I can honestly say that I wouldn't want to live in her culture

[thewayne]

"I'm trying to preserve an endangered culture -- the American culture -- and it is being overwhelmed by 30 million illegal and legal immigrants being dumped on this country from peasant cultures... If you don't want to be killed by ISIS, don't go to Syria. If you don't want to be killed by a Mexican, there's nothing I can tell you."
—Ann Coulter

Any culture, Ann, is a constantly changing thing, a moving target. The only preserved cultures are best found in Russia, Saudi Arabia, and North Vietnam.

No thank you, I like my culture alive and changing.

Comments

[silveradept]

There is, of course, the perennial argument as to whether there are such things as can be described as "American culture" if they did not originate with the indigenous people of the area, because all else is bits and pieces of imported cultures, welded together by coexistence.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Perhaps Society might be a better label, but then you need to define the difference between culture and society, which could be an interesting discussion.

It's sort of like trying to define what American food is. so many foreign traditions have been brought over that everything is a melange.

[silveradept]

Indeed. There's so much of things that seem "American" that can be traced to an immigrant community somewhere bringing it in. The thing that seems to make it "American" is the coexistence or fusion of one thing with another to create some other thing entirely.