{"id":5976,"date":"2012-09-13T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2012-09-12T21:45:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T01:45:29","slug":"are-americans-less-stylish-than-europeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/are-americans-less-stylish-than-europeans\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Americans Less Stylish Than Europeans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091312_0121_AreAmerican1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"781\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bob Unwin argues that Americans are less stylish than Europeans in&#8230;everything. From clothing to architecture. He suggests that it&#8217;s because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Due to its sheer size, there is a greater average distance for a given American from a major cultural center.<\/li>\n<li>Class distinctions are less important and there is more internal diversity in the US. There is no need to differentiate yourself through fashion.<\/li>\n<li>Americans have a more informal culture and this is reflected in their style.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full argument <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/09\/why-are-americans-less-stylish-than-europeansjapanese.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/09\/why-are-americans-less-stylish-than-europeansjapanese.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Unwin argues that Americans are less stylish than Europeans in&#8230;everything. From clothing to architecture. He suggests that it&#8217;s because: Due to its sheer size, there is a greater average distance for a given American from a major cultural center. Class distinctions are less important and there is more internal diversity in the US. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091312_0121_AreAmerican1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5982,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions\/5982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}