By popular request, though we’re not sure exactly what you have in mind. This topic never quite came together the last time we tried it (https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=151), but maybe it will have better luck this time around.
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I have fallen in love with British (or anything in that relative vincinity) culture. So many good things, e.g. Monty Python, HG2G, Harry Potter, Mr. Bean, James Bond, the awesomeness of GREAT OPEN MOORS (or maybe that’s Scotland).
1-Monsieur Hulot is better than James Bond. Compared to the Stainless Steel Rat, Bond’s an infant. A toddler at best. And anyway, Flash Gordon could beat him with both hands tied behind his back. H2G2 is good, Harry Potter sucks, Monty Python yay but trite, I’ve never heard of Mr. Bean and I have no idea what you mean by Great Open Moors. So that’s that.
Exactly what sort of culture are we supposed to talk about?
I’m part German and Cherokee. Is this what you mean by culture?
Me gusto las culturas des paises hispanohablantes.
2-Mr. Bean was a 80s? 90s? TV show starring Rowan Atkinson.
Oh, yes! Here we are! Wait until I tell PPanda.
I love cultures. I’ll tell you all about the culture in South Africa, (because we went there a while ago) after I tell her.
Nobody understands French-Canadian culture. All they do is make fun of the accent and tease us.
I remember watching Mr. Bean when I was 5 years old. It was…
weelllllll…
kinda funny.
(7) I’m a devoted fan of Québécois culture. Maybe in part because the people of French Canada never made fun of my accent. In the town of Québec, I always stayed in the old section, but I’ve hiked and metroed all over Montréal, my favorite large city (excepting Washington, DC, which is as close as I get to having a home town). Summer nights at 3:00 a.m., the streets, sidewalks, and cafés were as vibrant with people as if it were noon.
Yes, like Anna said, we went to South Africa a few years ago. We stayed for 2 weeks, and it was an amazing experience! We stayed in villages and saw lots of wildlife..it was great! Anna (Conspicuous The Anonymous/Taiwan Hippo Fan) and I will write something about our experience and post it soon!
Alrighty, South Africa. Here we are:
Lots of dancing. I mean tons. Everywhere we went, there was dancing. Lots of clothes, wherever we went, mostly wrap-around thingys. Clothing was interesting. In one village, there wasn’t much of it on the dancers. Little skirty things and sort of necklaces, if I remember correctly, and that was it. Music was absolutely everywhere. I’m sure PPanda could really tell you what it was all about… I’m not quite sure what separates the culture from other things.
Allow me to introduce: School culture and ways to make life more surreal for those around you:
-Waltz into class with a guitar. Every time the teacher says anything, repeat it in a singsong voice and strum the guitar.
-Liberate the science lab’s skeleton, put a hoodie and those pants that are in the lost and found for a reason on it, and seat it at a desk in your next class.
-wear something completely out of context. A victorian gown, a buisness suit, a clown outfit…
Whenever anyone comes within eight feet of you, shout “YOU’RE SQUISHING (insert imaginary friend’s name here (mine’s Sherlock))
-Release several small and dextrous animals in your most boring class.
7- I thought you lived in chicagoland area?
9- so what accent do you have?
:twisted::twisted::Twisted::twisted::twisted:
GAHH. *is apprehended by the PoPoPo*
9-There was some mountain-thingy I climbed in Montreal, but I can’t really remember what It was called. It was cool, though, and there were lots of pathways and stuff.
And then I got my new pointe shoes in Montreal.
Attention, Ötzi!! You have been apprehended by Pointless Post Police #1! Please cease and desist pointless posting or you will be banned from the Random Thread for two hours!
I went to the Shakespeare Fest two years ago and saw Into the Woods. It was one of the most fr00dy plays I have ever seen. We did a whole Canada road trip that time. We did fossil-hunting in the middle of nowhere, then we went to Niagara Falls. It was ZOMG-ZARKy.
Do everything I say. at a certain point you will find yourself enlightened and cultured.
I’m a huge fan of scandinavian culture. Vikings galore! The scandies got all the aggressiveness out of their systems by terrorizing the world in the 13th century, so they were able to settle down and run the most efficient, clean and social area of the world.
