No, wait, yeah, all those things are true of European nations.
And by the wonders of colonialism, also of American nations.
To everybody’s chagrin yeah, the stupid bible is a fact of life people have to deal with and has been so for a couple millenia, but that’s not some ancient European thing that makes Europeans so much more connected to their cultural heritage or whatever. Americans are very much on that boat. At the helm of that boat, actually, in some form of malformed Dutchglish protestant thing.
The argument you were making is that white Americans have no cultural heritage to speak of when compared to “traditions and cultures in Europe”. US Christmas borrowed as much Yule and Saturnalia as French Christmas, if not more so. Cultural heritage unlocked, European exoticization still unnecessary.
No, wait, yeah, all those things are true of European nations.
And by the wonders of colonialism, also of American nations.
To everybody’s chagrin yeah, the stupid bible is a fact of life people have to deal with and has been so for a couple millenia, but that’s not some ancient European thing that makes Europeans so much more connected to their cultural heritage or whatever. Americans are very much on that boat. At the helm of that boat, actually, in some form of malformed Dutchglish protestant thing.
The argument you were making is that white Americans have no cultural heritage to speak of when compared to “traditions and cultures in Europe”. US Christmas borrowed as much Yule and Saturnalia as French Christmas, if not more so. Cultural heritage unlocked, European exoticization still unnecessary.