Thanks to Queen Julietaini, Phoenixbe, and Ishmael. Phoenix’s description:
Religion, art forms, languages, holidays–not which one is better, but how many and how interesting they are. General facts about different places and their culture.
CULTURE! & Heritage
Thanks to Queen Julietaini, Phoenixbe, and Ishmael.
I thought I suggested it… And hey, that’s my description! I’m Phoenix’s ghost writer! WHEEEEE!
Anyway, culture is generally super – cool, if only when out of a boring conversation in school. First post.
First post? Maybe? I’ll save the happy exclamation points until i know for sure. erm…culture. I find american culture pretty boring, probably because i live in it. japanese/chinese culture’s pretty interesting, and native american culture. Erm…well yeah. um…the end. Wasn’t that a lovely possible first post?
Is Judeaism a culture? It’s a way of life. Very complex, and very interesting.
Wait… do Americans have culture?
I’m crazily interested in culture & am very disappointed that we don’t spend more time talking about in history. It’s all battles and dates, unfortunately.
Americans have a culture that is determined to take over the world. NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! heeeellllllpppp….
My first time having first post EVER! Woohoo! Rejoice! Rejoice!
Anyways, culture is awesome. The American culture is kinda hard… Well, most of the people spend their day wandering around and eating something made of plastic or something by Kraft. The Native American culture is very different. They have a religion, (They incorporate this with they’re myths a lot) art forms (beading, etc.,) and language (Really complicated ones, too. Ever heard Navajo?). Any other interesting civilaztions from now or earlier you people like?
Phoenixbe! Yay!
Yay! Heritage!
I’m American, Jewish, and a quarter Polish. All my great grandparents were at least origanally from Poland with the exception of one, who was from Russia. Two of my grandparents are from Poland. My other Grandmother is American, and my Grandpa lived in Israel for the first five years of his life, then came to America.
One of my great grandparents lived in England for some time, another one lived in Scotland.
You should hear Phoenix. She has a mixed background. We call her a mutt (well, now we will.)
americanshave a culture that is determined to take over the world and probably wont succeed because it is ruled by idiots
heritage…half brit, over a quarter irish/scottish (we’re not sure which bits are which but they’re both mixed in somewhere) and…french/canadian and i think a bit of dutch. not sure though. everybody thinks my family is italian but we’re not.
yes but the thing about american culture is it manages to turn other people into idiots that will listen to us american idiots (and plz as you love your life do not start singing green day at me)
My heritage: 1/2 Japanese, 1/2 Eastern-European Jew. 4th generation on both sides, I believe.
dont wanna be a american idiot
Half Japanese, parts Irish, English and Alsatian… (Alsace-Lorraine? Don’t tell me you’ve never heard of them.)Some German.
Ebeth, I have so many elmo-excuse me-emo jokes, it’s…stupid.
I had a mochi last night, which is basically a blob of pounded rice filled with sweet azuki beans…not very tasty, actually. But I should get good luck, so yay!
Jewish foods!
I’ve had latkes, gefilte fish, stuffed cabbage, borscht, ptcha, lentil soup, rugelach, herring, knishes, pita, falafel, kishka, chopped liver, and a lot more.
Heritage: Reg. American mutt of everything. Or regular WAS, if you think of it. More like a Was/Has-Been, but that’s OK.
Um, I always thought Celt heritage was zarking froody. Woad and the knot symbols and all that. Russians don’t get enough credit, and the French are the Zarkleseizure.
Americans have culture? What? *breakthrough* I feel such a sense of national pride! Froody!
im like 50% danish and like ukranian russian stuff like that for the rest and yes the americans do have culture just notmuch unless its urban america like new york which has tons of culture
Dark lord of darkness- let me introduce you to one of my favorite marks of punctuation, the period: . You use it whenever you have completed a sentance to show the end of an idea. After a period, you use a capital letter, which can be made by holding the “shift” key down while pressing whatever letter you want.
Sorry, I’m a grammar freak. That’s really not the correct term, but it’s the closest thing.. I guess my deal is that sentances with no capital letters or punctuation are hard to read you know what i mean you just dont know when they end… But really, no offense meant, and we’re all Musers he- *gets hit by tons of flying pies*
im a grammar freak, too, lizzie, but im only one when speaking. take way way too long typing in a grammatically corect way. speling too. blahblahblahblahwhodoesntknowwhatcattleguardsareandwhattherusedfor?
We just watched newsies. *sigh* America isn’t what it used to be.
