• Cruxifux
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    542 months ago

    A large portions of democrats too. I don’t think Americans realize how their culture of rugged individualism has affected them as a people.

    • @LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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      182 months ago

      I don’t think you can call it a culture but propaganda to justify their personal greed and neoliberal policies. Basically sociopathy as an ideology for the elite, dressed up as “whatever” for the masses.

      • Cruxifux
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        92 months ago

        It’s really what American “culture” seems like to an outsider.

        • @LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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          12 months ago

          True, the american dream, liberty, land of opportunity, make your own way, that’s why people come. But it’s a lie right? So can a lie be a culture? Or is it a mass delusion? Maybe, colonial settlers also went to the US despite knowing how dangerous it is to die on a wagon train (I mean dysentery, not indians haha). So taking a huge risk of catastrophic failure could bee seen as a culture.

    • @mriswith@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Take one pinch of puritanism, a pinch of rugged individualism and sprinkle on some American exceptionalism and you have a dangerous combination.

    • ivanafterall ☑️
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      32 months ago

      I recently learned about the North Korean concept of “juche” and realized, “holy shit, that’s what Republicans believe.”