Thirty-Eight Years Ago Today...
Speaking of things that nobody expects to succeed, in a tiny hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, a local-born farm girl who is currently a Liberal Arts major at LSU-S has been in labor for 30 hours while her husband, the transplanted son of an Iowa oil man, paces the floor frantically. Finally, around 18:00 US Central Time, into this crazy world we have just described, she delivers a baby boy. This boy's arrival in the world will later be described by his father as "raising hell, telling us all how it ought to be done and letting us know [he] would do it [his] way."
Well, thirty-eight years later, that child is still raising hell, but now he does it here on Hive. He's still telling the world how it ought to be done, and even though he's been to hell and back and all over the world along the way, he's still doing it his way, and he's not bloody likely to quit that any time soon. One might ask who this ne'er-do-well, who was born into such a wild and unbalanced world, actually is.
I realized my mistakes as I read an article by dear genie of my lamp @patriamreminisci celebrating his 38th birthday.😅
I thought he was born in Texas, but actually he was born in Louisiana.
It seems that I misread his articles because I am not good at reading English.
I called his articles the Chinese version Arabian Nightmare because of the fact that he loved the Chinese and their world so much.😆
My friend @patriamreminisci has lived in China for 5 years and left many impressive works of Chinese kindness and courtesy.
He praised the great character of the Chinese and their great history and civilization in these simple words.
**asswhole, fucker! shit!
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I agree with the exclamations he says.🤣
The Horrors of Chinese Healthcare
Forget the Trade War - China Has a Bigger Problem: Starvation
I believe his claims are true!
However, my English speaking ability is low, so it is difficult to fully express my thoughts and feelings.
By the way, I was intrigued that he was born in Louisiana, a former French territory!
He maybe french american?
I remembered the movie Gone With the Wind, famous for the kiss scene between Vivian Lee and Clark Gable.
1967 re-release poster
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the American South against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara (portrayed by Vivien Leigh), the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, following her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), who is married to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler (Clark Gable).
The film had a troubled production. The start of filming was delayed for two years until January 1939 because of Selznick's determination to secure Gable for the role of Rhett. The role of Scarlett was difficult to cast, and 1,400 unknown women were interviewed for the part. The original screenplay by Sidney Howard underwent many revisions by several writers to reduce it to a suitable length. The original director, George Cukor, was fired shortly after filming began, and was replaced by Fleming, who in turn was briefly replaced by Sam Wood while taking some time off due to exhaustion. Post-production concluded in November 1939, just a month before its release.
It received generally positive reviews upon its release in December 1939. The casting was widely praised, but its long running time received criticism. At the 12th Academy Awards, it received ten Academy Awards (eight competitive, two honorary) from thirteen nominations, including wins for Best Picture, Best Director (Fleming), Best Adapted Screenplay (posthumously awarded to Sidney Howard), Best Actress (Leigh), and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel, becoming the first African American to win an Academy Award). It set records for the total number of wins and nominations at the time.
Gone with the Wind was immensely popular when first released. It became the highest-earning film made up to that point, and held the record for over a quarter of a century. When adjusted for monetary inflation, it is still the highest-grossing film in history. It was re-released periodically throughout the 20th century and became ingrained in popular culture. Although the film has been criticized as historical negationism, glorifying slavery and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy myth, it has been credited with triggering changes in the way in which African Americans were depicted cinematically. The film is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, and in 1989 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
I believe Gone with the Wind is a masterpiece of cinematic representation of America's most important era!
The appearance of Americans in the 19th century, which was different from Americans today, came as a fresh shock to me! 😳
It was a masterpiece depicting the rise and fall of the O'Hara family, who migrated from Ireland to the southern United States.
I knew that most of the ancestors of modern white Americans came from Europe!
Is @joeyarnoldvn descendant of a white monkey?
Ah! By the way, My dear friend Monkey King will feel proud that he is descended from the divine and great royal family of Asia.😝
Americans in the 19th century seemed to enjoy European culture, particularly the dance parties and costumes at the court of Versailles in France.
Southerners of America enjoyed wealth and power through cotton plantations using black slaves.
They admired and imitated the culture of European monarchs, especially French royalty and nobility.
They despised the Northerners of America, calling them vulgar Yankees.
In the famous scene where Clark Gable and Vivian Lee dance together, the southerners of the United States mimic the dance party at the Palace of Versailles in France.
I admire French culture, so the southerners of the United States's culture was interesting and attractive!
They were usually friendly Southerners of America who valued aristocratic honor and trust.
Although they were white supremacists, they were kind and honest.
East Asians often held the stereotype that Americans value money and take honor lightly because they are capitalist.
However, it was unusual in the 19th century that Southerners of America, like European aristocrats, valued honor and courtesy more than money.
So I find the European aristocratic culture of the American Southerners in the 19th century strange and fascinating!
In particular, they highly admired and imitated the etiquette and dance party of the court of Versailles.
Looking at it, I felt that Americans longed for and imitated French culture!
I guessed @patriamreminisci was of French descent because he was born in Louisiana!
Perhaps, He may have been brought up in a French-American culture in Louisiana. Will he yearn for French culture?
I would like to ask him if modern Americans enjoy admiring and imitating French culture.😄
You didn't misread. I have said I'm from Texas. I say that because most of my life was spent there, though I was born a few miles across the state line in Louisiana.
As for French culture, I will say that Louisiana's "French" culture ("Cajun," as we call it, and there's a lengthy history behind that name but it comes from saying "Acadian" too fast) is as different from actual French culture as most American culture is from British culture. Mostly, I'm fond of Cajun cooking and the Mardi Gras celebration (something akin to Brazil's Carnivale), but I find that I identify far more with Texas. 😁
Oooooo so true!! 🤣
I understand that you were born in Louisiana, but have lived most of your life in Texas!
Dear @patriamreminisci , Then Is it true that southern Americans admire and imitate French culture like the scene in Gone with the Wind?
Did the upper classes of the southern United States import and imitate the culture of European royalty and nobility?
I had fun watching the Americans imitate the French royal dance party!
To a certain extent. The southern gentry imitated the court life of all of Europe. The movie chose France simply because Americans at the time that movie was made, considered France to be the most cultured and refined European nation. But really, the South admired ALL of Europe.
Partly. There was a semi-feudal social structure in the South, albeit the line between "nobles" and "peasants" (or the gentry and the hands) was porous and one could become the other with more ease than in Europe.
It is interesting that The southern gentry admired and imitated the culture of European royalty.
It is surprising and amusing that Clark Gable and Vivian Lee danced at a French court style dance party because Americans longed for French culture in the 1930s.
Even East Asians like me feel that the culture of the French royal family is more fashionable and elegant than the British, German, and Russian royal families.
I feel that French women are the most beautiful, especially because of their elegant and charming accent.😄
Hmm, Scarlett O'Hara's family also came from Irish peasants. I think the gentry and the workers were on equal footing because the gentries from the southern United States also came to America and started as workers.
America's most famous Kennedy dynasty was originally a poor peasant family who immigrated to the United States from Ireland.