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2012-10-31 04:02 6516412 Anonymous (1344918515739.jpg 400x299 18kB)
I realized that in my country we don't have any traditions or real holidays based on real cultural identity. Just a bunch of boring, artificial bullshit created by the government like "battle of x" or "day of flag"... or generic shit like "day of the virgin mary". Even our Christmas are boring: plastic trees with more plastic decoration with a generic dinner. In the Easter day kids eat chocolate and nothing more... When i see Bolivians or Mexicans celebrating their Day of the Dead, the anglosphere with Halloween or Easter Day or Asians with their rich and ancient culture... i feel empty. Do you enjoy your cultural festivals or just ignore them?

38 min later 6516841 Anonymous (Somebody shit in my lunchbag.png 447x375 127kB)
>Any spic country in the Americas besides Mexico >culture >Argentina >White

40 min later 6516851 Anonymous
>Even our Christmas are boring: plastic trees with more plastic decoration with a generic dinner. >generic Kill yourself.

40 min later 6516860 Anonymous
Being white sure have a lot of downsides. Here, you can have our Good Friday.

42 min later 6516883 Anonymous
>>6516841 List of countries in the Americas with culture: >Mexico >Peru >some bits of central america I'm very sorry USA, but the whole continent doesn't have any sort of culture, besides the ones mentioned above, you have traditions, not culture. And yeah, we know that feel Argentina.

48 min later 6516978 Anonymous (peruvian_culture.jpg 627x600 53kB)
>>6516883

52 min later 6517016 Anonymous
>>6516883 some ethnic groups in america have culture, but most whites like myself don't. you are correct that we have traditions. like thanksgiving turkey which is a joke to most people. i have a vietnamese friend and every few years he asks me why the big fuss about turkey. i remind him that we hate it but the old folks won't let go of it.

54 min later 6517047 Anonymous (navidad en argentina.jpg 480x360 23kB)
The true ones are the Peronist loyalty day, the day of "i hate Colon, kill all spaniards" and of course Saint Nestor every 27/10

56 min later 6517073 Anonymous
>>6516883 >>6517016 Oh you know, besides the face the whole world goes around copying our ''traditions'' and stuff. Like halloween

57 min later 6517084 Anonymous
You're trying to hard Argentina.

58 min later 6517092 Anonymous
It can be both artificial and funny. In France we took the old St-Jean, in which people used to dance around big fires, and created la Fête de la Musique: there are music bands everywhere in the streets and people smile and dance and it's cool and everything.

59 min later 6517105 Anonymous
What is culture?

1 hours later 6517132 Anonymous
>>6517105 culture is like when you travel to greece and everyone is sophisticated and polite to you even though you are a rude american. there are many other manifestations of it, but that would be the first one you would notice.

1 hours later 6517135 Anonymous
>>6517016 >being this ashamed of your traditions and culture You have got to be joking.

1 hours later 6517164 Anonymous
>>6517073 So culture means that you can export it?

1 hours later 6517170 Anonymous
>>6517135 visit any white american family on thanksgiving and choke down some of the dryest meat ever. it's much better the next day when we make turkey salad or sandwiches.

1 hours later 6517198 Anonymous
>>6517073 I was replying to a post reffering to culture and I made him know in the USA there is no culture, but traditions, that are not quite the same, we do have ridiculous stupid fucking traditions aswell, but since you control the media and the world basically, those stupid fucking traditions are carried on by other wannabe "meeerrrrrika fuck yeah" countries, such as mine.

1 hours later 6517199 Anonymous
>>6517164 No, but how about us inventing most of modern music? Having our own music style? Is that not culture?

1 hours later 6517232 Anonymous
>>6517199 A distinction is current between the physical artifacts created by a society, its so-called material culture and everything else,[3] the intangibles such as language, customs, etc. that are the main referent of the term "culture". It's material culture, and seriously USA, Britain kicks your ass any day in terms of music.

1 hours later 6517246 Anonymous
>>6517170 You sound like an insufferable angsty self-hater. You really have no idea, but don't worry, if you keep it up you will find out what it's really like to have no traditions or culture. Its not an improvement, btw

1 hours later 6517279 Anonymous
>>6517232 Yes copying African American musicians, really talented stuff there

1 hours later 6517286 Anonymous
>>6517246 I'd like to know more about the Australian culture, please. And I fail to understand how not wanting to eat dry as fuck turkey and bursting some fireworks on 4th of july makes you a self hating angsty teen, could you elaborate?

