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NoYank. Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

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Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

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I'll start with this Spanish 2007 zombie horror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec_(film)

30 more to go for the month!

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[โ€“] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

What a positively horrible idea! I love it! I'll sticky the thread and edit this comment to track the list.

  1. Rec. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec_(film) , Spain 2007, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ
  2. Deathgasm. Wikipedia, 2015, Aotearoa, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ
  3. Titane. France, 2016. Wikipedia, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท
  4. Braindead, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braindead_(film) , 1992, Aotearoa, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ
  5. The Butcher Boy, 1997, Ireland, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
  6. Saloum, Senegal, 2021, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ณ
  7. Heavenly Creatures, 1994, Aotearoa, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ
  8. Huesera: The Bone Woman, 2022, Mexico IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ
  9. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, 2016, England IMDB, Wikipedia ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
  10. Speak No Evil, Denmark, 2022, Wikipedia ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ
  11. Thirst, South Korea, 2009, Wikipedia ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท
  12. The Feast, Wales, 2021 (yn y Gymraeg) ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
  13. Romasanta IMDB, Spain, 2004
  14. Calvaire (2004) - Belgium/Luxembourg
  15. Living in Bondage (1992) - Nigeria
  16. Juan of the Dead (2011) - Cuba
  17. Adam Chaplin (2011) - Italy
  18. Timecrimes (2007) - Spain
  19. Martyrs (2008) - France
  20. Versus (2000) - Japan
  21. Body Melt (1993) - Australia
  22. Living in Bondage (1992) - Nigeria
  23. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) - Japan
  24. Gaia (2021) - South Africa
  25. Knife+Heart (French: Un couteau dans le cล“ur), France, 2018
  26. Fried Barry (2020) - South African
  27. The Devil's Backbone (2001) - Spain
  28. Byzantium, Ireland, 2018, IMDB
  29. Thirst, 2009, South Korea, Wikipedia
  30. Possession, Wikipedia, co-production between France and West Germany, available on The Pirate Bay
  31. Dust Devil (1993) - South African co-production filmed in Namibia