Here’s more of how to be cultured at skool REAL-LIFE EXAMPLES…
The seniors dressed up as pirates today. Inexplicably. All of them. Really good costumes too. Chappelle says it’s a sign that they don’t have nearly enough hw. I think it’s froody.
Bill claimed an old broken wheelie chair that’s been sitting by the door near our hallway for a while and today i ran through the cafeteria pushing her in it. Luckily no high skool teachers, so we didn’t get in trouble. The elementary kiddies loved it. When we ran out they were like “no! come back!” ‘Twas fun.
That was today. Let’s see if we have more real-life examples!!!
umm…oh, teer! teer and the interesting gifts we made her, most prominent among them the origami spelling quiz and a luvverly picture of her as a potato-seller. (that joke was SO random…basically megan and i were learning about the irish potato famine while high on sugar and mad at teer. ta da)
Yes, skools are very cultural. Oh and you learn things i guess. Possibly about culture. Idk.
19. Vikings = pirates = cool. I read in National Geographic that societies in cold climates develope more sophisticated civilizations. I don’t know what to make of it, but it’s interesting.
I think that American culture is a myth. The United States is a huge country. The culture in one little bit is quite different from the culture in another. I like that I can go to another city and find something different from what I have at home, but I’m afriad that that will change with the internet and international travel. I get bored in a world with no variety of cultural attitudes, music, food, and language.
21: There is nothing originally american. Except for fast food. It’s all inherited culture from europe.
22- I wouldn’t say that. True, much of it is inherited from europe and then mutated. That’s not the only culture, though. You’re forgetting Native American culture which plays a large and important role in the way the US is run. You’re also forgetting the various African, Hispanic and Asian cultures that the US incorporated. We don’t only have culture from europe.
American culture is a combination of other cultures. So i guess technically you could say nothing is truely American, but on the other hand no other culture has made these combinations of cultures. American culture is cultural mixing itself. And aside from that, how about American books, painting, etc? Poetry? Lots of American poetry. If you want to be all picky and say that the idea of poetry was stolen too, well, i wouldn’t recommend trying. You’d find yourself way back in Africa or something. Everything is stolen, really.
i dislike middle school culture.
AVERAGE DAY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
student 1: bob’s going out with lisa
srudent 2:OMG! now we can double! ooh, i should buy new shoesssss
1:no, they broke up, now bob’s going out with maria
2:OMG! now we can double! ooh, i should buy new shoesssss
1:no, they broke up, now bob’s going out with joe.
2:OMG! now we can… oh wait, i don’t have a boyfriend. frank, will you go out with me?
bob: HEY I DON’T GO OUT WITH JOE, I’M STILL GOING OUT WITH LISA!
2: OMG! now we can double!
Ok, Conspicuous and I will get together and make a really detailed description of the culture, but it’s going to have to wait a while. (CTA’s in the hospital)
25-haha, bob sounds like tory. Except that’s mean. but true.
26-What?! Why?
I know. It’s so superficial and pointless. This morning someone asked me if I liked Victor. I don’t know anyone named Victor. It’s sad how culture has deteriorated. Rap is considered music, profanity is nearly acceptable, there are sixth graders with boyfriends, for the sake of penguins! I’ve never had a boyfriend and I don’t really ever plan on having one, and I’m nearly in the high school. Elementary-school children have cell phones! A few years ago, high schoolers having a cell phone weren’t the average. What’s happening to the world?
(13) Violetfire, I meant my accent when speaking French.
My English-speaking accent is a complete hodgepodge, with shadings from both northern and southern sections of the east and west coasts. (My dad was in the Navy.) Sometimes my accent morphs into the one of the person I’m speaking to, depending on where they’re from, which can be funny or embarrassing.
When we lived in Rhode Island, my dad, a native North Carolinian, swore he could no longer understand a word my brothers or I said. Needless to say, I’m very confused. For instance, I never know if I’m going to say “route” as “rout” or “root.”
Somehow I’m the only person in my family who pronounces “orange” with a longish “o,” as in “oar.” The others all say something like “ahranj.” I don’t know where I picked it up. Any ideas?
