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Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts) Sat Dec 27, 2014, 04:17 PM Dec 2014

What is American Culture? [View all]

"America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization." - Oscar Wilde

Other views are welcome.

12 votes, 0 passes \| Time left: Unlimited
	Commonly held principles and ideals
	1 (8%)
	An homogenization of various cultures
	6 (50%)
	Love of country
	0 (0%)
	An unachieved ideal
	0 (0%)
	A slogan
	0 (0%)
	Capitalism
	0 (0%)
	Society's acccepted norms of behavior and thought
	0 (0%)
	False advertising
	0 (0%)
	There is no distinctly American Culture
	2 (17%)
	Other
	3 (25%)
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What is American Culture? [View all] Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 OP

All, and none... First Speaker Dec 2014 #1

I hope you're right. Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 #2

I think so--just a feeling, but there's going to be reaction against stupidity... First Speaker Dec 2014 #4

How Fox News Would Headline This Post-- Bagsgroove Dec 2014 #8

LOL--and welcome to DU!... First Speaker Dec 2014 #28

Great thread LittleBlue Dec 2014 #3

Have to disagree that Britain has one cultural influence. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #9

They are so homogeneous though LittleBlue Dec 2014 #14

Leaving aside political and economic culture... Bagsgroove Dec 2014 #5

I don't think it's that easy to define LWolf Dec 2014 #6

I tend to agree but I think that would be more easily defined as "Americanism". Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 #12

Yes. nt LWolf Dec 2014 #34

I think capitalism came first hifiguy Dec 2014 #23

We have supported so many far right dictators in various parts of the world, after which we take in sabrina 1 Dec 2014 #7

right now it seems to be hfojvt Dec 2014 #10

Gun fetishism. nt onehandle Dec 2014 #11

Depends on how loosely JEB Dec 2014 #13

We have a very schizoid cultural value system. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #15

"Am I my brothers keeper?" The answer to that question seems to define the difference between Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 #16

Verily. n/t dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #21

American culture is the shared attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishe Agnosticsherbet Dec 2014 #17

Miles Davis. Kurt Vonnegut. Orson Wells. Patsy Cline. Marlon Brando. Duke Ellington. Bluenorthwest Dec 2014 #18

There have been some great achievements. hifiguy Dec 2014 #22

Yeah, it's not your childhood anymore that's true. But I'm not at all sure what a 'genuine cultural/ Bluenorthwest Dec 2014 #25

But there WERE"Abbey Roads" and "Let It Bleeds" then. hifiguy Dec 2014 #29

We are trendsetters for the rest of the world helpmetohelpyou Dec 2014 #19

Californians are trendsetters for the rest of the world Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2014 #31

Birth, programming, mindless consumption, death. hifiguy Dec 2014 #20

Consumerism. Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2014 #24

the pinnacle was Man vs. Beast 2 Enrique Dec 2014 #26

Various regions of this country have wildly different cultural standards, Warpy Dec 2014 #27

We don't really have one, but neither do a lot of large countries. Sen. Walter Sobchak Dec 2014 #30

I'd say American culture is a combination of a homogenization of various cultures and Louisiana1976 Dec 2014 #32

A joke. Brigid Dec 2014 #33