EPTAmericans have no culture? - Page 20
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whatusername
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magnaflow
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LeibSaiLeib
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AMERICA is a CONTINENT not COUNTRY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas | ||
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zalz
Netherlands3704 Posts
On January 22 2012 00:50 magnaflow wrote: Americas culture is money, nothing else matters. The Americas includes Canada. Well played. | ||
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Feartheguru
Canada1334 Posts
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Erasme
Bahamas15899 Posts
(and classic play/music are europeans) | ||
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Snotling
Germany885 Posts
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3DGlaDOS
Germany607 Posts
On January 22 2012 00:51 LeibSaiLeib wrote: you forgot pictures of ancient incas, and brazil etc they are all part of AMERICA AMERICA is a CONTINENT not COUNTRY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas srsly not this shit again :/ "America" is commonly and all over the world used for the United States of America.... | ||
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LeibSaiLeib
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On January 22 2012 01:01 wBsKillian wrote: srsly not this shit again :/ "America" is commonly and all over the world used for the United States of America.... no, somone got an F saying that here | ||
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Late
Latvia418 Posts
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BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
On January 22 2012 00:35 Lebzetu wrote: Kinda true. We took some culture from the UK since that is where we came from, after all. "you" came from all over the world. not just UK. youd be surprised how many have german,italian, dutch etc roots. and thats not even counting the black people from various parts of the world that came there for different reasons... i when it comes to american culture there are 3problems: 1. the usa lacks the big long history we see as normal over here. and had zero part in the evolution of our civilization till quite recently. i mean im drinking beer from a brewery with a 972 years long history (and thats just the date from which the first document about brewing beer is). i know that doesnt matter much in the end but that might give you some clue of our perspective on history. 2. alot of stuff "americans" did were just immigrants or 1/2nd generation immigrants etc(for example many european scientists going to america during ww2). so for how much of that can you give the us credit for? 3. america in the last 20-30 years changed from the nice hard working country with great morals and where evrybody had a dream to the most decadent and spoiled country out there. from obesity to the propaganda media to a company run evrything. lets be honest, most of the world kinda looks down on whats going on atm over there for all kinds of reasons. and im not even talking about the wars or foreign politcs which is a different topic. so over that decline of respect for americans nowadays people forget the good things the country did. basicly the "now" is overshadowing the past. | ||
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Chaosvuistje
Netherlands2581 Posts
On January 22 2012 00:18 SilentchiLL wrote: Hate to say it here(actually no, I don't I'm having fun^^), but wasn't jazz and blues invented by the blacks and wasn't that only possible because you enslaved them and they still didn't have equal rights? Blues even comes from sadness afaik  ... so now we don't consider the black people living in the US during that time American? By that token, nobody is actually from America because they all came from Europe. Just to go in further on that, it would mean that we aren't European either because we migrated from Africa. Which would actually mean that Africa has all the culture. Stop delegitimizing posters based on stupid facts that are solely meant to distract people away from the actual discussion. Blues originated from the south of the US. Whether it was made by a black person or a cowboy hat wearing Texan or an asian person that happened to be there at that time does not change the fact that it originates from that particular area, which means it comes from the US which means it is part of US culture. Period. | ||
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LeibSaiLeib
173 Posts
Culture can be from 2 gangs in same street to Asia vs West. The scales can be massivly different, and if you dont define what is culture in current context, discussion is made extremely more difficult. | ||
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zalz
Netherlands3704 Posts
America is the country. North-America / South-America the 2 continents. The Americas is the unified region of north and south America. | ||
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LeibSaiLeib
173 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:06 zalz wrote: America is the country. North-America / South-America the 2 continents. The Americas is the unified region of north and south America. Hmm i read more about it, but it might be difference in langauge, in my language everything is EXACLY the same, and you HAVE to add United States of America, or people get confused. I still think it shows a bit of arrogance to say Americans, on the other hand Europeans sometimes call themselves Erupeans regardless of countrie. And continents have different lvls too, Eurasia can be devided into Asia, Europe, Middle-East, as America can be divided into Middle, North South. Dont remember the term in english. | ||
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lolmlg
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For the "Americans" I should mention this, though: the man was only in the US to do a job, and he was only in the US for a couple of years when he invented the game. No reasonable person would refer to him as an "American" at the time basketball was invented. At least not in this context. By the way, Superman wasn't created by a Canadian. He was created by two Jewish men, one of whom was born in Canada to European immigrant parents. His family moved to the US when he was a kid. | ||
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + jk | ||
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Scorm
United States104 Posts
Every culture has a culture, hence the obvious and explaining that further would be hyper redundant. | ||
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lolmlg
619 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:04 Chaosvuistje wrote: ... so now we don't consider the black people living in the US during that time American? By that token, nobody is actually from America because they all came from Europe. Just to go in further on that, it would mean that we aren't European either because we migrated from Africa. Which would actually mean that Africa has all the culture. Stop delegitimizing posters based on stupid facts that are solely meant to distract people away from the actual discussion. Blues originated from the south of the US. Whether it was made by a black person or a cowboy hat wearing Texan or an asian person that happened to be there at that time does not change the fact that it originates from that particular area, which means it comes from the US which means it is part of US culture. Period. If US citizens didn't consider those people "American" at the time then modern US citizens don't deserve the right to take ownership of their achievements. Period. | ||
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PrimeTimey
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