the more i talk w/ leftist friends the more i start to realize that they think culture is only defined by food or "traditional" (i.e. "ethnic") garb and nothing else
mentioned how white americans do in fact have a common culture and they genuinely thought i was joking. culture isnt something only granted to the Cool People of Color. just feels like among progressive groups there's this dichotomy created in which only the virtuous oppressed minorities have culture and anyone who is privileged some sort of void cultureless being
When I visited Chicago, the very first thing to weird me out from the airport was⌠how almost everywhere had revolving doors.
Iâm Australian. Sure, we do have those doors, but the vast majority of places in Sydney are automatic sliding doors or old-fashioned manual push/pulls because we donât need to block out the cold and wind the same way here.
So every day I experienced a culture clash with something as basic as what doors were normal for me.
Americans who say they donât have a culture are plagued with defaultism beyond belief. Culture isnât just made up of costumes and language and the largest stuff, itâs constructed of a billion small things you do every day that you never even consider could be different because thatâs just ânormalâ to your daily life. No one has no culture just because theyâre not adhering to the biggest markers they can consciously recognise.
Yes, I have these saved for exactly this reason.
mentioned how white americans do in fact have a common culture and they genuinely thought i was joking. culture isnt something only granted to the Cool People of Color. just feels like among progressive groups there's this dichotomy created in which only the virtuous oppressed minorities have culture and anyone who is privileged some sort of void cultureless being
I mean.
Not to put too fine a point on it: white Americans, and specifically the ones who have been politically educated in a progressive direction, tend to have been told repeatedly and in no uncertain terms that nuh uh, white Americans don't have a culture, "white" is not an ethnic or cultural identity it's a racial supremacist construct, and if you want a "culture" to identify with you should just identify with being German, or Irish, or Italian, or whatever country your ancestors came from.
This is not a concept white progressives made up in order to guilt themselves or show that they're the right kind of white people. This is something they've had scolded into them and generally not by other whites. A couple people in the comments have gone into some more detail about this, accurately I think.
