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My fellow Americans and team liquid goers of other nationalities.. if you have been alive for more than 5 seconds you've probably heard someone say "America has no culture". A recent pm about this matter has truly been irking me.
As an American this "insult" baffles me. I don't understand where it comes from. The United States is the country that brought the world wonderful things such as Broadway and Jazz.
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Louis_Armstrong_restored.jpg)
We fight with everyone over what the word "football means".
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Shaun_Carney_rushing.jpg/220px-Shaun_Carney_rushing.jpg)
We Created baseball and basketball which are truly multinational sports.
![[image loading]](http://thenetworth.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/dirk-nowitzki-drives-yi-jianlian1.jpg)
We erect monuments like the St louis Arch and carve the faces of past leaders into mountain sides.
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/St_Louis_night_expblend_cropped.jpg) .
We have cultural holidays just like everyone else!
![[image loading]](http://funny-stuff.audio4fun.com/download/funnypixstore2/25433.jpg)
Every small town and city in this Country is different from the last.
So once again I ask you why are Americans so frequently labeled as cultureless
Certainly we don't have as long as a history as most nations because we simply haven't been around that long.
Maybe it stems from the fact that many elements of our culture evolved from the cultures that immigrants brought here with them.
EDIT
Somehow this thread developed in a completely predictable yet entirely unfortunate way. I wouldn't have bothered to make it if knew it would make people more angry when it's purpose was to exact opposite.
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Never heard someone say America has no Culture, the fact that people wear Nike and Jordan jerseys seems to make the insult redundant.
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The term Americana is there for a reason. I don't see why you had to make this thread. Everyone is just jelly.
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You forgot to mention that Blizzard is an american company xD
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The thing is. American culture is so mainstrream everywhere in the western world that most people forget its actually american.
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On January 21 2012 16:41 Demonhunter04 wrote:
You forgot to mention that Blizzard is an american company xD
Well I assumed that if someone on a starcraft website doesn't know that then they are hopeless.
On January 21 2012 16:39 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Never heard someone say America has no Culture, the fact that people wear Nike and Jordan jerseys seems to make the insult redundant.
Really? I get it all the time
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Never heard this in my life.
If some troll PM'd you just report him and move on. -_-
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Culture means to be a group of people with some sort of common identity that separates itself from other groups so just with the single fact that Americans are called Americans and that they live in a country named USA proves that a culture must exist.
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yeah its mainly because of your last point, 'Maybe it stems from the fact that many elements of our culture evolved from the cultures that immigrants brought here with them.' and the country is quite young. but anyways this is just like a stereotypical saying, so its not to be taken too seriously.
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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.
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Just gotta say, basketball came from Canada.
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United States2969 Posts
American culture is so widespread that it's fashionable to ironically state that it has no culture.
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"no culture" is kinda weird. everyone probably has a culture, it might just not be very interesting to you.
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Great post! the U.S is a relatively young country and much of its culture is that it is extremely multicultural, since the early 1800's america was looked at as the best place to be for immigrants. they bring their culture and beliefs along with it. i for one am a first generation of my family that was born in the U.S, my parents both being immigrants from Lebanon.
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And yet people constantly blame America for "exporting its culture" and cultural imperialism.
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On January 21 2012 16:44 Wombatsavior wrote:
Just gotta say, basketball came from Canada.
It came from a Canadian living in Massachusetts. The sport was developed and defined predominantly in The United States.
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On January 21 2012 16:44 Wombatsavior wrote:
Just gotta say, basketball came from Canada.
Correction: from a canadian who immigrated to the US. Always annoyed me that my country tried to take credit for it. He was American...
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They probably mean to say that America lacks cultural refinement.
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Why even waste the time dignifying a stupid statement like America has no culture. Treat it like every other stupid thing people say and just ignore it.
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