No no Lizze, I’m the same way.
It’s amazing how some Newsies striking could turn into a battle against child labor.
I completly agree with you. From now on i will only type completly gramatically correct things.
ahh wateva this takes 2 longsrkjnbedgb
I’m a quarter Scottish-Irish, (whatever that means. it’s either Scots from Ireland or Irish from Scottland.) a quarter German, and one half Jewish. Yes, German and Jewish. Interesting combination, eh? Seriously, people shouldn’t think “Nazi” when they here the word “German”. They’re different now.
Celtic knotwork is soooooooo cool! And so is Native American bead-work. I can’t help but think that America would be a lot better off envirornmentally, and quite possibly in other ways, if we hadn’t totally taken over. And the Native Americans sure would be better off. I mean, talk about rude! They’d been here, like, forever and we just came over and slaughtered them or pushed them over to the west coast until there wasn’t any room left! What’s worse is, all they have left now are teeny-weeny “reservations”. And people are trying to build gambling casinos on them!
:waves Alsace-Lorraine flag:
There *were* tons of German Jews. Otherwise Hitler wouldn’t have had anyone to massacre. I am Irish, Swedish, Finnish, Norweigan, Polish, Checeslovokian (how the heck d’you spell that?), Cherokee, Crow, Siox, Israeli, and lots of others that are so mixed up in my history that they are not worth mentioning. No Far Eastern heritage for me so far, though. *cries* I love Japan.
Oh yeah, and my dad got a job offor from China! We opted out, though. We did nae exactly want to live in a Communistic dictatorship, eh?
:waves Japanese flag:
why is this thread all weird? or is it only weird on my computer?
now its not wierd
It looks fine on mine (iMac, system 10.3.9, Safari 1.3.1).
now its weird again
well it keeps changing. you know how all of the other threads have this space that he comments appear in and beyond that is nothing, unless you type something with no spaces? well sometimes this one switches so that the comments are as wide as the whole window, and centered, and it doesn’t even say what the name of the thread is. this happened in happy birthday kitkat too. maybe its just me.
does something out of a book count as a religionn?
Wow, I feel so boring compared to you guys with your interesting heritages. I’m about as WASPy as you can get (English, Welsh & Irish). My family’s been here since the early 1600’s, too, so I haven’t even got that much to be interesting with.
I’m not Robert Coontz. I don’t come from wherever Robert comes from, do whatever Robert does, and look like Robert. No way.
Hello, Senor Administrador.
I think I said this somewhere else, but I’m half Chinese/Mongolian (how much Mongolian is currently in dispute, but I maintain that I’m descended from Genghis Khan. A lot of people are.), half Scottish/Swedish/Irish/English/Welsh/otherrandomEuropeanstuff. Bits of my family have been here since right after the Mayflower, and other bits arrived in the 1940’s. I think.
I celebrate such varied holidays as Christmas, my dog’s birthday (which is today, by the way), and Chinese New Year. Assuming most of you know about Christmas, and don’t care about my dog’s birthday, I shall go into a long spiel (sp) about Chinese New Year.
Or not, because I’m lazy.
Hey, do you want to know what year of the Chinese zodaic you were born in? Tell me your birth year, and I shall mysteriously calculate it. WoooOOooOOOO. The only way I could possibly be wrong is if your birthday is before the end of February. *RRF’s self-esteem puffs up magically*
Me speaks…er…typing in much bad grammar.
I’m Year of the Monkey!
i believe i am the year of the rooster but i really am not sure
I’m a Monkey.
I dunno what i am. 91. what’s that?
I was born in ’92. Monkey, right?
The Chinese New Year is actually on the day that it is because of the Zodiacs. There once was an emporer who wanted his sone born in the Year of the Dragon, because children born in that year are supposed to have great prosperity. His son was born a few days too early, however, so he ordered the New Year moved ahead one week, and it’s stayed on that date ever since.
Now I feel special because poor, duped MuseBloggers read every word of this, believing it all because they thought I was the MAP. I love this feeling of power. Of course, I’ve decided not to be mean and keep you guessing, so I’ll let you in on the fact that this is MG in disguise. I couldn’t resist temptation.
