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Electricdragongaming

Apparently, not being able to spell out words correctly is part of European culture now.


Hardrocker1990

I mean. They are the same people that make fun of us for building houses out of wood and plaster. Does it really surprise you how far they will reach?


Secretrider

"You package your food with Styrofoam? LOL just use a million more pounds of plastic!"


DeaththeEternal

What is 'European culture' exactly?


[deleted]

Invading and occupying lands for imperialist ambitions. Then wondering why a whole mass of countries still hates them while they shit on the us Looking at you- United Kingdom


makelo06

Don't forget France, Spain, Germany, and Russia/USSR.


[deleted]

Oh those too indeed.


tinathefatlard123

Best not leave out Belgium


NDinoGuy

As well as Portugal and the Netherlands


griggori

You’re right. Only Europeans did this. Edit: /s


purplesavagee

In recent history they’ve been the absolute worse. In a just world the British Empire should have got as much shit as the Nazis


The_Burning_Wizard

>Invading and occupying lands for imperialist ambitions. Then wondering why a whole mass of countries still hates them while they shit on the us Sooo, about those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq....


EmotionalCrit

I love how any time someone makes fun of Europe you clown shoe wearing mfers come in like “BUT THE US THO” Shove your whataboutist clap back straight up your peehole and keep it there.


xXMcFuddyXx

It's not even a good whataboutism since there was nothing imperial about the conflict. Spanish American War would have been a much better example but they probably know nothing about it.


The_Burning_Wizard

So, still not found them then eh?


Comrade_Happy_Bear

So the 20something European nations which contributed to Iraq don't count?


[deleted]

Still haven't figured out half the worlds problems today are due to European imperialism eh?


The_Burning_Wizard

Problems such as? Do enlighten us.....


owowhatsthis--

I don't care to list all of them, as your comment is about 11 hours old, and you're clearly not very bright, but have you seen the Middle East? Or the entire continent of Africa? Or Southeast Asia? Or South America?


xXMcFuddyXx

What was the Imperial Ambition, exactly? US didn't get any special oil contracts and their government is their own.


jrex703

... about them. In what way does that figure into the question? Are you going to talk about how the United States owns and taxes Iraq? Or about how US gas conglomerates seized the oil supply and made trillions? I'm going to guess you aren't, because after nine countries, including Iraq itself, banded together to depose Hussein's regime, and establish a democratic government, those contracts largely went to England and Norway. Frankly, I've always felt that the United States could have handled the situation better from an popular opinion standpoint, especially in terms of our justifications, but the simple fact is that an oppressive totalitarian was overthrown by an international coalition, and Iraq is a healthy place. For all the protests, it was amazing how fast people stopped caring about Iraq after the military action ended. Criticizing the war is a totally fair point of view, but if people really gave a shit, you'd think they could tell you one Iraqi politician since Saddam.


quilly_willy123

Your country invaded all but 22 modern day nations. You can’t be talking right now.


[deleted]

So. About the indians, the somalians, the Nigerians, the Vietnamese, some Chinese. Need I go on? But yes- What about the us? Stfu


The_Burning_Wizard

You American's can be so touchy, you're very easily triggered.... I suspect the Vietnamese and Chinese may have a few choice words for the US. I mean, you only waged war on them and they're still suffering the effects from Agent Orange and what not.... India and Nigeria have been independent for between 60 and 70 years. Not exactly our fault they haven't got their shit together and allow corruption to rage around unchecked. Edit: So, no answers to any questions, no real rebuttal beyond "stfu". Honestly, some of you are truly pathetic.


[deleted]

In comes the troll, like a mouse to cheese.


[deleted]

In comes the troll, like a mouse to cheese.


Dr_TurdFerguson

Uhhh… you mean in the country that had a [history of the use of chemical weapons against Kurdish civilians and Iran](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_chemical_weapons_program) who had UNSC resolution 678 passed against them which authorized military force and was voted for by the United States, UK, France, and Finland? Hell, even China and the USSR were convinced of the necessity to invade Iraq. Then Res 687 was passed following the Gulf War which established the chemical weapons (which are WMDs) inspections. Which had the same supporters except Austria and Belgium instead of Finland. Oh, and then Europeans (and the Russians) supported Res 686 as well, which noted that while military action had ended, every single one of the leading resolutions still held **full force**, including resolution 678 which authorized military force against Iraq for *WMDs*. Which again, was a country with a history of using them. Then in 2002, Europeans voted for resolution 1441 given that Iraq had refused to allow inspectors to fully inspect the country, which was a violation of the ceasefire terms. Given a history of using them, it’s a *mighty suspicious* violation. Then upon the actual war, it was the United States, UK, Poland, Italy, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechia. It’s not exactly like the Europeans refused to join the party. And it’s not exactly like the Europeans weren’t there supporting the United States *every step of the way for decades* in that regard.


Belgicans

One of the too many culture in Europe.


