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"US culture" is not one person and comprises of many people who frequently disagree with each other vehemently. "US culture" simultaneously says that baseball
by lupusreal 2y ago
"US culture" is not one person and comprises of many people who frequently disagree with each other vehemently.
"US culture" simultaneously says that baseball is better than football and football is better than baseball. That's not a contradiction because it's different people saying those things.
- stavros 2y agoYes, I hear that argument whenever anyone says anything about more than one person. I don't care much for that argument because it basically denies that culture exists by saying "different people have different preferences". Sure, they do, but also it's clearly true to say "the US culture is against regulation" and "the EU culture is for regulation". Plus, I don't even think it's that hard to find people who dislike regulation but also dislike people copying their intellectual property (for example, every single company ever).
- lupusreal 2y agoIt's not "denying that culture exists", it's refuting your erroneous and unreasonable expectation that culture should be consistent as though it were a person (even though individual people are themselves frequently inconsistent!)