You sound like a chest-thumping yankee who thinks that Manhattan is the centre of the universe and you don't need to get out of the city to experience everything there is in life.
When you're in a hole, keep digging!
I've been to New York once. It's a nice place, but I don't have any desire to live there. That said, I'm offering only my best attempt at an objective opinion based on what I believe is a widely-accepted definition of culture in this context.
Let's look at it in very broad terms: if culture is to mean things like museums, stage performances, live and recorded music, television production, architecture, relevance of print media, variety of cuisine, sports teams, depictions in media, etc., is there any other city in the world that comes close to New York? London, Paris, Tokyo, etc. are all fine cities. But you seem to be under the mistaken impression that support for one is hostility towards all others, an opinion in which you couldn't be more wrong -- I love Tokyo very dearly and for all of my own reasons. Having been to neither London nor Paris (nor Moscow nor Jakarta nor Kigali), I can't comment on them from firsthand experience.
I suggest you explore the world rather than experiencing the fake culture and cuisine that NYC has to offer.
You're unabashedly flaunting ignorance now. The "fake" culture and cuisine? Do you think it is all New York-style pizza and the Yankees? By the way, both of those are perfectly legitimate examples of culture.
You seem to be failing to understand that when people came to New York, they brought with them parts of their own countries or localities. Bast, where do you think American culture developed from? Where do you think
Australian culture developed from? If you have the audacity to criticize our culture, you should first examine your own; you too are the cultural descendant of peoples that came, largely from Britain, and settled in Australia.
One final word: I'm living
halfway across the world in a country whose language I did not speak a word of so much as three years ago. If it's between the two of us, I'm the worldly scholar and
you are the culturally-isolated bigot.
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