I have a question for poster from other countries:
Why do you say the United States has no real culture?
I have a question for poster from other countries:
Why do you say the United States has no real culture?
Because it's true. The US has several shit knockoffs of other cultures, that's it.
A lack of history for the country (excluding red skins) means no culure was able to develop so they just take traditions and culture from other countries and end up with shitty knock off cultures
what is halloween?
4th of July?
Spring Break?
Thanksgiving?
May baskets? (you haven't heard of that but it was a thing, and my grandma did them. Yes I'm old, and, my grandma was rural New England.)
Other countries just being bitter that a bunch of convict colonist shitheads did more in 100 years of existence than the rest of the planet combined.
Most the world has is distinctly american in design or invention. Even things not originally ours like chinese food or Pizza is the "american" version of such dishes. Our way of life of excess and capitalism has exported itself to every corner of the planet which is why obesity is on the rise.
There is no earth. There is america and everywhere else.
> convict colonist shitheads
That's Australia dude - we were ordinary colonist shitheads.
What's the difference between America and Yogurt?
If you leave Yogurt alone for 200 years, it develops a culture.
Here's your culture
Like?
... and it's coming for you. Run!
>There is no earth. There is america and everywhere else
This.
China and other asian countries have been trying to be like the US culturally for decades now.
So how is your conquest of the world with blood pudding, smashed peas and broiled tomatoes coming along? As opposed to, say, our pizza and hamburgers?
You are both retarded. Europeans have been here since the 1500s, we have regional cultures which are very old, we have the Cajun/Creole, Appalachian, Quebecois, New English, etc, all of which have their own dialects, food, music, even fairy tales. Ignorant as fuck Yuropeeings.
1. No real history apart from pillaging a bunch of low IQ shitskins and accidentally outsmarting us that one time.
2. Consumerist, crony capitalist nightmare. Your "culture" consists primarily of advertising, acquiring money and buying shit you don't need.
Oh and then eating it.
The ability to move out west and completely provide for yourself, be an outdoorsman, buy the first repeating rifles to repel injuns... pretty much set the precedent for american individualism and hard work that you really don't see in europe.
>what is halloween
Samhain, wiccan holiday from the Isles/Celtic tribes
>4th of July
Celebration of Country's independence from England. Not mentioned are the Spanish and French colonies that existed at that time.
>Spring Break
Fucking awful right of passage that further promotes both degeneracy, consumer culture, and the objectification of womyn
>Thanksgiving
Arrival of psychopathic religious sect who committed genocide against the very people who helped them survive upon arrival (don't trust whitey).
>May baskets
I'm from New England but haven't heard of those.
So, American culture is based a lot in the pioneer spirit and colonial struggle. There is a lot of black slave culture woven in as well in teh form of blues, jazz, and rock'n'roll.
America as defined by lines on a map is really more of an empire with different nations adhering to the same constitution. The southern redneck is going to have a different "culture" than the pacific northwesterner with Asian roots. We are all burgers, different toppings. Also a bit of a laboratory as we don't have, nor ever have had, a state religion under the constitution (native tribes were ethnically homogeneous, more or less, with little to no "heresy").
Our culture has changed from that of thrifty pioneers to burgers with obesity, we're not locked into medieval customs like many of our ancestors who left shit holes for burgers.
>ordinary colonist shitheads
*mix of ancap trading companies and religious zealots... not much has changed, though truth be told the natives were better off trading with the dutch who didn't really care about expansion.
...says the Romania while wearing blue jeans...
our culture is independence and hardwork
most other countries can't acknowledge that because they are too cucked.
There is a difference between technological advancement and cultural development. A lot of the time they are intertwined, particularly with forms of communication.
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*haven't seen since after the black plague wiped out the population of western Europe.
Also, when did you move out west, buy the first repeating rifle, and repel injuns? In between shitposting sessions on a chinese origami board?
hard work for the Jew while he funds kibbutz in israel
What the hell are you rambling about?
>> May baskets
> I'm from New England but haven't heard of those.
