Nice board. I see where you're coming from and I agree with you, but I'm sceptic about the long-term effects. Certainly, with a broader range of influences to choose from, art and philosophy, as well as more technical fields, should thrive. But for how long? Wouldn't culture across the world grow increasingly homogeneous because of this? And when we all shared pretty much the same cultural references, wouldn't we also share broadly the same thought patterns?

Quite ironically, the fact that we've been largely isolated from all but our closest neighbours through our history is what has allowed us to develop different artistic traditions that today we could draw mutual inspiration from.

>What fucking unique tradition does France have in animation?
I'm not exactly an expert in French animation, having seen very little, but from my understanding animation actually originated there, with the first animated film Fantasmagorie.

Everyone wears Western clothes, and we're communicating in English.

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>>4
That's exactly what I mean. Different countries don't have their own exclusive traditions anymore, even though everyone acts like they do

>>2
I agree with this post. Unique cultural traditions are only able to develop in isolation. As the world has become more and more unified, culture has become more massive in response as local cultures become subsumed into the larger body. First this happened with the development of national identity that absorbed the smaller local cultures, picking and choosing certain elements to define "the nation". As language barriers break down and geographic distances shrink the world becomes smaller and homogenized. Air travel, highways, railroads, mass education, the internet, and industrialized culture and media are creating a world filled with sameness. At least the geography itself endures, when not turned into a housing development.

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same,
There's a pink one and a green one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same
And there's doctors and lawyers
And business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.
And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same,
There's a pink one and a green one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

>>8
But all an artistic tradition does is homogenises the work that exists under it. I mean, the backlog of unabstracted reclining nudes in western art goes back literally to antiquity. Pretty much all artists until the 19th century painted traditional scenes/themes with traditional techniques, which on one hand refined what could be done to the point where something like the Sistine Chapel paintings can exist, but on the other is extremely boring.

I doubt the community you're from locally is equivalent to this imageboard. otherwise you wouldn't be here
You cannot make everyone have the same ideology or way of thinking when their personal history shapes behaviours and ideas, and this latter end up affecting the bigger community.

>>8
What is this even supposed to mean? Don't go to college or have children, because it makes you into the normalfag bogeyman who works for "the machine?"
Fuck off.

I want the opposite. I want the concept of styles being set by culture to die so we can instead start making interesting works using whatever influences we please. Games are a great example of what I'm talking about.