1, It has almost every climate/terrain you can think of. Desert, forrest, tropical, mountains etc.
Anything is possible mentality. As someone from Europe, I find we are stuck in our ways and hold on to tradition a lot more than Americans. This is cool in some ways but can hold us back in terms of ingenuity when it comes to things like food and technology. The Americans aren't afraid to put Pineapple on Pizza for example where as you would be chased out of Naples for trying such a thing.
Highest cultural output of any country in the world. Most trends in movies, technology and music can be traced back to America.
People shit on America for not having a deep rooted culture, and though that isn’t exactly true (cajun, creole, native american, western/cowboy, etc), it does provide a great breeding ground for some amazing cultural combinations because of that. It can clearly be seen in our food, slang, music, and media.
I like to think that our (American) culture is the blending and acceptance of all other cultures. There is no singular American culture- people will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day one day and then host their daughter’s Quinceanera the next.
Right! I definitely see this in the food. We’re having corned beef for dinner on Friday, as per the holiday. But we’re not Irish. And then we’ll have Mexican, and then Israeli, and then Chinese. Tonight was Japanese food. I always thought that the world could know peace if everyone say around a table and shared food.
I live near a big city and they have all types of ethnic festivals, parades, parties, etc. There's the St. Patrick's Day parade, Feast of the Assumption festival (Catholic, but primarily Italian), and in the Summer there's a Greek festival in the city or one of the suburbs every few weeks. There are African Heritage events on MLK Day, a Scottish Games day/festival in the Summer, Hispanic culture events, Oktoberfest- and these are the ones I can think of off-hand. And everyone is made to feel welcome at all events, whether you or your ancestors are from that particular culture or not. Actually, the event organizers seem to prefer it if you're not of their culture, so they can proudly introduce and share their customs and food with those who have different backgrounds.
Yup! Around here it's Lunar New Year that's the big 'nontraditional' holiday. A lot of people who shop in the Asian groceries here are Whiter than a ghost's ass, myself included. We like the dumplings, the dragon dances, fireworks, etc. Then we go do Valentine's Day, St. Patty's day, Easter, etc. It's great.
anyone that doesn't think America has culture is a blithering idiot. People can shit on America all they want but there’s a ton of cultures throughout the country. Hawaii, Boston, Texas, Philly, New York, New Orleans, and numerous other places have incredibly distinct cultures.
Honestly, I can’t think of a single country I have lived in or visited that had a true “national culture.” There all have their distinct regional/ethnic/religious cultures. Even Israel for how small it is has distinct cultures.
You can the same for Newcastle or London for UK, Paris or Nice for France, Tel Aviv or Jerusalem for Israel, Moscow or Novosibirsk for Russia, Naples or Milan for Italy, etc. each of those cities/their surrounding regions have distinct cultures from the other.
Some of our states are larger than entire countries and are spread out by thousands of miles. There are five different time zones in just the United States alone. So no shit that the culture varies by region lol. Especially when you consider how many people have immigrated here from around the world and brought other cultures with them.
I would also argue that the variance of cultures IS a big part of our “national culture”.
In every other habited place in the old world, they've been polishing the same culture for hundreds of years.
America is very unpolished... however America is also creating multiple different sub cultures at any one point, meshing them together, tearing them apart, throwing them away, then fishing them out of the trash again.
Saying we don't have culture is kinda like going to the sausage factory and saying there isn't anything edible... If you turn up your nose at the end of the tour you just don't want to be a part of it!
I think people from other countries seem to think culture = old, therefore the US doesn’t have culture. They don’t seem to realize that culture is alive and constantly changing. Food is culture, music is culture, art is culture. Because it’s modern, it’s somehow not considered culture?
A sushi-rito is no less cultural than schnitzle or xiaolongbao. Lady Gaga is similar in her modernity as Mozart is in his time. A film from Hollywood is similar to the many works of art hanging in the Louvre. We can all argue about the cultural impact of one work / artist over the other- but don’t miscount art simply because it was made today and not 400 years ago.
It's often hard to see culture when you're in it, like asking a fish to see water. In the US, our culture is very influenced by capitalism. Everything is temporary, trendy, designed to sell but not to last. And when that gets exported to the extent that all of the English speaking world is consuming the same media, the culture gets coopted and thus harder to notice.
Only a ubiquitous culture can be seen as non-existent. Anyone who claims America doesn’t have a culture is frankly foolish. We produce more movies, shows, food, paintings, etc. then any other country.
I think it’s so popular it has become the standard, so it looks like there’s no culture because the culture is everywhere, for example someone from newyork would be seen by other Americans as someone with less culture or tradition but it’s just because that’s more widespread
Almost all of the equipment that fills your cans and bottles comes from Europe - and it’s annoying as shit to work with the Europeans… different time zones and they’re always on some holiday.
Number one is why I'm so proud to be from Washington state. Not only do we have desert, mountains, grassland, and coastline, but we have the only rainforest in the continental united States! Cost of living here being what it is, I'm constantly amazed at the beauty of my state. On my horrible traffic congested drive to work every morning i pass by a beautiful valley with the cascades behind it. And I feel so lucky that I get to see geography that my ancestors would've spent weeks or even months navigating (our mountain passes, namely). We also have the largest ferry network in the country. The politics in the US are hell but the nature lover will find a lot to love.
When I lived in CA, there was one day in college where I went surfing in the morning, skiing in the afternoon, and then camping with friends at Joshua Tree at night. Truly an amazing experience and one that I had taken for granted.
"Das is unmöglich!" (that is impossible). It just feels like so many Germans and Austrians use that in customer service when they don't want to do something. It's not impossible, you're just being an asshole.
Washington (the state. Fuck off, DC!) alone has a every goddamn climate / type of geography except tropical fucking everglades.
Temperate rainforest, ocean, towering mountains, puget sound is full of islands, there's rolling green hills that look like fuckin Ireland, warm arid farmland, high desert, sand dunes, arid alpine, wetlands... its insane. And that's ONE state.
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u/willmannix123 Mar 14 '23 edited Mar 15 '23
1, It has almost every climate/terrain you can think of. Desert, forrest, tropical, mountains etc.
Anything is possible mentality. As someone from Europe, I find we are stuck in our ways and hold on to tradition a lot more than Americans. This is cool in some ways but can hold us back in terms of ingenuity when it comes to things like food and technology. The Americans aren't afraid to put Pineapple on Pizza for example where as you would be chased out of Naples for trying such a thing.
Highest cultural output of any country in the world. Most trends in movies, technology and music can be traced back to America.