Anonymous #1 23h

Ok, white person of Southern culture and a person of Northern culture walk into a bar. It has a confederate flag proudly displayed. Does their shared white culture (tm) say they both stay, or both walk out? Or perhaps, one might stay and the other walk out?

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Anonymous #1 23h

My point is that the actual level that culture plays out in lived experience is at those regional distinctions, not at some arbitrary construct of white culture. To say an Irishman, Scotsman, Englishman, and Welshman even have the same culture would be to find yourself immediately the enemy of all 4

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Anonymous OP 23h

it put them in the position to be in the same spot at the same time in history. there are subcultures down to the culdesaq, doesn’t mean it all doesn’t start from the same point whether it’s from Bulgarian to Baton Rouge

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Anonymous #2 23h

I agree

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Anonymous #1 23h

I agree, you can sub-culture all the way down. That doesnt make the idea of a white culture any less of a construct. Name anything thats uniquely part of “white culture” as a whole, not a trait of a sub-set, or just a universal trait of human society.

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Anonymous OP 23h

Potato salad

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Anonymous #3 23h

Youre going to tell me that you would be able to walk into a town or even a city the middle of Italy and ask for a potato salad and not get smacked with a bundle of linguini?

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Anonymous #3 23h

Potato Salad is midwestern culture

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Anonymous OP 23h

Just yanking your chain pal

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Anonymous #3 23h

Mama mia imma turn you into bolognese

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Anonymous OP 16h

Probably the single best answer to that question is "Western art music", or what is referred to as "classical" but including the Baroque and Romantic eras. Until perhaps a century ago, composers from Russia to Portugal were composing the same general type of music for the same instruments.

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Anonymous #4 16h

So folk music, the music that most people were listening to, doesnt count? Just the music of the aristocracy?

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Anonymous OP 16h

If you want to go back before that, Gregorian chant has existed across Europe for 1500ish years. I don't think it's entirely unfair to consider mostly the aristocracy's art or music, because they were the ones travelling all over Europe or at least being exposed to ideas from all over Europe. If you consider folk music and whatnot, practically everywhere on the planet would turn into a distinguishable subset, and "Japanese" or "Mexican" or "[country]" culture would be no realer than "European"

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Anonymous #4 16h

I can accept your latter proposition on folk music, gladly even. Thank you for supporting my point. There was an aristocratic sub-culture, which you can conflate to white culture, but thats again you making a later construct, not a group that would identify as such

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