1 hours later 6517320 Anonymous
>>6517279 So now that you consider them human beings you acknowledge their work and use it as your own to shove it down everyone's throat, even though back when those african-americans started doing music they were hated and it was considered the devil's music by the white folks. Stay Fucking Classy Merrika.

1 hours later 6517335 Anonymous
>>6517286 There's nothing left to tell about. That's the point Also if teh turkey is dry it means the cook did a bad job

1 hours later 6517341 Anonymous
Nice proxy there bro. No one here (except 60 year old grandmas) would give 1/10 of a fuck for traditions or national festivities. Everyone knows christmas, halloween, and every single holiday is just an oportunity to go out and get wasted. Everyone here enjoys doing it, and no Argie would have it any other way, or live in another country in SA

1 hours later 6517381 Anonymous
>>6517320 I could say the same damn thing about the brits you spic fuck. >Rock and roll gets popular in America >Everyone loves it >Brits hate it simply because it's American >Flash forward to the beatles >SUDDENLY brits love it and start claiming they're the best at it

1 hours later 6517388 Anonymous
>>6517335 Tell about what? Remembering the day the natives recieved them and, and how in return they wiped them out, or the national day (that every single country in the world has probably), or Halloween that comes from the celts and was brought to the USA from the irish men. Our relatively new countries dont have fucking culture, and yes, I wish it wasn't the case, but we cant do anything can we? So why cling to stupid traditions.

1 hours later 6517406 Anonymous
>>6517341 underage detected

1 hours later 6517414 Anonymous
>>6517381 They mastered it, if thats what you mean, and dont call me a spic fuck if I call out how dumb your argument is, when you try to claim something as your own from people that you hated, and pretty much still fucking hate, and they feel so fucking excluded from their own country, they have to call themselves "african americans", because even though they have hundreds of years in your country, you still cant integrate them, and so in return they hate the fuck out of you.

1 hours later 6517428 Anonymous
>>6517388 You asked me to tell you about the Australian culture. There's nothing to tell. Our "culture" is that we work 40 hours a week and go out of our way to avoid anything that could be somehow construed as racist

1 hours later 6517465 Anonymous
>>6517414 i'm a "white" guy, and the saddest thing about american blacks is that they don't appreciate the fact that almost all of them are part european, due to slave owners raping and possibly having consensual sex with slaves. hell, look at obama: white mom and genuine kenyan father, who left early on so obama was raised in a white household, but if you read his biography, obama grew up mistrusting whites. i suppose that is because of racist whites, but still i find it ridiculous that they all think they are aftican, when they are certainly american, and have substantial european blood. people are kinda silly about stuff like that.

1 hours later 6517476 Anonymous
>>6517428 Well it's the same shit in here, but thats because our countries are so new, but I dont think there is a problem with that, there are some countries with magnificent culture, millenary traditions and costumes, and they still are pretty much a shithole. And yes, it would be great to have one, but we dont, so atleast in here, for a lack of culture, we have a very high national identity.

1 hours later 6517490 Anonymous
>>6517414 Just because some people hated them doesn't mean the whole country did. We had a little thing called the civil war if you remember. There's racism in every country and I don' t know if you watch American football or basketball but they seem to be pretty intergrated and no one gives a fuck.

1 hours later 6517517 Anonymous
>>6517341 >YEAH GUISE GET WASTED ERRYDAY HURRRRRRRRR Jesus what a flaming underaged faggot. I wholeheartedly agree with OP. Even Halloween parties are extremely half-assed here 'cause it's a "borrowed" tradition. Very little people will actually put work into their costumes and shit. Disappointing as fuck. There's virtually NO holiday that's even remotely enjoyable or unique here. Americunts have all the fun. Inb4 HURR WE CAN DRINK WHEN UNDERAGED, AND DO WHATEVER THE FUCK WE WANT HURRR. I'm not talking about drinking specifically. Or partying. I'm talking something that has real meaning behind it. Even if nobody gives a fuck about it, realistically. Or, err, let me put it this way: some form of institutionalized tradition that's actually fun. Didactic. Instilled in the social conscience in a sense. Like OP said, even Christmas is bland as fuck here. Americans have the whole shebang. I know people hate it when it comes down to it. Family gatherings blow no matter where you're from. But at least, like, I don't know... having those stupid stockings to put up looks fun. Ugh... I'm rambling now.

