Re: Before answering that question, answer: "What is culture?"
Mats Gambling Buddy Send a noteboard - 04/10/2010 08:12:19 PM
American culture is also a problem in that it implies that there is some sort of shared culture between all americans, and we all know that is just bullshit. You have all kinds over there. Should we just normalize it and throw away things that end up in the top or bottom quartile? If so, you'll end up with Dan Brown, Stephen King, that baseball thing, and drunk driving. Oh, and Hollywood.
This is much of what I have written about for my first class session. To say that a region's culture completes the people in that region, is to say that individuality does not exsist. It is to say that "Dan Brown, Stephen King, that baseball thing, and drunk driving" (jh, 2010) defines everyone just because it is what is considered "American Culture."
Just for the record, I have never once started a war over oil. Well, threr was that time I punched a gas station attendant in the face but he totally had it coming.
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/of sorts. Culture in general. And more specifically, American culture.
- 04/10/2010 07:32:29 PM
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Before answering that question, answer: "What is culture?"
- 04/10/2010 07:48:40 PM
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Re: Before answering that question, answer: "What is culture?"
- 04/10/2010 08:12:19 PM
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The foreigner POV
- 04/10/2010 08:17:24 PM
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I think of how the Rockies and Appalachians were created by MGB and Chuck Norris wrestling. *NM*
- 05/10/2010 12:57:31 AM
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How about traditional American values?
- 05/10/2010 01:43:07 AM
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isn't that a bit misleading?
- 05/10/2010 07:52:18 AM
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yes but we have more of it
- 05/10/2010 02:50:53 PM
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- 05/10/2010 03:10:18 PM
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Do you know why it is rude to ask someone if they are from Texas?
- 05/10/2010 05:53:19 PM
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Word (concept) association with "American culture"
- 05/10/2010 09:57:07 AM
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i think those are pretty indicative word associations. *NM*
- 05/10/2010 03:08:08 PM
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Some of that may be more European than American culture.
- 06/10/2010 04:20:16 AM
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every other animal leaves it on the ground.
- 06/10/2010 04:50:00 AM
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Yeah, but even the "bigger is better" thing isn't purely American; we just took to an extreme.
- 06/10/2010 05:06:27 AM
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really, the part that most people go to at the Canyon isn't really a "nature park"
- 06/10/2010 05:33:48 AM
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My whole point there was that most US nature parks are tourist attractions.
- 06/10/2010 06:37:00 AM
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Nothing's purely anything, but you guys've got the The World's Biggest [everything] over there.
- 06/10/2010 07:14:55 AM
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with your medical training you really want to advocate leaving it on the ground? *NM*
- 06/10/2010 09:30:57 PM
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But circumcision is a hot topic in the US
- 06/10/2010 05:42:25 AM
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It is?
- 06/10/2010 06:51:31 AM
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You're wrong about the default for circumcision the world over
- 06/10/2010 07:44:40 AM
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That surprises me, but alright.
- 06/10/2010 10:00:14 AM
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It is indeed only prevalent among Jews and Muslims - and the old British empire.
- 06/10/2010 10:38:07 AM
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I've actually never heard it discussed except for two/three times on the wotmania/rafo boards.
- 06/10/2010 10:16:50 PM
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You make a good point about tipping
- 06/10/2010 09:58:10 AM
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I disagree - surely tipping is much more internationally widespread than some others in that list.
- 06/10/2010 10:43:32 AM
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Right!
- 05/10/2010 09:42:20 PM
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A Scandinavian fond of Creole and Cajun food? I thought my grandmother was the only one...
- 05/10/2010 10:30:57 PM
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You mean. . . there are people out there who don't love Creole and Cajun food?
- 06/10/2010 06:48:21 PM
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