If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.
New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.
I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.
New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.
New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America.
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.