How would you define your white American culture? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I ask this having been to events with national/ethnic dress, food, and other cultures. What can a white American say their culture is? It feels that for better or worse it’s been all melted together.

Trying to trace back to European roots feels disingenuous because I’ve been disconnected from those roots for a few generations.

This also makes me wonder was their any political motive in making white American culture be everything and nothing?

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[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

The culture in my family that survived americanization is slovak and Hungarian in nature. My mother failed to pass most of the culture her grandmother tried to pass to her, so I'm doing my best to return to my roots.

I commune with the old gods, Mokosh, Veles and Dazhbog. I try to listen to the world and take cues in action from nature. I practice herbalism, rejecting western medicine for most purposes.

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

Just for everybody's information: We don't do those things in Hungary. Religious people here are mostly christians, also people behave like boomers do in America (yes even young people).

Oh and hate on everybody who isn't Hungarian & white, especially Romas, Romanians and middle eastern people

[-] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

I hope I didn't imply that my practices are the same as in modern Hungary. My practices are entirely my own, developed from what my great grandparents taught me. They immigrated here as children close to a century ago, and were Catholic on paper when they did.

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, no. I just wanted to precise for the people here

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