Do you mainly prefer entertainment produced in your country, or foreign content?

HomokHarcos · Jan 4, 2021

Do you mainly consume content from your country or not? Me being from North America I realized that other than Japanese video games I mainly prefer content from North America.

My favorite sports leagues are all (with the exception of the Premier League) based in NA: NHL, NFL, MLB and NBA. The comics I read are mostly Marvel and my favorite animated series are the classic cartoons like Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes, Popeye the Sailor in addition to SpongeBob SquarePants. Most of the live-action movies I watch are from Hollywood. As stated before the only exception is video games where I mostly prefer Japanese ones.

BasilZero · Jan 4, 2021

As long as it's good or interesting I don't care where it was produced or what type of characters are in it

scottbeowulf · Jan 4, 2021

I prefer content from my own country but that's just because it's the most familiar. I love content from anywhere.

Skade · Jan 4, 2021

If i had to stick to french entertainment... Well... Let's just say the nerd in me would be mighty sad and starved of content pretty quickly. I'm not a big client on unfunny crappy comedies and sad dramas about people from Paris in their thirties, with seem to constitute 95% of the french cinema output nowadays. And TV shows are few and ranging wildly in quality (with the good ones being pretty rare).

So in the end, i mainly consume North American because it's what's flooding the entire "western" entertainement world. But i can watch anything from anywhere, as long as it's good.

RadzPrower · Jan 4, 2021

Yeah, for most content, it's North America. There's a handful of YouTubers and then there's Japanese products like games and a few select anime, but outside of that, it's pretty much all North American productions.

Deleted member 13496 · Jan 4, 2021

I can't stand 95% of content produced in Canada, other than music. We have a fantastic music scene.

But Canadian TV and film?

It's all basically Corner Gas. Like yeah I know there is good stuff here and there (Schitt's Creek obvs) but generally speaking Canadian shows and movies are an instant-turn off for me.

mentok15 · Jan 4, 2021

I'm Australian and I primarily consume American, UK, and Japanese entertainment. We don't produce that much here, let alone enough quality content to be my primary.

Deleted member 86891 · Jan 4, 2021

for games? definitely lean towards north american stuff. I basely like any movies/comics/tv from north america, though, and I like anime/manga

AlexBasch · Jan 4, 2021

Not interested in seeing that dipshit Eugenio Derbez who seamlessly moved over from Televisa to Amazon Prime with awful shows and tried to make it into fucking Hollywood with bad movies.

Nah, would rather watch something from other places. My favourite thing about Netflix is the fact that they get distribution rights over stuff that I would have never watched, like the crime drama Trapped.

Sabretooth · Jan 4, 2021

Overwhelmingly foreign, maybe 95% or so. A lot of Indian pop culture is trash and the stuff that's good is often depressing.

Green · Jan 4, 2021

Switch Back 9 said:
It's all basically Corner Gas.

LOL this is so true. Had some friend recommend Kim's Convenience and I'm just like, "This is Corner Gas".

Still, there's some gems every once in a while.

lunarworks · Jan 4, 2021

Switch Back 9 said:
I can't stand 95% of content produced in Canada, other than music. We have a fantastic music scene.

But Canadian TV and film?

It's all basically Corner Gas. Like yeah I know there is good stuff here and there (Schitt's Creek obvs) but generally speaking Canadian shows and movies are an instant-turn off for me.

Most of our talent, both in front of and behind the camera, migrate to the States, where the big paycheques are.

eXistor · Jan 4, 2021

Foreign. Dutch-produced stuff tends to be quite horrible outside of a few good comedy shows like Rundfunk and Sluipschutters.

Deleted member 16516 · Jan 4, 2021

I devour books by authors from all around the world and set in all manner of different cultures.

btkadams · Jan 4, 2021

I don't purposely look for non-Canadian content, but there just really isn't much of it compared to the rest of the world. My language is English so there is a pretty large pool of international content for me.

Out of any type of media, I definitely listen to more Canadian music than consume other Canadian content.

hjort · Jan 4, 2021

Foreign. I've had a hard time getting into Swedish entertainment in general for fifteen years now. Comedy's predictable, acting is hammy, writing is uninteresting. Not even sure what is going on in the music scene over here anymore. But that might be on me, though.

carlosrso · Jan 4, 2021

Brazilian here:
Food, cars and medicine - local
Electronics - Foreign (Brazilian brands usually are awful)

Deleted member 2802 · Jan 4, 2021

HomokHarcos said:
Do you mainly consume content from your country or not? Me being from North America I realized that other than Japanese video games I mainly prefer content from North America.

