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I think your comment is pretty good, and I don't know what's up with the downvotes :welp: That said, as good as your point is about African American culture, i

I think your comment is pretty good, and I don't know what's up with the downvotes :welp: That said, as good as your point is about African American culture, it's far from our youngest; there's also the Chinese and Italian migration waves, the Armenian refugee wave... On the west coast, you would definitely also have to consider the effects of Japanese internment during WWII. That might be the most recent, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was another wave between now and then. This doesn't detract from your overall point, or the severity of the effect on specifically African American culture, but I don't think you can call that America's youngest culture.

muninn_ 9y ago
Japanese internment during WWII is laughably incomparable to the damage inflicted upon African Americans over the last few hundred years or so. I think the OP meant age-range, or at least that was how I initially interpreted. Though I'm not sure that's true either. Even if OP meant something different, there are waves of Cubans, Chinese, Hmong, and many others. Who knows?
- spraak 9y ago
  Not sure about the downvotes, you're right.
- dlwdlw 9y ago
  To borrow some momentum from modern pop culture via Bane from Batman. Japanese-american culture resisted the influence of darkness inflicted by the american culture that was consumed (temporarily) by the darkness. African American culture was seeded in that darkness. One culture resisted hate due its experience with hate, for the other, hate is all it knew.
dlwdlw 9y ago
Those cultures are still connected to their mother cultures though. Though they start to become unique as they mix with American/other cultures the link and the advantages it confers have stayed whole. The studiousness of Chinese immigrants for example is a downstream effect from the exam based society of ancient China and is a feature that took hundreds if not thousands of years to develop. It's also not a perfect feature despites its evolution, it often trades max top speed for stronger initial acceleration.

muninn_ 9y ago

Japanese internment during WWII is laughably incomparable to the damage inflicted upon African Americans over the last few hundred years or so. I think the OP meant age-range, or at least that was how I initially interpreted. Though I'm not sure that's true either. Even if OP meant something different, there are waves of Cubans, Chinese, Hmong, and many others. Who knows?

spraak 9y ago
Not sure about the downvotes, you're right.
dlwdlw 9y ago
To borrow some momentum from modern pop culture via Bane from Batman. Japanese-american culture resisted the influence of darkness inflicted by the american culture that was consumed (temporarily) by the darkness. African American culture was seeded in that darkness. One culture resisted hate due its experience with hate, for the other, hate is all it knew.

dlwdlw 9y ago

Those cultures are still connected to their mother cultures though. Though they start to become unique as they mix with American/other cultures the link and the advantages it confers have stayed whole. The studiousness of Chinese immigrants for example is a downstream effect from the exam based society of ancient China and is a feature that took hundreds if not thousands of years to develop. It's also not a perfect feature despites its evolution, it often trades max top speed for stronger initial acceleration.