Cultural Differences in Denver
Interesting to note how universal culture has become. It really shouldn’t surprise us that it is quite common in North America where we are so close; but it certainly is interesting to note. Most of this stems from my conversations on my second flight yesterday from Newark to Colorado. I sat next to a 52 year old lady of colour who was just returning to Denver after being over in Europe for several weeks to visit her daughters who are in the armed forces. Despite the fact that we had never met before, and that we had grown up in completely different environments, and that we were of completely different age brackets there were still many things of the cultural realm that we were both familiar with. For example, we both had talked about cooking on George Foreman grills which are available practically everywhere thanks to large retailers such as Wal-Mart. Another point of discussion was how we could both gripe about the bargain basement quality of the hamburgers found at McDonalds restaurants worldwide. Also interesting to note that we could both make references to world events, famous actors, and movies past and present and that these things have seemingly become so universal between our two cultures that there is no real reason why Canadians should not be allowed on Jeopardy. Just kidding, but it certainly is interesting to note how mass media has such a huge influence on culture.