Tired of the America hate
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This isn’t about liberals or anything. It’s about remarks like: “America has No culture” or “American culture is just a watered down version of stolen European culture”. It gets annoying to hear such rubbish when you’re a patriot. I’m tired of it.
I’ve also heard that America never was anything but a copy of other cultures.
American culture is hunting, fishing, rodeos, country music, bbqs, church, working hard, inventions, just to name a few.
Why do these things not exist everywhere in this country today? Because the people who want to destroy America have spent decades destroying our culture. They've spent decades convincing people country music is for hillbillies. Church is evil. Guns are evil. American culture undoubtedly exists but most people don't choose to participate in American culture.
I've traveled and lived abroad for many many years. Bali undoubtedly has culture and traditions. But many pockets of Bali consist of all foreigner expats who have driven Bali culture out of that location and choose not to participate in it. Just because the culture doesn't exist in that pocket doesn't mean culture doesn't exist. Same with all the touristic and expat parts of Mexico. What's the theme here? Mass immigration is one of the things that kills culture. If you went to Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico, you'd be convinced mexico has no culture. The difference is that many of those places only receive immigrants in pockets of communities and it's not every major city getting invaded. Whereas the US, its almost everywhere.
Also, the US and other parts of the west are the only places where we are taught in school and in the media to hate our country and culture. American culture exists, but you now have to travel within our own country to the places it hasn't been killed to experience it
Don't forget the tractor pulls!
Tractor pulls and farming! Very American indeed.
See? Even the Russian spy recognizes American culture!
Thanks, comrade.
I wasn't ever taught in public schools to hate America.
Consider yourself lucky. My high school didn't teach that to me but my college taught me that and to hate myself for being white. Took me a couple years to break the programming.
Yeah my colleges didn't teach me that either. I can't imagine so easily being led astray. Now sometimes, just like here they offered points of view that I didn't hold but I wasn't "brainwashed" or otherwise forced to abandon any notions that didn't sit right with me, after examination from all sides. Offered many opportunities to practice critical thinking but not be held to any mistaken positions once they didn't withstand scrutiny with new and/or revised and updated information. Man, I Iearned some stuff that I wish weren't true. But it is, and man this place is complex.
Anyway, glad you came back around. Pretty spectacular place.
In short of country music, rodeos, & bbqs - everything else you named is part of many other cultures too, America included. But I don’t think we can claim those other things as a being American culture. Also I would say that country music, rodeos, & bbqs are a Southern (American) culture.
America is America. You can subdivide it all you like, but you won't be able to remove the American aspect from your subdivision.
Also, American car culture, American movies, American music.
I grew up in California and believe it or not, California traditionally is a southwestern cowboy hat wearing, rodeo going place. I can speak to my culture here and have never lived in places like Michigan or New York and can't attest first hand to what traditional culture may exist there. The beautiful thing about a country of this size, is we have many different types of culture all within the borders. Even Germany, a country the size of Montana, the north and the south have very different cultures. For example, lederhosen and durndles come from south eastern germany (and parts of austria and northern italy) and traditionally speaking have no place in any other parts of Germany. Just because lederhosen doesn't exist in the north doesn't mean it isn't a part of German culture. I mean, they even speak different dialects that are almost different languages, but that is a conversation for another time.