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Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16065 Posts
January 21 2012 10:56 GMT
#121
Even every state within the union has different cultures.

I'm from California, and the culture out here is WAY different than you'd find in the midwest.
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dubRa
Profile Joined December 2008
2165 Posts
January 21 2012 10:58 GMT
#122
The statement Americans have no culture is silly I think.
Serious question for Americans and other Europeans: Is it required of students to learn poems by heart and present it in front of their class?
29 fps
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States5724 Posts
January 21 2012 11:02 GMT
#123
ive heard this statement before. it's so ignorant that i just facepalmed
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gosuRob
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States319 Posts
January 21 2012 11:02 GMT
#124
On January 21 2012 19:56 Vindicare605 wrote:
Even every state within the union has different cultures.

I'm from California, and the culture out here is WAY different than you'd find in the midwest.


Same here, basically we have a mix of all cultures almost i'd say.
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zalz
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Netherlands3704 Posts
January 21 2012 11:03 GMT
#125
On January 21 2012 19:58 dubRa wrote:
The statement Americans have no culture is silly I think.
Serious question for Americans and other Europeans: Is it required of students to learn poems by heart and present it in front of their class?


Poetry doesn't even get taught in the Netherlands. No, not even as a part of literature.
slytown
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Korea (South)1411 Posts
January 21 2012 11:03 GMT
#126
There's a saying that goes "We are standing on the shoulders of giants." Every culture builds upon those that came before it. America has done this, England has done it, China has done it, etc. I've heard the saying "Americans have not culture" but it's not a collective thing people say. It's elitists and nationalists that say it.

Interesting fact: Paris is considered the epitome of sophisticated cities to japanese citizens. However, when they visit Paris they come to find out the city and it's people don't live up to the stereotype. The result is masses of Japanese tourists returning to Japan severly depressed at the sort of reverse-culture shock. It's so bad, Japan has a 24-hr hotline at it's embassy in Paris you can call to get counseling for what's been called "Paris Syndrome."
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Kotreb
Profile Joined June 2011
Croatia1392 Posts
January 21 2012 11:03 GMT
#127
I would have to agree with HoldenR and Falan...they do make a point. And the thing about Americans lacking culture...i honestly don't think you can compare America to Europe/Asia... Countries that invented printing press, Renaissance etc to America. Maybe because of relatively young of age of America or maybe it's just different approach to some values in life or maybe it's just that consumerism and recycling of foreign "culture" (and by that i mean primarily movies; ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' is best example.)

@zalz: the fact that i/a lot of people in the world can speak english i would actually contribute to England and it's expansionism, but i do agree on the part that no one forces americans to learn some other language/get to know some other culture (although if they actually put some effort in they could because their first neighbor is Mexico which, i hope we can all agree on this, has some very vivid and interesting culture...the thing is that they just refuse it)
and about the aforementioned movie, might i ask who wrote those reviews? I know this is completely subjectional, but after watching both versions i would have to disagree with critics. Swedish version is much better, at least to me. But on the other hand I always like originals more than remakes.
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Tobberoth
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden6375 Posts
January 21 2012 11:05 GMT
#128
On January 21 2012 19:52 Starshaped wrote:
I didn't realize baseball was a multinational sport, lol. American football and baseball I thought were basically only played/cared about in the states.

Baseball is huge in Japan. But he didn't say football was multinational, he said baseball and basketball, and while both sports are very very minor in most countries, at least you play them, I would be surprised to find any European who didn't play basketball in school during gym class or such.
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
January 21 2012 11:05 GMT
#129
On January 21 2012 20:03 zalz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 21 2012 19:58 dubRa wrote:
The statement Americans have no culture is silly I think.
Serious question for Americans and other Europeans: Is it required of students to learn poems by heart and present it in front of their class?


Poetry doesn't even get taught in the Netherlands. No, not even as a part of literature.


That seems very odd. Is there a reason for that? ;o
Chargelot
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
2275 Posts
January 21 2012 11:08 GMT
#130
On January 21 2012 16:44 Chro wrote:
America doesn't really have a culture. One of the main parts of culture is how/why you do something. In america the only reason you do something is because of money. Its all about business and efficiency. Its why everyone sees us as jerks and cocky bastards, because that's what our business culture brings us up as when we're young.


