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'OLLYWOOD  

spunkycumfun 63M/69F
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2/1/2013 11:53 am
'OLLYWOOD
Since the 1920s, Hollywood, a shorthand term for the American film industry, has been dominant in world film. Hollywood represents America, even though much of the film industry, including the porn industry, has moved outside the Los Angeles district of Hollywood. Hollywood, as a symbol of the American Dream, is a significant mechanism of American power abroad, as well as at home.

But Bollywood, the Indian film industry based in Mumbai (once Bombay), now produces more films than Hollywood. Bollywood films may have no sex scenes, but they have strong, traditional stories and contain wonderful dancing scenes.

Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry, also produces more films than Hollywood but not more films than Bollywood. There is also Lollywood, the Pakistani film industry, and Dollywood, the Bangladeshi film industry.

Below is a photo from the Bollywood Devdas film, based on a 1917 Bengali novella that retold many Hindu stories about human relationships.



Joseph S Nye, an eminent American academic and sometimes critic of American foreign policy, has often argued that a country wanting to influence the world will be more effective using soft power than hard power. He argued, “Seduction is always more effective than coercion”. America can relatively easily win a war but cannot easily win a peace.

Nye wrote: "A country may obtain the outcomes it wants in world politics because other countries – admiring its values, emulating its example, aspiring to its level of prosperity and openness – want to follow it. In this sense, it is also important to set the agenda and attract others in world politics, and not only to force them to change by threatening military force or economic sanctions. This soft power – getting others to want the outcomes that you want – coopts people rather than coerces them."

Does Nye’s analysis of world politics apply to relationships?
Do men use hard power more than women?
Do you use soft or hard power in relationships?
Do you like Hollywood films?
Have you seen any Bollywood films?

My local Indian restaurant often plays a Bollywood film to watch while I eat a curry. I always request Devdas!

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