Some Stuff About PUA (very long)

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take two girls. one grew up in a little village and lived in poverty. she lives in a buddhist culture and as she has grown up these principles have played a big role in the way she acts and thinks. Her parents work 12 hours a day to send her to go to university in the city where she also worked 30 hours a week while going to school full time. she watches about 2 hours of television per week.

the other girl grew up in American suburbia. the closest she came to working was making her bed once a week. her parents dragged her to church every now to learn about going to hell. she spent plenty of time watching television which played a big role in the way she acts and thinks. she loves gossiping with her friends and is eagerly awaiting the most important event in her life, planning an expensive wedding!

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Both of these seem to be veering off into caricature. I could see the basic principle of what you're saying here being true, but I think you're probably blowing it out of proportion.

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T.V. watching and the dominance of popular culture has gone beyond our ability to blow it out of proportion. The second greatest percentage of Americans reads one book a year. The greatest percentage reads ... zero. Things that used to be staples in American culture, like service clubs and adult athletic clubs, leagues, and group activities, have plummeted in popularity and virtually disappeared from community life. Even the idea of "community life" seems like a callback to an ancient past. Americans now probably spend the majority of their free time in front of the t.v., brains pretty much off. Food in, poop out. Not a lot going on there.