As opposed to Europe, where they do everything for waffles. They can't get enough waffles. I heard there was a huge waffle shortage in Greece recently, and a lot of the countries that surrounded Greece didn't want to give their waffles up to help the waffleless.

Fucking waffle hoarders.
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Epoch
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada257 Posts
January 21 2012 11:09 GMT
#131
Of course Americans have culture, it's just not the best culture. Asians have the coolest culture imo.
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
January 21 2012 11:15 GMT
#132
On January 21 2012 20:05 Tobberoth wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 21 2012 19:52 Starshaped wrote:
I didn't realize baseball was a multinational sport, lol. American football and baseball I thought were basically only played/cared about in the states.

Baseball is huge in Japan. But he didn't say football was multinational, he said baseball and basketball, and while both sports are very very minor in most countries, at least you play them, I would be surprised to find any European who didn't play basketball in school during gym class or such.


I wouldn't say basketball is minor in most countries at all. I would imagine it is the most popular indoor sport in Europe by some margin.

Baseball is a whole different matter, I can't really tell why it was put in the same basket (pardon the pun) with basketball in the OP.
Xcobidoo
Profile Joined June 2011
Sweden1871 Posts
January 21 2012 11:15 GMT
#133
On January 21 2012 16:51 KimJongChill wrote:
They probably mean to say that America lacks cultural refinement.

This.
Some of the things you see as american culture might still be seen as just a "trend" whilst other countries have had time to grow and evolve several cultural aspects.
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SilentchiLL
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany1405 Posts
January 21 2012 11:17 GMT
#134
On January 21 2012 16:38 Nothingtosay wrote:
A recent pm about this matter has truly been irking me.


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Medzo
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States627 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-21 11:28:00
January 21 2012 11:19 GMT
#135
I can just imagine someone sitting around in his/her jeans smoking tabacco saying America has no culture on the internet. Maybe after they say it they will reward themselves with a coke or something while they phone their friend.

People just take our culture and then cant seem to find ours because they made it part of their own.

On a side note I lol'd at the people who say that its dumb that "Lots of Americans think that evolution is a theory." It is a theory.... so is gravity. Try looking up what a scientific theory means. Also the guy who posted a video of dumb Americans, you could make the same video in any country.
funk100
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom172 Posts
January 21 2012 11:22 GMT
#136
My guess of where this veiw comes from is the stereotypical veiw of the way history/geography in american schools is taught: with a large emphisis on american values and all presesnted in a pro-america way.

On January 21 2012 19:58 dubRa wrote:
The statement Americans have no culture is silly I think.
Serious question for Americans and other Europeans: Is it required of students to learn poems by heart and present it in front of their class?


England here, the english GCSE (exam for 16 year olds) requires study of 3 clusters of poems: one is poems from different cultures, the second is pre-1914 poems with poets like Ben johnson, Charles Tichborne and Shakespeare and the last was post-1914 peoms, with poets like Carol anne Duffy and Simon Armitage.

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Geo.Rion
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
7377 Posts
January 21 2012 11:26 GMT
#137
On January 21 2012 19:58 dubRa wrote:
The statement Americans have no culture is silly I think.
Serious question for Americans and other Europeans: Is it required of students to learn poems by heart and present it in front of their class?

it's a very different kind of challenge then the usual tests/homeworks, it kinda forces you to deal with stage fright and such. I hated it a lot though
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Kotreb
Profile Joined June 2011
Croatia1392 Posts
January 21 2012 11:27 GMT
#138
@medzo: jeans is debatable being American (Levi Strauss, you know what i mean) but tobacco would be more of an native Americans "thing", unless you count them in modern day understanding of American culture, but that would make any debate/discussion silly and would unfortunately exclude all the things immigrants have done (in a way, i f you know what i mean)
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Duff3233
Profile Joined July 2011
France6 Posts
January 21 2012 11:27 GMT
#139
OP I don't think you understand what people mean when they make that statement. They're not saying that Americans as a people haven't got a unique culture. What they're saying is that Americans tend to be less cultivated (ie possess less knowledge) about the rest of the world than your average individual
ondik
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Czech Republic2908 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-21 11:32:36
January 21 2012 11:30 GMT
#140
I fail to see how anything -except of jazz- mentioned in OP should be an argument against "americans have no culture". You can argue about semantics (or maybe that's the point of the thread?), but if someone asks about american culture and you mention american football, he will probably think you're joking.
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