>Be American
>Have no traditional/culturally significant clothing, dances, songs, meals, etc.
>Parents don't even know how their family originally got to America in the first place, where they first went, when cultural traditions stopped being passed down
feels bad. Like yeah America has a "culture" but it doesn't have any real history behind it, like you don't get the feeling of doing the same thing your ancestors did 500+ years ago as apart of their culture
*screaming eagle*
W...Wh..What was that!?
You have hundreds of years of history numbnuts.
>>Parents don't even know how their family originally got to America in the first place
isn't this literally the one thing you're obsessed about? i call bs
>>Have no traditional/culturally significant clothing, dances, songs, meals, etc.
What about line dance?
Old people from the countryside love it.
i bet you havent even bothered in learning about your history
>traditional/culturally significant clothing
youtu.be
you have culture
stop it's only a meme
the reason why people think america has no culture is because your culture is spread out across the world so people don't realise they're consuming american culture. like i am writing this in english on an american computer on an american website listening to american music
Technology isnt culture, Jens.
If that were the case, everytime somebody used Celcius, they would be consuming swedish culture.
yea it is tech/internet culture started out in america. the computer and television is an important part of our daily day
Gold miners? Whalers? Revolutionaries? Cowboys?
>English language
>Imageboards
>American
>Celsius
>Swedish
Could you white boys stop appropriating other people's achievements pls, THANKS!
I know I'm not saying Americans have *literally* no culture I'm saying we don't have anything like this youtube.com
youtube.com
Like shit that's fucking ancient and unique.
like, 200~
No? Unless you're mistaking me for another poster I only recently started thinking about it seeing the above videos
Oh yeah, I guess line/square dancing could be considered uniquely American but I'm not from a region where it's really practiced
Like my own history or you mean U.S. history? Cause I know a fair bit of the latter
Theres no such thing as a internet culture and no one watched TV anymore.
Going by your logic, sleeping in a modern bed is consuming indian culture.
and does the average Swede do this? No, everyone is getting Americanized as fuck
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When i visited america it was really obvious you have your own culture. You seem like you are fishing for compliments
these people are larping
if sleeping in a bed is a part of your culture then your culture has been influenced by india at some point in time. what's so hard to get about this?
>it's older and I don't know of my own country's traditions so it's better
also
good post
culture is dead if you live in a moden nation
we have our holidays, like you have the 4th of july, thanksgiving, halloween etc. but no one is running around in traditional clothings doing ancient dances or herdingcalls
I'm talking in general about americans LARPing as irish/german/italian or how much % of every heritage they have. It shouldn't be that hard to find where your ancestors come from though, especially with all the immigration to the US.
Every modern country in the world might as well be the same given the one globalist culture that is devouring everything, the only real differences are who people feel elitist towards. Folk traditions only live on in small villages where the young are desperate to flee. A handful of people will keep their ancestral identities alive for centuries to come, but for the most part? Nobody in the world really gives a damn about muh traditions, as much as people on this board like to act high and mighty about living in their ancestral lands. They might celebrate their holidays, cheer on the local team, and eat some special food for some local festivities but in the end the vast majority of people on this planet just want to live the same exact consumerist existence. America is the best place to a consumerist whore, which is why so many people are willing to throw away millennia of traditional song, dance, poetry, art, and so on just for the privilege of reinventing themselves as an American who can buy whatever they want.
that's cultural imperialism babeeeeeey
man I'm not saying we have Literally No Culture I'm saying it's all fairly, recent. I just find old shit that people are still doing cool.
>it's older so it's better
Kinda? Like that's kind of what I'm getting at, I just find it a lot more interesting looking at stuff that's endured more than just a couple hundred years. Like yeah I know (some, probably pretty bold to say I know every tradition of every region and subregion) of my country's traditions
Yeah pretty much I guess, and I don't think that people are like running around in traditional clothing or whatever but just the fact that it like, exists and there was significance put into how it was made or what the design was.
And I mean to be fair a lot of Maori culture has managed to endure even in New Zealand, like people still do hakas, tangis, and get ta mokos. Definitely not as common but the fact like people still upkeep it and try to preserve it is just, really cool to me. I mean it is undoubtedly an influence of my American perspective I think it's cooler cause it's different and older and there's probably some kiwi reading this who just thinks I'm an absolute jackoff but still.
Oh I see. I probably could find out with a little digging I guess. Funny that you mention the % heritage thing though cause my mom always offhandedly remarks "I'm 1/80th Cherokee!" to like, brag I guess but I've always found it lame and stupid when people do that and know shit all about whatever heritage they're bragging about having.
Holy shit, you're such a tool, OP.
There's no excuse for being this ignorant of American history. You're just some larping GoT faggot that "loves dwagonz xD" and all that gay shit. Grab your longsword and shove it up your ass.
You should have been in that camp in 2011
Don't worry, bro. GoT is a great show! You're allowed to like it - really! :)
good post
bad post
I am concerned that Europeans know more about and appreciate our culture than most of our own countrymen do
literally who cares just enjoy your life
But your culture is as old as everyone else's. The founders of america did not suddenly lose all their previous culture. Each separate culture is like a branch on a tree originating from the start of humanity
Stop sperging out user it's embarrassing
>Be American
>Learn history
>Pretty much entire existence has consisted of finding excuses to invade other places and take their shit while treating your own citizens like shit and then touting freedums and erecting a big ass statue saying give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
>and erecting a big ass statue saying give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
statue of liberty was designed by the french
the poem was written by an American
still a French statue though
>like you don't get the feeling of doing the same thing your ancestors did 500+ years ago
That fucking sounds dire. Like holy shit lmao 500 years later you're doing the same fucking shit.
literally what relevance does that have. France didn't force America to put it up at fuckin gunpoint.
Barbarians!
>be american
>post on Jow Forums
>pretty much entire history has consisted of finding excuses to avoid the fact that the french created the statue of liberty
I honestly do not understand your level of smugness, do you think that I hold it as a point of pride by mistakenly thinking that the statue was 100% American? The main point of my post about the statue was the inscription on its base and how it's become some sort of symbol of America opening its arms to immigrants when it by and large treated them pretty shittily across the years.
I doubt even in a post civil war America someone here would design a statue with shattered chains around its feet considering the obvious symbolism. There's a reason America made the pedestal fucking huge so you can't see them unless you're in the air.
>be americlognolian
>get frenched