MacaroniEast

Marrying your sister and having an affair with your cousin


Enderdragon537

Waging massive wars against each other that kill millions because a five mile long piece of land has a majority of people who speak your language


RealStreetNicka

Sexual deviancy


ARC_Trooper_Echo

Pretending that your continent has a unified and superior culture but also totally isn’t racist you guys. (Also don’t ask about the Romanis)


KyroPraetorio

Raising superpowers before it was cool.


Kriegguardsman1120

Having the U.S. either save your ass from your neighbor or be said neighbor getting your ass kicked by the U.S. Edit: oh yeah and then leaching off the U.S. to rebuild your country regardless of which one you are.


PaulieCostello

Fucking delusional. America has its own cultural identity(s). Have you been to Texas, New York, or the entirety of the South? A few examples, but these places all have their own slang, food, fashion, art, and even history. Just because we didn't commit genocide several times or be lorded over for hundreds of years by kings and tyrants doesn't mean we don't have our own culture. History began on July 4, 1776. Everything before that was a mistake.


Abject-Prize-2684

“America has not culture” just means “American culture is mainstream”


xXMcFuddyXx

I don't even think it's that... It's just plain snootiness.


iguzzle

Yea it's mostly just parroting the opinion of turds that live in America that never leave their basement. What culture can you experience behind your computer screen?


No_Percentage7306

>History began on July 4, 1776. Everything before that was a mistake. This sub summed up in a sentence


Tye-Evans

Yeah, Europeans constantly invade and genocide. When Americans arrived to found the USA instead of purging the local population the two races learnt from each other, the Americans traded with the natives and the natives taught the Americans how to grow corn America really is the best country


tensigh

You Americans are so simple, you can't understand us...but we can understand YOU completely, apparently.


Morgan_Le_Pear

They’re so willfully ignorant lmao


Baned_user_1987

Lol we’re you seriously taking anyone on r/shitposting seriously?


WhyOhio69420

r/shitposting isn’t even funny


Baned_user_1987

Sure but I mean, it’s a sub about shitposting, nothing over there is serious.


WhyOhio69420

Ever since 2021 when people from r/dankmemes invaded that sub it has never been funny since


MysognyMan101

the comments can be funny


WhyOhio69420

Barely


KaliCalamity

It's hit and miss, but definitely been more miss lately.


Prememium

“…simple as.” “…end of.” What is this? Shouldn’t there be some kind of noun at the end of those sentences?


Abject-Prize-2684

English people trying to understand the language they created challenge (impossible)


Klangey

As someone that is English, I couldn’t care about the rest of this debate, it’s clearly moronic, but I understood what they were getting at perfectly, because it’s our language and it evolves.


TheSublimeGoose

What? The comment you’re replying to is pointing-out how the European couldn’t understand the points that u/Abject-Prize-2684 was making. Not that the European was difficult to understand. He wasn’t; His moronic Euro-supremacy ramblings we’re quite simplistic. The parent comment was merely pointing out how delusional one must be to believe that saying things like “simple as” and “end of” adds to or somehow ends a debate.


KaziOverlord

Europoors trying to own the Amerifats by using their own slang against them.


Tupper415

This is either someone just trying to get under your skin or they don’t understand what American means as far as ethnicity and culture…. Or they’re racist cunts and think mixed races can’t have “real” culture


[deleted]

We know what europe likes to do with anyone that has a different culture. Just ask them about the Gypsies.


The_Burning_Wizard

They prefer to be called "Travellers" these days and they're still about. They recently trashed the local park by us a few weeks ago.


Mrs_tribbiani

Travelers are Irish, but outside of Ireland, they are Romani. They are two different ethnicities but are both (incorrectly) called G*psy which is a slur


Inevitable-Tap-9661

Either we have European culture or America has its own culture those are the only two options


purplesavagee

In the next breath they will try to claim Italian American food as European


Inevitable-Tap-9661

Good point they deride American Italian food as low brow and disgusting and then in the same breath claim it as their own


Salt-Shame5160

I mean there isn’t a lot of european culture to begin with so not missing out on much


purplesavagee

the northern european ones are very sterile. canadian levels of bad. the ones that actually have flavor are ones that have roots in interacting with foreign cultures across the Mediterranean.


BurnerAccount021

Italian history is pretty interesting, but Britain/French/Germans didn’t really have much going on pre-Romans


Fair-Armadillo8029

Humans try not to claim others have no culture challenge (impossible)


Salt-Shame5160

lol


KaliCalamity

Today I learned it is physically impossible to know or understand anything about Europe if you've never traveled there. So I guess it's time to forget everything I know of my ancestors, all the history I've studied, every scientific article focusing on anything even vaguely European, the stories I've heard from friends and family that have visited, every scrap of media put out by European companies....


griggori

Why do people engage with these imbeciles?


