Everyone loves to hate on Americans not having culture, but we very clearly do. We have our own dialects that are unique from the rest of the world. We have sports and holidays and foods that were created here first.
The reason that it looks like America doesn't have culture is because we've exported our culture around the globe, and now you just think those things are normal.
American culture is also an amalgamation of the different ethnic groups and cultures that have settled here with 17th/18th century British culture being the frame work. Halloween is uniquely American although its roots are in Irish and Scottish traditions that are themselves derived from Celtic Paganism.
Another example is music, everyone wants to argue which culture invented different styles but generally different musical genres borrow and build upon other previous styles.
It could be argued that Rome didn’t have a culture either because their’s was an amalgamated culture of the groups they conquered with 5th/6th Century BCE Greek culture as the frame work.
A few musical genres that originated in the US: ragtime, jazz, gospel, zydeco, rock n roll, rockabilly, country, bluegrass, soul, funk, surf, hip hop.
Sure, many of those have roots in European and African folk traditions, and have had notable contributions from outside, but all of those came into existence in the US, mostly thanks to Black Americans.
Thank you for your comment in english on the internet. Enjoy your day in your blue jeans listening to blues, rap, country, pop, rock, jazz and hip-hop!
I now twenty times more jokes about Germans, being able to laugh at oneself or at one’s own culture is a sign of self-confidence and the ability to reflect.
17 Comments
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 221d
Everyone loves to hate on Americans not having culture, but we very clearly do. We have our own dialects that are unique from the rest of the world. We have sports and holidays and foods that were created here first.
The reason that it looks like America doesn't have culture is because we've exported our culture around the globe, and now you just think those things are normal.
Taco2112@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 221d
American culture is also an amalgamation of the different ethnic groups and cultures that have settled here with 17th/18th century British culture being the frame work. Halloween is uniquely American although its roots are in Irish and Scottish traditions that are themselves derived from Celtic Paganism.
Another example is music, everyone wants to argue which culture invented different styles but generally different musical genres borrow and build upon other previous styles.
It could be argued that Rome didn’t have a culture either because their’s was an amalgamated culture of the groups they conquered with 5th/6th Century BCE Greek culture as the frame work.
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 221d
You can't touch our history with music and cinema.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 220d
I'll give you cinema.
Music!?!?!?
Manticore@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 220d
A few musical genres that originated in the US: ragtime, jazz, gospel, zydeco, rock n roll, rockabilly, country, bluegrass, soul, funk, surf, hip hop.
Sure, many of those have roots in European and African folk traditions, and have had notable contributions from outside, but all of those came into existence in the US, mostly thanks to Black Americans.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 5 pts · 221d
You mean white America? Black America developed one hell of a culture which changed the rest of the world.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 221d
wewbull@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 220d
Not really, no.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 221d
Baa, dum, hiss.
CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 221d
Another version of the joke: "How can American cheese exist if America doesn't have any culture?"
Godric@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 213d
Thank you for your comment in english on the internet. Enjoy your day in your blue jeans listening to blues, rap, country, pop, rock, jazz and hip-hop!
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 1 pts · 213d
I now twenty times more jokes about Germans, being able to laugh at oneself or at one’s own culture is a sign of self-confidence and the ability to reflect.
Godric@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 213d
I would never laugh at America, they might invade me
Lioffproxy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 221d
Brutal.
hector@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 220d
That is actually pretty good. This joke could be repurposed well in many contexts.
baines@piefed.social · -4 pts · 221d
is racism a ‘culture’?
bus_factor@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 221d
They didn't develop that, they brought it with them.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 221d
Our culture is appropriation of other cultures.
Wait, shit, we got that from the British.
SARGE@startrek.website · 5 pts · 221d