glassjester
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Netflix.
What makes you an American?
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Netflix.
gcthomas
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glassjester
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Yep.
ClimateSanity
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We have lost most of what it used to mean to be American. Right now America is synonymous with consumerism and celebrity worship. But the biggest thing being an American used to mean was solidarity where your ethnicity took a back seat to the culture as a whole. The things that made you different than the larger culture and made you very similar to a smaller sub culture were considered very insignificant compared to what you shared with the larger culture. For instance, the larger culture was drenched in the customs that came from a Christian background and the sub cultures either participated in these customs or peacefully ignored them. There was not this boiling rage over them and a determination to rid the larger culture of these customs.
The British have a love of nostalgia. Bruce Forsyth has just died and he will be the center of attention for at least a week or more.
glassjester
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And what customs are those?
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lifeguard at the cement pond
i believe that america has the potential to be the greatest nation on earth, a shining beacon to other nations
effective dental care? :idunno:
well, for one thing, i don't worship satan
Christianity and free speech are under attack now more than ever. I'm glad I won't be here in 50 years
I'd say there's likely a different answers for each comparison. We're the product of our culture. A Southerner has a different version of that than his Yankee cousin, or Western brother. All of us have a collective sense of pride, I think, in being a people dedicated to the notion of equality before the law and the inheritors of an opportunity to realize our dreams, that we hail from a land of wide spaces and possibility.
Being an American means adhering to the Constitution, to the idea that everyone is equal in the sense of entitlement to dignity, opportunity, and justice.
ClimateSanity
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Is there a shared American culture?
Also, many other countries also have those entitlements. What separates America from them?
You mentioned Christian customs in a previous post but America isn't unique in those either.
Thank goodness.
Baloney.There were wealthy persons who came to America for land grants.
What I have stated is historical fact. I didn't say it was exclusive fact.
You say it in such a manner, which seems to dismiss the framers of the Constitution and overlook the founders of this nation, who were, more often than not, very wealthy.
How do you remove history from someone? With a weaponized time machine?
Well, there goes that part of his bubble :chuckle:
How many of them were born to wealth, and how many of them made themselves wealthy?
The notion of equality of opportunity,social respect, and rights was a new and radical one.
Indeed Alex de Toqueville, in Democracy in America, mentioned it as the salient characteristic of America, and the major difference between Americans and Englishmen.