Americans Have No Culture

American culture   http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SXy3f6f9DxI ;)

Mayvmbe not a brittish identity but naybe an english, weleshian, scottish etc,

English identity for a norwegian is ale, dry humor and a ironic look at world

Tom Ozric wrote: ^ This all depends on the individual's point-of-view. We are all born of a particular race. We are all conditioned to 'that' way of life, behaviours, beliefs etc. My understanding of cultural understanding is the willingness to embrace various factors of foreign countries to that which you live. If one doesn't 'accept' certain culture, then I feel that there is a degree of racism involved, or at least, some superiority complex at play. I don't know sh*t from clay, so don't crucify me, but I believe that any country/race which has a diverse representation of people's from foreign countries, have culture.

Good post certainly. I've long held the view that the tensions and frictions we encounter between cultures and races are often caused when the respect and tolerance occurs from one side only i.e. multi culturalism has to be a two way street otherwise it's a dead end. It is unreasonable to expect that you can migrate from say, a devoutly religious society to a secular liberal one and be afforded the same protection from materials that would be prohibited in the former.

It seems as if for the most time Americans have been in a bad mood.The public in general does not like or understand art. Which speaks volumes about the education system. America shows it's low class immigrant roots.I listen to live recordings for example of ELP,Allman Bros. and the Rolling Stones on US tour. And all i hear manic screams as if the audience is having an epic acid trip with no clue as to what is happening.They have a gun culture, and everything revolves around porn.

I've never been to America but my perception is that it's got many cultures with as many differences as similarities. Seattle, California, New York, the Deep South, the Mid West etc, my view is that these places are as different as they are similar and it's not really that surprising, given that the country spans several thousand miles, it would be foolish to suggest that such a large and geographically diverse nation would have a single unifying culture. Look at Russia, the western side can be distinctly different to the far eastern end which can have more in common with Mongolia and Northern China.

There's also the immigration side of things and that Americans themselves come from a diverse range of cultures.     

IDK I've always said we don't really have much of one. 

Edited by JJLehto - May 23 2014 at 07:35

I think national pride of any kind is a bad idea.  Too many people derive their sense of self and sense of worth from where they live or where they were born.  I prefer not to think of myself as part of a general group.  So the upshot of this is, I don't take any sort of offense at anything on this topic, immigrant or not. 

As for confrontation, I've never really confronted anybody.  I think I'm afraid that once I let my emotions go, I'll lose control and maybe hurt somebody, or that the person I'm confronting will do the same.  I grew up in Miami where people carried guns in their cars, and I learned early on not to flip anyone off in traffic or you'd probably get shot.  And if you mess with someone on the street, they'll knife you.  I don't trust people not to kill me. I keep it to myself, and any anger just fades away given a few minutes' time.  Not worth it to me to impose my anger on anyone else.


Edited by HolyMoly - May 23 2014 at 08:55

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: It's a pretty stupid statement but sounds like you need to work more on your anger issues. If something as trivial as that can get you hot and bothered maybe you should just back the f**k off.   Seriously who gives a flying F what someone else thinks. I've lived in the USA for 15 years, I'm a citizen, and have no plans to leave, but some yanks seriously get their panties in a bunch about mindless stuff. And yes I'm critical of my home country as well.   People have opinions, many of them mindless, grow a skin and live with it.

If someone of influence with significant leverage at a sufficiently high political or financial level has an opinion that will directly effect my well being then yeah, put me down for a flying f*ck with all the trimmings. The plankton who annoyed David clearly doesn't fall into this category but are you really naive enough to believe that if racist opinions and their concomitant ideologies founded on ignorance and intolerance go unchallenged they will somehow just politely and harmlessly go away? Pick up a history book and fast track to genocide, pogroms and that tiresome little bohemian corporal who frequented Viennese and Munich  taverns at the turn of the century and think twice about that experimental mustache. Tolerate the intolerant at your peril.

The idea that any geographical area inhabited by humans lacks culture is absurd. 

It quite is. Though South Beach would beg to disagree