29- somehow I’ve a canadian accent when I say out. I’m not canadian and none of my family says it that way. my parents are from opposite coasts and I’ve been raised in the middle (Minnesota)
28- Odd isn’t it that people are becoming shorter and shorter…the elementry kids are so young looking(i mean well of course they’re young looking, but younger than young). Short. I swear I was not that little in elementry. Ah yes, and Myspace. So many young’uns.
humdinger..the fifth graders had boyfriends. Not me. My love life is hopeless.
(1) I LOVE MR BEAN!!!
AHH I didn’t mean to post that last thing yet. Sorry about double post.
(22 Frigid Symphony) I would like to make one small objection. It’s not all European influence. Hello, there was a whole civilization here before the Europeans showed up. Native American culture. Plus, there’s lots of African influence from slavery. Not to mention Asian influence from all the immigrants in the early 20th century. America is a big melting pot for lots of cultures. Which has in some ways made us culture-less.
It’s also not true that nothing is originally American. Jazz music originated in from slave spiritual music. New Oreans is often considered the birthplace of Jazz. There are lots of types of artwork that started in America. Normally, I feel the same way as you, that America does not have its own culture, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say nothing is originally American. I mean, everything has its roots in another culture. That doesn’t mean it’s not original.
(20) What kind of high school do you go to? Coz it sounds cool.
Aussie culture is good. Aussie culture means Christmas in the summertime and shortening everything and adding the suffix “ie”.
(ie, “brekkie”. “bikkie”, “pressie”, “rellie”, “cannie”, “mozzie”- breakfast, biscuit, present, relative, mosquito). My dad is Aussie and my Aussie granny is coming for Christmas. I’m excited.
African culture was brought to america by slavery. Who invented slavery? The english. Native american culture is almost nonexistant in today’s america. It was obliterated to make way for the glorious procession of McDonalds, Wal Marts and strip clubs. All hail the american way of life!
(I’m still mad, can you tell?)
I went to a piano camp in Kentucky when I was in 6th grade, and every talked so strangely! I thought they had really strange accents, and they thought I did!
Funny
22 – Not all of it. Even fast food is only half American. The other half came from other cultures.
I love the American culture. Apart from the fact that there are about a million of them, there’s really only one. You don’t get that very often in cultures of countries. Koff koff. Achem. The American culture is the newest, and it’s a mix of tons of different cultures, because it was the last discovered, and everyone landed their cultures where they landed. Of course, you all already knew/know that. But I still think it’s cool.
I’ll look some stuff up about what I remember of Africa. Or ask my mother, who is conveniently located right next to me.
29 – That’s the same with me! My accent will change just the slightest bit, so llittle that it’s almost unnoticable, but I do. I was convinced to talk just like my Japanese friend Shizuno, and it sounded like complete nonsense to both of us until I realized how I should have done it, and changed myself. I think of it as kind of funny, now.
Oh, and now that I think of it, I think PPanda used to be the same about words with the “oo” sound, as in Foot, or as in boot. Especially with Root. I think. She can explain details, I think. Sorry for telling, Clara.
Yeah, Me and my dad both say, “root” (as in the root of a tree) in a way that rhymes with “foot,” and My mom and sister say it s it rhymes with “boot.” Also, the same goes with roof.
Average Day in Middle School
I get a love letter for a sixth grader w/ problems.
Kids make fun of me. They beat the crap out of me.
Others kids make fun of me. I beat the crap out of them.
My friends make fun of me. Life sucks.
34-Again, you can go as far back as you like. The Romans had slaves, no? And please, no, that’s not american culture. That’s american deterioration of culture. Quite a difference.
I do that sometimes. And parentals swear i talk in a yooper accent when i’m tired. Dad talks with a brit accent when he’s tired/talking to brit relatives/watching brit soccer.
I change accents a lot purposefully. It’s fun. Outrageous french accents, you silly king. And russian’s another good one. Brit’s always fun, but it’s so easy. most people can do it. australian’s good, as is canadian (/yooper/minnesota e~a, or close enough to it) And sometimes i just make things up and have no idea where it comes from.
I say root rhyming with boot and route rhyming with boot too. same with roof.
we watched an italian movie in latin today. Why am i so OCD about the moving mouths? They really bug me. I asked doc if we could watch it in italian with english subtitles but he said no. :'( So i ended up lying on the floor under my desk and just listening. I banged my head on it twice trying to get up though.
