[UA] Greetings

[James O'Rance]

Epoch <msulliva at wso.williams.edu> said:

 >>>please do consider the idea that your "reasonable handle on American 
cultures" might just be about as reasonable as the handle Americans have on 
Australian culture through /our/ media.<<<

I am considering the idea. I always consider that I might be wrong, it's 
part of my beliefs that knowledge is tentative  :)

My statement was based on the following:

I watch more American television than Australian television, and this is not 
uncommon. There's a lot of it, not counting films.
In addition, American political news and current affairs have very high 
profile in Australian news. We generally have a good idea of what's 
happening in the US. Even when it's completely irrelevant, like the Clinton 
impeachment, we get decent news coverage.

Do many Americans know who the Australian PM is? The Opposition leader? How 
does our electoral system work? What are the racial issues in our society? 
How many Australian TV shows do Americans watch?

Other forms of media, such as newspapers and magazines such as Time, write 
about US news and current affairs in some detail. Even though there is an 
Australian edition of Time. I read a lot about the Columbine shootings, even 
though the issues in this country are rather different (there's not the same 
problem with guns in schools).

Australians are pretty friendly towards the US (we consider Americans to be 
like rich, rude cousins) but I'd be surprised if some other countries didn't 
have a similar saturation.

Don't take this is any type of criticism; I'm just responding with examples 
to your self-admitted reactionary response.  ;)

On my original point, I suspect that there will be *some* differences in the 
OU of different countries; Pornomancy would find it difficult to spread in 
Australia, due to their illegal distribution of pornographic videos, for 
instance. Do plutomancer spells work on non-US currencies? Or do Brit 
plutomancers have different spells for the sterling? Is the occult 
underground in Japan?

As I don't believe that UA will have a "Europe Underground" sourcebook or 
its like, these are questions that can be answered by each GM, but it's 
still interesting.


Cheers,

James O’Rance
“Divine being creates petting zoo. It gets out of hand.”
- The Bible (summarised by John W. Mangrum)

http://www.geocities.com/dragon-dreamer/



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