There is no black culture without America

Urban Family Talk ^ | September 26, 2017 | Meeke Addison

[nopardons]

LOL..never saw that; thanks.

[Nifster]

SF sourdough bread

[sparklite2]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

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).

[dfwgator]

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.

Most of the British Invasion bands were influence by American Blues artists, who were mostly ignored here in the States.

[exit82]

Most of the British Invasion bands were influenced 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.

[onedoug]

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[Jim Noble]

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.