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Subject: Re: Actually...
Author: queenv   (guest, 98.84.204.185)
Date: May 16, 2012 at 6:33:46 PM
Reply to: Re: Actually... by Serafina Starstrider
I'm still not getting why *any* American would feel that he or she has no culture. Let's say there is a white American living in a large state in the West. Let's say his ancestors have been in America for a very long time and he has no idea where his ancestors came from or when they came. So he has no customs that come from any other country but America. So he lives in the US, he drives a car, because almost all Americans do because it's such a spread-out country, he watches American TV shows, he eats at McDonald's and Wendy's and Subway and Olive Garden and Chili's because those restaurants are everywhere in America, and he drinks Budweiser beer because it's popular in America, he has children who have creatively spelled names because creatively spelled names are more popular in the US than elsewhere, he's very patriotic because patriotism is more intense in the US than in other parts of the world, he loves football because football is insanely popular in the US, he treats Super Bowl Sunday as a holiday because most Americans do, he puts half-and-half in his coffee and the only mustard he will eat is Gulden's because those two products are popular and readily available in America, he likes coffee and not tea because coffee is way more popuar in the US than in most other countries, he had his son circumcised because most Americans do and he was always told it's the right thing to do...etc..

That's a culture. It may be a culture that some people from other countries look down upon, but that's not our problem. That's my point. We don't have to turn to some European country to get a culture. It's true that there are different customs in different parts of the US, and the accents and manners can differ across different areas, but there is still a national American culture that is shared by each and every American. No American is culture-less, and anyone who thinks that they are is mistaken, and furthermore is buying into the idea that American culture must be inherently inferior---so inferior that they prefer to pretend it doesn't exist---but I think it's silly and incorrect for any American to feel that way.

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