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Non-American Redditors, what one thing about American culture would you like to have explained to you? (self.AskReddit)

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[–]bildpunkt 1562ポイント1563ポイント  (11子コメント)

Why do you guys use your ancestors' homeland to identify yourselves? An American who's ancestors immigrated from Italy in 1925 will still say he's Italian, despite having never been to Italy and not speaking a single word of Italian.

My ancestors immigrated from France but I identify as Swedish, not French.

Is it just because not enough time has passed since the US was founded?

[–]Jewish-Reptillian 1128ポイント1129ポイント  (10子コメント)

There isn't a single monolithic American Culture/Tradition to tie our roots too.

You'll notice the exception to this, are places like New England and former colonies, where they can identify with a colonial american culture.

[–]justanothersong 569ポイント570ポイント  (9子コメント)

We also very much stick to the cultural traditions our ancestors brought with them and the idea that the US is a "melting pot", where all are welcome to celebrate their unity as well as diversity.

We're a nation of immigrants, save the native people, and part of that claim is knowing where you came from.

Edit: A typo. The horror, the horror.

[–]BoxOfNothing -2ポイント-1ポイント  (8子コメント)

But America is about 70th in the world for percentage of population being immigrants. Australia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Croatia, Austria etc all have more. Sweden is the same. Australia isn't exactly an old country steeped in a specific cultural tradition compared to America yet they don't do it despite having a higher percentage of the population be immigrants. Plus there are a lot of countries much more diverse.

[–]justanothersong 23ポイント24ポイント  (7子コメント)

You're not looking at it in the right light. I was born here but I was born of a family line that came here from somewhere else to start anew, and while we are Americans by birth we also hold fast to the ethnic backgrounding that was carried over. We seem to draw a huge line between nationality and ethnicity; everyone who lives here, who comes here, is an American and in that we are one, but we have our own backgrounds that make us different too. It's kind of hard to explain.

Everyone here, even those born here, come from a line that started somewhere else, and we don't forget that.

[–]BoxOfNothing -4ポイント-3ポイント  (6子コメント)

Yeah but that's not special or unique in any way. That's true of a tonne of countries that don't behave this way. I'm not saying it's necessarily bad it's just hard to understand why it's only you guys that do it when lots of other places have just as much reason to.

[–]justanothersong 1ポイント2ポイント  (5子コメント)

Maybe question should be, why don't they? Why erase cultural heritage in favor of uniformity?

[–]BoxOfNothing 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

That's not what other places do, they tend to prefer individuality over trying to find identity from the nationality of past generations.

[–]justanothersong 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

It's not a search for an identity, it's simply preserving a part of your shared past. What's so wrong with that?

[–]BoxOfNothing 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

I never said there was anything wrong with it. I was interested in a desire that's seen as strange in most places. You can see something as a bit alien without thinking it's bad.