Post edited at 5:36 am on Oct. 13, 2008 by jakelong

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Post edited at 5:36 am on Oct. 13, 2008 by marshmellowman

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There's French culture, with the music and the moles at the side of the lady's cheek and how they always manage to get their language to go even more twist-tongued than it already is.

There's Italian culture with wine, and opera and hair...

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In European countries it can refer to the indigenous culture although this will normally be refered to by its specific name.

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Specific to the United States the culture which pertains to the population descended from European Immigrants especially those from Britain, Germany, Holland and Scandinavia and to a lesser extent those from Ireland, Italy, France and Eastern Europe.

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Quote: from osmoticdespair at 5:40 am on Oct. 13, 2008

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Specific to the United States the culture which pertains to the population descended from European Immigrants especially those from Britain, Germany, Holland and Scandinavia and to a lesser extent those from Ireland, Italy, France and Eastern Europe.

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Give examples please.

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Family demographics might be one area which sees significant differences, but whether that is due to cultural factors or other factors is not entirely clear. Statistically white-anglo families tend to be very nuclear, black families tend to be to a greater extent female headed and non-anglo europeans as well as asians tend to have more extended family networking and - though nowadays rarely - even cohabitation. Or so I have been led to believe

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The thing is that a lot of this has been assimilated by American culture generally - the food, the architecture, I mean people who came from different backgrounds still live in and as they increasingly became able to learned styles and techniques from the architects and engineers who were white.

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Food: Do you have example of american food that is uniquely white?

Architecture: Well a lot of it is based on Greek and Roman stuff. I guess because those ppl are white you can say the architecture is white but Im not sure if that makes it "white" in the race sense. Its more what ppl call Classical in the european sense.

A lot of Asians are engineers. I don't see what they do as "asian" or "white". I just see it as enginner work that HAPPENS to be done by asians.

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Family demographics might be one area which sees significant differences, but whether that is due to cultural factors or other factors is not entirely clear. Statistically white-anglo families tend to be very nuclear, black families tend to be to a greater extent female headed and non-anglo europeans as well as asians tend to have more extended family networking and - though nowadays rarely - even cohabitation.

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But its not necessarily a "white thing".

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"Everyone helpin' each other whenever they can we makin' it happen, from nothin' to somethin'
That's how we be survivin'" - BEP

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The thing is that a lot of this has been assimilated by American culture generally - the food, the architecture, I mean people who came from different backgrounds still live in and as they increasingly became able to learned styles and techniques from the architects and engineers who were white.

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Food: Do you have example of american food that is uniquely white?

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Architecture: Well a lot of it is based on Greek and Roman stuff. I guess because those ppl are white you can say the architecture is white but Im not sure if that makes it "white" in the race sense. Its more what ppl call Classical in the european sense.

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A lot of Asians are engineers. I don't see what they do as "asian" or "white". I just see it as enginner work that HAPPENS to be done by asians.

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So "white cultur" has to do with family demographics? Thats it?

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I mean, culture, relates in my mind to two specific things, cultivation and agriculture - because they all have the same root, they elude to the idea of taking a seed and growing it up. The culture of man is like the soil for his seed, it's not easily defined, you can't say that asian culture is curry and rice and sitars or european culture the violin and coldcuts with bread. Culture is much more than things like that, those are if anything the products of culture not the culture itself. The very phases and idoms I choose to use to express myself are cultural, the mannerisms I use when I walk, when I sit, when I look at people, the things I think are appropriate or not appropriate to say in public and in private, how long I think it's acceptable to look at someones eyes and when and how close I feel I can sit to someone I know or don't know. How I address those in authority or subordinate to me, how I greet friends, whether I value beauty over honour or honour over beauty, whether I value success over comfort or comfort over success.
And lots of these things are also tied to personality traits which confuse the picture to some extent, but the tendencies which a culture encourages and discourages make a big difference nonetheless.

But culture is also, and at its most basic the techniques of cultivation - from techniques of cultivating man (social taboos, customs, level of discipline etc) to the techniques of cultivating the city (architecture, economics, politics, rhetoric etc) to the techniques of cultivating the land from which everything else springs up (agriculture).

Post edited at 6:27 am on Oct. 13, 2008 by osmoticdespair

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