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PolarDad: Question for my 6th grade geography students today... How would you define American culture? (Give me some serious, clean answers to share with my class as part of the discussion)

pwilz: The USA is so big and so diverse that it's hard to pinpoint, because you'll always find exceptions to the rule. We mostly speak English. We try to be exceptional when compared to many of the other countries of the world, particularly those in Europe. Outwardly, we claim to distrust governments and not need what they provide, but when they fail to provide the expected things, we protest. (See Hurricane Katrina). A great deal of our culture is based on the automobile. Large scale suburban sprawl is very American.
Inkedad: Culture? A festering pool of stagnant afterbirth.
bakermouse: We only see what we want to see, often not to our benefit.
mattomaw: An evolving hodgepodge of other cultures, that somewhat struggles to deal with it"s past demons.
MABBY: How Americans are viewed by the world and how they perceive themselves. How pockets of racism, privelege, and hatred can exist in a new America that wants to be accepting and inclusive.
Woelf: Memes used as a coping mechanism to deal with the existential dangers of late-stage capitalism, failing democracy, and a rapidly declining climate. (Might not be appropriate for a 6th grade level. Then again, they might understand it perfectly.)
pricero1: Widely exported, yet strangely insular. Very open and diverse, yet sometimes narrow and conservative.
Woelf: Memes used as a coping mechanism to deal with the existential dangers of late-stage capitalism, failing democracy, and a rapidly declining climate. (Might not appropriate for a 6th grade level.)
Woelf: Memes used as a coping mechanism to deal with the existential dangers of late-stage capitalism and failing democracy.
BOBBYCAN: North, Central, or South? If we're talking food I'll go with Central.