I hadn't either 'til my grandma told me about them. Obviously, they're not done anymore, though the article I just looked up said they still are done in obscure corners of the country.
But rock 'n' roll - this btfos all Euro talk of America not having any culture.
Only place where I heard ppl say it was on here so...
>Arrival of psychopathic religious sect who committed genocide against the very people who helped them survive upon arrival (don't trust whitey).
This is a pop culture fiction. It was invented by schoolteachers and movies. Thanksgiving is a harvest/religious festival and has very little to do with Indians at all. Also, the reason we met with only tribes in otherwise sparsely populated wilderness is because the "genocide" was carried out by viruses, not humans.
I don't, that would be fucking stupid.
> we have the Cajun/Creole, Appalachian, Quebecois, New English, etc, all of which have their own dialects
What is norman rockwell. What is pop music.
That's why BBC sounds more like Los Angeles English, Morrissey complains about it.
Jokes aside, America has so much Culture, it is pretty much the dominant culture worldwide, so no one can point to "Americanism" as something unique, because you all take part of it everyday.
Bongs lining up outside KFC ever FRI-Sat
Pizza Hut one of the most popular restaurants in China.
Every McDonnalds in Paris packed.
That's not even taking into account all the film (propaganda) we get to push.
>Coke
This shit irritates me.
Why to you dumb fuck southerners call all soda's 'Coke'
Its not 'band-aid'....every drink has different flavors.
Because "american" is not a real race or people. Your culture is in your roots, Europa.
Come home white man
> religious sect who committed genocide against the very people who helped them survive upon arrival (don't trust whitey).
Example: the Donner Party was caught in the pass now named for them in the winter, and were starving. They'd eaten their livestock, even their dead. Their Indian guides stuck around trying to be helpful. The wannabe settlers then discussed eating the Indians, but they overheard, were like 'wtf?', and promptly melted into the woods. I couldn't explain why I find that so funny.
My house is literally older than your country.
I don't know, we're 'white', not any particular European nationality anymore, you know? I know you Euros are picky :)
What about Natives, Blacks, Asians, and Irish Americans muhammed? They are all American if they are American citizens, you don't even need to eat burgers to pass the test.
>pop music
Mostly comes out the R&B tradition of black music, so we did good shipping slaves into the colonies.
Why do Europeans say stuff like this as if we aren't aware that we're in the new world? The NEW world.
Our ancestors found paradise and decided that sharing it with a bunch of fat lords in castles on the other side of the ocean would be stupid. It doesn't make us feel bad to point out this is the new world, it just reminds us of how we jacked it from you with little effort, which is a point of pride.
It's part of their culture, just like the midwest calls it faygo.
Because most of you are retarded and are in fact not aware.
does it have running water, surround sound, and the latest $800 dollar vijya system?
>Come home white man
Fuck off. You're full.
It's not new for us.
Newfags.
how does that justify you having culture in any way? my neighbourhood has its own dialect and it's a 100 year old suburb
Quite a lot of Americans can't even point out where they live on a map let alone point out other states. Do you really expect them to think about stuff like that?
some Americans are white, others aren't.
We all can share the experience getting our driver's license, having your team in the play-offs (and not that faggy soccer shit).
The same reason Canada has no culture we came from Europe and that negates everything we've ever done.
It is because America has such a short history as an independent nation. There has never been a nation so young that accomplished so much, no other world power has only ~200 years of history behind it. In reality, in those short centuries America has changed the world with its culture in a way that no other nation has.
>We all can share the experience getting our driver's license
Minorities don't get that experience according to libshits.
Yes, yes, and no because I'm not a manchild wasting away on the electronic jew.
kek
Implying we dont celebrate, "cinco de mayo".
We got culture bruh. Trust me.
Yes, but you were isolated from the rest of humanity and never developed a way to record history, therefore you are unequal to the Old World. If all of the America's native population had died before European contact there would have been a minuscule amount of information about native cultures due to their relative primitiveness. The most sophisticated things they would have left behind would have been their corpses.
word, that's what I think is missing from the post-colonial New World; ancient mysticism. For the most part it's "And we got off the boat", instead of "See that rock? It's actually the remains of a god/deity that killed by this warrior and that's why we have this festival on this day".
