How would you define your white American culture? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)

submitted 2 days ago by ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I ask this having been to events with national/ethnic dress, food, and other cultures. What can a white American say their culture is? It feels that for better or worse it’s been all melted together.

Trying to trace back to European roots feels disingenuous because I’ve been disconnected from those roots for a few generations.

This also makes me wonder was their any political motive in making white American culture be everything and nothing?

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[-] VagueAnodyneComments 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"white"Americans"" don't have a culture

*edit for clarity

it's a 250 year old racist invention, I'm not gonna respect it

that's the whole cultural heritage though, racist imperials who think they're white dole out "recognition of whiteness" to lower castes and pretend they have a racial hierarchy instead of a capital caste system

it fucking sucks, don't claim it

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Meh this a weak take, plenty of states have been racist and imperialist. Connecting every individual to the states violence is lame.

Edit:blocking this person. Asking about my culture doesn’t make me a nazi.

[-] VagueAnodyneComments 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah my take is that people who don't have a problem with that and adapt those cultural signifiers are usually just fucking Nazis. HBU?

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 2 days ago

Having a problem with a state and being of a certain group is not the same thing. Did Germans or Japanese stop being themselves post WW2? Your opinion is nonsense.

[-] VagueAnodyneComments 3 points 2 days ago

"Guys how do I be ethnically a fascist" just change the title of the post, Fritz

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