Cultural confusions

American humor is a description of humor from the United States that usually concerns aspects of American culture. The extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous obviously depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including, but not limited to geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, and context. People of different countries will therefore find different situations funny. Just as American culture has many aspects which differ from other nations , these cultural differences may be a barrier to how humor translates to other countries. That being said there is evidence that American comedies actually perform better in other English speaking, and also German speaking, nations than American action or science fiction films do.[2] Although the study linked to also shows American comedies did noticeably worse in Spanish speaking nations. Furthermore films such as Shrek 2 and Men in Black are among the top-grossing comedies outside the US