describe american culture in one sentence

[K-Jay]

100% amazing or unbearably shitty depending on where you are and who's around you.

 

[Deleted member 2779]

We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.

 

[Deleted member 81119]

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

 

[5pectre]

muh freedoms

 

[Marmoka]

Individualist war lord who thinks the world rotates around them

 

[Alien Bob]

Prudes producing plentiful porn

 

[Dan Thunder]

Hopeful but naive.

Though that could just as easily apply to us in the UK!

 

[Skade]

Guns and money first, decency seems irrelevant.

I guess.

 

[JimNastics]

Not what it seems.

When growing up I was like "wow, America is so cool, everything I like is from there!".

As an adult I'm more "fuck that place, I never wanna go there again" (I was there on holiday years ago and was not impressed to say the least).

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I would suggest this is a very familiar story to many non-Americans, particularly those who grew up in the 80s and 90s.

 

[Sanka]

Selfish.

 

[Mediking]

An emotional rollercoaster that doesn't slow down

 

[Deleted member 8852]

Delusional.

 

[awake4ages]

if I'm honest?

a giant obnoxious circle jerk :/

 

[RedOnePunch]

America is very Diverse and its culture can't be described by a single sentence. I suppose the only thing most share is the love of buying useless crap.

 

[Deleted member 44129]

"Everything and everyone can be monetized"

 

[Arebours]

evil empire.

 

[Right]

USA!

 

[AzVal]

My freeeeeedumb

 

[Tomo815]

fuck you got mine

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This one really. The wording may change but the key idea underneath is this.

 

[Squarehard]

Capitalism

 

[DryCreek]

.

 

[Van Bur3n]

Individualism and exceptionalism to the point of stupidity.

 

[dejay]

What it lacks in collectivism, it makes up for with a lack of collectivism.

 

[Winstano]

Got mine, fuck you, but don't take my guns.

 

[julia crawford]

No thanks you.

 

[Senteevs]

Excess

 

[TheHighMarshal]

The Illusion of Freedom supplied to you by corporations

 

[Izzard]

Interesting reading these replies. Don't recall a positive one. Is that a true reflection of the US, or people's moods here?

Im not American so can only go by visits there, Americans I've met over here, and tv.

 

[Flygon]

Three Kingdoms Romanced.

 

[Shopolic]

Thirst for big things, from foods to cars and...

 

[m_dorian]

A dangerously entertaining mess.

 

[Herne]

Well howdy, you burger-eating invasion monkeys!

 

[svacina]

quatation marks

 

[Kyra]

I have the right to hold this turd.

 

[Voyevoda]

What culture?

XL or XXL?

 

[Red Liquorice]

GIMME GIMME GIMME. [elbow to face]

 

[Jerm411]

This country elected Donald Trump.

 

[swift-darius]

Consumerism, classism, racism, and imperialism

 

[Ushojax]

Works on contingency? No, money down!

 

[SPRidley]

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Im was going to say Idiocracy, and "they think they are the center of the world (including in this fourm)", but this works.

Interesting reading these replies. Don't recall a positive one. Is that a true reflection of the US, or people's moods here?

Im not American so can only go by visits there, Americans I've met over here, and tv.

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Whn i visited in 2011 new york and los angeles for some months, i would have said a more nuanced, with some positivity response. But being older and having experienced more and more, with to USA girlfriends, and how all this past years went... im going to be much harshers every time i see or expirience their dangerous idiocy and excptionalism

 

[texhnolyze]

Grandiose, but warm

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Which culture is this? Corporate elites and millionaires?

 

[y2dvd]

Bs so often, we can't discern reality from fiction.

 

[Future Gazer]

A blight on humanity.

 

[Tygre]

A misplaced sense of superiority based on an astounding preponderance of ignorance.

 

[blame space]

no

 

[Forkball]

Mountain Dew Baja Blast

 

[TheBaldwin]

Gluttony

 

[Stuntman]

A culture so self absorved and entitled that can't even understand that America is not a country.

 

[Kay]

Lacking in introspection

 

[HeavenlyOne]

Overrated.