A lot of contemporary American culture is pretty vacuous, and lacks magic. Even Christianized people in the Congo can go out to a water fall with their grand parents and hear stories about "the Old Ways". Most Burgers would rather noscope a fellow 12 year old and not study their local gods.
Exactly! Being super shitty at geography is part of our culture.
I never said that, also I love western movies, american country music and classic rock are really amazing, also kinda of funny of how the more based hardcore bands were born in the heart of Jew York the libtard paradise (Agnostic Front, Sick of it All, and others).Also I'd love to live in TX, have a ranch and ride a horse during the sunset. My favorite painter is Sargent who is american. I used to read a lot of cape comics until they got filled with leftist and libtard propaganda. The only stuff I really hate is everything hip hop related.
HIP HOP is fake culture, very fake culture.
That is because Burgers are thinking in the 21st century whilst the Congolese and other primitives are still struggling to think in 17th century terms.
Killed the natives, became a grotesque mixture of Jewish, Chinese, Mexican and European outcasts, became too big, overpopulated and fell for the trick of diversity, becoming a hosh posh of flaming diarrhea.
>how does having culture justify you having culture?
wut? When did justifying anything come into it?
Basketball was invented by a canadien
Hockey
What is the difference between a drunk in the maritimes and a drunk herding cattle outside of Calgary?
>>too big
>>from fattest country in the world
One must understand European media and tropes. They constantly shit on Americans for everything little thing and conflate modernity and consumerism with American culture. Plenty of Euros and Brits have never been here but consume our media which gives them a very skewed concept of our country and also gives them the pretense of knowing about it, as the European knowing more about our politics than the ignorant American is basically a stock character over there.
None of the arguments or criticisms make any sense or are consistent. Yet if one shows that it troubles them, such as arguing against or obviously getting annoyed of course someone is going to use it as ammunition against you
The ones I know do. Also, city kids don't tend to get their licenses. I've met a lot of new yorkers who never needed a license so failed to get one. Now in their 20s and 30s they decide to move upstate and start farming, so they need a license. Difference between rural and urban. Still should get your license.
Are you 12? Get out faggot.
out of curiousity, do play music or know how to play any instruments?
It's definitely something that should change. The only time a teacher or professeur has explicitly gone over geography for me was in fifth grade when we would have geography tests over different world regions every week. Geography is inadvertently taught through history class but kids don't seem to remember the geography they learned from it.
Accordéon, guitar, piano, flute.
Exactly, the USA is the main guy.
tfw no horse, no wheat/barley, only domesticated livestock is a llama
does that apply to pagans and wiccans in europe as well? A kid in Britain could go on a field trip and see Stonehenge, and see how ancient druids build a solar calendar used in magic rituals. Abrahamist or not it's going to help add that je ne sais quoi to a regions culture.
Alistair is jelly cuz we got freedoms
what the absolute fuck are you talking about?
America has culture. It is exporting it and the backlash is from countries that do not like the kitschy plastic form of American culture: consumerism/materialism. What is noble and great about America is its ideas, which Tocqueville came to see first hand ~150 years ago. But then again, all this info is out there, read a book. Learn a little. American culture is very real. People only see the plastic and snort in disdain without taking a deeper look, especially Euros with their much vaunted "history" which is in danger of being quickly replaced by new arrivals... but i digress
Sort yourself out, Bucko. America has a culture, history, and many traditions as well. Read a book. Don't listen to arrogan Euros who are plugging their ears, shutting their eyes, and closing their mouths, as the horde slowly takes them over.
Euros all talking about how America is too young when our country and constitution (in effectively the same form as they are in now) are older than theirs
You have to admit, since WW2 and out nation's collective PTSD we've been pushing the "keeping up with the joneses" meme into our mainstream/pop culture. It's almost antithetical to the pioneer spirit of DIY and canning your vegetables.
