From a /phil/ and anthropology perspective, what do you think of american culture?

From a /phil/ and anthropology perspective, what do you think of american culture?

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It no longer exists.

> american
> culture
It never existed. Try to name american national food for example. You just can't.

Wild West was pretty distinctly American

HAMBOIGAH

A culture that is defined by instant satisfaction. This is true about their literalist religions, their permanently twittering politicians, and their fast food. Instant, short term satisfaction is now the very core of America. Anything that isn't instant, anything that prefers the long term, any way of thinking that believes that suffering and sorrow have their place in the human condition just as much as happiness are instantly shunned and sometimes brutally attacked for daring to question the basic assumptions underlying American culture

that's not an anthropological approach you fucking retard

Hamburgers, french fries, pizza, hot dogs (and corn dogs), cornbread, fried chicken, crispy bacon, milkshakes, chili, among certainly others. Thry might not all be uniquely American or even invented in America but they are all heavily identifiable with American culture. The fact that all of this comes from a country that's only 240 years old and whose inhabitants almost all have relatives (great-grandparents etc) who came from another country says a lot about the strength of the American idealthat drives our culture, the idea that anybody can come to this country and have their children genuinely be Americans alongside everybody else, that's what American culture was built on.

Now, whether that still holds true today, or even has since the end of WW2, is a somewhatdifferent question. But from the standpoint of responding to a European troll: why do you all try so hard to look like us, then? Even 15 years ago you weren't all dressed like Americans but now, you could fill a room with 15 different white or black people and say "spot the American" and nobody would be able to because the black guy wearing the Golden State Warriors jersey is German.

>Hamburgers,

Not American

>Pommet frites

Not American

>pizza

Not American

>hot dog

Dunno

>cornbread

Probably not american

>chicken

Not american

>bacon

not american

wew

> Probably not american
I heard that corn was invented by British years before Columbus. That is why there exists city named Cornwall, very old city you should mind.

it doesn't matter if they originated in america dipshit

They lack the medieval times completely, so they come up with shit like Superman. as a replacement for european heroics like Siegfried the Dragonkiller or Jeanne d'Arc for example

>Culture is entirely what kind of food you eat, clothes you wear and music you listen to

How are retards allowed to continue living?

What utter nonsense.

We have our real, genuine military heroes like that, junior.
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Not to mention Washington, Grant, Sherman, Patton and many others.

Couldn't one say that the idea that america has no culture is due to Americanisation? That american values and ideas have been spread throughout the cinema in 20s-50s for example.


So the reason america seems to have no culture is because they basically colonised the world through media. Places like great Britain nowadays are just a poverty version of america.

>what do you think of american culture

An old, outdated materialist, capitalist culture based on the early social dynamics of the industrial revolution.

Add globalism and multiculturalism in the mix, and you have the modern day "american" culture exported everywhere in the world. Not to mention their fucking stupid political culture that has infected Europe for the past 50 years.


God i fucking hate the americans. They're the poison of european political and intellectual elites.

Yes. Most things, from the computer software we use right now, to the chain restaurants where we eat, to the movies we watch, to our pastimes like baseball and visits to big amusement parks are disseminated American culture. It's so prevalent, if you can't tell where a given country's culture ends outside of a history book and where American influence begins, you're living in some third world place.

Powered by greed

Truly the thinking of an american.

Great Britain has a very distinct and strong culture in itself even if there is 'Americanization' present.

>That american values and ideas

Nonsense - whatever overlap you see would be due to having similar inclinations in the first place rather than America dominating and deciding the 'values and ideas' of another country.

Cornwall is a county

I'm sure he was trolling, but the grain we today call corn was "maize" to indians.

You do, but these are modern-day men. I mean figures both heroic and shrouded in myths. the US simply lack all european pre-16th century culture
t. american born and raised in Germany

You don't suppose that's because the US didn't exist in the 16th century? In the 17th century, what would be the US was territory of 5 other countries, so I'll argue "it had the heroes of those cultures", Great Britain, Netherlands, France, Spain and Russia.

It's a little difficult to argue indigenous American indians didn't have culture and heroes, because for one we know they did, but secondly they didn't keep records the way Europe did, but through oral tradition, which is lost when the last person to memorize it dies.

> Hamburgers, french fries, pizza
None of those are American and two have a location's name

Russian America was more like 18th century after Peter the Great, but with the rest I agree.

That's the point. They didn't you tard.

Anyone who thinks fries originated from anywhere but Belgium after they've already been told why it's Belgium needs to be dicked by a horse

All Cajun foods
Also, look at all the jealousy in this thread

Hamburgers are definitely American. The Hamburg steak, a German invention, is a type of ground beef patty eaten on a plate. But the practice of putting a ground beef patty on a bun and adding various condiments and garnishes to it is American. So Hamburger sandwiches are an American thing.

this. i'm so fucking sick of this meme. those people who say that are the same idiots who say "American culture is world culture"

>forgetting apple pie

Well yeah, but Yuroplebs have also adopted other parts of American culture such as sexual promiscuity and consumerism.