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Aug 11 2014 12:18pm
I've been thinking recently how the world has decided that America would never be allowed to develop it's own culture.

Ever since 1900s, people like Israel Zangwill had written items that say America has no identity but that it attains from immigrants. Ironic, that it would be an English Jewish gentleman who would on one hand say America has no culture but that of which Europe assigns to it and all the races should be melted down into one while simultaneously supporting the formation of an exclusionary Jewish state.

The trend continues with the flood of immigrants into the nation. With every criminal wandering into the nation, the American identity is replaced with the identity of other nations.

Just a thought.
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Aug 11 2014 12:25pm
Just kidding. Just kidding.

Remember to embrace multiculturalism and that diversity is our strength.
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Aug 11 2014 12:26pm
We definitely have our own American identity. Like our own identities, which is a composite of self and social relation, the American identity is a composite, which includes many remnants of the old world.

Also, the Leave it to Beaver and Andy Griffith Show worlds are fictional and those places never existed.

Also, is the white man really that civilized? Or does he just know how to take over and eradicate culture where he finds it in the name of ethnocentrism?

Also you're too fascinated with the Jews. They're really not as big of a deal as you make them out to be. World's best comedians, but that is because good comedy relies on having an outsider's perspective and insight toward idiosyncrasies in our own culture, and Jews our always "other".
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Aug 11 2014 12:28pm
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We definitely have our own American identity.  Like our own identities, which is a composite of self and social relation, the American identity is a composite, which includes many remnants of the old world.

Also, the Leave it to Beaver and Andy Griffith Show worlds are fictional and those places never existed.

Also, is the white man really that civilized?  Or does he just know how to take over and eradicate culture where he finds it in the name of ethnocentrism? 

Also you're too fascinated with the Jews.  They're really not as big of a deal as you make them out to be.  World's best comedians, but that is because good comedy relies on having an outsider's perspective and insight toward idiosyncrasies in our own culture, and Jews our always "other".


You know what, you're right. White men really do just ruin everything. It's a good thing we have the insight of G-d's Chosen to keep us on the right path. :^)
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Aug 11 2014 12:30pm
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You know what, you're right. White men really do just ruin everything. It's a good thing we have the insight of G-d's Chosen to keep us on the right path. :^)


God's chosen :lol:

At least you're sentimental :hug:
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Aug 11 2014 02:10pm
Just because you put 100 different cultures in a box doesn't mean they have anything to do with one another.

I joke because the school I go to is one of the most 'diverse' in the area but when you go to public places its pretty segregated 80% of the time.
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Aug 11 2014 02:34pm
hi,

your posts are eyes cancer for ppl with gray background.
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Aug 11 2014 07:47pm
America is defined by its documents due to her diversity.
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Aug 11 2014 08:27pm
My nephew just got to his first day of Army service today, he will be regretting that in a few hours :lol:

His brother is on shore leave around Norfolk.

As long as we have men willing to fight for American ideals of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness I sleep well at night.
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Aug 11 2014 08:31pm
Dunno who says America does not have a culture or cannot develop it, America is one of the most culturally rich nations in the world if you ask me.
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