OK ... so what is the American culture?

Nope. It's freedom.

OK, I'm glad you asked that question...

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... ownership of private property ...
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... able to try and fail ...
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Self reliance.

Let me tell you the American Way, no challenge is too Big, drinking and drinking is a Talent, no one tells us how to Live. Come and get US.

Western version: Code

Never stand by while a woman is mistreated
Never wrong a man in trade, lest ye be wronged, or disarmed
Treat animals well if possible
Do not tolerate a starving animal in your midst, try to feed such.
Kill animals with respect and mercy when possible
Have amazing classi V8 Chevrolet trucks that the rest of the world did not and cannot build.

Science version: Code

Math matters as does between math
Always have facts to back up your shit
Feynman says 50% chance your shit would have blown up on the pad anyway.
Prepare well, regardless of the aforementioned statements.
Have more pens.
Respect those with good data and good research.
Trust your eyes, your guts, and your burning flesh.

American Hot Rodder: Code

One can never own enough V8 long blocks.
One can never spend too much time working ones socket wrench.
A broken bolt only make me stronger.
Don't drive so fast as to kill grannies and kids at side of road.
Have good brakes first, then fast motor, or, die.
Fix your own shit if possible.
If cannot fix own shit, compliment and pay your pit dude well.

Farmer Version: Code

Always save some seed, good ones, for planting.
Animals are family protect these.
Crops come when crops are ready.
Soil needs limin, son.
Be ready to remove top six inches of soil in nuke war scenario.
Give rides to good folk if they are around.
Be the salt of the Earth.

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Right now it's in the diary section of your local grocery store and it's called 'yogurt'.

Other than that, American 'culture' doesn't exist anymore as a whole.

It's the invasion of illegal and folks from other countries that have forced or paid (Chinese) their 'culture' unto America.

Have been here in America since 1955 (birth) - the America of my youth is dead and long gone.

Now I have to put up with assholes who think they built America, interracial bullshit and of course the blacks and the Asians and everybody else in between including those who have the option of looking into their pants everyday and deciding whether they're male or female or neither. And I can't say a word to them about their perversions.

The only 'culture' I have left are my memories of the golden age of America that occurred after World War II until the late '60s (notwithstanding Vietnam - which was a clusterfuck beyond belief). And the fake moon landing (Operation Paperclip no less) - but other those (and other) fuckups, there existed nuclear families and traditions and American know-how which did, in fact, build the country. We were happy and productive.

All gone now. Even the whites fail to support each other, individualistic as we are all now. Lovers of ourselves, boastful - usually full of shit, fat, stupid and cruel.

Very depressing to say the least but at least those of us who experienced the once-greatness of the United States as a unified country, it'll bring out a smile on our face on occasion. The times when every child was valued and taken care of. Now, we are nothing but liabilities and there's a shitload of people that just want us dead especially after robbing us of all our possessions and money much less our identities.

Hope that answers your question OP.

Zionism Culture, sad but true.

Thomas Jefferson was inspired by God and wrote the Declaration of Independent, but the Zionism and Vatican Masonic Lodges of the Mitred Peacocks losty Pride change it for their own material greed for profits, profits, profits batshit crazy evil deeds slavery end... whew what a mouthful!:


Jesus’s great gift was that he saw everyone as who they truly are. He refused to accept appearances; he refused to believe what others believed of themselves. He always had a higher thought, and he always invited others to it.

Yet he also honored where others chose to be. He did not require them to accept his higher idea, merely held it out as an invitation.

He dealt, too, with compassion—and if others chose to see themselves as Beings needing assistance, he did not reject them for their faulty assessment, but allowed them to love their Reality—and lovingly assisted them in playing out their choice.

For Jesus knew that for some the fastest path to Who They Are was the path through Who They Are Not.

He did not call this an imperfect path and thus condemn it. Rather he saw this, too, as “perfect”—and thus supported everyone in being just who they wanted to be. Anyone, therefore, who asked Jesus for help received it.

He denied no one—but was always careful to see that the help he gave supported a person’s full and honest desire.

If others genuinely sought enlightenment, honestly expressing readiness to move to the next level, Jesus gave them the strength, the courage, the wisdom to do so. He held himself out— and rightly so—as an example and encouraged people, if they could do nothing else, to have faith in him. He would not, he said, lead them astray.

