re: Alt-Right. Separatism is not Supremacy.

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crazy4lsu

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Thank you. Someone of actual intelligence and knows history.

Also any discussion about culture needs to acknowledge the fact that American culture is an amalgam of lots of different cultures, taking little bits of each immigrant population and making it "American." A culture isn't a cogent, monolithic thing. It's very fluid and represents a lived reality of people.

That's what great cultures do. People talk about China being homogenized, but the reality is that there was lots of migration into China by various groups, but Chinese culture swallowed those groups and made them Chinese. They even made Muslims Chinese (before you come at me with the Uyghurs, please look up the history of the Hui people). It's what the Romans did. This is what hegemonic cultures do. Why people continually insist on retreating from the very things that actually made America great is confusing to me.

ETA: Exporting their culture is exactly what the British and French did during colonialism. Does anyone think that South Asia became obsessed with Victorian values or cricket by themselves? Or that the 2nd-largest French speaking city in the world would be Kinshasa?