No you are, I get you (and agree) - "wide but not deep" was what my post was trying to get to. The lack of Hispanic influence in British culture is only noticeable b/c it's globalised itself so effectively though, right? And b/c it's not as exotic as say Russian culture - Brits have holidayed in Spain for time immemorial, obv US culture has a huge Hispanic streak. So yeah, that explains the wide-but-not-deep thing.
Which actually makes me more convinced that it's not an issue which puts people off UK funky - which isn't a Hispanic scene, and its vague Latin feel fits precisely into the general British wide-not-deep schematic. It's about as genuinely Latin as Geri Halliwell's Spanish single (though er a bit better).
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Re: latin
Date: 2009-01-05 05:28 pm (UTC)Which actually makes me more convinced that it's not an issue which puts people off UK funky - which isn't a Hispanic scene, and its vague Latin feel fits precisely into the general British wide-not-deep schematic. It's about as genuinely Latin as Geri Halliwell's Spanish single (though er a bit better).