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If you don't know then you aren't a part of it. For one thing our language is English and it's a huge part of our identifying culture. Going to put you on ignore now. I can't stand reading your posts anymore.
If you don't know then you aren't a part of it. For one thing our language is English and it's a huge part of our identifying culture. Going to put you on ignore now. I can't stand reading your posts anymore.
How would I know what you define as American culture, which is exactly what I asked? I know what I and others define as American culture. Also, you told me you'd put me on ignore about 3 times already. Either do it or stop yapping about it, geez.
So can you tell me tell me why Canada, the only western country to rate in the top twenty for diversity is also rated twice as high as the USA on the happiness scale....I'm guessing that this must be just your opinion, am I right?
You might look for your answers here - for percentage/racial composition and difference between the US and Canada.
( Additional question to ask is what's the background of every minority group, how
/why these people immigrated to Canada and so on, in order to figure out what exactly makes country more homogeneous in its common interests/culture. )
American Culture consists of many different cultures. There isn't one specific Culture to America. This country was designed to be a melting pot.
You are revising US history. In the beginning 1790 citizenship was reserved for "free white persons of good moral character". Even up till 1953 only whites, blacks and American Indians could be naturalized, basically the three groups that had been here since about the colonies' beginning in 1610s. It was a melting pot of a modest number of immigration levels from NW Europe, then at a higher rate of all of Europe after the 1870s.
The melting pot for the whole world and mass immigration is a post 1965 immigration and naturalization policy.
American Culture consists of many different cultures. There isn't one specific Culture to America.
It does not. American culture is a modified British culture; modified in order to be more inclusive of other cultures.
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This country was designed to be a melting pot.
It probably was, after 1965 ( as a previous poster mentioned.)
But it never became a "melting pot," no matter how much some would like to claim it.
So the more correct way to refer to it now is a "tossed salad," apparently.
Western Europeans conquered settled, and downright invaded, subjugated nearly more than half the globe then get upset when people from those places that were subject to their colonization move to their country.
THAT my friend, is the problem.
Ah yes - "We're over here because you're over there."
Ah yes - "We're over here because you're over there."
That is the best way to put it. In fact, this was mentioned in a National Geographic article about The Netherlands in October 1986. It's the issue that features a Soviet cosmonaut on the cover. Someone mentioned of immigrants in The Netherlands, particularly from former Dutch colonies "they are over here because we were over there".
It does not. American culture is a modified British culture; modified in order to be more inclusive of other cultures.
It probably was, after 1965 ( as a previous poster mentioned.)
But it never became a "melting pot," no matter how much some would like to claim it.
So the more correct way to refer to it now is the "tossed salad," apparently.
If you read US Immigration and naturalization laws 1790-1952 and American history it was like you said an American British culture and it was a melting pot for those with relatively close ancestry to British, ie northern and western Europe and then Europe in general in the late 1800s.
A melting pot assume one culture. The other poster characterized a melting pot that results in several cultures which is the opposite of a melting pot.
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I know what I and others define as American culture. Also, you told me you'd put me on ignore about 3 times already. Either do it or stop yapping about it, geez.
