You can't throw the baby out with the bath water. Not by all Americans. Some are struggling to uphold a country that was handed to us by our fathers.
I don't buy hip hop trash, or go see leftist movies by michale moore types.
America has been Balkanized and fractured, with sublimation of past heritage. This was not always so, but it is now.
This country isn't broken beyond repair...not yet. Many are working on dragging it through the dirt, I most certainly agree. But, they aren't the be all end all of Americans. The silent majority is in some type of lethargic mode. What the lynch pin will be to shake them out of their lethargy I don't know, but, it will come.
Tell me what the current ( within the past ten years ) glories of the theatre, ballet, music, art, books, movies, T.V. and POP CULTURE have been, as opposed to the vast flowering of these things in the previous century; excluding those things that aren't applicable.
Those hold no interest for me, save books. I'm forced to read novels from yesteryear. I read on a site once talking about this very subject. It asked if an immigrant will come to our shores and see America with fresh eyes and write about it.
was sent to Europe, to prove to Europeans that America actually HAD a worthy culture.
Looking for scraps from the table of Europe even then. Pfft. Europes lost today, their culture is being breed out and driven out. Maybe we should send a deligation there to see if they have a culture.
It is NOT actually an Islamic thing, as not all Muslims engage in the practice.
mohammad(piss be upon him) never forbade female mutilation.
Sheikh Gad al-Haq, said that since the Prophet did not ban female circumcision, it was permissible and, at the very least, could not be banned.[41]
It goes on in Iraq, it's quiet common. Muslims do commit female mutilation.
I not only do NOT buy any music produced in the last 35+ years, but have never listened to it, of my own accord.
I began boycotting lefty made/acted in/produced movies in the mid 1960s and advocating that everyone else do so too.
I watch very little T.V. and when I do do, I watch FNC, old movies, and some other things on cable.
As for books, I come from a family of READERS and have followed in their footsteps. I've alway enjoyed being read to and reading. OTOH, you claim that you are "forced" to read some "old" books, which doesn't sound as though you are doing your part to keep real, worthwhile, AMERICAN CULTURE alive at all.
There was once a time when all Americans listened to the same music, the same radio show, saw the same movies and watched the same T.V. shows. That is no longer true. And most people are no longer familiar with old music, which is part and parcel of the very fiber of American Culture.
I bet if I named 1/2 dozen old songs, that used to be taught in every school in America, YOU would be hard pressed to know even 1/2 of them.
No matter WHAT state Europe is in today, America, from colonial days, looked across the Atlantic and copied not only their "arts", but also their fashion and more. That delegation, sent in the 1920s, was partially successful, yet you haven't the faintest idea about what I'm talking about.
This country is culturally broken. You refuse to accept that fact because you have no idea what it was like before you were born; or have forgotten.
I'm through with this discussion, because it'll take me at least three years of constant typing, to bring you up to speed and you aren't a quick learner; so perhaps more. I can't debate someone whose dearth of knowledge is so deep, that I have to keep writing Cliff's Notes to explain a simple historical point!
There is NOTHING in the Koran about female circumcision, Mohamed NEVER once talked about it and it is an AFRICAN TRIBAL thing that got cobbled onto African Islam.