I'm not sure how you justify that, having cited Watership Down (UK), Animal Land (Canada), and Reynard the Fox (France/Luxembourg/Germany). The Disneys and Pixars of America draw on world culture, each country with its own twist.
As for the fandom – and really, I'm not sure it makes much sense to strictly separate the two – few would deny its initial organization in the U.S., but I have a map and Analytics statistics from WikiFur that suggest a wide dispersal since then.
In pure numbers, the English WikiFur gets 65% from North America, 7% from the UK, 3% each from Germany and Australia, then maybe a percent or two from Russia, Sweden, France, Finland and Poland. Russian of course has its own very active wiki with about 10% of visitors as the English version (mostly from Russia, some Ukraine), and there are a number of other languages with their own traffic.
Eurofurence is also the longest-running furry convention in the world – going on 17 years now. Sure, it was below 400 for all but the last five of those, but there's something to be said for pure longevity. Rusfurrence has been around for over a decade, too.
As far as the last sentence is concerned, well, isn't that what I'm doing?
I think Cheetah's point was that art critics generally do not drive new trends in art. About the only field in which they "matter" is politics. (They may have more influence on art's popularity than its direction - here's perspectives from TV [x2], music, film and theatre.)
I'm not sure how you justify that, having cited Watership Down (UK), Animal Land (Canada), and Reynard the Fox (France/Luxembourg/Germany). The Disneys and Pixars of America draw on world culture, each country with its own twist.
As for the fandom – and really, I'm not sure it makes much sense to strictly separate the two – few would deny its initial organization in the U.S., but I have a map and Analytics statistics from WikiFur that suggest a wide dispersal since then.
In pure numbers, the English WikiFur gets 65% from North America, 7% from the UK, 3% each from Germany and Australia, then maybe a percent or two from Russia, Sweden, France, Finland and Poland. Russian of course has its own very active wiki with about 10% of visitors as the English version (mostly from Russia, some Ukraine), and there are a number of other languages with their own traffic.
Eurofurence is also the longest-running furry convention in the world – going on 17 years now. Sure, it was below 400 for all but the last five of those, but there's something to be said for pure longevity. Rusfurrence has been around for over a decade, too.
I think Cheetah's point was that art critics generally do not drive new trends in art. About the only field in which they "matter" is politics. (They may have more influence on art's popularity than its direction - here's perspectives from TV [x2], music, film and theatre.)