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Do movies reflect the American culture? (correct me please) I was thinking to myself, do movies reflect the American culture? A lot of people think that the American movies reflect the American culture, they think that all high schools in America are full of partying, guys and girls drinking and sleeping with each other. I talked once with an American girl and she told me "hell, no, this is totally not true". Some people are like this, but we can;t generalize". I leave it open for all of you to tell me your opinion.

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 L2! MSH M3OOOOOL! Enta ganant wala eih?!

Please as a American, don't break my heart like this lol! :p I try my best to be a good ambassador of my faith, myself and my country and if "agnabiyeen" think like this about where I come from then they will never get to know the real me.

Not everybody is like this, many people in America are fighting to keep their values but at the same time there is many people who live without values. I always tell foreigners " If you want to find bad people, you will find them. If you want to find good people, you will also find them. That's America, you can find all kinds of things in one place. So if you plan to visit America, expect to find EVERYTHING."
 
What you see in American movies and TV shows is trash, Hollywood likes to glamourize lies and unfortunately the Americans believe these lies and they copy what they see on TV. The result of all this is destroyed families, and when the families are destroyed the whole society is getting destroyed.

The consequences of this is divorces, broken families, children in the middle of fights left alone to confront the dangers of the world, drugs, gangs, alcohol, sex, abuse, teenage pregnancies, babies with no fathers and cycle keeps repeating itself. Hollywood only shows the fun side, but they never show the harsh REALITY.

So as a young American I'm against this type of movies and media because I HATE to see how much it's hurting my country and my country's image to the rest of the world. Perhaps you may see the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan backed by the American government as fake wars but the real war Americans are fighting everyday is a cultural war of our society and sadly we are loosing this war. That's why you see in our country people who live with no values because they lost all sense of what is right and what is wrong.

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Do the movies reflect the American culture? (correct me please)

I was thinking to myself, do the movies reflect the American culture?
A lot of people think that the American movies reflect the American culture. They think that all high schools in America are full of partying, and guys and girls drinking and sleeping with each other. I talked once with an American girl and she told me, "Hell, no, this is totally not true." Some people are like this, but we can't generalize".

I leave it open for all of you to tell me your opinion.

 

I don't really know what to say. I do think it's wrong to generalize, but at the same time, that's how my high school was.  There are definitely people who do not do these things, and a lot of schools are better than others.  However, to say that most Americans don't do this, in my opinion, isn't true.  There are a lot who don't, but probably just as many or more who do.

 

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Movies don't show that everyone does that stuff, just that it does happen. And I would say that is accurate.

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