people's feet, etc., and at the end, it was an advertisment for birth control. It was supposed to be cute and funny, but I think it's indicative of the European attitude towards children. I would agree with you that this is a problem in some parts of the US, also. In San Francisco, for example, I've read several articles where the author laments there are no children playing on the playscapes there. They don't want to have kids, they just want them playing in the background when they walk by (probably ethnically diverse kids, kind of like an ad for Microsoft, but with little kids instead of adults).
Nevertheless you do not understand anything about art. Art is more than a reduced primitivism that produces cute pictures. If you like such than you have to go to North Korea.
Well, my degree is in Art, but you may be right. I suppose I always lumped Warhol into the European thought process because I consider him the ideological heir of Marcel Duchamp. Most of the things after Dada, the artists were seriously trying to make Art. IMHO, Warhol was the same type of con man, who kind of threw something out there and dared people not to call it Art. Nevertheless, most of my art instructors despaired over my dislike of the "great" artists of the twentieth century. My personal favorites are Kay Nielson, Andrew Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Frank Frazetta, ancient Greek sculpture, Norman Rockwell, Carl Barks (the Disney artist that did the Uncle Scrooge comics), Michelangelo, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and the photographers Margaret Bourke-White, Weegee and Vincent LaForet. There are others, of course, but the Abstract Expressionists, Modernists, Pop artists and the shock artists leave me cold. Most of my instructors pronounced me hopelessly middle class, so you could be right about me knowing nothing about art. However, I know what I like, and I have studied enough to pick up on the underlying ideologies of the various genres. I also do like primitivism, if it's real and not faked. Patchwork quilts, American folk art, some South American folk art, yeah, I can dig that. Never been to Korea, so couldn't comment on the work you mention.
Oh well - My granddad shot down quite a few US-bombers (and also machines from the UK) over Germany in late WWII with his Focke-Wulf and left a real mountain of American corpses.
You are aware the Americans had an answer for that:
