Can anyone define what American culture is?
America is a quite new experiment with lots of different races where it's necessary to distinguish with terms like "white" and "black". I'm pretty sure Africans also call themselves after their ethnic nations and don't call themselves "black".
Cowboy culture isn't Anglo white or half black half Anglo mongrel black, it's Hispanic. The original Vaqueros were all Mexican.
>the first cowboys
Cowboy culture is just watered down mexican charro culture
Next you’re gonna tell me country music is actually black. Log off, Pedro.
Country music is hip hop for rednecks.
lol, there was no such thing as hip hop in 1940s, idiot.
>you're wrong because I hate spics
cope. you don't have an argument. that's why youre lashing out.
>we don't want to steal kill and rape people
This does not line up with the facts
There are like a dozen regional cultures plus many smaller cultures within the US. Broadly, we're more individualistic, optimistic, and distrustful of central authority than Europeans.
>Can anyone define what American culture is?
Unironically, freedom.
American culture isn't defined by common genetic heritage, it's defined by a cultural love of enlightenment thought (that, of course, has been modified and upgraded since).
For most of its history America was nearly 100% white, except black slaves. It started going downhill recently when whites lost control, blacks got power, and brown borders from all over the world moved in to curse it.
Common law, English language, constitutional democracy, rugged individualism, extolling pioneerisn, etc.
More deeply everything as simple as shaking hands to signal and agreement or when you meet someone is an aspect of culture.
Not really, there are American cultures but there is no universally prevalent American culture.
WASP. anything else is immigrants.
>Anthony Cumia
Looks like Terrence McKenna
The simplesr facet of culture is language. Everything in America is American. Whether slaves happen to be involved or not.
American culture is synonymous Yankee culture, who are stereotypically savvy merchants who embrace cosmopolitanism, are religious but not fanatics, love innovative new ideas and are self-reliant and entrepreneurial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_ingenuity
White American culture is literally just an amalgamation of European traditions with a large Anglo core. There’s also a lot of regional variation. White culture is omnipresent in every aspect of American life, from how we dress and act at work down to the recurring stories consumed in media and religion. Blacks and other minorities are just really arrogant and have an inferiority complex so pretend not to see it. Meanwhile, if they want to get a job, they have to engage in and appropriate white culture to get one. Ever read about how they want to “de-colonize school?” What they mean is eliminate the white cultural aspects of that institution. They complain about that in a lot of things.
First you must ask how one defines any culture. If a given culture can neatly fit into a box it begins to resemble a stereotype. France has the Eiffel Tower and berets and baguettes, Britain has bad teeth and Big Ben and Double decker buses
To America this would be Hollywood and New York and Fast Food and guns and cars and cowboys in the old west and the Apollo program and Levi jeans but would this really be a satisfying answer to anyone? On a deeper level Americas culturas genesis lies within Anglo protestantism and Transcendentalism as championed by the likes of Henry David Thoreau.
>Transcendentalism as championed by the likes of Henry David Thoreau.
Transcendentalism had many opponents.
Edgar Allan Poe, for one.
I wouldn't describe it as core to the culture.
never said it was a core of American culture, just that its a part of Americas cultural genesis. Its influence is still with us in subtle ways