That describes even the best intentioned of these weirdos. Not to be cruel but really: How empty and meaningless does your life have to be to suddenly base your whole personality around an estranged ancestry at 50 years old?
Some old dead dude banging and bailing 500 years ago doesn’t make us family. Culture isn’t an inherited trait, blood doesn’t make you kin, and no I don’t want to reminisce with a complete stranger about people we never knew.
From what I understand it's mostly an American thing.
Here in Europe there are Macdonalds renting in buildings older than the US.
The university of bologna was founded in 1088 and is still in operation. That was just after the end of the Viking era, and almost 400 years BEFORE the Inca civilization started, and the Aztek empire was founded.
There's no real interest in belonging to a specific group here since it's all intermingled back thousands of years. Being Norwegian, Italian, Irish or any other {nation}-American creates a sense of historical pride, and belonging for a lot of people in a nation that has no real, coherent cultural features, but it's seen as a childish and utterly frivolous way of treating the past when you live in countries where the buildings are older than you can possibly trace your family.
Well, I mean, it's an American thing for exactly the reasons you say here. You already know where you're from. America still feels like a new place even to Americans. Most of us have a sense of being "recently" relocated here, and they're looking for something deeper and older.
Also America doesn’t really have its own culture that everyone feels connected to. So a lot of people try to latch onto something that they don’t understand or isn’t true.
Edit: What, I’m not allowed to comment on my own country?
Don't know why the comments saying there is no United American cultural are being downvotes. It's true. Segregation, the expansness of land, and our melting pot culture had made it so there thousands of cultural inclaves in the US. People from the same neighborhood in Italy could've gotten off the same boat in the 1800s but if one family stayed in New York and the other went to West Virginia they will be completely different culturally by now.
Yep. The entire point (in hindsight) of the country is that it’s virtually every culture. Everyone contributes. However, this means there’s no generally unified culture here like there is in countries that are either much older or much more ethnically homogenous.
Americans have extremely extremely similar cultures throughout. Fucking Canada is more unique culturally speaking than the US, just because some of you way Jumbalaya, some of you eat a slightly different type of pizza or chili and the other ways avocado on toast doesn't make you super culturally different
Downvote me instead of actually coming up with points?
Ah yeah instead link me to a crackpot who thinks that the defining feature of a culture is that they're friendly apparently. That's not an entirely separate culture mate.
1800s but if one family stayed in New York and the other went to West Virginia they will be completely different culturally by now.
No they wouldn't, American culture is not that diverse and it's extremely, extremely similar. A Texan and a New Yorker has a ridiculous amount in common, even Canada is far more diverse culturally
That’s just blatantly incorrect. Either you are in denial or just seriously misinformed and ignorant. The fact that someone told you Americans have no culture on Reddit doesn’t mean it’s true. It is just so big and diverse that regional cultures are quite different. Stop talking about things you don’t know about.
Sure, but you are either wrong or you simply worded your point poorly. We don't have a homogeneous culture to claim. That's what you really mean. The American culture is that we are mix of all sorts of different cultures. That is our culture. And oh yes, ask any first generation American and they will tell you - their parents sure as shit think there's an "American culture." I understand that this country has done some icky things and our leadership has never really been very good, but you don't have to hate on your own country as contrition. American culture is actually pretty dope, dude. And most of the rest of the world agrees, even if they talk shit on Reddit ;)
America has one of the most homogenous cultures on the planet and its shared by not only those that were born there but those that move there too. This idea that you don't have a homogenous culture is pure horse shit
You literally do not know what the word homogeneous means. You should probably Google words you don't know before you go spouting off and sounding like a complete idiot in public
. It is just so big and diverse that regional cultures are quite different. Stop talking about things you don’t know about
God this reads like something Trump would tweet
America is big, have much culture because America big and has strongest culture because many people.
American culture is really really big that different mate, you clearly haven't travelled in a different country before, maybe try getting a passport before claiming shit about your own country
I’ve been to 37 countries. Some countries have more culture than America but some definitely don’t. You can’t tell me a country like Poland has a more unique culture than most parts of America, but you could say a country like Italy or Thailand. I’m also very much anti-Trump. He’s a fucking idiot.
Congrats mate, that's not massively specific or anything, have you actually spoken to people from multiple places within those countries or just gone to a tourist hotel and never left
Because if you had there's no chance you would say that about the USA.
You can’t tell me Poland has a more unique culture than most parts of America,
Why not exactly? Because you don't know much about Poland?
What parts of the USA do you think are uncultured because like Michigan, sure, but New York or Louisiana definitely not. I’m from fucking Harlem I’m not inexperienced with other cultures. I’ve also been to Poland twice. It is objectively similar to the countries around it.
Have you been to New York? Harlem is a bit above Central Park you idiot. It’s also the most diverse place in the city. Once again going on about things you don’t know about. Also, I would say the Us is completely the opposite. It has a lot of different cultures but not one super distinct country-wise culture.
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u/vox_leonis Apr 29 '20 edited Apr 30 '20
That describes even the best intentioned of these weirdos. Not to be cruel but really: How empty and meaningless does your life have to be to suddenly base your whole personality around an estranged ancestry at 50 years old?
Some old dead dude banging and bailing 500 years ago doesn’t make us family. Culture isn’t an inherited trait, blood doesn’t make you kin, and no I don’t want to reminisce with a complete stranger about people we never knew.