Jacob gave me a pound of gummy worms!!! He got a five-pound bag from the cheese+sausage sale so michelle and i were asking for some on the walk home, and he said he wasn’t going to open it yet. So we joked that he had to give us a pound today and he actually did!!! Squeeeeeee!!!
Courtney’s b-day party today. Donato’s, then surprise from her dad (we suspect bowling) then back to donato’s and home at midnight. It’s her sweet sixteen. Should rock. XD
Speaking of pizza, we had book club today. There were a lot of people! More than usual anyway. Nolan (regular), Ms. Almos (regular), Yoder (regular), (Why do i say Ms. Almos instead of Almos like i do for other teachers? interesting q…) a student Yoder had pretty much forced into coming, although he seemed like he enjoyed it…i think his name was Andrew…anyhoo, Hemmelgarn (new teach-LOVE his name), Horger, McMahon (she still says hi to me in the hallways. i only met her like once at the bocce party…oh well), the two new girls that i forget the names of…both really nice, Ariel (regular), Novak (regular), and moi. Seven teachers and five students. Dima wasn’t there. He must not have read the book, cuz i saw him in journalism and band. Anyhoo, we read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. It was really good. It took a while to get used to, and it was kind of hard to understand, and kind of depressing, and really good. Hard to read, but it’s definitely worth it.
Grr…I have to play at the Drexel on sunday…i mean it’s really cool and all but it’s going to be all seniors except for the trumpets. BILLY CAN’T COME! we’re so screwed. Billy IS the trumpet section. So it’s just me, david, and andy. And i’m the only first trumpet. *meeeeeeeep* How do i end up doing all the extra stuff? I’m such a band geek…
31-aren’t people getting taller? i thought people used to be really short…
Sorry, this should really be on the random thread. The PoPoPo has permission to pie me. *pies self*
(40) I do that too! The accent thing! I like British, French, Russian, and Swedish. (yingle bells,yingle bells, yingle all the way…)
About the whole American culture thing,it’s cool, but it is pretty invasive. I went to Europe for a month this summer and saw McDonalds everywhere-there was one in Paris for heaven’s sake.
“An eiffel tower deluxe-you want fries with that?”
40 and 42. As well as I.
Maybe in many parts of the world, but nar, where I live each year they seem to be getting shorter for some odd reason.
43-Le people or le year?
Yeah, I like my cultural heritage. German, mostly, Swedish, British and French. It’s fun because of all the cool foods I get to try.
Middle school culture seems to be middle schoolers trying to imitate High School culture and failing. Why do children try to be older than they actually are?
45, 46- Are you new or did i miss a name change? I think high schoolers eithers try to act like adults or screw themselves. Most mature and least mature. Hmmm….
(34 Frigid Symphony) Yeah, look. I know I argue with you a lot. It’s not really because I disagree that much with what you say. I just think there’s more to it than that. It’s true that Native American culture has been all but oblitertated. And slavery was used everywhere (no, it wasn’t invented by the British, it’s been around since there have been humans, but that’s beside the point), but there was a unique culture that grew from slavery in America.
American culture as most of the world sees it is, as you say. McDonalds, WalMart, crap like that. Which makes sense because this stuff is a big part of our culture, if you can call such tasteless mass production “culture”. But at the same time, the mixing of cultures that occured when people came here from all over the place did produce some kind of unique and interesting stuff. Most of it is completely blotted out by the big-loud America, but it’s not to say it’s no there. So, yeah there’s no traditional American culture. But I think it’s unfortunate that disgusting things like McDonalds and Walmart should take up so much of American identity that anything of true merit is blotted out. I was just trying to point out that those aspects of culture do exist.Do you see what I’m saying? I’m not trying to be patriotic. I’m not patriotic. But the first step to improving the country’s cultural image is to find the parts of it that aren’t bad.
I’m sorry I made you mad. I didn’t mean it like that. I just get defensive when I placed as part of a culture I don’t like. I haven’t gone to McDonald’s since I was 6 and I’ve never been inside a WalMart.
48: Sure. Point taken.
