Europeans, what is it like actually having a culture and identity?

Europeans, what is it like actually having a culture and identity?

Lmao imblying
>muh culture

Great, but it doesn't feed you. I'd still move to the US given a great job opportunity.

i wouldn't know

don't have one in northern ireland
all the media is british hardly anybody speaks irish and the huns do their best to make it stay that way

I thought you finns had a very rich culture? Eating rotten fish or some shit right?

It's pretty nice, I guess. It gives you an intrinsic connection to something far larger than you. Something that's been around for thousands of years. But why is this question only directed to Europeans? I'm pretty sure Asians and Africans are qualified to answer as well.

no idea

better than having nibbers and maple syrup

That's sweden. Finland eats food made out of blood

Yeah, you should have asked some years ago. Nowadays Europe is like America, people are consumerist hedonistic animals with no conception of Nation or Culture.

the fact that the rest of the world nowadays is expected to know atleast some basic english always tickles my testicles.

That might change soon thanks to voters in both our cunts. Expect Chinese and/or German to be commonplace in a couple decades.

pretty shit, I'd rather have no identity than this shit identity

t. never travels outside of anglosphere

ecco il codardo signori, ecco il piddino

I would literally cut off my left nut and cut out my left kidney if it meant I could be born in even the worst European country as a native

Wish I was magyar.

>t. travels to irrelevant places that were not lucky enough to be touched by the hand of gods real chosen people

you just think that because it seems exotic and mysterious to you, like the depths of the amazonian jungle, it sounds cool in your head but once you're there you realise how it's just a stinky shithole with retards everywhere

Blodpudding med lingonssylt is the greatest thing God (the Swede) ever gifted this blessed Earth.

Going to budapest soon, but that probably doesn't represent hungary as a whole.

>Taking credit for an American accomplishment

German? You're a certified lemon if you think that.

budapest is a tourist trap so there's plenty of distractions for travelers but that doesn't really mean that being a magyar is a good identity
I'd rank it a C overall on the scales of S-A-B-C-D-E-F, it's better than africa and other actual tribal shitholes but it's worse than being a mediocre westerner, a lot worse than being a good westerner and very far below any world culture shaping identity

How are the demographics in Budapest? Wikipedia paints it as a very white city, with the largest ethnic demographics seemingly all being European countries.

>thinks the rest of the world only speak english from watching the kardashians and simspons reruns and not being taught as the main second language in schools
>american education

the vast majority are whites, after that it's gypsies but if you're not used to gypsies you probably wouldn't even notice them and think they're white too, their bone structure and hair are a bit different from europeans but it's fairly rare to see a full blown brown gypsy, after that I'd say it's asians, you could see some of them everywhere, even if not in masses, a lot of them speak fluent hungarian too
that's the 3 ethnicities you'll see in the suburbs, the more you get closer to the downtown the more blacks and arabs you'll see, I'd say that in 3-4 hours of going around in the downtown you'll see 4-5 blacks and 7-8 arabs, they generally speak barely any hungarian if at all
and among the whites there are a lot of people from other eastern countries, ukrainians, serbs, romanians, russians everywhere but obviously you only notice it if they talk

How does it like living in a country that clearly has it's best days behind it?

Wow that's not bad at all, thanks for the write-up. Gypsies are shit but I presume the cold keeps the beggars away in Hungary the same as it does here.

>rifiuterebbe un contratto da 80k> con assicurazioni coperte e meno di 20% di tassazione
Coglione, il codardo é chi non ci si butta.

personally I never had any problems with gypsies, but I'm basically a social outcast and they are too so we generally get along, they dislike arrogant and condescending people, but I dislike those too
beggars are not always gypsies either, most of the beggars that I run into are alcoholic metheads and punks who always have gallons of horsepiss quality cheap wine with them

You know what it feels like. It's just that your's is like 50 years old.

How'd the storm hit hungary? Do you have snow?

it's starting to get better but for a good while now it has been JUST literally kill me tier
everything is knee deep in snow

what do you even mean by culture? that they've been around longer?

