What's weirdest thing about American culture?
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From my outside perspective, it's the pledge of allegiance.
Do you really have your kids stand up every morning and swear an oath to your flag? That's some real cult shit.
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all their culture about being lovable good guys who do a goof and like their music
IRL they are the most joyless, dispassionate people who inflict nothing but misery on the world and each other
i say dispassionate but they do love
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caging people
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abandoning their sick and elderly
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poisoning their own children
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bombing hospitals
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From my outside perspective, it's the pledge of allegiance.
Do you really have your kids stand up every morning and swear an oath to your flag? That's some real cult shit.
I had a teacher in elementary school that taught us that when a flag falls on the floor, you’re supposed to kiss it.
Yes, seriously.
It was just part of the normal flag-worship we were
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all their culture about being lovable good guys who do a goof and like their music
IRL they are the most joyless, dispassionate people who inflict nothing but misery on the world and each other
i say dispassionate but they do love
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caging people
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abandoning their sick and elderly
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poisoning their own children
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bombing hospitals
You are mistaking the American government for the American people.
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You are mistaking the American government for the American people.
Who do you think vote for, and form the government?
In a democratic country, the government is a reflection of the people.
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Who do you think vote for, and form the government?
In a democratic country, the government is a reflection of the people.
Most Republicans fell for the con. They didn't explicitly vote for cages and bombs.
Also, the USA is not a full democracy.
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Flags. Americans are obsessed with the American flag.
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Not the weirdest, but I didn't realize this until it was pointed out.
The fascination with work, and how one's employment or career is tied to personal identity. It's a basic conversation starter, "What do you do for work?" Not "What do you enjoy doing?" or "Do you have any hobbies?" or "Where do you go to relax?" Nope.
What to you do for work.
It's a weird question that is tied up in judgement and classism. And it's so normal here
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Not the weirdest, but I didn't realize this until it was pointed out.
The fascination with work, and how one's employment or career is tied to personal identity. It's a basic conversation starter, "What do you do for work?" Not "What do you enjoy doing?" or "Do you have any hobbies?" or "Where do you go to relax?" Nope.
What to you do for work.
It's a weird question that is tied up in judgement and classism. And it's so normal here
Why are you typing comments when you should be earning money for your boss?
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Flags. Americans are obsessed with the American flag.
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.
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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.
Not the reason.
