Adventuring in Amsterdam
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There are some incredibly progressive cultural values in the Netherlands, as well as demonstrations of enlightenment values. I previously covered the NEMO Science Center, a children’s science center that had sex displays. There were Obama posters everywhere, wind turbines, as well as bicycles, rows and endless rows of bicycles… dorkiest bicycles you’ve ever seen. : )
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This is not to say what I saw in Amsterdam was more cultured than America, our museums are bigger, more diverse. Not better, but the stereotype of Europeans having more culture than we do is just that, a stereotype.
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Your definition of culture is off. It isn’t something to be seen just in museums; it is the scent of the air, the glimpses of history, century-old habits, it is going to museums, enjoying concerts. It is the opposite of the mediocricy of american standardized sub-urbian life.
Not even talking about the fact that museums don’t have to be diverse and big. Perhaps america has this ideal of grandness, enshrined in the proliferation of wall-marts all over the country, but that’s no standard to judge a museum by.
Comment by alfalfa — April 19, 2009 @ 1:16 pm