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And just what is the identifying culture of our country? Please describe it. I'm really interested in learning what you think our identity is like.
Well, let's start with the English language as a huge identifier and then move on to what we are not. We are not Asian, Hispanic, Russian, etc. in identity. We have our own American culture and yes it has been a blend over the years but still we have retained the main ingredients but that is slowly disappearing by a salad bowl instead of a melting pot.
Well, let's start with the English language as a huge identifier and then move on to what we are not. We are not Asian, Hispanic, Russian, etc. in identity. We have our own American culture and yes it has been a blend over the years but still we have retained the main ingredients but that is slowly disappearing by a salad bowl instead of a melting pot.
And what is that American culture other than speaking English? Clearly you think it's essential to the continuation of the country, so define it.
This is a very confusing thread. As another poster stated, we've ALWAYS been a diverse nation. To listen to some of you, the US should never have existed in this first place.
Yes, we have always been a diverse, multi-cultural nation but we were also more tolerant in days gone by. Tolerance has gone by the wayside. Intolerance is in. There are those who want us all to be mirror images of what they say is acceptable. To be otherwise is to be ostracized, boycotted and destroyed, if possible and, if not, in the very least demonized.
And what is that American culture other than speaking English? Clearly you think it's essential to the continuation of the country, so define it.
Can you define French culture? What about Japanese culture? What is Mexican culture? (After all, every Latin American country is also an immigrant-country, with people and influences from all around the world -- just in a different mixture). If you can identify the culture of any other nation, you can identify the culture of the US.
Every nation has a culture. If you travel outside of the US and come back after any amount of time you'd be a blind idiot not to realize the differences and American culture hitting you in the face when you get back to the states.
American culture is the holidays we celebrate. The WAY we celebrate them. The foods we eat (even our ethnic food is Americanized). The portions. The way we conduct business. The cultural products we produce on Broadway, Hollywood and in the music industry. The way we shop. Even our standard appliances in our homes. What is considered manners. What we consider sanitary and non. What we consider to be acceptable in terms of the position of women and girls. How we treat LGBT people. The way we dress. What IS acceptable dress for various situations and occasions. There is certainly an "American" way of doing things that most foreigners can see.
I can sit in a room with 20 other people my same age, from different backgrounds, races and parts of the country, and if all of us grew up "American," we would have a very similar experience and tons of overlapping cultural references to bind us. From our school lunch offerings, to the shows we watched on TV, to our sports experiences in school.
People living on the fringe as immigrants and indulging only in their own cultures without becoming Americanized is actually quite rare. They aren't really contributing to American culture if they don't interact with it. They are simply foreigners in America. So for example, if you are Indian-American and are having a wedding with elephants, etc. that is NOT a "traditional" or "typical" American style wedding ceremony and reception. In that case, you are indulging in another cultural practice IN America. Which is fine. But it's not an "American style" wedding... which all share many basic common features, formula, etc. once you usually get past the religious component.
Having lived in a homogeneous white community for 30+ years I found it to be a den of ignorance on many levels...a lazy person's sanctuary where new ideas were not commonly expressed. I thank that would be true with any homogeneous group regardless of race or other trait -- there is no incentive or encouragement for new or independent thought. Look at Germany and Japan of 75 years ago. I now live in a place of great diversity and I much prefer this community.
Large multinational corporations, in so far as they now run the globe, would never allow truly global open borders for the same reason they are in favor of localized open borders in specific areas such as the United States where they result in destructive competition for the working class and a weakening of the economic assets and infrastructure of the middle class. If all populations were borderless and thus tribeless, this competition would be reduced/eliminated and the working class would start to defend themselves.
Globalization is strictly about capitalistic business interests. Yes, it’s about cheap labor, but it’s also about growth in the markets for existing businesses. It’s about selling more home appliances and toilet paper, about filling apartments with renters, and about pumping up the value of real estate. So both the labor power and consumer power of immigrants are why business interests want more of them, and why they buy the politicians necessary to let more of them in. The arguments about multiculturalism and enrichment and vibrancy are irrelevant.
Certain people were cool with multiculturalism and diversity when they had complete domination over others. Now that things are slowly leveling out, those same people can't handle it.
Can you define French culture? What about Japanese culture? What is Mexican culture? (After all, every Latin American country is also an immigrant-country, with people and influences from all around the world -- just in a different mixture). If you can identify the culture of any other nation, you can identify the culture of the US.
Every nation has a culture. If you travel outside of the US and come back after any amount of time you'd be a blind idiot not to realize the differences and American culture hitting you in the face when you get back to the states.
American culture is the holidays we celebrate. The WAY we celebrate them. The foods we eat (even our ethnic food is Americanized). The portions. The way we conduct business. The cultural products we produce on Broadway, Hollywood and in the music industry. The way we shop. Even our standard appliances in our homes. What is considered manners. What we consider sanitary and non. What we consider to be acceptable in terms of the position of women and girls. How we treat LGBT people. The way we dress. What IS acceptable dress for various situations and occasions. There is certainly an "American" way of doing things that most foreigners can see.
I can sit in a room with 20 other people my same age, from different backgrounds, races and parts of the country, and if all of us grew up "American," we would have a very similar experience and tons of overlapping cultural references to bind us. From our school lunch offerings, to the shows we watched on TV, to our sports experiences in school.
People living on the fringe as immigrants and indulging only in their own cultures without becoming Americanized is actually quite rare. They aren't really contributing to American culture if they don't interact with it. They are simply foreigners in America. So for example, if you are Indian-American and are having a wedding with elephants, etc. that is NOT a "traditional" or "typical" American style wedding ceremony and reception. In that case, you are indulging in another cultural practice IN America. Which is fine. But it's not an "American style" wedding... which all share many basic common features, formula, etc. once you usually get past the religious component.
Wow! How do you post such ignorance? The prior poster is correct - there is no such thing as American culture because then you would have to further define what is an American. And from your post, it's clearly not any person that doesn't hail from Europe. So the Chinese-Americans who celebrate Chinese New Year is not American? The Indian-American who has elephants at his/her wedding is not American? Where do you get off saying such things?
America is a melting pot of people and cultures because that's what defines America - it is Greek, Irish, Haitian, Puerto Rican, Vietnamese, and Mexican to mention a few. It's straight, gay, transgender. It's Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, Athiest and so on. If you're not a first-nation person, you're an immigrant to these lands and you brought your own beliefs, cultures, and practices with you. In other words, you're an immigrant. Now you may be more far-removed from immigrant status as say someone who arrived more recently. But you're not indigenous to America.
You're on a forum where no one can see you. So keep it real and say what you mean by "traditional" and "typical". Can someone who has Syrian roots or African roots be "traditional" when they worship or dress? C'mon man! It's 2017. This country is browner and more diverse than it has ever been in its history. When you say ethnic, who or what are you referring to? Mohawk, Lakota, Cherokee? Irish, German, English? El Salvadoran, Panamanian? Ghanian, Beninese?
People don't understand the word multiculturalism and why the globalist use it. They want to divide us into groups and they DO NOT WANT any allegiance to this country. This is the mindset the globalist are using to accept a one world government.
The globalist talk in a worldly mindset not a mindset of being sovereign as a country. They also want the left to hate this country and put any other country and people before America. This is a great step for the globalist to use for control of the people Any step to bolster the allegiance to the United States is a threat to their global one world government.
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