In all seriousness, do white Americans have a culture? I know some are grasping onto their grandparents and great grandparents family’s from Europe but never been to where they’re from… like, it’s not making sense. What’s the tradition?
Everyone has a culture. White American culture is just the default in this country. It’s an American saying “oh I don’t have an accent.” Yes they do, everyone does.
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Anonymous3w
American culture is a thing yes
And yes it does go back centuries. Of course most people whose grandparents immigrated here don’t have a tie to those centuries long culture.
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Anonymous3w
My culture is being bi and shitposting, personally.
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Anonymous#13w
The issue as well is that a lot of the cultured parts of the cities (meaning specifically black neighborhoods) were razed to the ground to build highways (Austin is a clear example)
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Anonymous#33w
Yes but what *is* white American culture? Like what do they do, what unites them across the country in shared traditions? What are those traditions?
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Anonymous#43w
Every culture is hard to define unless you are comparing it to another one as the “default.” White American culture is diverse and varies by region and ethnic group, because “white American” is an artificial category created by segregation.
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Anonymous#33w
White American culture has Halloween, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, new years, Thanksgiving. It has pop music and folk music and movies and many genres of popular literature. You just don’t recognize it because “white American” is the broad cultural default in this country.
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Anonymous#33w
It’s much easier to define regional white culture (like southern, New England, midwestern) or ethnic culture (Irish, Italian, cajun) because once you are referring to the dominant racial group in an entire country it gets more vague
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Anonymous#33w
Thank for providing examples, I genuinely wanted to know