I literally have no idea. Euros always brag about their culture and tell americans how they have no culture, but what the fuck is culture? Can a european explain this meme for me?

As recently as the 19th century, French was still the Lingua Franca. Britain bringing English to their 3rd world colonies is hardly what made English as important as it is today. The vast majority of its propagation occurred in the last 70 years from a necessity to understand shit happening in America and a desire to absorb its entertainment. The rest of Europe didn’t start to put a high priority on teaching English in schools until after WW2.

>meme
>explain
pick one. i don't think there is an explanation. a meme is a meme.

you tell me Hanz, your in a much deeper pit than us.

I don't know, this country has basically been a discount socialist america for my entire life-time

"culture" is basically how you're taught to handle situations, how you interact with coworkers, strangers, people in need of help, confrontations and basically any aspect of life and that attitude is passed down in various forms, such as literature, art, music and basically every form of media, obviously everyone has a culture but depending on how much specific knowledge is accumulated it can be different so people tend to diss americans for having "no culture" because their culture isn't streamlined in a specific direction, it's just a hodgepodge of things and it hasn't accumulated nearly enough as other cultures have
that's why a lot of people see americans as babbies who are ignorant of various aspects of the world because their vault of accumulated understanding is smaller than someone's who has an older culture, it's basically life experience just passed down, like an old guy compared to a young guy, but when the old guy is a bitter grumpy asshole then it's not necessarily a good thing to have

Hope it clears up in the next week.

same

Europeans think they’re more “cultured” and have a better understanding of the world because in their minds the world = Europe.

Europeans are fucking retards when it comes to actually knowing shit about the world outside Europe or the US.

You guys just try to fit different random theories to explain our "ignorance". The OP is Canadian and you are talking about America. Also what about Australia or New Zealand. They are even more isolated and unlike the US they have no almost no european immigration other than their original roots. Yet nobody is memeing about canadian or australian ignorance. Then there is also South America. The whole continent without muh european roots.

t. Ping "James" Pong

And the same with Latinos. Reading their threads I realized they don't know shit even about each other. They just know a bit their 2-3 neighboring countries and that's all.

>As recently as the 19th century,
There's a pretty fucking big gap between the mid 19th century (when French decidedly got overtaken by English) and the rise of America as a superpower (a whole century later).

The lingua franca during WW1 for example was English, not French, and back then the US was largely irrelevant compared to the UK.

I meant "world" as in what's around you in life, sure as a european you won't know more about north indonesia than others but that wasn't really the point
but that applies to anyone, you're not likely to know about places you aren't familiar with but the point is that if a trend or a situation occurs then americans will often be dumbfounded by it and react with some very basic childish solutions that just seems cringy for people from other cultures, because their cultures have experienced those before and have handled them due to the fact that they are at least 10 times older
for example there's the case of the "n- word", at this point no old culture bans words because they have done in the past and realised that it's pointless, if you use a word for a fringe group of people it'll become an insult either way, until the americans started pushing it no one cared if someone said nigger, but now it's a thing you can't say wooo, sure in a few hundred years american culture will realise this too but they're not there yet, so it just looks childish

>British "culture" in the year 2018 AD
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good post

same applies to canada, new zealand and australia too but they don't have the monetary power to be on par with the old continents so people don't really care about them, americans have power in the world and they think it grants them every privilege as the old continents, but it doesn't
south america didn't get wiped nearly as badly as north america, they didn't completely genocide the natives but mixed with them so they have their original culture while adding what the spanish and portuguese brought, I'm not saying that their culture is amazing but it is a proper culture, americans didn't preserve the native culture of the americas and they didn't keep the british, the french, the italian, the irish, the chinese or the german culture, everything started from zero, this is why the accumulated knowledge is 200 or maybe even less like 100 years worth, this is also the reason of the "muh heritage" americans, they realise that they're lacking and they're trying to get on another culture that has more development, they just generally lack the means of doing so

> this point no old culture bans words because they have done in the past
are you stupid or baiting? what about antisemitism? can you say the equivalent of "kike" on tv anywhere in the civilized part of europe? hell, you can go to jail for denying holocaust in some countries. you type a lot of random shit.

