Posted on 10/26/2005 7:00:59 AM PDT by Valin
What ever our government is paying to support UNESCO should be reduced by the amount American businesses stand to lose from this measure, or, better yet, just be eliminated entirely.
Hey Alec Baldwin, France doesn't want your crappy movies. But move there anyways.
If I'm reading the article correctly, the "Cultural products" are mostly movies and music. On one hand, I want to support American businesses, but OTOH the world is kinda sticking it to Hollywierd. Given the amount of crap that passes for "cultural products" these days, it might be nice to limit them here too....
While they lock our culture out, we are sponsoring and adopting more and more of outsider's culture - and making it a crime to complain.
Did i missed the good news? Baldwin moving to Frogland??? :-)
UNESCO - yet another reason for the United States to get out of the UN, withhold ALL money now going to the UN, evict every single despot in the UN building, then implode the UN building itself!! After all we do for these ingrates, this is the way they thank us!! (rant off)
If the world wants RAP...We are doomed...
But in the interest of fairness,any country that restricts our Hollywood output can expect us to limit their airplanes..TVs...cars....sugar...steel,
etc,etc.
Better yet, we should eliminate all funding for any international organization with the letters U & N in it.
LOL!
Slowly but surely the UN dissolves into fascism and sows the seeds of it's own demise.
By "cultural products" I presume they mean American movies (sorry Johnny Depp, Brad-gelina, George Clooney and Gwyneth Paltrow), American music (sorry Madonna)....and Big Macs?
Looking forward to seeing the euro/asian consumer reaction to replacement culture from Canada! Helllooo Celine Dion!
I guess ending the worldwide sex-slave trading of children will have to wait for more important issues to be settled first by UNESCO
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Bush sign back onto UNESCO as part of his bid to get the UN to support military action in Iraq? If so, Bush was double-suckered.
Talk about irony. The biggest supporters of the UN in the entire US is Hollyweird, now the UN has told them to get lost. I hate to say it, but I love it!
Why? What are they afraid of? That the consumer will prefer "American cultural products" to native culture products? Why are they afraid of this? Could it be that American marketing has hit the mark when it comes to consumer demand, while with "native cultural products" Big Unions, not consumers, are calling the shots? (Ah, yes, nothing like Albanian tennis shoes.)
And...since most US clothing products are made in China, Mexico, etc. isn't this stance against "American cultural products" a kind of back-handed slap at the workers China, Mexico, etc.?
Or could this whole resolution be nothing but a kind of deliberate waspishness, a sort of "Ha! So there! Whatta you gonna do now, Mister Bigshot?" attitude.
And last but not least there's the Versailles mentality of the signers of this resolution. The soft condescension of the aristocrats/anointed acting for the "good" of the great-unwashed of their people. Considering the grown men and women of their countries as little more than children who can not be left to make decisions on their own.
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