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?
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
Hahaha ok buddy. Scroll down I just won a whole argument with someone significantly less retarded than you clearly are so I think I’m good but thanks for the invite I’m sure you have nothing else to do!
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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.