Many did put their faith in him—and to this day he helps those who call upon his name. For his soul is committed to waking up those who seek to be fully awake and fully alive in Me. Yet Christ had mercy on those who did not. He therefore rejected self-righteousness and—as does his Father in heaven—made no judgments, ever.

Jesus’ idea of Perfect Love was to grant all persons exactly the help they requested, after telling them the kind of help they could get.

He never refused to help anyone, and least of all would he do so out of a thought that “you made your bed, now lie in it.”
Jesus knew that if he gave people the help they asked for, rather than merely the help he wanted to give, that he was empowering them at the level at which they were ready to receive empowerment.

This is the way of all great masters. Those who have walked your planet in the past, and those who are walking it now.

Now I am confused. When is it disempowering to offer help? When does it work against, rather than for, another’s growth?

When your help is offered in such a way that it creates continued dependence, rather than rapid independence.

When you allow another, in the name of compassion, to begin to rely on you rather than rely on themselves.

That is not compassion, that is compulsion. You have a power compulsion. Because that sort of helping is really power-tripping. Now this distinction can be very subtle here, and sometimes you don’t even know you are power-tripping. You really believe you are simply doing your best to help another.., yet be careful that you are not simply seeking to create your own self-worth. For to the extent that you allow other persons to make you responsible for them, to that extent you have allowed them to make you powerful. And that, of course, makes you feel worthy.

Yet this kind of help is an aphrodisiac which seduces the weak.

The goal is to help the weak grow strong, not to let the weak become weaker.

This is the problem with many government assistance programs, for they often do the latter, rather than the former. Government programs can be self-perpetuating. Their objective can be every bit as much to justify their existence as to help those they are meant to assist. If there were a limit to all government assistance, people would be helped when they genuinely need help but could not become addicted to that help, substituting it for their own self-reliance.

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can get away with—for the more people government helps, the more people help the government.

Whom the government supports, supports the government.

Then there should be no redistribution of wealth. The Communist Manifesto is satanic.

Of course, there is no Satan, but I understand your meaning.

The idea behind the statement “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” is not evil, it is beautiful. It is simply another way of saying you are your brother’s keeper. It is the implementation of this beautiful idea that can become ugly.

Sharing must be a way of life, not an edict imposed by government. Sharing should be voluntary, not forced.

But—here we go again!—at its best, government is the people, and its programs are simply mechanisms by which the people share with many others, as a “way of life.” And I would argue that people, collectively through their political systems, have chosen to do so because people have observed, and history has shown, that the “haves” do not share with the “havenots.”

The Russian peasant could have waited until hell froze over for the Russian nobility to share its wealth—which was usually gained and enlarged through the hard work of peasants. The peasants were given just enough to subsist on, as the “incentive” to keep working the land— and make the land barons richer. Talk about a dependency relationship! This was an I’ll-help you-only-if-you-help-me arrangement more exploitive and more obscene than anything ever invented by government!

It was this obscenity against which the Russian peasants revolted. A government which ensured that all people were treated equally was born out of the people’s frustration that the “haves” would not give to the “have-nots” of their own accord.

It was as Marie Antoinette said of the starving masses clamoring beneath her window in rags, while she lounged in a gold inlaid tub on a bejeweled pedestal, munching imported grapes: “Let them eat cake!”

This is the attitude against which the downtrodden have railed. This is the condition causing revolution and creating governments of so-called oppression.

Governments which take from the rich and give to the poor are called oppressive, while governments which do nothing while the rich exploit the poor are repressive.

Ask the peasants of Mexico even today. It is said that twenty or thirty families—the rich and powerful elite—literally run Mexico (principally because they own it!), while twenty or thirty million live in utter deprivation. So the peasants in 1993-94 undertook a revolt, seeking to force the elitist government to recognize its duty to help the people provide the means for a life of at least meager dignity. There is a difference between elistist governments and governments “of, by, and for the people.”

Are not people’s governments created by angry people frustrated over the basic selfishness of human nature? Are not government programs created as a remedy for man’s unwillingness to provide a remedy himself?

Is this not the genesis of fair housing laws, child labor statutes, support programs for mothers with dependent children?

Wasn’t Social Security government’s attempt to provide for older people something that their own families would not or could not provide?

How do we reconcile our hatred of government control with our tack of willingness to do anything we don’t have to do when there are no controls?

It is said that some coal miners worked under horrible conditions before governments required the filthy rich mine owners to clean up their filthy mines. Why didn’t the owners do so themselves? Because it would have cut into their profits! And the rich didn’t care how many of the poor died in unsafe mines to keep the profits flowing—and growing.

