They surpassed most European countries in just 2 centuries. A total success story that should inspire us. These people went from 0 to 100. What went right?
Why are they so good at literature?
They surpassed most European countries in just 2 centuries. A total success story that should inspire us. These people went from 0 to 100. What went right?
Barely anything that US produces counts as literature.
typical insecure eurogay
There are only 3 good European writers, and they all died hundreds of years ago.
They had the good taste to pick the best mother tongue and speak it at least 90% correctly.
why didn't the same happen with Australia and Canada? it's something else.
American population is way bigger than Canada or Australia
New York alone has a smaller population than both of them yet it has produced better writers. It’s not about population size.
NYC represents the cream of the crop of 300M+ Amerimutts.
If France had 300M people, we would all be talking about French literature non-stop.
The real country that has outperformed in literature, given their relatively modest population, is RUSSIA.
> NYC represents the cream of the crop of 300M+ Amerimutts
Now it’s “cream of the crop”, not population. Interesting cope.
> If France had 300M people, we would all be talking about French literature non-stop.
And if I had millions in the bank I’d be a millionaire. This is called a fantasy (not real) and it doesn’t mean anything.
> The real country that has outperformed in literature, given their relatively modest population, is RUSSIA
The US is way younger than Russia or any Euro country.
Delusional amerimutt.
where are you from?
Bait thread.
>They surpassed most European countries in just 2 centuries
lol
They surpassed:
Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
MonteBlack
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Poland
Portugal
Romania
San Marino
Scotland
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Sweden
Turkey
Ukraine
Wales
That's most European countries.
And now per capita
>Armenia
>Azerbaijan
>Georgia
>Kazakhstan
>Kosovo
>Turkey
LOL
Anyway, that's approximately 1/3 of the total European population. Sure, that's "most countries" if you purposely use tiny, irrelevant countries like Andorra, San Marino, Luxembourg, and non-countries like Kosovo. And then you have some very debatable inclusions, such as Czechia, Poland, Scotland, and Portugal. It's not so clear-cut.
gr8b8m8
Also Americans pre-20th century were just bongs or various euros who spoke English as a lingua franca for the most part, core American culture and identity were basically established in the early 1900's and it started with the civil war.
>it wasnt translated into english and it didn't get popular in the default IQfy country therefore it doesn't exist
nice cope
If you're going to call something bait, maybe don't immediately post the most obvious bait in the thread.
what? no, it's the other way around. americans after the 20th century and especially after wwii stopped having a distinct american identity.
Yeah, totally, it's not like IQfy's favorite book Infinite Jest is pretty much a satire on modern American culture that definitely exists and is actually distinct from the English culture, unlike the Proto-American culture which mostly consisted of more individualistic bongs with a little twist.
>Americans after the 20th century stopped having a distinct American identity
Because that's around when the muttification and the influx of immigrants started.
That's when the actual American culture started morphing itself, the bongs larping as a new nation became a minority.
muttoids detected
you're really not that unique, i'd rather learn about india than anything about your "history" and "culture"
YWNBW, no matter how much you larp
Ouch, the stupidity in this thread is literally painful, wtf?
can't think of any literature the us produced
lol it's funny when you people get insecure like that
We're simply the best.
I kneel.
What literature?
Macdonalds commercials don't count as literature.
All the europoors are big mad at the Chad U.S. as is tradition. Melville alone is better than any other euro writer apart from Shakespeare and Dante (maybe Dostoyevsky too). How sad is it when one single writer and one single book absolutely destroys your entire nations canon.
Add in others like Faulkner, O’Connor, Pinecone, Corncob, Pringles Man, etc. and how can other countries even compete? Only Russia, Greeks and Britain can compete. And Greeks haven’t produced anything worthwhile in 2000+ years
All writers you've mentioned are just Anglo writers, plain and simple. They were Anglos by culture, heritage, language etc. and certainly people like Melville and Poe thought of themselves as Anglos stranded on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Your accomplishments should count as Anglo accomplishments, there's nothing like American literature simply because America is not a nation
Lmao anglos are salty at America’s success that they want to claim their achievements. You’re has-beens. Yesterday’s news. Know your place.
>He thinks Moby-Dick could have been written by a bong
Don't forget Cornpop
DAAAAAAAMMMMMM!!!!!
buuda-pa-pa-pa
>an autistic encyclopedia about whales is better literature than Balzac or Tolstoy
Hahaha yeah that’s why it’s impossible to take americans seriously online
>Moby Dick
>autistic encyclopedia
Just say you got filtered.
Because the country is symbolic and one of the only ones formed off a noble idea
Jews, they basically created American culture.
Europeans live miserable lives that they have almost no control over, there’s only so many times you can publish the same story about:
>le bucolic but sometimes sad peasant
>the noble nobleman
>the ignoble nobleman
>the cuckhold
>the dashing knight (hats off to Cervantes for getting a bit more mileage out of this one though)
Even look at euro books written today. Basically ever houellebecq book is about a sad and sexual dysfunctional eurocuck.
By contrast Americans are generally responsible for their own lives, for better or for worse, and that is inherently more interesting to read about. It also provides a greater wealth of subject matter.
>Americans are generally responsible for their own lives
How delusional do you have to be to actually believe this
>Basically ever houellebecq book is about a sad and sexual dysfunctional eurocuck.
sovl
Also I bet that you've never read most of the modern good Euro literature because guess what? Most of it probably wasn't even translated into English and you probably haven't ever heard of it because of non-existent marketing.
It goes both ways, in my Euro country nobody cares about the American lit classics either. The only countries that matter here when it comes to the classics are my own, of course, Germany, France, and Russia. The only American writers that matter here are modern ones like GRRM, Gaiman, plenty of science fiction writers also.
Houellebecq is slop. The fact eurogays think he’s “soul” is precisely what’s wrong with their literature these dsys.
I speak french and read contemporary novels published in France, at least 2 a year. I don't think anything they publish compares to American classics
>you can't compare classics to contemporary
You invited the comparison when you tried to invalidate my opinion on the basis that you assumed I could not read untranslated euro slop. I've already expressed the opinion that I don't believe euro classics compare well to american classics. Now I am saying in addition that euro contemporary novels don't compare well to american classics. I thought this would have went without saying but I guess it didn't.
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