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2013-04-03 02:43 9662036 Anonymous (1346768034307.jpg 250x225 10kB)
So what exactly is "American" culture?
They cling more onto their supposed white European heritage more than any descendants from Europe. But then they argue that they have their own culture.
Expat working in America btw.
1 min later 9662072 Anonymous
>>9662036
American culture is British culture but more extreme.
/thread
2 min later 9662111 Anonymous
>>9662072
Have you ever been to Britain? If so, you would know they are way fucking different.
5 min later 9662176 Anonymous
America actually has its own culture, different from European ones, but it is so recent that it's obviously mostly commercial trash and consumerism rather than great artistic heritage and century-old fine traditions.
6 min later 9662211 Anonymous
American culture is not noticeable because of the dominance of American media and products globally. It's a cultural music of the spheres, it's there but you don't notice it because literally everyone partakes of it in one way or another.
7 min later 9662232 Anonymous
american culture is getting bits of other countries' cultures
like you do with food:
burgers, freedom fries, pizza etc
8 min later 9662287 Anonymous
Jazz is our culture. Like it or not, we have been influenced by Africa nearly as much as by Europe. Jazz was the progenitor of all popular music in the 20th century.
But black people don't give nearly enough credit to European music in laying a foundation for jazz to exist
9 min later 9662288 Anonymous
>>9662111
I mean WASP's not niggers or poor people.
10 min later 9662316 Anonymous
There's no American culture. I don't know anybody who clings to "European white heritage". Culture is an imaginary social binding we had to keep groups of humans together so we would survive. America is a thriving multi-ethnic melting pot and that's how every advanced civilization should be. Dividing the population with a false concept is an awful idea. Clinging to culture is the same as clinging to a God. Humans have long advanced past the need for such binds.
12 min later 9662387 Anonymous
>it's obviously mostly commercial trash and consumerism rather than great artistic heritage and century-old fine traditions.
Well said.
>>9662316
>I don't know anybody who clings to "European white heritage"
Have you ever been to /pol/? They all think they are part of the European white and American at the same time, it's ridiculous.
13 min later 9662410 Anonymous (1361218952877.png 680x568 678kB)
America is too big for one culture. We have Northern culture, Southern culture, Nigger culture, Western culture, and on, and on.
14 min later 9662443 Anonymous
>>9662387
I mean real functioning people, not greasy shut-ins who haven't felt the sun in years.
15 min later 9662454 Anonymous
It should be noted that American culture different severly with different classes and therefore you can't really make a statement on it entirely. I would say that Upper middle and Upper class culture is more similar to that of Britain, Middle class culture is really true american culture and lower class is just like middle class but with niggers and crime.
15 min later 9662466 Anonymous
What is german culture? Drinking beer and eating sauerkraut? What is french culture? Sharia law? I visited NYC and I liked it a lot. Would visit it again.
15 min later 9662473 Deify the Cliff Racer
America's culture is so fake and artificial. It's all about production, industrialization, mass media, corporations etc. Like a culture that has been specifically created for a single purpose to move masses, not something that was born slowly over time.
Of course they are going to cling on the European heritage because their own culture does not go far and deep enough. We have the privilege to pluck the fruits of the thousands of years of development while distinctive American culture has just formed, or rather has just been created as they have distanced themselves from the British culture.
17 min later 9662505 Anonymous
mcdonals
19 min later 9662572 Anonymous
>>9662473
> It's all about production, industrialization, mass media, corporations etc
That is our culture your dam nigger squab
19 min later 9662581 Anonymous
>>9662410
That's so fucking true, I've lived in SoCal all my life and I moved up to the Northwest for school, and honestly, it was like I was in a complete different America.
24 min later 9662699 Anonymous (1362601306205.jpg 627x410 103kB)
>implying
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultur e_of_the_United_States
Also OP is most likely just using a proxy.
24 min later 9662702 Anonymous (average brazilian.jpg 1024x768 165kB)
>>9662232
When will we get glorious Brazilian cuisine?
25 min later 9662717 Anonymous
Is cawboy culture still alive?
26 min later 9662740 Anonymous
>>9662717
Yes and no. People like to dress up like cowboys, but by any means, they are nothing alike a real cowboy.
27 min later 9662766 Anonymous
>>9662717
No
Not since 1890
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle _of_Wounded_Knee
30 min later 9662859 Anonymous (rustled crow.jpg 800x533 30kB)
>>9662717
>cawboy
>>9662766
You talking about that battle where Father Comstock took an arrow to the knee?
32 min later 9662896 Anonymous
>>9662766
I don't get it. What does the Union Army have to do with ranchers?
34 min later 9662977 Anonymous
>>9662896
Ranchers only had to buy guns to defend themselves (which makes them cowboys) because of imminent Native attacks.
When the Natives are all subjugated, cowboys turn into nothing but boring herders.
