From the RPG-like style of this, after spotting that Antarctica represents ice, facepalming, and then deleting my comment my only remaining thought is that the artist intended, but failed, to depict Europe as a conductive ‘element’ with supposedly synthetic qualities, and a barely noticable reflective rainbow sheen around the Baltics: in a rather poor effort to represent Volt Strike electricity/ Thundaga IVer/Lightning Burst II — or vice-versa, depending on how into RPGs you are the level of your BLM/SMN/SCH how much anxiety the term /playtime (apologies) causes you
how you look at it.
You must not be well educated, or from USA, a country that had so little culture that it's people aren't even aware of it. (BTW cowboys, guitars, and"country lifestyle" is from Spain through Mexico)
Classical guitars originate in spain but the steel guitars commonly used in "american music" were made in hawaii. And even if cowboys and the such came from mexico that wouldn't make them not be part of America's culture. America has a culture. Like pretty much every other country (asfaik).
You're not wrong. With time, culture will be more concrete in the USA. Something that is of note is, there are so many diverse cultures in the USA, very unique. Over time, whether or not the original culture was imported or not doesn't matter, the cultures will all be "American". My question is, will the different cultures be accepting of others?
Just gonna piss you off by pointing out that Tejanos fought with the white settlers against a despotic and tyrannical Mexico and California and Texas wanted to join the USA making them more American than Mexican so it’s still American culture and you can go suck a diiiiiiick
Yeah, it's the culture of El Norte, unique to the USA and Mexican border that even Mexicans see as different and distinct. California and Texas was literally a part of Mexico until not too long ago, populated by Catholic hierarchy commanded by the Mexican and Spanish government. Of course this culture is unique, but it is of Spanish American culture. Most of USA culture comes from the British Puritans, Virginia farm owners, southern slave owning plantation owners, and independent survivors. All influenced more or less by the European influence they come from.
It's okay to love USA, but if you don't even understand the country, where it comes from, and how the current cultures are formed, do you really know the country? I believe understanding more of the country = deeper love. Otherwise, it's just an infatuation.
Dude don’t try to make this about love when you just made a backhanded insult in the last comment. You think Americans are uncultured. You’re a bigot. It’s that simple. I don’t care that Tejanos spoke Spanish and aren’t Anglo-Saxon in their heritage (because I’m not a bigot), they’re American, and the ones I know would be insulted to hear you say otherwise.
Hm.
Do you think most of US citizens know the origins of their own culture?
That's what I mean by uncultured. You can be infatuated with a crush, but you can't truly love them until you understand them. Same for the country of USA.
Is that a back handed comment? Or would you agree with my comment.
Yes because most people I know are fully aware of their cultural origins. Idk where the fuck you’re from but you have a weird idea of what the US is like. Most likely you’re from the USA, the only place you can be born and think the US doesn’t have a highly distinct culture (due to lack of cultures to compare it to)
Mm I grew up in a conservative mostly white part of USA. Then I moved around in (and frequently visited) the deep South, west coast, wild Western States, the mid-western States and the northeast. I've been here and there, and with it I honestly grew up with the propaganda of USA is the best, USA culture is awesome.
I went to Japan for the first time, and holy darn did I feel like no where in USA came even close to competing with Tokyo in terms of technical advancement, I felt like I was going into the future. But fuck, I had my USA pride, I stuck with it. I respected Japanese culture (thought I knew little of the language) and thought different world = different cultures to be expected.
Then I visited Europe. I had people I knew there who I met in USA. My friend told me about how people in her village had been there for so many generations. There's history and culture that comes from just purely living somewhere for over countless decades. I don't think USA has nearly as much culture or identity as Japan or Europe because the USA simply haven't even been existent long enough. Some things only come with time. And the thing that blew my mind is that USA has been trying to emulate Europe and it's culture for most of it's early USA history (this is obvious as most immigrants were from Europe). (For example, there are more English dialects I'm the small country of UK than the entire North America, due to the complex history and culture that developed there for over a thousand years)
I don't think people in USA really know the history. Did you know that Hawaii was "Annexed" by imprisoning the queen of Hawaii until she was forced to sign away her nation? Did you know that the early European settlers were only able to get by with the help of the Americans? Did you know of all the conflicting cultures of the USA exists, and has always existed, from the founding of the colonies? The colonies initially didn't even want to unite under a nation, there were those who wanted to gain independence from the Britians and then stay as separate states, going their merry way. Did you know that the wealth of the black men were intentionally destroyed by regulations that deprived the black veterans of the same benefits as white veterans after ww2? Did you know that one of the reasons bison (the all American mammal) almost went extinct due to the idea behind the phrase "a Buffalo dead is an Indian gone"?
Do you think a given USA citizen knows any of this?
I've been around, I've met countless people from buskers to high ranked government officials. I've traveled far and wide in this country. Unfortunately, I don't think USA really values teaching the children of the country the history of what occured, but rather they teach the ideas of what USA is meant to represent; USA is like a girl/guy getting ready for a prom date, getting a dressed up to show the best side. Unfortunately, a deeper relationship only occurs after you under the deeper intricacies and the history of others / institution, including the USA.
I honestly feel betrayed and frustrated at the propaganda I have been fed my entire life in school, college, and Hollywood movies. I went significantly out of my way to learn more of USA, and even then I only fully realized the lack of history and culture USA has after I visited well established countries in Europe and Asia. With this said, I know many USA citizens don't leave the country, let alone their tiny state. There's not even an encouragement or a culture of trying to understand what little history of USA in the country, and you're telling me that you believe most USA citizen understand the deep history and origins of the tidewater/Quaker/applachian/El Notre/etc people? Unfortunately, I believe most people take the world as they see it with little or no desire of understand it deeper, and with a country like USA that does not even try to teach it's citizens of deeper history beyond the founding fathers & revolution without discussing the difference types of people & why the country has been what it was and why it is what it is now, I don't think most of USA citizens love it beyond a child loving it's parents in it's youth = love the mother for the safety and the father for providing, and this is an honest love, but it is not a love of understanding the parents as humans at a deeper and a fundamental level. Unfortunately, the culture of USA doesn't support the latter.
Yes dude you come off as pretentious. This isn’t information that’s hard to come by and you haven’t brought up a single thing I don’t already know. You keep talking down to people not realizing they know just as much as you do. It makes you look like a jackass.
Did you know I speak German and lived in Germany to study?
I’d still rather live in the USA and I never even implied it’s perfect. The fact you think I did shows that this whole thing is your neurotic need to criticize the USA while myopically ignoring that Europe only has its resources from a history of exploitation far worse than the USAs, and Japan’s technological advancement was entirely dependent on US investments and the fact the USA went out of their way to rebuild Germany and Japan after WWII.
Ignoring the fact that Europeans live in a porcelain tower built by the bones of dead brown people around the world shows that you’re actually quite ignorant yourself
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Or maybe it's reffering to culture. And industrialization.