47-yeah,I’m new. Hi.
48-point taken. And yeah,I do like the true merits of American culture. Where’d they go?
I just don’t like pushy Americans that criticize other cultures. That’s one part of it I don’t understand.
28. I don’t think that we should reject the new bits of culture which we don’t like. I am afraid that if I reject rap as music or little kids with cell phones on principle, I will become more and more intollerant of everything new. When I’m a grandparent I want to be part of the culture, even if it means accepting new things. I don’t like rap music, and I’m not sure about elementary students with cell phones, I just think we need to keep open minds.
FS, if you say that American culture is just an extention of European culture, you can’t very well bash it the way you do.
Current american culture isn’t an extension of european culture, it’s a degradation of a whole lot of other, richer cultures. The chamber pot of the world. Just as Australia was the chamber pot of England. Religious fanatics got kicked out of Europe for being too fanatical and they went to live somewhere else. But they had to kill all the people who were already there.
England had too many prisoners for the jails to hold, so they decided to use a big island they owned down under. So they sent all their prisoners to work and kill people.
28-Progress. Progress. A hundred years ago, people were complaining about how young debutantes were now wearing corsets. Shocking, my dear. Quit standing in the way of the future and make friends with it.
34-The English did not invent slavery. It’s actually considered an important advancement. You see, if people kept captured enemies around instead of bumping them off, it indicates that they had enough resources to support others instead of just their group. And hey, man, Americans weren’t the only ones who took slaves. Far from it. Oh, and Native Americans? Ever seen a US college football game? Uh-huh.
52-The next time you call America a chamber pot I will dump one over your head. And what’s Switzerland? Why do Yanks bear the brunt of all this cultural abuse? Europeans complaining about stupid Americans is dumb, in my opinion. And Australians are still repenting for the Stolen Generation.
I think there are lots of good things about American culture. Many.
FSWCWSWCYAWCWSWLBTS – you can’t really say that…seeing as you aren’t living in America, you can’t really judge the culture. I’m not a big fan of the “hip-and-happenning-new American culture,” but there are thousands of cultures still alive and well in America.
(49) Great. Thank you.
(52) Yes, I know. I’m half Australian. My ancestor was sent to Australia when we stole umbrellas from the Lord Mayor of London.
This whole thing touches on something that’s been an issue for me since I was little….
So basically, because my mother is American (her anestors came over on the Mayflower) and my Dad is Australian, I’m culture-less? I’m not sure. I’ve kind of felt that my entire life. But I still don’t agree that a mixing of other culture always results in an illegitimate, “fake” culture. I don’t feel culture-less. But the cultures in my family are ones I’m not related to. We all speak French because we lived there, but I’m not French. My mum speaks Arabic because she studies the Middle East, but I’m not Arab. My sister speaks Italian because she lived with dad’s childhood friend, who moved to Italy and married and Italian man. But no one in my family is Italian. A lot of my freinds are part-Mexican because I live about 2 hours from the border. All these cultures affect my life and my freinds’ and family’s daily life. Many people in America don’t appreciate the mixing of cultures, which is why American culture seems so bland. But it’s not the mixing that that creates the degredation. It’s the lack of appreciation for the mixing.
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48- I agree. However, native american culture hasn’t been completely wiped out. it’s still there. And many things that are american today have come from native american culture.
52- don’t call the US a chamber pot. All countries have their faults and their strengths. The US isn’t a chamber pot.
culture isn’t inherited. it’s absorbed, by living conditions and surroundings.
51-I don’t like rap because I don’t like it, not because its new. I love new stuff. Ipods, for instance. As for little ones with cell phones…as long as there don’t lose them, what do i care? Its a saftey precaution, right?
57- hey, you were the one that said culture was inherited in the first place.
55- I sort of feel culture-less too. I’ve belonged to my local JCC for years yet my family isn’t Jewish. I went to a Spanish Immersion elementary school for years and am connected strongly to hispanic culture, but I’m not hispanic.
I did? Hm. Either I misexpressed my views or someone misinterpreted them.
59 – My family belongs to the JCC, too! (we’re not Jewish either).
