We can and should joke about "white" culture but I've thought about this, and how european-americans really don't have cultures because of capitalism and, ironically, white supremacy. If traditions had stayed and people not made to mold themselves into essentially the culture of bourgeois English settlers, there'd actually be a culture to be part of. You kind of see it with new immigrant communities, at least up to a century ago with European migrants. Sure it'd all be like dumb clothes, silly dances, and questionable food on strange holidays, but hey, there's a community with historical roots and connections, which I'm guessing white folks would not mind right now.
Of course maybe being colonizers and being divorced from a cultures native geography would mean it's death regardless.
America is a settler colonial state, that was primarily settled by people from settler colonialist states (Ulster Scots and Barbados plantation owners)! We never had a chance.
We can and should joke about "white" culture but I've thought about this, and how european-americans really don't have cultures because of capitalism and, ironically, white supremacy. If traditions had stayed and people not made to mold themselves into essentially the culture of bourgeois English settlers, there'd actually be a culture to be part of. You kind of see it with new immigrant communities, at least up to a century ago with European migrants. Sure it'd all be like dumb clothes, silly dances, and questionable food on strange holidays, but hey, there's a community with historical roots and connections, which I'm guessing white folks would not mind right now.
Of course maybe being colonizers and being divorced from a cultures native geography would mean it's death regardless.
America is a settler colonial state, that was primarily settled by people from settler colonialist states (Ulster Scots and Barbados plantation owners)! We never had a chance.