BLM Destroying Stores vs Dumping Tea Into the Harbour?

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Didn’t this stop simply from inter-ethnic marriages and a natural progression towards peaceful living? It’s also highly unlikely that children of the same race going to school and socializing with one another would have such rivalries considering they cannot differentiate each other based on looks and speak the same language, English. In some cases you can put Polish, Scandinavian, German, and even some Italian kids in the same class and even someone someone with trained eyes cannot tell such differences.

And as generations went by, white Americans lost connections with their ethnicities and dropped their relatives’ languages. Sure, they might like some festivities of their ethnicities, but some of have never even visited their ancestors’ countries and don’t speak their languages.

But what they cannot drop are their genes, their race. And the same goes for me.

I think neither, though if preserving one’s race or ethnicity is important to people, then it’s important. That’s how I consider importance. If something is important to you, for rational, pragmatic, or even irrational reasons, it’s important.

Most people in this world do not give a damn about a 600 pound deadlift, yet there was a mega thread on here long ago about the attainability of a 600 pound deadlift. Obviously some people consider that important while others don’t know what the heck a deadlift is!

For a relevant example, Chasidic and Orthodox Jews consider their Jewishness so important that they will “sit shivah” (mourn) over offspring who marry non-Jews. Obviously, the conservation of their kind is important. And no one can undo this importance to them.

Though most whites in the 90’s didn’t care about their various ethnic roots in my area, my experience was that the Greek population I grew up with were the most exclusive and for the most part did not romantically mix with others. Their Greekness was important, obviously. My first crush in high school was Greek. We were classmates from twelve to seventeen years old. When I got the courage to tell her about how I felt about her, aside from informing me I was solely a friend, she said, “And you’re not Greek.”

I accepted all this. If others don’t consider such matters important, I accept that too.

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I think a person can be multicultural, they don’t have to choose one over the other nor do they need to choose an alternative culture, in this case American. I think what people gave up to become American was not replaced by something equal or better. I don’t think it was replaced but erased.

What are American values? We can look back at the Anglos that created this nation and do we still reflect their values and culture? One of the famous quotes from the Sopranos was Tony asking what happened to Gary Cooper. Resilience, self reliance, the Protestant work ethic, the value of the individual and individual liberty as well as privacy were American values but are they still?

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You spelled Mamma wrong.

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For the most part, no. And the individualism we see today is not the individualism—the sort that places value on one’s efforts, discipline, and achievements, and judging other individuals by merit, not their last name—that characterized the West some time ago.

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It always matters from every point of view if only because not caring about ancestry makes it matter even more.

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What I see is not an erasing of the values that immigrants brought with them to be replaced by American values. They came to America because of those American values. What I see is the erasing of all values.

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We don’t really identify with ancestral countries. We know where our forefathers immigrated from, but outside of the NE we just sort of blended in to everyone over time. You don’t see Irish/Italian/Polish et cetera Burroughs and neighborhoods outside of the NE. Maybe Chicago. So the culture you identify with is the one you grew up with. There’s not a tribal sense of ancient belonging.

Genetically, I’m primarily Germanic and specifically Nordic. I should be sleeping on a bear rug in an ice cave eating bland fish soup if ancestry means anything.

Instead I live in Texas where it’s over 100 degrees half the year. I hunt and fish, played football, baseball and did some off season wrestling to stay in shape between, genuinely enjoy country music and especially the local Texas musician scene, prefer tacos to blood sausage all day and bbq for a hobby. I say y’all and have a slight drawl. Not rural, but when traveling out of the region people notice.

I think old European history is neat in the same way I think world history in general is neat. But I’m a native Texan, living in 2023.

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I would suggest you’re both hanging out with the wrong crowd if this is your view. Most likely one full of immigrants or early generation Americans. Nothing wrong with that, but they aren’t the best sample to showcase American values.

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Today’s values, or lack thereof, or some semblance of past values?

Cultures and societies change and evolve. America is not evolving culturally but instead is becoming post cultural.

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We need Italian values like rampant church pedophilia, Trying to be conquerers but constantly fucking up and needing Germanic men to bail you out. The good old days. Italian pride worldwide.

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Another racist troll

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Please show me a Snow White pure culture at any point in history.

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Ok. What response were you hoping for from me? I’m not Italian and even if I were I wouldn’t find your post offensive. Although it is funny how you claim to not be a racist while posting that. It’s why you are a troll; you post for reactions but it’s only a matter of time before you get banned. Fortunately, you don’t have anything else to do so you’ll just create a new username and return. I envy you.

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Nothing is a hard-core as an Arby’s in flames

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Who talks like this… 15 with acne ?