My grandparents traveled all over the world, assimilating themselves into the different cultures. I think the more you know about different cultures, the more developed you are as a human being. (I’m not, in any way, saying that if you don’t know about other cultures you aren’t a developed juman being, I just think it is an important thing…am I making sense?)
Am I culture-less? I am very much a mix- English, French, Scottish, Corsican, Welsh, American Indian, West African. I look white. To most people. A random guy onthe street once asked me what my tribal origin was, saying I was obviously a good part Native American. My reaction: Um. OK. I don’t know?
If I go to Europe, everyone there says: ” but YOU aren’t (English French Scottish Corsican Welsh), You’re American!” Aside from my face’s shape, I, well, I’m blonde. I don’t have American Indian coloring at all. And I look about as African as George Washington. Wherever I go, looking for a cultural link, an “old country”, if you will, I am told that I am not (fill in the blank), and to go try those other folks, I look more like them. The US is all I have in that sense. This is the only place I fit in. So if you say I have no culture here, you are saying I have no culture or tradition to speak of. That’s a lonely feeling.
Culture does not have to be just your “origins,” does it? In my definition of culture, it can be any tradition type thing you/your family does. For example, if you sing before dinner, that can be a culture.
44- le people.
So what if America is the chamber pot of world cultures? Manure makes excellent fertilizer, and all sorts of new things, good and bad, have grown out of it.
62- I’m almost that much of a mix too – English, Welsh, Swedish, Irish, Scottish, Native American (Cherokee). I dunno which I look like. I don’t think I look like that many of them. My skin is usually dark-ish but only because it tans easily. (Even if I put on sunscreen, when I go outdoors my skin turns a shade darker) My hair is light brown. My eyes are dark blue. I guess I look Swedish. my facial features don’t really look Swedish, though.
How about everyone else? where do your ancestors come from?
I’m English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, French, Polish, and Russian.
hehe. that’s 7!
I’m Mongolian, Han Chinese, Swedish, English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish. I look more or less Caucasian, but a bit Asian around the eyes.
62 (Ötzi)- You’ve pretty much expressed multiracialism. Here in America, there’s this sense that you can’t be ‘American’ by background unless you’re Native American, and in other countries it seems like you can’t be a part of that culture unless you’re 100%, so they just label you as American. There’s also such a clear-cut sense of race here, and such a sense that you can only be one or the other, that everyone can be fit into those neat little checkboxes, “please check one box only.” I do not look white enough to be white, and I do not look Asian enough to be Asian. I am not either, although members of both groups try to foist me off on the other. I want to check two boxes, not pick between my halves or just write myself off as a mutt, wonderful as muttness may be. Yes, the U.S. Census has a box for ‘multiracial’ now, but they don’t seem to understand that we don’t want a box of our own, like blends are a different race unto themselves. I want to be able to tell the government who I am, both parts, and that I’m proud to be both.
Sooooyeah. Biracial angst over.
I have always been told to check “white” because that’s how I look. But thenI feel as though I am disregarding other aspects of myself. I want there to be one box- One BIIIIIIGGGG box- that says “Human” for everyone to check.
69-I like that. I think i’ll add that to the next standardized test i take.
I’m half Brit, quarter Irish, part French-Canadian, part Scottish, part German i think and there was something else i forget. The scottish and german are little teeny slivers. French-canadian’s a slightly less but still quite little and teeny sliver. So yah, pretty much european.
I don’t know that we have a specific culture. Dad watches brit soccer, as do i occasionally when i’m bored. We use pinatas at b-day parties (who doesn’t?) decorate christmas trees, belong to the JCC, celebrate thanksgiving, guy fawkes day, talk like a pirate day, and menny others. We’re catholic, but most of my friends are jewish. I have a friend who’s half Jamaican and half Irish. Last year courtney and i (well basically courtney since i didn’t speak spanish, but the girl spoke decent english for somebody who just moved) spent an assembly study hall time talking to a girl who had just moved from Cuba. I want to work in German Village, at the bookstore. Featherstone, my ex-history teacher, was born in Trinidad and Tobago and lived all over from brazil to germany to wherever. Did i tell you peoples about the story he told us? He was in columbia, his dad was doing drug extermination, and there was a protest outside the american embassy where people were burning american flags and yelling and all. He was supposed to meet his parents for lunch so he walked up and one guy noticed him and was like “are you american?” and featherstone said “yeah” and the guy said “are you trying to get through here?” or something and featherstone (who had apparently not had his coffee yet…) was like “yeah my parents work here” But the guy cleared the crowd and they let him through and they were all smiling and saying hi and stuff. Featherstone (when he was telling the story) was like “Yeah, the love americans. They hate america, but they love americans”
i don’t even live in a city. (well, near one, but still) I live in what a lot of people call “home of the rich white jews” you can decide for yourself if you want to take offense, but the people here usually don’t. because if you look from the outside, it’s pretty much true. But it’s not.
