Pumbas Nakasak
Heading for the great escape.
Yes how shocking the Jocks didnt all love the Americanised short bread tin image of Scotland, Gingers stinking of wee and wearing tartan, how very imperialist of you.
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Yes how shocking the Jocks didnt all love the Americanised short bread tin image of Scotland, Gingers stinking of wee and wearing tartan, how very imperialist of you.
jakeman
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Yeah I don't generally like linking news videos and in my very brief search it was either the CBS new video or the BBC text article that got the point across.
flynnibus
Premium Member
Because building a tourist destination is not a sell out - it's what you put in it. Monetizing the Statue of Liberty did not make the National Park Service a sell out.
The same way using Sam the Eagle doesn't make America a sell out... because we aren't putting Sam the Eagle in the National Archives building to promote the Declaration of Independence. Using Frozen in tourist ads is not the same thing as selling out their cultural sites, museums or slapping Frozen stickers on their cultural landmarks.
It's not about travel. It's that I work in a team consisting of all Norwegians for the last 16 years and have lived and worked in Oslo extensively during that time. I'm sharing with you Norwegian references not based on books or Wikipedia, but my own personal exposure to the culture for a period almost as long as your entire conscious existence.
Mike S
Well-Known Member
Toilets still spin the same down under as they do up here.
jakeman
Well-Known Member
Well let's hope your assumption about Norwegians are better than your assumptions about my age.
It is very American of you to paint a whole country with one brush. So good job there...
jakeman
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This has been tested.
Pumbas Nakasak
Heading for the great escape.
never used the old italian footplates, no spinning of any kind, just a long drop
Cesar R M
Well-Known Member
and what "scenery" in the movie is in norway? just wondering? I dont see any "arandelle" in the map.
Actually there is a huge difference between just repeating stereotypes and reporting on ones personal experiences with a different culture. I very much appreciate @flynnibus insight into Norwegian culture.
And while not everyone in a country might be the same, generalisations to a certain degree are possible if a large number of the population thinks similarly. A well founded observation on this is far from painting a whole country with one brush.
jakeman
Well-Known Member
I tend not to make assumptions about an entire country based on my experience, regardless of how extensive, with only one city.
I would hate if all of Michigan was judge on Detroit. I'm sure the converse is true for most of the residents of Austin and the general perception of Texas. I've lived in Raleigh all my life and we don't even have the same barbeque in the next county over.
Countries are made of people and people are different and I'm not going to hold one country to a singular standard based on one person's observation.
tamotu99
Active Member
None of it, but the art work is very much based on the Norwegian fjords, particularly Bergen, in fact there are now frozen tours available there, but to be fair, there is nothing that says it is Norway and that scenery could just as easily be found in Iceland, Sweden or Finland, as well as other places im sure, that i havent been to
Omnispace
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I went to school in Denmark. From the point of view of the Danes, "Norwegian" and "thinking" are not always associated with each other. Danes on the island of Sjaelland think those living on Fyn are duller. Those living on Fyn point further west to Jylland as their simple compatriots. The poor Jyllanders have nowhere left to point but north to Norway. Actually, it's all in good fun -- just typical Danish humor.
FigmentJedi
Well-Known Member
And meanwhile in Ireland, they're making another high-quality 2D film reflecting Celtic myth and art.Wth did I just watch
John
Well-Known Member
The remote possibility you will make the drive north and I get to meet you
Not to mention it really isn't going to cost me thousands. Thanks to a heavy CM discount in January. Other then that I promised a mutual friend I would hook her up. Disney wise? meh.... I am really looking forward to HP 2.0 does that count?
the.dreamfinder
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That MAGICAL, Wizarding world up the road.
Nemo14
Well-Known Member
me? absolutely nothing. I've watched the new parade on line and it does look impressive, but not enough to get me to waste a day on my remaining tickets. In fact in the past 18 months, we have spent about 80 days in the central FL area and spent exactly 2 days in the parks in all that time. One was for opening day of the F&G festival and the other was to DAK because we had guests who wanted to go there. We've visited other theme parks, some beautiful state parks and KSC, but neither one of us feel an overwhelming desire to visit WDW at this point.
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acishere
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My gf's roommate has never gone so they want to recruit me and a few others for a friends trip next year. I'd like to ride the mine train and check out the new HP area at Universal so I agreed to go whenever this actually happens.
