Americans Have No Culture

Atavachron wrote: I was just thinking about how much Cuban you get there-- absolutely love the music.  I'm always stunned when I think how Cuban exports including music were (are?) banned here.   It's utterly stupid.

Really weird thing about the UK during the 70's was the skinhead culture which adopted Reggae as it's music of choice. To be fair, I think the roots of this movement were very far removed from the far right fascistic associations we ascribe to it now.

Smurph wrote: ProgMetaller2112 wrote: Smurph wrote: I literally would want to distance myself from any existing culture. I don't have a culture. I don't believe in representing your heritage or any of that stuff. Why would anyone care about their heritage? I'd rather push into territory in which I am not familiar. You don't have a culture. That's insane. Culture is essential to human life How is that insane? It's insane because we all have ways of viewing life  and we cannot live life if we are left without values, views, intellectual achievements, the arts, MUZAK, or Edward Penishands.  What is my culture if there is one? You're culture is what you make of it How is culture essential to human life? What we do in this world of ours is Culture whatever the heck it might be

progkidjoel wrote: ProgMetaller2112 wrote: The T wrote: Call me other thing if you want. Just don't call me Chicano or Mexican because I am not Mexican. And everybody who comes from other countries in Central and South America that are not Mexico are NOT Mexicans. I know that but if you are living in the US you are living the Chicano experience. Meaning you might be a brown in the US and a whitey from wherever you come from be it Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala. Just because you are not Mexican does not make you any better than anyone who is He's made it pretty clear that he doesn't want to be referred to as a chicano, why is that so difficult to understand and respect?

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Even if we all lived in complete isolation there would be....hermit culture

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My family (Angles and Swedes) came to America via England in 1620. Today I have a step-brother who is half Native American, a half-brother whose family comes from the old Virginian Burgesses, and step half-brother who is half African American. My wife is Mexican, my sister married a half-Japanese, half-Filipino, a cousin and a niece married Mexicans, two cousins are gay, we even have some Republicans in the family. Our kids are a big hot ethnic, religious, cultural, political and ideological mess.

That's a form of American culture I find to be both interesting and worth celebrating. Do we have ancient traditions and norms that form our opinions and culture today? Yes and no. I think many Americans are more interested in possibilities and the future, and less so in the past. Works for us, I think.

The idiot Michael "The Idiot" Gove (the idiot British Secretary of State for Education) wants to expunge American culture from the UK GCSE English curriculum, the idiot.

...it's several kinds of idiotic