1 hours later 6517525 Anonymous
>>6516412 OP forgot about Latinamerican way of socialization, we do have a culture, yet the people from the cities forget about it, our culture is the way we interact with other people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkFJE8ZdeG8 i hate this kinf of music, i does not reflect my political views at all, yet this video is what latinamerica is.

1 hours later 6517552 Anonymous
>>6517465 I know there are two sides of the coin, but come on, its pretty clear how the white population in the USA secludes the black population and tries to involve with them as little as possible, I mean its so clear its visible in the most retarded shit ever, for example certain sexual taboos such as "cuckolds" and "interracial porn", if they were truly integrated they would come out as individuals and not as an ehtnic group, and thats a huge weight on their shoulders, for black people that actually wants to get out of poverty and their shitty situation.

1 hours later 6517558 Anonymous
>>6517517 Tenemos piquetes y cacerolazos. Esos cuentan? :DDD

1 hours later 6517571 Anonymous
>>6517406 >>6517517 >mad virgins Or bolivian inmigrants, choose the one you like most.

1 hours later 6517579 Anonymous
>>6517525 Yeah, I am not that. Fuck you. Argentina is simply not Latin America. Fucking deal with it faggots. ALL of those images were foreign as fuck to me.

1 hours later 6517588 Anonymous
>>6517279 Because Europe doesn't have a music tradition before rock and jazz?

1 hours later 6517592 Anonymous (108.jpg 2592x1952 2379kB)
wat is goin in dis trid? day of the dead is awesome, the ofrendas, the parties, the flores of cempasuchil, etc.

1 hours later 6517597 Anonymous
>>6516412 Uruguay is sure better than being an Asian land that turned into a very bloody war zone between the USA and the USSR.

1 hours later 6517598 Anonymous
>>6517490 >use them for profitable sports since years of slavery and breeding selection gave them good physique =/= integration It's like syaing rap integrates them, when it only shows them as fucking gangsters (because everyone would like to live next to a gangster that smokes weed all day, has an AK-47, deals drugs and is obsessed with gold, right?)

1 hours later 6517602 Anonymous
>>6517558 >Cacerolazos Epa. Ahí tenemos algo. Interesante. Nos vemos en el #8N.

1 hours later 6517627 Anonymous
>>6517552 i agree. i look at nearly every other nation in the americas; most had slaves, all had natives, and most of them live together on terms that you almost never see in the usa. hell, our natives still mostly live on "reservations". what the hell went wrong in the usa, that every country in central and south america did right? was it the spanish influence rather than english?

1 hours later 6517668 Anonymous
>>6517627 I cant say my country did a great job, it was a horrible job just as your country, the spaniards basically wiped the whole native population, and the remaining natives are treated like shit and demonized by the media. And although there are no black people here (less than 0,5%), in here is not about the race (mainly white and mestizo) its about how much money you have, which is still fucked up, just less fucked up.

1 hours later 6517673 Anonymous
>>6517490 No, I just mean that multiculturalism is explicitly celebrated at every chance and there is no national identity, just people who happen to live here. It is actually taught in our schools that our national culture is multiculturalism. It's not just that we don't have any of our own, but what precious little was brought from the motherland ended up being destroyed - even Guy Fawkes Night has gone, and even the fucking spellings of roads have been changed to accommodate apostrophe-deprived foreigners and consequently lost their meaning. Plus the traditions are shit like Argeninta said >>6517517 . No difference really between Aus and Silverland in that respect.

1 hours later 6517712 Anonymous
>>6517598 They play the sport the same reason whites do, because they enjoy the sport. Breeding and shit has nothing to do with it, You look at hollywood and there's plenty of black stars people like. You go to any school in a non bad area and everyone is treated the same way. They're integrated, they're American, no one is saying they aren't except you.

1 hours later 6517719 Anonymous
>>6517673 Well that guilt comes from years of being racist as fuck and considering the natives animals, you harvest what you plant. Just look at Germany, every time there is a chance of making them remember about past events, everyone does, by the way my family comes from Germany, and I hate how my cousins are sometimes blamed for what our great grandfathers did. But its inevitable, sine they fucked it up so badly (our predecessors) that now the weight is on us, its just the way it goes, even if its unfair.