My favorite sports leagues are all (with the exception of the Premier League) based in NA: NHL, NFL, MLB and NBA. The comics I read are mostly Marvel and my favorite animated series are the classic cartoons like Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes, Popeye the Sailor in addition to SpongeBob SquarePants. Most of the live-action movies I watch are from Hollywood. As stated before the only exception is video games where I mostly prefer Japanese ones.

Produced? Companies film all over the world to take advantage of tax incentives and grants.

Billfisto · Jan 4, 2021

Most American productions I watch are usually shot in Canada, so it's the best of both worlds!

Randam · Jan 4, 2021

Am from Germany: 99% foreign. 98% of that from America.

Parch · Jan 4, 2021

Too much american TV is about american exceptionalism. All of the cop, political, and hero worship is american propaganda that I refuse to watch.

Transistor · Jan 4, 2021

I don't have a preference at all. If something is good, I don't care what country it came from.

julia crawford · Jan 4, 2021

Primarily foreign, but things can be foreign and be from the same place you live in. But generally foreign, and optimally not from the US.

"International" cinema is honestly today's best way of becoming a wordly citizen.

Iva Demilcol · Jan 4, 2021

They don't make games in my country so...

(except for that shitty one where the owners of the company didn't pay enough to their employees)

Freddy=Legend · Jan 4, 2021

For me, it comes in waves. As a big horror fan; there was a period where the best stuff was coming out of Asia. Then for a while it was France. It changes with the period.

But I guess mostly I prefer North American content because it's the easiest to acquire.

TaySan · Jan 4, 2021

If something is good I don't care what country it's from. If it's in English it's easier for me to get into it though.

Cheesebu · Jan 4, 2021

Mostly US for movies and TV, but for games I typically play Japanese stuff, as I'm really into gameplay and most western games have garbage gameplay.

Deleted member 13496 · Jan 4, 2021

lunarworks said:
Most of our talent, both in front of and behind the camera, migrate to the States, where the big paycheques are.

Yeah of course. I don't blame 'em, just saying the ones that stay make me cringe most of the time.

Green said:
LOL this is so true. Had some friend recommend Kim's Convenience and I'm just like, "This is Corner Gas".

Haha yes exactly. Those and like Little Mosque on the Prairie etc. Just no thank you haha.

Deleted member 56266 · Jan 4, 2021

I am into Western Television and Japanese anime around equally, but vastly prefer Japanese games compared to Western ones.

lunarworks · Jan 4, 2021

Switch Back 9 said:
Yeah of course. I don't blame 'em, just saying the ones that stay make me cringe most of the time.

Sometimes we get gems like Kids in the Hall, SCTV, Trailer Park Boys, and Schitt's Creek. Then there's the occasional short-run auteur show that CBC puts out, like The Newsroom or (forgotten gem) Twitch City. But, most of the CanCon budget goes to HGTV-like crap that can be sold in other markets.

MarcelloF · Jan 4, 2021

Foreign. German stuff is mostly kinda crap.

Deleted member 13496 · Jan 4, 2021

lunarworks said:
Kids in the Hall, SCTV, Trailer Park Boys, and Schitt's Creek.

This and Kenny vs. Spenny are my go-to Canadian shows to recommend when people ask.

GK86 · Jan 4, 2021

Never thought about this, but I don't have a preference. Will say that thanks to Netflix, I have watched more foreign shows (and films) than I have in the past.

Tavernade · Jan 4, 2021

According to a Letterboxd, nearly half of the 203 the movies I watched in 2020 were Japanese films. 40% of the 200 films I watched in 2019 were also Japanese, as were 50% of the films I watched in 2018. I live in the USA.

(For those curious, most of the films are Japanese films of the 30s-60s (Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi, Keisuke Kinoshita, Kenji Mizoguchi... not actually s lot of Ozu to be honest), anime films are few and far between just because of how much harder they used to be to find streaming).

For games it's pretty much always primarily been Nintendo. My home country is only #1 for books/TV.

HomokHarcos · Jan 4, 2021

MarcelloF said:
Foreign. German stuff is mostly kinda crap.

There was a period (1920s) when German cinema was considered the best in the world.

Curufinwe · Jan 4, 2021

I'm from NZ so that's a tiny amount of non forgein content.

modoversus · Jan 4, 2021

Foreign. Good Mexican TV and movies are the exception, not the rule. It is my belief that this has it's root in the media monopoly that ruled my country for decades, before being split between two networks until the early 90s.

