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Old 08-15-2012, 11:18 AM
 
Location: southern california
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we did but we are supporting too many subcultures. its like ethinic food if everything becomes ethnic what is regular food?
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Old 08-15-2012, 11:19 AM
 
Location: The Other California
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It might be difficult for anybody here to agree on what a common culture is for America because in public schools everything has been done in the last 40 years to destroy any cohesive culture we could reinforce. By removing saying the pledge to the flag, celebrating holidays etc.
In the multiculturalism of the public schools, we seem to be a culture that denies it has a culture - the tradition without a tradition.

Some have called multiculturalism an anti-culture.
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Old 08-15-2012, 11:20 AM
 
Location: Denver
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I was waiting for someone to say that American culture is defined by money, power, and sex.
Cool, I need some pliers to get the hook out of my mouth.

but it is true, the $ part that is..
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Old 08-15-2012, 11:21 AM
 
Location: Denver
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we did but we are supporting too many subcultures. its like ethinic food if everything becomes ethnic what is regular food?
Fusion
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Old 08-15-2012, 11:22 AM
 
Location: The Other California
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we did but we are supporting too many subcultures. its like ethinic food if everything becomes ethnic what is regular food?
I find many of those subcultures to be refreshing. Americans need reminders of what a self-respecting culture actually looks like.
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Old 08-15-2012, 11:22 AM
 
Location: The D-M-V area
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In the public schools, we seem to be a culture that denies it has a culture - the tradition without a tradition.
Public schools also have changed the definition of Thanksgiving in many cases, which has been twisted and convoluted in the minds of children to believe that all native Americans were oppressed and Thanksgiving is a false imperialistic holiday.
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Old 08-15-2012, 11:26 AM
 
Location: The Other California
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Public schools also have changed the definition of Thanksgiving in many cases, which has been twisted and convoluted in the minds of children to believe that all native Americans were oppressed and Thanksgiving is a false imperialistic holiday.
Very true. And what ever happened to Columbus Day?

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Old 08-15-2012, 11:26 AM
 
Location: Texas
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The mid 1960s is when it began.

The rebels, the iconoclasts, the counter culturalists.

There's nothing wrong with equal rights for all, but when the sexual revolution began, it was all downhill from there.

It might be difficult for anybody here to agree on what a common culture is for America because in public schools everything has been done in the last 40 years to destroy any cohesive culture we could reinforce. By removing saying the pledge to the flag, celebrating holidays etc.


It began with Truman, the man who dropped the A-bomb, and what he did to the American military.

It progressed with Eisenhower and what he did to the American public schools.

In the 60s many things happened that undermined the very foundation upon which America was built.

I could detail this further and give other info for you... and would love to do so... but it is not PC to discuss
and I would be banned for doing so. You also might find it offensive. But that too is just an another example
of the fact that America has reached the point of no return.



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Old 08-15-2012, 11:28 AM
 
Location: The Other California
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It began with Truman, the man who dropped the A-bomb, and what he did to the American military.
“When, I wonder, did we in America ever get into this idea that freedom means having no boundaries and no limits? I think it began on the 6th of August 1945 at 8:15 am when we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima… Somehow or other, from that day on in our American life, we say we want no limits and no boundaries.” - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
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Old 08-15-2012, 11:31 AM
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Agrarianism in the literal and metaphorical sense seems to be a constant across most ethnicities in the US. There is a large number of proverbs and sayings that we are told to live by that are related to agrarianism.
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