36 min later 9663023 Anonymous
>>9662111
Britain and India are 'way different.' Mongolia and Bolivia are 'way different.'
US and UK are not 'way different.'
36 min later 9663033 Anonymous (brokeback_mountain_ver3[1].jpg 535x353 46kB)
>>9662717
would you like to be a cowboy with me
56 min later 9663515 Anonymous
>>9662176
le smugness alert
57 min later 9663557 Anonymous
America has a culture that has been much more vibrant than Europe, in the past 200 years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultur e_of_the_United_States
59 min later 9663588 Anonymous
We have multiple cultures.
You're really going to tell me Hawaii and Alaska are exactly the same and neither has any culture whatsoever?
1 hours later 9663612 Anonymous
>>9662036
They have one, it's just watered down (comparatively) due to their federalism.
1 hours later 9663617 Anonymous
The only places in the US that have unique cultures are in the South and the Old West (Wyoming, etc.).
I expect angry responses from uncultured Midwesterners and Northeasterners.
1 hours later 9663638 Anonymous
>>9663617
>i've never left my basement
1 hours later 9663687 Anonymous
>>9662316
>America is a thriving multi-ethnic melting pot
That's a joke right?
The American cities with more than a few whites always struck me as segregated as shit.
I mean New York, the supposed beacon of the melting pot, have ultra-orthodox Jews thriving in it despite them not wanting to associate with anyone but other, prefereably religious, Jews.
1 hours later 9663708 Anonymous
>>9663617
I've lived in New Jersey, Chicago, South Carolina, and I'm currently living in Indiana for school.
Please try harder.
1 hours later 9663720 Anonymous
>>9663708
Meant for
>>9663638
1 hours later 9663746 Anonymous
>>9662036
England with less monarchs, more guns and more cheeseburger.
1 hours later 9663757 Anonymous
>>9663720
How does Caliornia not have culture?
I'm guessing modern surfing was fucking invented there
1 hours later 9663769 Anonymous
>>9663757
>California
Homosexuality
1 hours later 9663791 Anonymous
>>9662036
>So what exactly is "American" culture?
One can't define an "American culture" without either
a. Include Anglo-Canada, or
b. Exclude most of USA.
So, I'd rather say that both Anglo-CA and USA have a bunch of related, but still different cultures that don't really give a fuck to the borders between the three North American countries. Yes, three, since California and Texas, even being English-speaking, are IMHO more culturally related to Mexico.
1 hours later 9663800 Anonymous
>>9663687
>I mean New York, the supposed beacon of the melting pot, have ultra-orthodox Jews thriving in it despite them not wanting to associate with anyone but other, prefereably religious, Jews.
I fucking hate Jew York.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R611 drTEHPA
1 hours later 9663813 Anonymous
>>9663757
>How does Caliornia not have culture?
Hollywood, stoners, Valley Girl accents, and San Francisco do not constitute a culture.
1 hours later 9663814 Anonymous
>>9662176
>mfw our "commercial trash and consumerism" is spreading around the world and pretty much all western countries subscribe to our culture now
1 hours later 9663823 Anonymous
>>9663813
>Surfing
1 hours later 9663835 Anonymous
>>9663813
Actually that is a culture, not matter how shitty it is.
1 hours later 9663860 Anonymous
>>9663800
I live in New York, have for 20 years, and I fucking hate New York.
1 hours later 9663872 Anonymous
>>9663800
The jews stay to themselves. You'll rarely see anyone who really stands out as being Jewish unless you go into the actual Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens.
1 hours later 9663876 Anonymous
>>9663800
>supporting Palestine
Commie detected
1 hours later 9663884 Anonymous
>>9663813
But that is our culture faggot, no matter how much you hate it, it's OUR fucking culture, go back to shooting guns at beer bottles in your backyard hick.
1 hours later 9663922 Anonymous
>>9663813
Burrito.
1 hours later 9663934 Anonymous
>>9663884
Hillbillies in the mountains of North Carolina have more culture than you.
1 hours later 9663960 Anonymous
>>9663934
You can't say someone has no culture. Just because you don't like their culture doesn't mean it's classified as "lower" or nonexistent.
1 hours later 9663985 Anonymous (muricasavestheday.png 1258x823 520kB)
>>9662036
1 hours later 9664016 Anonymous
>>9662505
hiroshima best day of life
1 hours later 9664032 Anonymous
>>9663985
That is the most stupidest shit I've ever read, how does a nation give up a culture in a matter of years?
1 hours later 9664053 Anonymous
>>9663617
see
>>9663588
1 hours later 9664068 Anonymous
>>9664032
compare then to now
1 hours later 9664085 Anonymous
the modern world
1 hours later 9664088 Anonymous
Can someone explain the prevalence of Commiefornians and how they can still hold such beliefs to me?
Far as i've been able to glean from talks with them they're on average the sort of Armchair Marxists actual Revolutionary Marxists put up against a wall as dissidents right after they stop being useful. Like Lenin and the Ukrainian Anarchists.
