Rammstein - Amerika (Official 4K Video)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mostly cites it as a pop-culture reference in discussions of American cultural influence, sometimes jokingly.
What it is
The official music video for Rammstein's 2004 song Amerika, a satirical take on American cultural dominance and its export around the world. It was shot in the ruins of a former chemical site near Berlin.
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What Hacker News said
Cites d26900 · 2021-02 · on “Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?”
Authors addendum: This post was a mistake on my part. Please downvote this post. Thank you! I would rather have a retract option, but there is none here on HN. Original post: Apologies to you on behalf of people who made you feel uncomfortable. Full disclosure: I had (still have?) negative biases/sentiments/stereotypes towards Americans: being ignorant, self-absorbed, reckless, careless etc. And this almost made me have a knee-jerk reaction to the expressed desire to make the content in question available in English. As if I am tired of you Americans Americanizing everything you touch[2]. This sentiment is also expressed in Ramstein's song "Amerika"[3]. But that's why it is called a "stereot
Cites Scarblac · 2021-04 · on “Streaming subtitled box sets is the new Eurovision”
> I think the whole success of the Hollywood is based on their ability to create films that cut across all the cultures. Good time for Rammstein's _Amerika_ video: [this video] Their point is that the USA _exports_ its culture to the rest of the world, and Hollywood is one of the main ways in which it does that.
Cites rendall · 2022-09 · on “IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power”
From Wikipedia: Collodi often used the Italian Tuscan dialect in his book. The name Pinocchio is a combination of the Italian words pino (pine), and occhio (eye); Pino is also an abbreviation of Giuseppino, the diminutive for Giuseppe (the Italian form of Joseph); one of the men who greatly influenced Collodi in his youth was Giuseppe Aiazzi, a prominent Italian manuscript specialist who supervised Collodi at the Libreria Piatti bookshop in Florence. Geppetto, the name of Pinocchio's creator and “father,” is the diminutive for Geppo, the Tuscan pronunciation of ceppo, meaning a log, stump, block, stock or stub. It seems to me there's a lot of cultural references here that are elided for non-