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I wish one of you guys could please explain what "US culture" is. I have no clue what your definitions are. If I had a definition of "US culture"(though, I am not sure there is such a thing as "US culture") would be groups of different cultures co-mingling with each other to form a bond. This many times is done with food/drink at the center.
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It is a melting pot culture. One in which everyone except Native Americans came here at some point in history. It is people fitting in with their surroundings, learning the language. Adding your own heritage to the pot. It is one of imagination and ingenuity. One in which hard work is rewarded. A culture in which everyone is entitled to the pursuit of the American dream.


However, it seems to me that this is changing over the last 10+ years. Now we are forced to cater to the minority, hard work is penalized and laziness is rewarded. I applaud the Tea Party and their effort to bring the country back to its roots, but I fear that that ship has already sailed.
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(09-04-2010 10:59 PM)blah Wrote:  It is a melting pot culture. One in which everyone except Native Americans came here at some point in history. It is people fitting in with their surroundings, learning the language. Adding your own heritage to the pot. It is one of imagination and ingenuity. One in which hard work is rewarded. A culture in which everyone is entitled to the pursuit of the American dream.


However, it seems to me that this is changing over the last 10+ years. Now we are forced to cater to the minority, hard work is penalized and laziness is rewarded. I applaud the Tea Party and their effort to bring the country back to its roots, but I fear that that ship has already sailed.
Thanks for the response. I problems with(fitting in with their surroundings for one, I just am not sure what that means) some of it but the core of it I agree with(the melting pot of cultures). One more thing, what is your definition of "American dream"? This came up as I listened to Thom Hartmann on my way to work a month or two back. I think it is to have a family, successful career and live comfortably.
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It looks like you've posted a serious thread, so please take this as a serious response. But, culture is what it is ... it's not something that conforms to a definition. Perhaps 100 years ago, I think that each region of the US had a notably different culture. With the advent of TV and other mass media, both regional differences and ethnic differences are probably more "blended" than they would be otherwise.

I'd also say that the question would make more sense if you'd provide some context ... is your question motivated by a political or religious discussion in comparison to other countries or regions?

It is also worth talking about the values that are shared or disputed within the culture.
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Rob, I'd say our culture is anything we like or want to do that, for better or worse, makes us different than everyone else.

One of the things that I believe separates us from Europe is we have a stronger sense of self accountability. We also don't have piss poor food like the Irish and we don't eat rhino horns in order to get a boner like the Japs do. We fight to the end and aren't a bunch of ******* like France. We're not obedient like Germans and most of us don't like goat meat like so many other places do. Prior to world wide communications we had our own style of music that we somewhat shared with England and from what I've seen Americans are usually faster paced. Probably the biggest of all of them is that Americans see soccer as a sport no one cares about while the rest of the world loves it. Our culture is bleach blondes with breast implants and men with sleeve tatoos. Our culture say a guy who wins a fight is the guy that gets arrested and the guy that loses it is a victim even if he started it. America doesn't value an education as strongly as Asians do. England has a royal family while our president just thinks he is. I could go on and on and when you add it all up you have America and not some other country.
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We are football, baseball, and beer. Rock and roll, country, and Lady Gaga. We will spend $1 million on a Phoenix missile that can hit a supersonic fighter jet 94 miles away, yet we think teachers get paid too much. We are weird tattoos and hippie poetry. Blue jeans and short skirts. Lollapalooza and Disneyworld. Marlboro Reds and polo shirts from Old Navy. Slutty teenagers and wise old war vets. 24 inch rims on an Escalade, and a 10 inch lift kit on an '88 Ford 250. High speed internet, some kinky porn, and going to Wisconsin to buy fireworks. Wheat Ale Microbrews and PBR. We call Canada America's hat and say how much we hate Canada, yet we cross the border to go fishing, hunting, and getting all torn up in Windsor for a work retreat. We are pure bad asses. We have a bomber than can fly completely around the world with a 2 man crew, put cruise missiles through a bedroom window, and then fly back to base...all without being detected by one radar. Reggie Bush and Jim McMahon. We are atheists and Hindus. We solved the Hitler problem, yet children are still killed in gang violence in the cities. That is American Culture. And I wouldn't trade it for anything else.
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(09-05-2010 12:49 AM)RobertN Wrote:  One more thing, what is your definition of "American dream"? This came up as I listened to Thom Hartmann on my way to work a month or two back. I think it is to have a family, successful career and live comfortably.

I think the overall definition of the "American Dream" is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is a wide definition, but I think it is what makes America great. You wanna be the richest person in the world? Go ahead and try. Wanna have a family and a house in the suburbs? Knock yourself out. Wanna worship a purple dinosaur? Ok, I guess. As long as you don't infringe upon someone else's opportunity to do the same.
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(09-05-2010 01:19 PM)blah Wrote:  
(09-05-2010 12:49 AM)RobertN Wrote:  One more thing, what is your definition of "American dream"? This came up as I listened to Thom Hartmann on my way to work a month or two back. I think it is to have a family, successful career and live comfortably.