Also what about the cultures inside america? Leo moved here from Alaska this year, and might be moving to Hawaii next year.
Anyway, i’ve done enough ranting. Procrastination is all well and good, but i found out that i have about twice as much hw as i thought i did…oh joy…
19- Our school mascot is a viking. We totally rock.
Our school mascot is a Unicorn…hee hee hee.
I am personally proud to live in a country with lots of different cultures…it makes it diverse.
65- HEE HEE! In an odd way, I found that funny.
I’m thinking post 71 was rather pointless. Sorry PoPoPos or whatever you are.
i have friends with blue eyes and blond hair that are native american
yo no estoy de espanol, pero yo habla muy bien(if i do say so myself)
Would you guys tell me what biracial is specifiacly? I know that it is more than one race. personally I agree with the “I’m human! geez” thing but I’m wondering if, even though i’m one 64th or something teeny like that native american am I still biracial? or am I white? because I don’t know what race I am or what box to check. I’m not native american enough at all to check only that box, but I’m not completely white either. I think I’m probably biracial but I’m not sure whether the amounts of both races matter or whether it’s even or not matters. because I’m mainly white but not all the way…
My school’s mascot’s a greyhound.
w00t!
Hablo español tambien. Me gusta mucho la musica de sudamerica, pero no se mucho de la cultura. Necesitamos un thread para conversarnos en español (und für Deutsch sprechen, aber ich glaube dass nicht viel heir Deutsch können). Por favor, GAPAs?
Remember that race isn’t synonymous with culture.
76: if you think about it, what is a race? If you say African American, can that not apply to someone who was born in Africa and moved to the US?
I hate the box-checkies. Often, they say “Caucaisian”. Urm, that only refers to someone from the Caucaus mountains. Not all Europe. I also hate the “Other” box. Grr.
79: draw an extra box and label it “evil bog monster from the ocean you’re poisoning”
oooh 80.) genius.
you could also write an extra box and say
“suspicious”
79. Do you suggest that we never have to specify our race on forms?
51- I don’t want to be intolerant of new things (talking to myself: Of course I do. Who am I kidding? to myself again: Shut up. Anyway…) but this is absurd. It isn’t culture, it’s deterioration of culture. It’s the antithesis (is that the right word? opposite) of Muserly beliefs. It’s everything that’s wrong with society. Like rap. I don’t have a problem with spoken music if it’s poetic. But rap is degrading to women and it promotes crime. What’s good about it? What makes it deserving of my positive attention? I don’t want to be ignorant, but I don’t want to embrace this just so I can keep in touch with the times. My mind was open, but this is too far. And children with cell phones are fine if they need them and if they’re not just expensive toys and if they don’t flaunt them or treat them as rights and not privledges. This is too far, too fast.
end rant
69 et al-
Close your eyes and make a check somewhere random on the paper. I don’t, but you sound like this bothers you enough that you might. I don’t care. 1/4 Italian, generally eastern european otherwise, lots of tiny fragments of places like Austria. I just check the box of white/caucasian because where my great grandparents were from matters less than what I can do.
Maybe they should add a box that says “I prefer not to tell you”.
Woe to the half-“asian”. Woe is me. D: It’s a very hard thing being “multiracial” at least I find it is. Trying on my nerves, at the very least. Sigh.
(76) To me it never made much sense. Because you may be “English” but in reality aren’t you just the product of various other now lost races?
