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[+] [email protected] -28 points 2 months ago

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

[+] [email protected] -41 points 2 months ago

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

[+] [email protected] -44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How much Prussian/ German culture do you consume?

A ton. Germany is a defining cultural influence on the lives of all Europeans, and you are missing out if you don't know it.

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[+] [email protected] -22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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?

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[+] [email protected] -26 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I love u baseball

Let's not go overboard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

The man has never seen a game, at most he hit a tennis ball with a bat-like object once and thought "that's cool"

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hell yeah

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[+] [email protected] -36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

I love u Muphry's Law.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I love u drive thru drugstore

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

Apparently spelling "completely" correctly was too much work for you.

[+] [email protected] -20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[+] [email protected] -20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How would you define "culture"?

[+] [email protected] -15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cultured

If all you know is cultural items from your own country I don't think you can be considered to be cultured.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think I'd agree with that, but that's in reference to a person. A culture by definition must have its own cultural artifacts that aren't simply taken from another culture. There's also no requirement for those artifacts to be "high art". Nearly everything listed in the OP is culture. So to clarify, I ask what you mean when you say "a bunch of the things mentioned aren't culture".

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Oh for that part of my message what I meant was things like coastlines, cactus, fireflies and foggy days, that's not culture, what you do with it can be cultural, but otherwise they're just natural features.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

foggy days

I thought that was a British trademark. Foggy Albion and all that.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the implication is that the things you do with those natural features form a culture. Fireflies aren't culture, but catching them is. And besides, there are plenty more examples of culture in the post. But you are correct.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No love for Taylor Swift lol

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Can someone explain the love for Taylor Swift to me? I know she makes music a lot of people enjoy. I've heard the stories of her giving big bonuses to those who work for her. I guess all I see is a billionaire with a great PR team.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

In addition to some great comments, Swift seems genuine and sincere. There's a great video going around of her arguing with her dad, literally crying that she can no longer keep her mouth shut about injustices perpetrated by the right.

I know jack about her music, but my little kids were blasting something intensely catchy. "That's pretty cool! Who is that?" You guessed it, Swift.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She's a "self-made" female billionaire. Her money isn't from something like Walmart or Amazon, where it's obvious how she's exploiting people. It's clear she's very talented. And she seems smart and like she won't get pushed around by scummy music execs (Taylor's version).

Her music speaks to people and makes them feel like they're understood and like they understand her. When she got a lot of hate (because most things teenage girls enjoy get a lot of hate), plenty of people felt personally attacked, and that made them more defensive and appreciative of her. She poked fun at the stereotypes making her more endearing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

She’s a “self-made” female billionaire. Her money isn’t from something like Walmart or Amazon

Does her parents money not count? She was born into money, she wasn't self made. Unless "self making" yourself from a millionaire to a billionaire counts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

look, if we didn't count billionaires who come from lesser echelons of rich people, we wouldn't have any 'self-made' billionaires at all.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Not many billionaires start out from not being millionaires.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can someone explain the love for Taylor Swift to me?

I mean...

I know she makes music a lot of people enjoy.

Isn't that enough? I don't see the appeal of K-pop either but I do understand that some folks get way too deep into some rabbit holes.

On a non-musical level she's either very genuine (private jet notwithstanding) or very good at appearing that way.

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