Businesses paid slave wages to beginning workers before governments imposed minimum wage requirements. Those who favor going back to the “good old days” say, “So what? They provided jobs, didn’t they? And who’s taking the risk, anyway? The worker? No! The investor, the owner, takes all the risks! So to him should go the biggest reward!”

Anyone who thinks that the workers on whose labors the owners depend should be treated with dignity is called a communist.

Anyone who thinks that a person should not be denied housing because of skin color is called a socialist.

Anyone who thinks that a woman should not be denied employment opportunities or promotion simply because she’s the wrong sex is called a radical feminist. And when governments, through their elected representatives, move to solve these problems that people of power in society steadfastly refuse to solve themselves, those governments are called oppressive! (Never by the people they help, incidentally. Only by the people who refuse to provide the help themselves.)

Nowhere is this more evident than in health care. In 1992 an American President and his wife decided it was unfair and inappropriate for millions of Americans to have no access to preventative health care; that notion started a health care debate which catapulted even the medical profession and the insurance industry into the fray.

The real question is not whose solution was better: the plan proposed by the Administration or the plan proposed by private industry. The real question is: Why didn’t private industry propose its own solution long ago?

I’ll tell you why. Because it didn’t have to. No one was complaining. And the industry was driven by profits.

Profits, profits, profits.

My point, therefore, is this. We can rail and cry and complain all we want. The plain truth is, governments provide solutions when the private sector won’t.

We can also claim that governments are doing what they are doing against the wishes of the people, but so long as people control the government—as they do to a large extent in the United States—the government will continue to produce and require solutions to social ills because the majority of the people are not rich and powerful, and therefore legislate for themselves what society will not give them voluntarily.

Only in countries where the majority of the people do not control the government does government do little or nothing about inequities.

So, then, the problem: How much government is too much government? And how much is too little? And where and how do we strike the balance?

Whew! I’ve never seen you go on like this! That’s as long as you’ve held the floor in either of our two books.

Well, you said this book was going to address some of the larger, global problems facing the family of man. I think I’ve laid out a big one.

Eloquently, yes. Everyone from Toynbee to Jefferson to Marx has been trying to solve it for hundreds of years.

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Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independent:

You have written these books, and it is very okay to say that you have. It is not necessary for you, or anyone else, to hide your light under a bushel. I have made that point before. Unless you learn to acknowledge Who You Are and what you have done, you can never acknowledge others for Who They Are and what they have done.

It is true that you have been inspired by Me to put these principles into print. It is true that I have given you the words to write. Does that make it any less your achievement? If it does, than you should not honor Thomas Jefferson for writing the Declaration of Independence, Albert Einstein for articulating the theory of relativity, Madam Curie, Mozart, Rembrandt, Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, or anyone else who has done anything of note in the history of the human race—because I inspired them all.

My son, I cannot tell you how many people to whom I have given wonderful words to write, who have never written them. I cannot tell you how many people to whom I have given wonderful songs to sing, who have never sung them. Do you want the list of people to whom I have given gifts, who have never used them?.

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One cornerstone of American culture:

I may disagree with what you say...but I will defend to the death...your right to say it!

Classically, freedom, responsibility, patriotism, self-reliance, God, Family, etc...

Today, and more so tomorrow due to the indoctrination of our youth, utter enslavement and Godless debauchery.

Unless we succeed with MAGA... and if so, hopefully we can gain ground on the good, again.

Another cornerstone of American culture:

I want my kids to have it better than me. (I want to leave a legacy...a GOOD one).

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(1) Kick ass.
(2) Go back to step (1)

You got those all right except the first one.

Pretty much this, but the anti-American socialists, the gays, the Islamic scourge, the Democratic party of lies and taking from the working man and woman are doing everything in their power to destroy America.

CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME!!

Go to school, get a job, get married, have kids, retire and die. Try to have some fun along the way.

American Culture is that are elected officials work for us.
European Culture is officials are not elected and everone works for them.

Good to see there are some Americans still Barking and standing Tall.

Land of opportunity, hope, dreams, where anyone with enough grit and determination can be whatever they want to be. I have seen it hundreds of times , I have lived it.
Your future is not determined at birth here, not like in other cultures.

Not eating da poo poo.

Baseball, hot doge, apple pie and Chevrolet...

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We are individuals, not a collective. We respect one and other, we do not have to like one another. Sky is the limit, so try your best to get there and help others on the way.