The fact is that America might have just as much culture as any other country, but we wouldn’t know it because we see it from the inside and it just seems natural to us. Like, the outside world might see blue jeans, rock music, and movies filled with sexual content as part of our culture, but because know that not all people aprove of these things, or it just seems normal to us, it doesn’t exactly penetrate that it is “culture”. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
blue jeans, rock music, and movies filled with sexual content are pretty much ubiquitous these days.. I don’t think you could claim them to be strictly American…
Yes, but other coutries may see them as originating here and being more American than anything else. It’s hard to know what we think is just normal, that other people see as an American culture thing.
I’m a monkie.
i dont think that other countrys think that just from the experience of living in london for 3 months ( at least england doesnt)
I’m also a monkey. My brother is a dragon, though.
I’m a rooster. Cockledoodledoo.
I’m BORING. Bah humbug. My family lived in Wales/England, but pretty much moved straight to America once the pilgrims did their thang.
I’m French Canadian. Originally. The French Canadian accent sounds so weird when the person’s speaking French.
1991 is year of the sheep, I believe.
YAY!!! baaaaaaaaahh…
oooh i’m french canadian too! eh? yessssss fun stuff. Even if i have a really bad french accent…i have a pretty good canadian one though.
I’m proud to say I can roll my “r”s as needed in Japanese words.
My favorite word- Bokura. Means “we”. But it can be said a variety of ways.
Monkie see? Monkie doo?
Poor Robert Coontz. Impersonated all the time.
im a monkey. gapa, you’re a monkey too? what year were you born in?
I’m an ox — 1961. I don’t know about Robert. He’s waaaaaaay older. Well a few months older at least.
To the tune of the LLAMA SONG!!!!
i’m a monkey
you’re a monkey
everyone’s a little monkey
monkey see and
monkey do oh
monkey monkey
duck
monkey monkey
choklit monkey
doughnut, star, and green bean monkey
monkey monkey
froody monkey
monkey monkey
duck
I’m not a monkey though. I’m a SHEEP! baaaaaah!
you’re an oxymoron…
jk
i’m feeling random.
you’re not a moron.
but you are an oxy.
no oxy is that face cleaner stuff.
you’re an ox.
But not a moron.
And I have no idea where the y fits in.
All hail my oh so interesting life of randomness…
Beth the very evil one is a sheep.
oh this is funny, i just found a zodiac chart in my grammer textbook. if robert is indeed a monkey as he claims, he is either- hey, this chart only has the last three dates for esch sign. thats not cool. i think they are in increments of 22 though. so robert must have been born in 1946? or 1968? or 1980? or 1992? um no. maybe. oh dear, i am hopelessly confused.
oops
I’m a monkey. A-C, who was born a few weeks early, is a sheep.
Monkeys are fun.
Ook ook!
-the Librarian (who is an ape)
I’m a rooster. No wait, I won’t post, I’m too chicken.
I hope someone got that.
America says “FAST FOOD” to me. Culture, anyway.
Very , um, funny, Julietaini.
Ok, this thread is slowing down.
EVERYONE SHOUT SOME RANDOM, OBSCURE CULTURE OUT INTO THE UNIVERSE! THAN POST WHAT IT IS HERE!
Aboriginal New Zealanders!
Errr, Iroquois Indians!
THE AINU OF HOKKAIDO!
Yo’ momma!…
Just kidding, though. Really.
yo mamma’s an aborigional new zealander who became an iroquois indian and moved to hokkaido?
No, you just wish she was.
Your face.
….Yeah sorry. xD
MOHAWKS!
The Indian tribe, I mean. Not the hairstyle. (Which looks best in green, but that may just be a personal preference.)
I think that the Ancient Greek and Egyptian (did I spell that right?) culture and religion are absolutely facinating! Oh! Also mideval (once again, I’m not always the greatest speller) borouqe and renacance (whatever) Europe are really interesting.
I’m more interested in the religion and every day lives then the science part. Oh, and what the mid-wives (so I guess maybe a little science) and doctor figures used, and why they thought it worked. Some of them did, but the flower shaped like a drop of blood didn’t work just because it looked like blood. It didn’t work at all. I think feverfew did, I’m not sure.
I’m not so sure on the Irish stuff. I know that the English were being VERY annoying, and there was alot of up-risings that failed.
Medieval. Renaissance. That was my liver you stepped on by typing that!
ANTI-LIBBISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEA FOR ANTI-LIBBISM!!!!!!!!
WE HATE LIBBISM!!!!!
I am totaly not following this conversation. Has anyone seen or read Whalerider?
i bet you want to know what anti-libbism is. go on, ask. i dare you.
baroque.
i dont do dares. so bleh to you!
