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[–] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Americans are selfish assholes, it is just a fact. I have lived here almost 50 years and that's all there is to it

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Why is American culture so selfish, though? Humans are just animals and are easily influenced. "Culture" is a continuously moving target. What are the sources that have had the most influence on Americas population over the last 20-80 years?

    As a foreigner who was heavily influenced by American culture up until getting cable news in my room and watching fox news as a teenager in 2001, the year I was studying modern history and its propaganda, I would argue the root cause is Americas business and political leadership. Millions of people have expected mask-off fascism from America far longer than Trump's been relevant. Why did those people come to that conclusion long ago?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Yeah I'm not saying it's all their fault either, and I am just as much of a product of that culture it's inescapable. I would agree with you there, but from the start we have always loved a story about someone coming from nothing, it's a story we have been telling ourselves over and over in this country, and while it happens it requires a great deal of support around you and that is never mentioned by anyone. It has gone way downhill since Reagan I would say, the 80s was just a supercharged consumerism culture here, which pits people against each other because when you have your neighbors competing against each other over who has the biggest house or boat or nicest car or whatever, they are spending spending spending. Lifestyles of the rich and famous, Cribs, celebrity worship, all that junk is to blame too

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