HomokHarcos · Jan 4, 2021

Curufinwe said:
I'm from NZ so that's a tiny amount of non forgein content.

I'm curious from your avatar, how did you get into the NHL being from New Zealand?

Bear · Jan 4, 2021

I don't have a conscious preference but the vast majority of the content I watch is produced in the US.

NCR Ranger · Jan 4, 2021

The content having English audio, native or dubbed it makes no difference, is my preference. Where exactly the content came from after that is irrelevant. It's not a deal breaker though. I just have to be in a specific mood to deal with subtitles in TV shows or movies. I have subtitles on in video games by default so it doesn't matter much there.

clearacell · Jan 4, 2021

I prefer user created content so wherever those people are from I watch that.

Ramako · Jan 4, 2021

I'll watch the occasional Canadian-made stuff like Schitt's Creek or Kids in the Hall, but I mostly watch US-made shows and movies, and I think that's probably true of most Canadians. The problem is that all the best Canadian talent ends up working in the States anyway.

Deleted member 13496 · Jan 4, 2021

HomokHarcos said:
I'm curious from your avatar, how did you get into the NHL being from New Zealand?

While working in the ski industry I formed friendships with plenty of Aussies, Brits, and Kiwis, and we got 'em all into hockey through playing NHL on the PlayStation and watching NHL games as a house (due to the Canadians doing it anyway). I don't how much they're all still into it outside of one buddy in Auckland who watches just enough to talk shit about the Leafs to me, but for a few years there they were all aboard the hockey train.

hiredhand · Jan 4, 2021

Since I come from Finland, a country with a population of little over 5 million, it's always going to be foreign. I did see (partly thanks to COVID-19) more Finnish films at the cinema this year than probably any other year ever (4 films).

About 35 - 40% of the films I watch are not in English though. It would be nice to get that closer to 50% for this year but it's hard when like 95% of the easily available content here is in English.

For books, the split is much closer than for films: probably like 20% Finnish, 80% foreign. For music it's probably even closer than that. Though COVID-19 and the lack of gigs and festivals has decreased my music consuption drastically in general since last March.

I don't think I have played a Finnish videogame since Baba Is You. Maybe I should finally give Cities: Skylines a change since it's on sale for the Switch.

N64Controller · Jan 4, 2021

Lots of the music I listen to is from my province, and we make good movies and TV as well. I like some canadian TV classics like Trailer Park Boys and SChitt's Creek, but I rope them all into foreign content because it might as well be, we don't really grow up on this stuff and it's not our language, not our artists, etc. There's some good stuff coming out of Canada though.

My most listened to "styles" on spotify for 2020 were Indie Québécois and Indie Pop, so I guess most of my music is from here. When it comes to TV I'd say it's a lot broader, but I don't watch a lot of movies. When I do watch movies, I use Mubi so I never know what I'll get.

Video games is pretty much from everywhere as well, currently going through a lot of japanese games but it's not always the case. The only sports I watch are NHL and NBA, but I don't have a real team to root for in any of those so I just randomize it for NBA, and just watch games in NHL because I know the game more.

When it comes to books I read mostly québécois and all francophone country authors. And some classics from other countries as well, I'm not closed to anything, like the last big series I read was ASOIAF!

Squarehard · Jan 4, 2021

Doesn't matter where it's made, as long as it's good, and got subtitles/dubbing, but sometimes, not even that is needed.

Kain-Nosgoth · Jan 4, 2021

99% of what i consume is foreign, i'm from switzerland

i watch some swiss movies sometimes, but it's reaaaally rare, usually if it's something really good that got recommended a lot, which doesn't happen often

shaneo632 · Jan 4, 2021

British here, I'd say the majority of my content is from the U.S. but a fair amount of UK stuff too.

Don't really have a preference, they can both be great.

Deleted member 13496 · Jan 4, 2021

hiredhand said:
Since I come from Finland, a country with a population of little over 5 million, it's always going to be foreign. I did see (partly thanks to COVID-19) more Finnish films at the cinema this year than probably any other year ever (4 films).

About 35 - 40% of the films I watch are not in English though. It would be nice to get that closer to 50% for this year but it's hard when like 95% of the easily available content here is in English.

Heavy Trip was awesome!

Futureman · Jan 4, 2021

Most of what I consume is from the US.

TV is the only medium though where it's like 99.9% US. As I mostly watch comedies, other country's humor doesn't gel with me I guess.

The only two foreign TV shows I can think of are British Bake Show and Schitt's Creek (I think it's made in Canada right?).

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