What's weirdest thing about American culture?
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We're weird about foreskins for one
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I was asked this while traveling in another country. I didn't have a good answer. FWIW, I don't own any clothing with any flags on them.
Wearing depictions if the flag is against flag code anyway. Not a legal standard, but if someone actually cared for real, they wouldn't use it as decoration.
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Why are you typing comments when you should be earning money for your boss?
My boss is a real asshole. I can't stand him and he doesn't pay me enough.
I'm self-employed
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My boss is a real asshole. I can't stand him and he doesn't pay me enough.
I'm self-employed
Have you tried sleeping with him for a raise?
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Wearing depictions if the flag is against flag code anyway. Not a legal standard, but if someone actually cared for real, they wouldn't use it as decoration.
Code is for the government. The people should be free to celebrate the freedom it's meant to represent.
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We're weird about foreskins for one
That's bcs you're all very gullible to marketing/disease mongering in your hyper-consumerist 'society'.
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That's bcs you're all very gullible to marketing/disease mongering in your hyper-consumerist 'society'.
I really don't see how hyper-consumerism has anything to do with our cultural bias against foreskin that comes from our history of sexual prudishness.
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Code is for the government. The people should be free to celebrate the freedom it's meant to represent.
Sure, but if they really had the respect for it they pretend to have, they wouldn't be wearing it.
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I really don't see how hyper-consumerism has anything to do with our cultural bias against foreskin that comes from our history of sexual prudishness.
It's an astroturfed topic, sold as desirable for esthetic reasons or as a BS health issue.
Only a hyper-consumerist society would promote unnecessary medical procedures.
And only gullible consumers would buy that.
Sexual prudishness is definitely there in your backward country but that can exist with or whitout foreskins.
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I notice American's habitually cannot mind their own business.
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Have you tried sleeping with him for a raise?
Thought about giving him a handjob, but his weiner is shaped weird
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Thought about giving him a handjob, but his weiner is shaped weird
Well then forget that promotion.
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Well then forget that promotion.
May I please be promoted to customer? They're treated much better
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Sure, but if they really had the respect for it they pretend to have, they wouldn't be wearing it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]A piece of fabric is not worthy of respect, the values it's meant to represent are. Disrespecting the flag against it's own code is one of the greatest statements of that freedom
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It's an astroturfed topic, sold as desirable for esthetic reasons or as a BS health issue.
Only a hyper-consumerist society would promote unnecessary medical procedures.
And only gullible consumers would buy that.
Sexual prudishness is definitely there in your backward country but that can exist with or whitout foreskins.
Not the reason.That's obviously you working backwards from your opinions on America. Nobody advertises it here nor have they in a generation or two. It's an assumed default to the point that anti circumcision activists often have to argue with partners and sometimes circumcision is done without parental consent.
Here's Wikipedia on the history of the practice
But fundamentally, this comes from the late 19th and early 20th century where it was seen as an attempt to reduce masturbation and disease. There's no reason to believe that the doctors recommending it at the time didn't sincerely believe it to be for the best, it was just a time in which medical science was a bit bonkers.
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That's obviously you working backwards from your opinions on America. Nobody advertises it here nor have they in a generation or two. It's an assumed default to the point that anti circumcision activists often have to argue with partners and sometimes circumcision is done without parental consent.
Here's Wikipedia on the history of the practice
But fundamentally, this comes from the late 19th and early 20th century where it was seen as an attempt to reduce masturbation and disease. There's no reason to believe that the doctors recommending it at the time didn't sincerely believe it to be for the best, it was just a time in which medical science was a bit bonkers.
So you believe that they are more influenced by some 18th century bonkers doctors than present day perceived beauty standards, peer pressure and commercialised medicine?
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A piece of fabric is not worthy of respect, the values it's meant to represent are. Disrespecting the flag against it's own code is one of the greatest statements of that freedom
Yes, but the people that wear the flag are generally the same ones that want to make burning it in protest illegal. The hypocrisy of wanting to force respect for the flag yet not respecting it yourself is what I am against.
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Yes, but the people that wear the flag are generally the same ones that want to make burning it in protest illegal. The hypocrisy of wanting to force respect for the flag yet not respecting it yourself is what I am against.
I'm firmly in the camp of both burning and wearing it, so
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Most Republicans fell for the con. They didn't explicitly vote for cages and bombs.
Also, the USA is not a full democracy.
The ones building and filling those pages are American people. As are the ones manufacturing and selling the bombs.
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So you believe that they are more influenced by some 18th century bonkers doctors than present day perceived beauty standards, peer pressure and commercialised medicine?
And Wikipedia is not a reference BTWWhere do you think the peer pressure and beauty standards came from? It was those wacko doctors. To the point where it became "what you do". Modern commercialization of medicine is unrelated. It became what Americans do when their infant has a dick. Most Americans just did it. Speaking as an American who had a foreskin and who has dated multiple anti circumcision activists, I seriously can't emphasize enough how much it's just autopilot for everyone. There's no marketing cabal of the medical establishment to push circumcision to make money, its just that very few of the doctors that have dicks have foreskins, very few of the patients' fathers have them either, and if given a flat question, very few of the patients are going to leave with one. And that culture of circumcision came from an era where the main goal was to stop masturbation because it was seen as leading to mental illness.
And Wikipedia isn't an academic source, it's one of the absolute best "here's what seems to be known" sources for casual understanding because it's curated and shows it's sources. No encyclopedia is an acceptable source in academics. And I'm also aware that my personal experiences don't count as a rigorous source.