I got 2 faygo grapes from a party about 2 years ago. Drank one the day i got them. Shit tastes like grape cough syrup with grape bottle caps mixed in. The others still in my fridge.
Did you just try to take credit for Halloween? The fuck are you on?
Also "May Baskets" were made in celebration of May Day which is a Germanic celebration
The other shit I don't know or care about.
Sit back snd watch what happens to French, German, British, and Canadian culture if they continue their thirst for islamic influx.
Ok, so this would make for a good poll, but I've noticed that all of my friends and people I know who play instruments or music didn't fall for the Vidjew in their formative years, or if they did never really became (gamers) and it was more of a play Halo for a couple hours on a saturday night.
Would be curious to see if there is a correlation between time spent playing games vs. musical instruments.
From my perspective it seems that most people who got into playing music have achieved more in their careers or are generally more productive than gamers I know.
I would probably fail at point out what micronations exist in the balkans this week.
*older than Germany
You should hand it out to one very deserving trick-or-treater.
Faygo red is the life blood of juggalos.
>The other shit I don't know or care about.
American Holidays, except for spring break which is kind of like Easter break for Euros.
Another bit is that they focus on American history in the post-revolutionary period and try and say that we are only 200 years old. Where most colonies were fairly independent of the crown before the Seven Years War in both colonization and government.
Not to even mention the diversity of religious entitie that has always existed in this country
Yeah and spanish colonies along the gulf and commiefornia.
It's that darn anglocentrism
That mentality has existed clearly since the post-Civil War era when the country began to become wealthier. Ever read Babbitt? That takes place in the 20's. It's typical in an upwardly-mobile society.
Nor have I seen it at large in every subset of our culture, in fact our nation definitely holds more non-conformist groups than European cultures do.
Most of the 20th century culture is from there, you have no history, is because is a 200 year country but culture... sure. But I don't have to like the shit that USA is pushing in the las 20 years with all the negro and hiphop culture wich is disgusting
This is a load of horse shit. I live in Mississippi and have lived in Louisiana and literally everyone I ever met called it fucking soda.
So you're saying that they must be innovative cultural characteristics for it be considered culture? I'm not trying to be a dick, but you do illustrate a point of one of my posts. Much like how Democrats in the NE all have stories of their run in with/put downs of bigoted rednecks, a lot of Europeans have stories of their schooling or simply encounters with an ignorant American tourist or whatever. This is such a trope in their media that plenty tend to fall into it whenever socializing with an American. It's not quite fair of me to use the term "European" here as of course everyone acts differently, but it is very widespread and obviously so if the edgy young posters of Sup Forums channel the stereotypes
I don't get your point. The Spanish colonies have absolutely zero influence on the development of broader American culture outside of Tex-Mex and other southwest stuff and maybe New Orleans
America had a culture, however greedy corporations pimped it to the whole world to make a buck and now it has dissolved to nothing but global consumerism. See this post as a prime example American "culture" is just mass marketed crap, there are no real meaningful traditions or unique values
Did I drop a bomb when I said hip hop is pure trash?
Are you offended, nigger?
America is great and I dare to say the best country in the world.
expanding on my point, American culture was pushed so hard by (((corporations))) globally, that now that most the world has adopted signifcant parts of it, we have lost anything unique about ourselves and now simply global citizen cucks.
I like Raul Sexias but every young Brazilian I've spoken to treats me like a freak if I mention him and say that he's only for old people.
Hip Hop is real culture for many poor ghetto blacks
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Sir, your so-called Pagans and Wiccans are following a Victorian idea of "YE OLDE ENGLISH WAYES", they are basically religious LARPers. These same larpers go home to complain on the internet about race inequality and send aid to the Congo. The Congolese are struggling with modernity and their Christianity exists only because they were instructed by a superior force (Europe) to follow it.
TL;DR: What the fuck are you talking about?
Well said, 10/10.
One of the few good artists. Also don't fall for the Tropicalia and Bossa Nova meme, they're a bunch of rich leftists bastards with no real contribution for music. Basically all they did was free jazz and some latin music copipastas with brainwashing lyrics.