What’s Libbism? Honestly, ETHPB, you scare me.
good. thats good.
anti-libbism was invented by me and beththeveryevilone because we think libbism is stupid. it can also be a type of government, where the moderately large gov. sits on a rock in the middle of the ocean and twiddles their thumbs, and everybody else does whatever they like, as long as its okay with the other people.
oh wait, you asked what libbism was.
libbism (or libbyism) is rule by libby. it was invented during civics (because we couldn’t think of any more ism goverments so we invented that one). libbism includes libby’s room, her guinea pigs, and my left arm. beth and poland are not part of libbism.
ok then.
That explains a lot.
I agree with Phoenix (#83).
Isms:
Marxism
Communism
Capitalism
Cracys:
Theocracy
Democracy
Socrates (never mind)
Latocracy
actually thats just pointless background. the point is that anti-libbism will be supporting pwt for presidency in 2008.
Houseisms.
Animalism!
what does it explain?
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………………………………………………….. and that, Em, is the question!!!!
you people are too cryptic for me.
Stick it out, Em. After all, a little weirdness now and then is relished by the wisest Musers.
um… yea for pwt!
I think the Muse Party should be backing one candidate for the presidency. Unity and all that. How are we supposed to create discord if we’re not organized?
Last time, Kokopelli ran as a Demokokopublican.
How’s this for a Muse Party motto? “We always vote for somebody. Who that is varies. A lot. We are in unity about…something. We’ll get back to you on that.”
-Possible Muse Party Mottoes
“Muse! Muse! We’re the bomb! So we don’t know right from wrong!” It rhymes. It’s catchy. It’s youth oriented. But is it intelligent? No, not really.
“I vote for Kokopelli, ergo esum (Muse backwards)” Possibly a little fear-tactic. Will someone translate that into Latin?
“Don’t be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the Musemag party.” Need I explain? Catchy, but probably inappropriate.
“We’re flamablamablous Musers, and our candidate isn’t a confuser!” Naah…no ring to it.
“Dinsdale?” Not relevant. But it has a certain charm that would identify with the average citizen.
“We’ve got Paul Baker-he’s no faker!” Certainly true. However, is it relevant? Ask Mr. Baker.
“O.K., O. K., Koko!” I like this one. Not a palindrome, but close.
” ’04 ’06 ’08! Which mag do you appreciate?” A possible winner, this one scores on catchy and cute but has no other recognizable merit.
“Muse Magazine’s the way to be. Muses are for equality!” One of the best so far, this slogan combines catchiness with serious support of our Muse Party values.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. (Or romaine, as I personally prefer.)
The Muse Party (Demokokopublican Party) color should be puce, so we can have red states, blue states, and puce states.
Vote Kokopelli!
Perhaps we should have a Muse Party Headquarters thread to keep from clogging up this one.
yez! muse party hq! wot about “got pie?” (from the contest)
TOTALLY IRRELEVANT MEANINGLESS FACT OF THE DAY!!!my friend has a totally awesome shirt that says “got spam?”
I like “Dinsdale?”
I am Swedish, Cherokee, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, English and born in the year of the Horse. I also am probably random other european countries.
I had udon for the first time today at Japanese restaurant- rather slimy. Fish broth is…eh. But the miso was yummy.
Go kokopelli!!!!!!
I’m a mutt, to. (By the way, how did we get from heritage to politics? I mean, I know weirdness is a virtue in muse, but still.)
Anyway, I’m Czech, German, Swiss, and Dutch. I’m a rooster, and I like sleeping in as much as anybody. Go figure.
oooooh this thread looks like fun!
i’m a metal horse in chinese astrology.
anywhoo, i’m german and italian.
but my family is quite boring. i feel so culturally deprived.
when i’m 18, i think i’ll try to register under the Demokokopublican Party.
[actually, i’ll probably register as independent]
there’s a lot of irish culture where i live. st. patrick’s day is HUGE.
I feel sort of culturely deprived too sometimes. I’ve been exposed to a lot of different culture, but I’m not really part of any of them.
But I guess that’s fine. My family sorta has it’s own private culture.
I am a descendant of Rashi. Tell me who that is and win a supply of Tenrec Gut Pies.
when I’m older, if I don’t like any of the candidates in a election, I’ll write in “Kokopelli”. We should all do that. That way, Kokopelli for President! hey, Donald Duck got thirds place in the Finnish election, so why can’t Koko get close in an election?
i have my own sort of schizotypal culture….that’s about it…