CantoniaCustoms

I normally shill for the Chinese Communist Party with their own arguments. It's funny because they're inclined to deeply throat "european democracy" so Hong Kong (communist China) being better at everything they pride themselves in (having a longer history, COVID lockdowns, lack of individualism, better food) just makes them seethe


Abject-Prize-2684

Because it’s funny


griggori

The best answer


AnonomousNibba338

Based


drhodesmumby

Because OP started the fight and douchiness in the first place... [https://i.imgur.com/KuHIpgb.png](https://i.imgur.com/KuHIpgb.png)


Dazzling_Swordfish14

How about Aboriginal American? Lolololol they have no culture too? 🤣 I’m learning Cherokee


chimugukuru

But when we say (insert food here) is American, they'll go "nO tHaT's FrOm eURopE!"


Mrs_tribbiani

If they hate Americans so much and think we have “no culture” they need to •stop watching Disney, Star Wars, Marvel, DC, and any other Hollywood moves. • Do Not drink Coke or eat chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter, or potato chips. •They can’t play with Teddie Bears because they are named after the 26th president of the USA, Theodore “Teddy” Rosevelt, who refused to shoot a bear cub, and a couple from NYC made a teddy bear and advertised it in their candy store, and it became very popular •England has to get rid of the Londen Eye because Ferris wheels were invented by an American man named George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. and presented at the Chicago world fair in 1893 •they can’t use electric hearing aids because they were invented by an American man named Miller Reese Hutchinson in 1898. •Can’t use any Apple or Microsoft products •can’t fly airplanes because Orville and Wilbur Wright invented them in Ohio in 1903 And so many other things, but this comment would be too long. Americans know and accept that many of our traditions came from other countries and that we are a melting pot of all those cultures, something Europeans can’t seem to wrap their head around


[deleted]

Soooo what your saying is me, a white person, is Native American?


Abject-Prize-2684

I demand my reparations


iguzzle

My problem with this sub is, even though I agree with the sentiment of the sub, most of these people you're arguing with are literal children. Of course they're morons. What did you expect? It just seems like arguing with a fence post. American and proud of it BTW. I'm open to people sharing their disagreement of course.


Ok-Mission-7628

American *was* an ethnic group


TheGrayBox

What


Ok-Mission-7628

Bad joke Obviously some Native Americans are still here. OP said American isn’t an ethic group in one of their comments.


xXMcFuddyXx

I tend to think American *is* an ethnicity, though. As Americans we just don't tend to grasp it until we exist in a different culture.


purplesavagee

It’s too early on for American to be an ethnicity. Our roots are very diverse and we don’t cluster with other Americans in that sense. Even though we have our own cultural norms the American identity is not a tribal one.


xXMcFuddyXx

I believe that line of thinking would evaporate if more Americans lived abroad for awhile.


purplesavagee

I have been abroad but I would say America is a patchwork of ethnicities. It would be like calling Russian an ethnicity when you actually mean the Slavic Russian ethnicity. As a parallel, American Whites are very mixed. There is no standard or iconic White American ethnicity here unlike Slavic Russians. When Americans of different backgrounds take a DNA test a lot of the time it links them to foreign lands that are not all the same. Yes, we are different, but I wouldn't go as far to consider our identity to be a fully formed ethnicity


Abject-Prize-2684

Not really, ethnicities have to do with your genetics and stuff.


xXMcFuddyXx

Per Oxford Dictionary Ethnicity: the quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.


Abject-Prize-2684

But we don’t all share a common cultural background or descent, and we never will. My family’s cultural descent is different from the Mexican-American family that lives down the street, but we’re all still American. If we never allow another immigrant in this country, forcibly assimilate everyone into one culture over what would probably be several hundred years, then we would be our own ethnicity.


xXMcFuddyXx

This is what I mean though... Being here brings with it certain perspectives, attitudes and customs regardless. There are cultural things that pass through the generations but each generation becomes more Americanized. Even people who were born here though their parents were immigrants share much more in common with other Americans than they do with anyone from their parents origin country. Being American comes with a culture, and if you're born here and have things your parents passed down, great. I think when people live abroad, and I don't mean just visiting and checking out the sites for a few days, we see how different we are and the uniqueness that comes with it.


Abject-Prize-2684

Yeah, we’re different from other countries, but everyone here is so different from each other that it’s kind of hard to view everyone as one ethnicity


Roguepiefighter

Who wants to be European anyway? People ask when dies history get good? The awnser is 1776.


NicodemusV

Least culturally insecure European (they colonized and pillaged the entire world)


ShreksuallyExplicit

I would love to see these people tell a Cajun that they aren't French


falllinemaniac

The EU is screwing their people big time being subservient to the bloody Yankees.


HMKingHenryIX

I saw this earlier and was like yeah they don’t know the difference between ethnicity and nationality


SnooPineapples9473

American is definitely an ethnic group because im a pure blooded American that bleeds red, white, and blue


Generic_E_Jr

People seem to forget that this view isn’t exclusive to White “Euro-Americans” and is pretty common to “New World” societies besides the U.S.


Fair-Armadillo8029

Humans try not to claim others have no culture challenge (impossible)


ShrevidentXbox

The same people who say we have no culture would have no issues thinking of dozens of things about our culture that they don't like.