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> have an obsession I'm so tired of the condescending tone that is usually taken for granted when talking about traditional American culture. Can we please sto

by brink 4y ago

> have an obsession I'm so tired of the condescending tone that is usually taken for granted when talking about traditional American culture. Can we please stop this? It's just a cultural difference.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y ago
This is what you get when you treat everybody else in the same way, by telling them cosleeping is evil. I'm very bitter of the opposite, we have been taught it's wrong to co-sleep the entire time. Lucky, mother nature gave us some help. After we co-slept for 3 years with our baby, on the second one they wanted to take the baby off my wife the night in the hospital (baby sleeps on mom's chest). I understand the concern, but this is the second baby, we know the drill.
- ycombobreaker 4y ago
  > This is what you get when you treat everybody else in the same way, by telling them cosleeping is evil. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. I am an American, and my family's pediatrician gave cosleeping advice when asked, despite discouraging it. I'll reiterate GP's point: labeling a cultural difference as a national "obsession" is unwarranted.
  - Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y ago
    Agree, sorry for my tone earlier. Apologized in a different comment but I commented all over the place.
trgn 4y ago
It's something I find very commendable of americans actually. Americans generally take unsolicited criticism and brash antagonizing language from foreigners quite well. Every american traveling abroad can attest (remember the post 9/11 years?!), and generally have dealt with civilly and with head raised.
anon291 4y ago
> I'm so tired of the condescending tone that is usually taken for granted when talking about traditional American culture. Can we please stop this? It's just a cultural difference. This is not a traditional American cultural value. Traditionally, Americans sleep with their kids. In fact, large portions still do. Putting children in a crib was turned into an American cultural value by various associations, not by some cultural development.

by brink 4y ago

> have an obsession I'm so tired of the condescending tone that is usually taken for granted when talking about traditional American culture. Can we please stop this? It's just a cultural difference.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y ago

This is what you get when you treat everybody else in the same way, by telling them cosleeping is evil. I'm very bitter of the opposite, we have been taught it's wrong to co-sleep the entire time. Lucky, mother nature gave us some help. After we co-slept for 3 years with our baby, on the second one they wanted to take the baby off my wife the night in the hospital (baby sleeps on mom's chest). I understand the concern, but this is the second baby, we know the drill.

ycombobreaker 4y ago
> This is what you get when you treat everybody else in the same way, by telling them cosleeping is evil. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. I am an American, and my family's pediatrician gave cosleeping advice when asked, despite discouraging it. I'll reiterate GP's point: labeling a cultural difference as a national "obsession" is unwarranted.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y ago
  Agree, sorry for my tone earlier. Apologized in a different comment but I commented all over the place.

trgn 4y ago

It's something I find very commendable of americans actually. Americans generally take unsolicited criticism and brash antagonizing language from foreigners quite well. Every american traveling abroad can attest (remember the post 9/11 years?!), and generally have dealt with civilly and with head raised.

anon291 4y ago

> I'm so tired of the condescending tone that is usually taken for granted when talking about traditional American culture. Can we please stop this? It's just a cultural difference. This is not a traditional American cultural value. Traditionally, Americans sleep with their kids. In fact, large portions still do. Putting children in a crib was turned into an American cultural value by various associations, not by some cultural development.