1 hours later 9664099 Anonymous
>>9662717
In some little tiny ways, in some places, it is. Mostly it's gone, the need for it has disappeared as we no longer herd cattle from Texas to Kansas City once a year for beef.
But I had to "earn my spurs" as a cavalryman, and I still have my gold's hanging from the rearview mirror of my car. My stetson just sits on top of the fridge getting dusty though.
But cowboy action shooting is fun as fuck, horses are neat but too much trouble, and in a lot of places in the southwest there are places you can experience it (Old Tucson, Bisbee, etc)
1 hours later 9664112 Anonymous
>>9663985
Are you kidding me? We entered the war because of Pearl Harbor. Learn2history, Germany, it was your own ally.
1 hours later 9664133 Anonymous
>>9664112
and why did japan attack pearl harbor?
1 hours later 9664148 Anonymous
>>9664088
That's what happens when hippies become mainstream.
1 hours later 9664152 Anonymous
>>9664112
>We entered the war because of Pearl Harbor
>Learn2history
Top lel, m8
1 hours later 9664153 Anonymous
>>9664088
California has the highest population of any state (and more than Canada's whole country). Chances are greatest that if you're talking to an American online, he's from California.
1 hours later 9664164 Anonymous
>>9664088
after they realized they shit up their state, they try to move away from it then end up doing the same thing over
1 hours later 9664175 Anonymous
>>9663960
Right, all cultures are equal and none are superior to others.
Right.
1 hours later 9664194 Anonymous
>>9662036
Culture is pretty much the shared experiences of one group, an amalgamation of everything from sports watched, to stories heard in the cradle, to language spoken. However, American culture might be a special case, in that ou might not notice it as much because it's so globalized. Our music, food, and clothing styles are spread around the world, so you might not find them particularly unique when you get here. I've noticed that English people almost never have trouble understanding my slang, as opposed to vice versa, because they've heard it all already on tv.
TL;DR Baseball and Apple Pie
1 hours later 9664199 Anonymous
>>9664164
Yup, I hear they're starting to shit up states like Montana and Idaho by trying to ban guns, etc.
1 hours later 9664211 Anonymous
>>9664175
again
>SURFING
1 hours later 9664218 Anonymous
>>9664133
To keep us out of the war, actually. It was supposed to be a "don't fuck with us message," but obviously that backfired.
>>9664152
How many people seem to completely forget about the war in the Pacific (until lolwedroppedabomb) just baffles me. I'll bet you think WWII started with the invasion of Poland too.
1 hours later 9664220 Anonymous
>>9664199
they really are a plague of fucking faggots, i hope california sinks into the ocean with all of them on it
>>9664211
>totally rad duuuuude
still a faggot bro
1 hours later 9664222 Anonymous
>>9662717
North West Texas near the panhandle people still do the things they did so long ago.
>>9664088
Hollywood is strong so the media pushes its shit
1 hours later 9664244 Anonymous
>>9662176
>let me tell you about your country
1 hours later 9664250 Anonymous
>>9664218
so japan attacking pearl harbor had nothing to do with the sanctions on them from the us?
>I'll bet you think WWII started with the invasion of Poland too.
you seem to think that japan attacked us unprovoked
1 hours later 9664257 Anonymous
>>9662036
>So what exactly is "American" culture?
hollywood and furius capitalism and stupid patriorism
1 hours later 9664265 Anonymous
>>9663617
>implying that New York has less cultural value than Cheyenne
1 hours later 9664273 Anonymous
>>9664088
Commiefornians live in relative isolation from human beings, seeing as most entertainment and media comes from Commiefornia and Jew York, which is like their spiritual older dirtier brother with more hobos and less Mexicans.
Since the geography of their state is admittedly pretty varied and awesome, they have no real reason to go anywhere else and experience things like effective state government, reasonable taxation, or being left mostly to their own devices like those in the south, midwest, etc.
Since most of their entertainment centers around how "great" they are, and they never leave, they come to hold these falsehoods as truth and become mouthpieces for their sheltered and erroneous beliefs.
When they do venture outside of their borders, they are almost immediately killed in car accidents they cause by ignoring stop signs and never using their turn signals, preventing them from rectifying this woeful ignorance.
1 hours later 9664281 Anonymous
>>9662473
Sure buddy.
1 hours later 9664287 Anonymous
>>9663960
>Just because you don't like their culture doesn't mean it's classified as "lower" or nonexistent.
What a bunch of relativist horseshit.
Bet you don't use the same line of reasoning for racism (modern day SA), slavery (why do you think chocolate fairtrade became popular?) or any number of other things you find politically inconvenient that's part of inferior cultures.
What an inferior school of thought.
1 hours later 9664303 Anonymous
>>9664222
>Hollywood is strong so the media pushes its shit
Ah now that I can relate to.
Our worst extremist leftist offenders opinion-wise is our media.
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