Posted on 09/28/2017 2:44:31 PM PDT by EveningStar
People have joked that the United States of America has no culture of its own. Theyve suggested that American culture is the collection of other cultures. Thats partly true. America is an amazing tapestry of subcultures mixed together to give the country a unique, distinct, and very evident culture. Americas culture is, in fact, the result of the great experiment that is our existence. We come from all over the world, and together we form what was once called a melting pot. Were not required to lose the identity of our country of origin, but instead, were celebrated for what we bring, adding to the culture at large...
[Black culture] is American culture. In fact, it is a culture that is the result of America. In that way, black culture may be different from Italian, Japanese, French, or Hispanic cultures, which all brought their individual cultures and practices with them to the United States. These and various other cultures were then shaped by their new homeland. Black culture, on the other hand, is different. Black culture is uniquely American. It is birthed right here, proudly made in the USA...
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LOL..never saw that; thanks.
SF sourdough bread
I got accustomed to putting malt vinegar and salt on french fries instead of catsup while in Canada. It’s a preference now, but Five Guys is the only place I know that has malt vinegar. Probably because of all the Canuck snowbirds we have here.
Car culture (customizing, hot rods, and drive-in dining and movies)/roadtrips (and thus road movies)
Blue jeans
hamburgers
rock and roll
air conditioning
dreams of the above were the envy of the world following WWII. A blackmarket pair of jeans or record engraving on an old x-ray were big things in the oppressive USSR. An escape. Some musicians will tell you that England was cold and “gray” until the swinging sixties.
I see something in the efforts to tear down these iconic industries. Nannystatism decrying the American diet (by threat of non-coverage), anti-car movements, the death of rock and roll, Obama and Carter nannystating us out of our air conditioning, etc etc. Around the world the sports stadiums of old have all be torn down (that’s where the athletic records and memories were made).
Most of the British Invasion bands were influence by American Blues artists, who were mostly ignored here in the States.
Very true. Little Richard(though famous here) was a huge influence on the Beatles.
Muddy Waters was another influential artist on the British bands.
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There are very significant similarities between what you call culture in Kinshasa, Maputo, Port au Prince, and Detroit, the first three having had slight to zero American influence.
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