When Brits, or just foreigners in general, try to take on the American psyche and its institutions.

I'm talking about filmmakers and those in the entertainment industry. Rarely do you see an American filmmaker try to passive-aggressively mock [insert country not named America] and its values or what they've heard of X county. Listed below are examples of those in the entertainment business that try to do this.

The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro.

• Takes on the positive thinking type of American
• Takes on the machismo element of military men
• Takes on the nuclear family
• Takes on the public manners of white Americans in the 1950's

All shorts - American Virgin, American Pride and American Carnage all by Tamzin Merchant. 

Note: I haven't watch these shorts but I'm taking a good stab on what they're about just by the trailers and the tone of the interviews.

• Virgin takes on the concept of virginity within the American psyche, that it is seen as a precious "asset" (as noted in the short's description). The short is about a teenager whose accepted into Julliard Summer Program but due the high costs cannot afford it so she resorts to prostitution (similar case to the Duke student who resorted to porn and now is a porn star ... The secular world says to not judge but it'll judge those who view virginity as something else than a societal myth.
• Pride is about a closeted homosexual who is seen making out with another man behind the wedding curtains just when the bride and groom kiss where all the sitting public can see. This probably takes on America's more conservative social norms in comparison to UK's and Western Europe. Because what's the big deal, right?
• Carnage, as Merchant admits to listening to several podcasts (what type of podcasts my dear?) that formed her thoughts and later script, is about a Brit's (and more a critical American take on Trump) view on the political "carnage" that led to the 2016 POTUS election. Listed on the short's IMDB's page is picture of a live version of the Statue of Liberty and the main actor in Pride wearing a t-shirt that says "Pride." In one of the director interviews a church is seen being used as a setting. I bet it's used as a symbol of hypocrisy. It just looks like a Brit's take on God, Guns and Country. Maybe Michael Moore makes a cameo?

Foreigners can sometimes give insights on America that are worth listening to. Sometimes these insights have some truth to it, helping even the most patriotic American reflect on their country. But often times the insights are shit and skewed to the left where modernism talks about X institution and Y social value but utterly fails on understanding it. Foreign filmmakers can use the yellow school bus, dress their actresses in 1950's skirts and blouses, locate a beautiful church, but never understands their significance, cultural worth and history. 

They gathered all the hallmark symbols of what one thinks of America, but what they didn't do is talk to those who hold the symbols used in their production as signs of identity. In other words they're talking about things they don't understand in an honest manner. They just see America as a country filled with strangeness. But it's Americans who have to change when they view another culture through their red, white and blue prism, or so the modern world says.

When non-progs talk about education curriculum it's an embarassment.

AR-15 forum talks about STEM vs STEAM.

Art just drags STEM down? What?

New link.

I found out about an online blog/mag, Thermidor, via Social Matter's podcast Ascending the Tower. It doesn't label itself alt-right, but it's definitely not "progressive." Like Social Matter it can find itself naval gazing but overall the writing is quality and, unlike some triggered cradle trad Catholic who showed some embarrassing signs of leftist tactics, has some interesting thinker that probably think more than the average person who fanboys over X public persona.