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In reply to the discussion: Are You Dumber than an American? [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)I didn't say "America has no culture"; I said "there is no 'American' culture", which is not the same thing; there are cultures, but not one overarching, unified culture (NB that small c "culture" is not the same thing as large C Culture in the sense of "distinctively American art, literature and music"
; culturally speaking, Texas is not New England is not California is not Seattle is not Iowa. And you proffer a few really bad examples; East Indians are not generally seen as an ethnic group, nor are Chinese; both countries have diverse populations representing multiple ethnic groups with different histories, dialects, religious and cultural traditions. (And Sicilians and for that matter Sardinians are generally regarded as being ethnically distinct from mainland Italians.)