Some Thoughts on Culture and America

[Strike For The South]

I have been thinking about popular culture, tradition, and America of late, and I have come to a rather radical conclusion. The way that I see it is that culture is a very important part of a society keeping together, being stable, etc., but it also has baggage. Culture has many aspects to it: material pop culture (fashion, cuisine to an extent, cars, etc), linguistic culture, moral culture, religious/spiritual/ritual culture, intellectual culture, and politcal culture to name a few.
America has been different from other countries traditionally in that (as it has so many material/linguistic/religious cultural influences) in that there seems to have traditionally been a far greater gap between material/linguistic/religious culture and moral/intellectual culture. This may have had something to do with the difficulty in tying down exactly what American material/linguistic/religious culture really was, and thus what we had in common is what was emphasized. In recent decades we have fallen into the trap of associating the material/linguistic/religious culture with the moral/intellectual culture. The division between them is essential I think to intellectual thought standing on its own, and not falling victim to generalizations. It is this division I think that allowed Americans to think so radically and succeed the way that they did, but was also behind allegations by Euros that Americans do not have culture.
To be honest with you, I think that is a good thing! America should not have a culture. Rather than 'America' having a culture, culture should be something on the individual level and should always be fluid and flexible.
The moral and intellectual sides of culture should be what defines Americans (not jeans or slang). The rest of the world has long had little/no distinction, and is one of the culprits behind European and Asian Nationalism and is responsible for all kinds of discrimination.
What is best from America is to be exceptional in this case, and not be like the rest of the world. Americans don't have to play by other societies' definitions of culture, nationalism, etc.

I hope that made some kind of sense. What are your thoughts on that?

Oh my

America culture is in broad terms, The idea of the Yeoman framer mixed with the 18th century protastent European pesant

This is why we are fat, bull headed workaholics who abhor physical interaction as sin

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