1 hours later 6517735 Anonymous
>>6517719 The Holocaust didn't happen, bro. You're taking shit over made up bullshit. GG.

1 hours later 6517744 Anonymous (1326734566151.jpg 350x468 27kB)
>>6517105 >American asking what culture is I don't even.. I can't make this shit up.

1 hours later 6517745 Anonymous
>>6517712 So, you are telling me the majority of americans arent racist and they dont seclude them, I'm not even from the US and I can tell you are naive as fuck. >impying your own family would be ok if you dated a black chick, or you wouldnt get weird looks

1 hours later 6517751 Anonymous
>>6517744 Then explain what it is without the "MUH OLD BUIDLINGS" you guys typically peddle.

1 hours later 6517752 Anonymous
culture is not some essence or pure thing, so, yes, all countries and places have a culture, and traditions (traditions are part of culture). culture is just "a living system. The different aspects of the living system that is human culture are linked together in “branching and interconnecting chains of causation” and bounded by self-validating and usually unconscious “epistemological” assumptions concerning" (Gregory Bateson). even some animal species possess some features that define culture.

1 hours later 6517754 Anonymous
>>6517627 >what the hell went wrong in the usa, that every country in central and south america did right? was it the spanish influence rather than english? Yeah, turned out REAL WELL for them. The Americas would've been much better if every Indian was killed and all the niggers were killed/sent back to Africa after slavery. Truth.

1 hours later 6517759 Anonymous
>>6517745 forgot to add, for a reasonable and un-racist person, calling me a "spic" doesnt sound very smart, so dont lie to yourself.

1 hours later 6517763 Anonymous
>>6517754 it might have been "better", but it would have been wrong. do you not agree?

2 hours later 6517777 Anonymous
>>6517754 Are you just trolling, or are you really such a fucking sociopath?

2 hours later 6517786 Anonymous
MUH CULTURE

2 hours later 6517792 Anonymous
>>6517777 He's some whiny 15 year old who feels he needs to defend white America on the internet inbetween fapping to pictures of Ann Romney.

2 hours later 6517826 Anonymous
>>6517752 *concerning “what sort of world it is"

2 hours later 6517835 Anonymous
>>6517792 Those are the dumb fucks that make the US look bad.

2 hours later 6517865 Anonymous
Well OP having a rich culture and traditions can also be a hindrance because much of our traditional culture has a lot of christian influence it also weighs us down and makes us less permeable to change. Countries "without culture" are thus, more flexible to social change than countries with rich cultural tradition and I see that as a plus. And, I mean at least you have Tango, Gardel, Pizazzolla, right?

2 hours later 6517873 Anonymous
>>6517843 >and how I have to apologize for shit nobody in my family or generation ever had anything to do with >actually apologizing My Family owned slaves and fought for the confederacy but no one I've ever mentioned it to(white or anyone else) has ever cared. Australia must be a truly bad place.

2 hours later 6517913 Anonymous
>>6517843 And thats what I fear brother, because this shit will explode, and it wont be good for the minorities, people are getting sick of each other instead of intergating them, fairness and integration means everyone has the same chance, and this is not the case, since some minorities are benefited, and that is only bad for them, because you are the ones getting fucked in the ass to help foreginers, that dont even like you anyways.

2 hours later 6517974 Anonymous
>>6517792 >Implying I don't fap to pictures of Ann Romney daily

2 hours later 6518169 chile
>>6517198 >traditions no, chile does not have that many "traditions" most of them were forced by the left in the 60's ot the right in the 70's, things like the empanada as a national food, the national dance and "music", rodeo, "tradiotional games" etc were FORCED on people to build a national identity. >>6517668 That's a lie, upper middle class is not brown, there's a reason why there's almost no white looking people in jail and all poor parts of santiago, temuco, concepcion are brown. Most of the 30 years old in the upper middle class had at least one euro grandparent (is the basque country still considered spain?), if you are white looking people treat you differently that if you are brown. >>6517719 Fuck no, in many cases the natives were animal and savages, but i would be happy if every country had a mini country inside them for the natives, that way they can be savages. Separatism s the only way natives and racist will be both happy.

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