Nobel literature head:United States is too ignorant to compete with Europe

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Kasz216 said:

akuma587 said:

QFT, the US has been in head-up-ass mode for at least the last eight years, probably the last thirty. Our hostility to foreign culture and foreign ideas is so deep-seated that it scares me sometimes...

At least we do still have talented artists, although they may be bogged down in the same problems as the rest of us.

Wha???

I would say Europe is many times worse in that regard.  They don't care about anything outside the europeon union.

You think America is bad... look at countries like France... where in recent years they've had laws outright banning aspects other cultures because of their fear of immigration. (When they had the headscarf law... if they've ever even gotten rid of that.)

America is much more accepting of multiculturalism... heck it's basically the US' defining feature.

Aside from which... really looking at it politically when it's about literature?

Wut? The France population is scared of Immigratiion that is why they choose a immigrant as President?

The headscarf law was if I am right only for the seperation of State and church and schools.  In a lot of Islam countries like Turkey you can't wear a headscarf on school aswell...Why is it so wrong then if France do it?  And other EU countries aswell?