Originally Posted by
Asturias56
I always liked the fact that the State of Oklahoma quickly adopted the R&H song as the State Song - goes with a real whizzz!!!
If they 'd gone to a committee they'd have finished up with something colourless, worthy and boring (see Oh Canada, Advance Australia and similar).
No one would have written "they say we belong to the land , and the land we belong to is grand!" with added Whoops.
Exactly, the Hollywood musical is the very essence of American joie de vivre (thank heavens for the lingua franca, eh?). That, and the self-mockery of New York Jewish humour, makes for a culture that is despised by the thin-lipped PC brigade. Their loss and our gain. The huddled masses brought with them energy and ingenuity; the very qualities that made them suspect to those that they fled from. They left behind rule from the centre, hence the suspicions harboured still to Federal diktat. On the whole though the balance works well enough for the USA to be the leader of the free world still. The tidy minded should take note, but never will of course. They prefer to cogitate on their own intellectual superiority and the need to educate those who think differently to themselves.