I hate it when Asians/Europeans say that the US has "no culture." I'm like bruh where do you think the TV and movies you're watching are from? Or your Nike's? Your iPhone? Even Domino's? American culture is so pervasive you don't even realize it!!— jaja (@JajaLiao) September 9, 2022
This dude is a dingus but America is undeniably a cultural powerhouse. Most of that culture is never expressed broadly because it's unprofitable to do so, but it manifests everywhere as a simple expression of creativity until/if it can be commodified, at which point it loses all lustre.
If a folk band performing a gig to a small bar in China is cultural expression, then so is a garage band doing the same in America. If a mural is painted on a building in Cuba as cultural expression, same goes in America. Tagging and bombing are cultural expressions. Cooking a fusion dish is an expression of American culture.
Brands are dead non-culture and identifying them as culture is pure consumerism, so this take is rightly dunkable, but anyone in this thread denying America has culture is denying that humans are inherently and insuppressably creative animals, even when living in alienation.
Not necessarily but America is by and large populated by immigrants and the descendants of immigrants. Any nation doing the mosaic/melting pot/whatever is doing culture when its members synthesize across lines like that.
Yes a big part of our culture is business, making money, spending money, consuming. Succe$$ for us means making something that lots of people pay money to consume, whether that's movies, songs, iphones, or touchdowns.
That person in the replies summed it up almost perfectly, but they revel in their commodity fetishism.
This dude is a dingus but America is undeniably a cultural powerhouse. Most of that culture is never expressed broadly because it's unprofitable to do so, but it manifests everywhere as a simple expression of creativity until/if it can be commodified, at which point it loses all lustre.
If a folk band performing a gig to a small bar in China is cultural expression, then so is a garage band doing the same in America. If a mural is painted on a building in Cuba as cultural expression, same goes in America. Tagging and bombing are cultural expressions. Cooking a fusion dish is an expression of American culture.
Brands are dead non-culture and identifying them as culture is pure consumerism, so this take is rightly dunkable, but anyone in this thread denying America has culture is denying that humans are inherently and insuppressably creative animals, even when living in alienation.
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Not necessarily but America is by and large populated by immigrants and the descendants of immigrants. Any nation doing the mosaic/melting pot/whatever is doing culture when its members synthesize across lines like that.
That person in the replies summed it up almost perfectly, but they revel in their commodity fetishism.