Without wishing to disparage American culture, white Americans do something similar, although more honest. Because America is a very young country without much history or culture people there tend to hark back to the “old country” in efforts to understand their background and culture. In Ireland we’re swamped with “Irish Americans” every year trying to retrace their roots. But now imagine you went to retrace your roots and all you found were spear chucking savages living in mud huts and eating children, what then? Do you just accept that that is your background and culture, do you reject it and accept you have no background or culture that predates America, or do you make up a background and culture to distract from the reality?
America has plenty of culture. It's a shorter history, yes.
American culture is exported all over the world; for better or worse. It's our most prolific export and honestly probably more powerful than the military, although the military has supported the export of culture immensely, obviously.
I See So It's Americans In General I Never Thought Of It That Way.
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