Biraciality is generally someone who is not dominantly one “race” or another. For instance, I myself am half Japanese and half-various-European-but-I-say-Irish-to-make-is-easier. Of course I suppose it really varies on your own definition, but most people who consider themselves biracial could say (although I know from experience it’s a pain to say) “My mother is ____ and my father is___”
Race to me is something both sacred and pointless.
Yep. It’s just like in Debate, we’re arguing over scary men. They are ging to be captured and sent to the border to scare away illegal immigrants. (Not really, it’s just a topic.) How are you supposed t decide something like that? It’s just someone’s opinion. Hold a kid up to thier face, Oh it screamed. You’re scary. Gosh. You can’t decide something like that.
to add more confusion apparently I look native american and welsh. That’s what my friend told me. Acording to my mom though, I look swedish.
(57) That’s sort of what I was trying to say.
(63) Yes, I think you’re right. And that would be a cool tradition.
(80) Brilliant! Yesyes. I love messing with standardixed tests. One year I did my entire writng portion about the importance for preparing for standardized tests by bashing your head against your desk until your brain turns to sponge.
88- Interesting.
One reason that America doesn’t have much culture is that culture and religion have always been closley linked. America doesn’t have any “religion”. You’re all Athiests!
It might be worthwhile to stop and talk about what you mean by “culture.” Nobody has defined it, and people seem to be talking about several different things.
39- I just now read your post. Virtual hugs!
90- We are?
91- Yep. Me is confused.
90. As an atheist living in the United States, I am very aware that the United States is 95% Christian.
91. I think that “culture” may be defined as the set of shared attitudes and beliefs of a group of people. We have a culture here on museblog. The United States has a culture. Earth has a culture.
Thirty million americans are evangelical extremists. Now, usually fringe groups like these aren’t really a big problem, but when one of them is president… :S
93-If you define culture that way, almost all culture is just a majority opinion. Like, US culture. Think about whatever you concieve it to be. Then, try to think of at least five people living in the US that disagree. Was it hard? Probably not. There are some places, like Museblog, where everyone shares a common opinion, like that Muse is great, but we disagree on lots of other things (read the last hot topics thread, or even earlier in this thread, if you disagree), so you might say Museblog is a place where Muse-loving liberals from the US between the ages of 10 and 16 chat, and there are some people who are like that, but some aren’t.
Culture- a way of life developed by people. Culture=/=race.
I consider culture like your family genes and traits. Like me: I’m German/Cherokee background, Tall, pale skin, blonde-brown hair and stuff like that.Stuff I got from family. And I see where you’re coming from with the museblog culture.
(94) So unrelated. Take that to Hot Topics.
(96) I agree completely! :3
95. People who live in the United States don’t have to be part of it’s culture. I don’t think I am. There are a lot of sub cultures and counter cultures in the US, as anywhere. Museblog doesn’t have a lot of people who don’t fit into our culture (most of us have in common that we are academically oriented, love to read and appreciate randomness) because if they didn’t, they would just leave.
93: Define Christian. I acknowledge the existence of a god but dont really adhere to one religion. However, I was raised and baptized as a congregationalist.
I think culture is the way people live. It includes traditions, etc. But basically I define it as how you live.
93 – I thought the United States was only about 78% Christian. I definitely don’t think it is 95%.
My city has a lot of Jewish people…I think we have the third biggest Jewish population…after New York City and some big city in California.
I guess you could define a Christian as anyone who beleives in god. I don’t think the percentage is 95 though. Probably about 80 or something like that.
That’s definately not the definition of God. There are many other religions that believe in a god of some sort…basically all do.
oops, sorry. I meant the definition of Christian. sorry.
91. At least no one is talking about cheese cultures.
102. muslims belive there’s a god, too. The definition of Christian is someone who believes that God’s son, Jesus Christ, was born 2,006 years ago, and died on the cross to save the human race. Check out the Apostles Creed, or Nicene Creed. These define most Christian’s beliefs.
No one understands my culture. They call me a freak, but it’s my way of life. Isn’t that unconstitutional?
101- u have a cool pop.!
105- I remember researching cheese for a project (don’t ask) and learning tons about cheese cultures….yummy…*drools*
I shall take over the world and convert you all to the Pastafarian culture, where you can worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the hot-pink bunny demigods. Mwahahahha!!!!