I found this funny

and who pushes that? it doesn't happen to be the americans does it? at this point I don't think you're even allowed to say jew on tv, you'd have to say israeli or just white

excellent post
Care to elaborate?

pushes what? the german laws? european decency standards? what are you then, little babies who have no say in your own countries? wtf are you even talking about.

The exactly same thing could be easily said about the USA. However the US obviously has a huge cultural influence on the rest of the world (hollywood, games, internet, tv etc.), so it obviously has to have its own culture. Even if it has a big amount of different subcultures varying from state to state.

Europe is getting culturally more american each decade. This is easily discernible in Finland, which has such a different culture, that american influence is easily spotted.

But you just said
>at this point no old culture bans words
Now you are telling it is our fault.
So you lied that no old culture bans words?
You have a different excuse now that it is our fault?

you mean the germany that has 30.000 american soldiers stationed? yeah I'd say with confidence that it's due to that
> what are you then, little babies who have no say in your own countries?
sure, we don't, because otherwise we'll get nuked for badmouthing your jewish overlords
you'd have to be pretty delusional if you think otherwise
yeah no old culture bans words, but when you ban words and hold nukes to our heads then we're kinda obliged to go along
your culture is still baby level but a lot of older people are forced to go along with it because the baby has a shotgun that he's pointing at our foreheads

this is the prime example of what I'm talking about, you guys get dumbfounded by simple situations and lash out like children

>we
what do you have to do with civilized europe

what a mature response, just as expected
this is the second part of it, you don't understand banter, everything is either an insult or a praise for americans, even when you're trying to copy banter based on what you've seen on Sup Forums it's still visible that you just want to insult people

>mfw this gypsy posts one super long post after another full of retarded drivel
>waaa americans are triggered

you do seem pretty triggered

>for example there's the case of the "n- word", at this point no old culture bans words because they have done in the past and realised that it's pointless

Bruh, the US has absolutely no laws restricting “hate speech”, while several European countries actually literally do make it a crime to deny the Holocaust or say mean things about Muslims on Twitter.

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

bruh say nigger on facebook then, see how that free speech works out for you

Wow that's a lot of text. Why are you so triggered, friend? Did burgers insult you in another thread? You are seething

>someone asks what culture is
>explain what culture is
>amerifats get triggered and start screeching
you know what I take it back, you south americans are on the same level of ignorant children as your northern brothers

You need to take a chill pill

it's not worth talking to you guys, we're not gonna catch up 2000 years posting on an anime website so to make it concise then
>why do europeans say that americans don't have a culture?
because americans don't have a culture

Americans are fairly honest about the fact that we are ignorant about the world outside of us. Europeans feed their egos by mocking Americans for not knowing about one of the thousands of obscure autistic wars occurring in Europe hundreds of years ago and think they’re more “worldly” because of it while not having a fucking clue about anything that happened in Asia at the time.

Where are they screeching? You say dumb things, they corrected you calmly, you went nuts. And who the hell are you to represent Europe if your country is literally the worst. And Hungarians are huge ameriboos btw. Were you just rejected by burgers? To be honest even Argentina has more culture than you.

Stop being retarded. America and Canada each have as distinct and homogenous a culture as any country.

The idea of fetishising culture in and of itself is batshit. Every population on the planet has the exact same amount of culture, because culture is trends in how people think, act, socialize, and conceptualize things. 1 person has one person's worth of culture, because all humans have a way of thinking, acting, socializing, and conceptualizing things.

You're basically asking 'what's it like to have an accent.' You may not like your culture, but that doesn't mean its not there. The reason some other countries seem so distinct and unique and culturally rich to you is because you consider all the things about your country 'normal' or 'cultureless' because you're used to them, whereas other countries have versions of those things you're not used to, creating an artificial sense that they're more exotic and special.