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Rambo First Blood II trailers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQGJAIYtWD4

Rambo in Asia ● China: one million people raced to see First Blood within 10 days of its Beijing opening ● India: 5 separate remakes went instantly into production ● Thailand: 15’ cutouts of the figure towered over the lobbies of the cinemas ● Indonesia: posters sold of the nation’s 3 leading deities: President Suharto, Siva, and Stallone ● Rambo’s mission was to reverse the course of history and, single-fisted, to redress America’s military losses in the theaters of Asia. ● The movie succeeded where the American army had failed ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Rampage (Turkish Rambo) Çetin İnanç http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AEZJPS4SB4 Vietnamese chat forum http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t50602.html The latest weapons of cultural warfare –videos, cassettes and computer disks- can be easily smuggled Tourists are the terrorists of cultural expansionism Pop culture is seen as a shorthand for all that is young and modern, and rich and free, a virtual synonym for America Different cultures responded in different ways to forces from the West

Cultural hybrids ● Local bands in socialist Burma played note-perfect version of the Doors’ “L.A. Woman,” in Burmese ● An American tenpin bowling alley was the latest nighttime hot spot in Beijing ● A Baskin Robbins imitation in Hiroshima sells vegetable ice cream in flavors such as soy milk and sweet potato ● A Singaporean when asked to name the best restaurant in town answered “Denny’s” ● The image of America is perplexingly double-edged: Yankee go home! / America number one! ● What we are calling corruption they might be inclined to call progress or profit ● Imperial arrogance in our wanting to find “unspoiled” places and assuming that the people of the developing world would be happier without the TVs and motorbikes that we find so indispensable ourselves ● On a grand collective level, the encounters between East and West might well be interpreted as a battle; but on the human level, the meeting more closely resembled a mating dance ● http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/04/21/business/media/100000002184411/trouble-atthe-chinese-box-office.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130422

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