I think the overall definition of the "American Dream" is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is a wide definition, but I think it is what makes America great. You wanna be the richest person in the world? Go ahead and try. Wanna have a family and a house in the suburbs? Knock yourself out. Wanna worship a purple dinosaur? Ok, I guess. As long as you don't infringe upon someone else's opportunity to do the same.

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(09-04-2010 10:59 PM)blah Wrote:  It is a melting pot culture. One in which everyone except Native Americans came here at some point in history. It is people fitting in with their surroundings, learning the language. Adding your own heritage to the pot. It is one of imagination and ingenuity. One in which hard work is rewarded. A culture in which everyone is entitled to the pursuit of the American dream.


However, it seems to me that this is changing over the last 10+ years. Now we are forced to cater to the minority, hard work is penalized and laziness is rewarded. I applaud the Tea Party and their effort to bring the country back to its roots, but I fear that that ship has already sailed.


Native Americans didn't just spontaneously appear out of the North American soil. They came here too.
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(09-04-2010 10:10 PM)RobertN Wrote:  I wish one of you guys could please explain what "US culture" is. I have no clue what your definitions are. If I had a definition of "US culture"(though, I am not sure there is such a thing as "US culture") would be groups of different cultures co-mingling with each other to form a bond. This many times is done with food/drink at the center.

Things like food and drink are fluid in every culture, hell even language changes. If you wanted a shot at what US Culture is you look at the underpinnings of the society

1) Individual Rights
2) Limited Government
3) Private Property

Everything else is window dressing..
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(09-06-2010 12:57 AM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  
(09-04-2010 10:10 PM)RobertN Wrote:  I wish one of you guys could please explain what "US culture" is. I have no clue what your definitions are. If I had a definition of "US culture"(though, I am not sure there is such a thing as "US culture") would be groups of different cultures co-mingling with each other to form a bond. This many times is done with food/drink at the center.

Things like food and drink are fluid in every culture, hell even language changes. If you wanted a shot at what US Culture is you look at the underpinnings of the society

1) Individual Rights
2) Limited Government
3) Private Property

Everything else is window dressing..
Msaybe but I just have a difficult time seeing those as our "culture".
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(09-07-2010 12:42 AM)RobertN Wrote:  
(09-06-2010 12:57 AM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  
(09-04-2010 10:10 PM)RobertN Wrote:  I wish one of you guys could please explain what "US culture" is. I have no clue what your definitions are. If I had a definition of "US culture"(though, I am not sure there is such a thing as "US culture") would be groups of different cultures co-mingling with each other to form a bond. This many times is done with food/drink at the center.

Things like food and drink are fluid in every culture, hell even language changes. If you wanted a shot at what US Culture is you look at the underpinnings of the society

1) Individual Rights
2) Limited Government
3) Private Property

Everything else is window dressing..
Msaybe but I just have a difficult time seeing those as our "culture".

"Msaybe" that's because you're looking for a Liberally sensitive answer when in fact within a generation we went from Nat King Cole to MC Hammer. We live in a nation with great food from every ethnic group on the planet.

We don't have a fixed culture, we are a nation of Immigrants and ideas so things which define 'culture' in the rest of the world will never apply here. It's not worth struggling to hold onto things like Music, dress, food, and language (yes I went there) and it's pretty pointless to try and define them because they change every decade.

So long as the nation has the freedoms, and understanding of rights that were put into place by the founders (however much the implementation differed from the conception) we will be American, and unique from all other nations on the planet.

No other nation is founded on the ideas that Governments are servants to the people and that the individual right should trump the societal good in all but the most extreme cases. Everywhere else rights are given, here rights are protected!
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(09-07-2010 12:42 AM)RobertN Wrote:  
(09-06-2010 12:57 AM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  
(09-04-2010 10:10 PM)RobertN Wrote:  I wish one of you guys could please explain what "US culture" is. I have no clue what your definitions are. If I had a definition of "US culture"(though, I am not sure there is such a thing as "US culture") would be groups of different cultures co-mingling with each other to form a bond. This many times is done with food/drink at the center.

Things like food and drink are fluid in every culture, hell even language changes. If you wanted a shot at what US Culture is you look at the underpinnings of the society

1) Individual Rights
2) Limited Government
3) Private Property

Everything else is window dressing..
Msaybe but I just have a difficult time seeing those as our "culture".

Why is that? Roberta, Because Liberal Progressives are
1) for collective rights
2) Big Gov't to solve all problems (which it does not, can not and will not)
3) Private Property subject to whim of gov't.
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Rob, is being the world's only super power and richest nation a sign of America's culture of ingenuity and can-do attitude?
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