Message from @EYEFORKNOWLEDGE156
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it has always been radically assimilationist
germans and scandos would get tar-and-feathered if they refused to speak english, even in places like Minnesota and Wiscosin where they constituted a majority of the population
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tar-and-feathered after the 19th century
Jews from Eastern Europe refused to be assimilated, and things went downhill from there
after the big hyphenate scare
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> “There is no room in this country,” Roosevelt bellowed, “for hyphenated Americanism…German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
this was the prevailing attitude in americe through the 60s
yes, the hyphenate scare
America existed before Roosevelt my dude
also, they we all forget that the Civil War happen?
it was the motivating force for the 1924 immigration restrictions: anglo culture would not be allowed to become a minority even if it meant immigration must come to a complete halt
tell me with a straight face that the North and South had the same culture
so non-anglo immigration was completely shut down for a good 20 years
and everyone was forcibly assimilated
and even then it took a depression and a war to unite people
>America didn't exist before the 20th century
>America doesn't have regional cultures
multiculturalism is a fucking blight
different levels of analysis
puritans and southerners and all the rest all fall within the umbrella of English-American culture
it's all multicultural. this no different live of analysis
they are merely subsets of a greater whole
ahh yes, and Spain also has one culture
okay now you're just being disingenuous
really?
lol
the situation in spain and the US are nowhere near analogous
have you ever been to the South and the North?
yes I have lived in both
and in the midwest too
there are obviously differences, but they are nowhere near as pronounced as say the differences between the Galicians and the Catalonians
and the differences that do exist are largely the natural result of living in different environments and economies, not fundamentally different understandings of the world
they still share the same protestant english substrate
and Galicians and Castilians? Spain doesn't shared the same Catholic latin substrate?
this is pointless
we aren't going to agree
the different cultures of the iberian peninsula have been diverging for at least a thousand years
america has existed for like two weeks
and in fact american culture has been converging since at least reconstruction