Loving USA Culture

I mean, of course USA has culture - it's one of their most successful international exports!

I think when people complain about lack of culture they usually mean "old" culture, since USA as a country is still relatively young.

The post: Can we just take a moment to acknowledge that there are at least some positives to be found in in the US?

The comments: No

We provide some of the best and some of the worst this world has to offer. But, that's also true of a lot of, if not all, countries.

Motherfucker ain't even mention bubble gum.

I love u baseball

Let's not go overboard.

Lemmy Challenge: accept that there are good things among the 300 million people and 3.8 million square miles of the US

Difficulty: impossible

I think most USA hate comes from the US government's history of global political interference. It's understandable. For the same reason that Britain is still viewed negatively in many parts of the world.

Personally, I don't hate the US or Americans generally. Things exported from the US whether physically, technologically, or culturally have played a major part of my life. It would be dumb to have a blanket hatred of anything American.

Most Americans I've met have been very friendly and cheerful.

To me, pointing out, "America has culture too!" Feels dismissive of how the most brilliant "American" cultures developed specifically in spite of being segregated from and exploited by the dominant American culture. It's not called the bureau of native american affairs for a reason.

I guess I'm not ready to reclaim an American identity before all others.

Hell yeah

No love for Taylor Swift lol

Foreigners might not get this post's reason for existing, but with some people it really does feel like we're supposed to rebuke everything we see on a day to day basis and sometimes everyone we see, or else we're no better than Maga MacDougall who actively donates to AIPAC over here. Sometimes an exception is made for Black culture, but it's usually a shallow one that unravels the minute they have to elaborate on their dislike for American culture. "Americans should be more cultured" is an okay criticism but a lot of people who say that aren't satisfied unless we come to the conclusion that everything about our home is bad.

And I have never found an elaboration on "America has no culture" that wasn't steeped in some combination of appeals to a pure and ideal past, ignorance of how migration shapes every culture, classism, and sometimes even racism. As far as I'm concerned, you're a statue PFP if you say this.

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A lot of fun things listed, but they aren’t going to mean anything to any of us when we’re collectively burned out from working endlessly and incapable of retirement… thanks to America’s capitalists.

I love when they feel the need to clarify apple cider, as opposed to all the other famous kinds of cider.

Do the guy also love US terrorism and foreign interference? Because that's what people probably take most offence with. There is not a single additional nation on this planet that has couped to many democratically elected governments and replaced them with corrupt authoritarians that are more than willing to oppress and torture their people and cause civil wars and sell out their nation's interest to US interests in exchange for power. The US is sole world leader in evil and hase been for over a hundred years, only briefly eclipsed by individuals like Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Kissinger.

Because as someone who is "deeply critical" of US his government and military, he really seems like jeans and jack o'lanterns have any weight when people call the globally most hated nation on earth a barbaric terrorist shithole.

And let's not even start counting warcrimes or threats of acts of war towards their "allies".

Fun fact: ask people to name three governments the US has couped. See what happens. Just three.

Apparently USA culture also includes never using punctuation, correct spelling, or intelligent spacing.

I think the problem is more that many Americans are very focused on their own culture to the exclusion of every other culture and in a sense love these things more because they are theirs and they grew up with them than out of an honest appreciation after comparing it with alternatives.

I think it's more a complaint about the people not being cultured in general than it is a complaint about the country not having a culture (also, a bunch of the things mentioned aren't culture but whatever).

A LOT of things in that list aren't originally American, or even commonly American. And quite a few others aren't "culture".

My favorite is probably "Victorian houses". Where did Victoria live again?

We didn't say you don't have culture, we said you were uncultured 🙄 😂

It obviously has culture, but most things listed aren't culture... Or is that the 'joke'?

Apparently spelling 'you' completely isn't on the list. Yay for indolence.

American definitely has a culture. And most of it is shit. Keep that idiocy away.

USA culture will be forgotten when the present empire falls. How much Prussian/ German culture do you consume? Prussia was considered a high watermark for culture, but nobody seems to care about it anymore. And y'know? Good. Because countries who are violent, imperial, oppressive? Their culture deserves to be forgotten.