03-02-2010, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
I will look into Ignatiev, being as I am Irish/Italian it should be interesting. This is getting deep now, I guess you can't talk about tacos and shamrocks without bringing up race. Maybe I didn't convey the message as I had wanted to, but I don't think it's possible to keep our cultural practices solely "in house" here in America and not for others to experience/exploit/commercialize. I think what we have is a lot of new immigrants (new meaning last 100 years) culture FINALLY becoming part of americana now. I hate to say it but if I truly wanted to experience my grandmothers heritage I'd have to hop a flight to Italy, there's no place here in America that I'd be able to experience it.
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*loud round of applause*
PiKA2001, the bolded says it all right there. You summed up this discussion perfectly:
America by design is a cultural bastardization of other nations' cultures, even "traditional" Anglo-European. This should be of no surprise to any ethnicity living here.
[Gomer Pyle]Surprise, surprise, surprise[/Gomer Pyle]
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