I think that the US today has little in common with the US of 1960-1980s and even less in common with the US of the 1920s/30s.
The mentality of many modern Americans feels hardly American.
It might be called the same way but it’s a different country, the old USA is gone just like the USSR.
i would do ANYthing to be reborn in 1890 so i could be in my prime during Prohibition.
I view it the opposite way. The old America has little in common with the current America, which is proper America, and America before the contemporary period feels like a foreign nation. I don't like the old America.
we can say this about every nation on earth igor. Nations change and evolve. France 100 years ago is nothing like today, same with UK and everywhere else.
American mentality is probably one of the few things that hasn't changed much imo. It's actually really similar to past movements.
So you’re telling me that American mentality is SJW and incels?
Being tax cheats, drug abusers, and abusing and imprisoning brown people without justification are just as American as apple pie and baseball.
Are you perhaps an individual of higher melanin?
I'm brown for a white
1990-early 2000s was peak america, change my mind
there is justification, you chicanos just ignore it because it pisses you off that people accuse you of being criminals.
The internet and political polarization kind of ruined American culture.
The peak was definitely the mid 80s to mid 2000s.
But I'm white... I was just being a little facetious, but this country is built off the backs of tax cheats and traitors and that's what makes it so great.
so you're just a zoomer with a computer chip for a brain and you can be programmed to repeat phrases. not sure which is worse, to be perfectly and completely honest.
I'm 32. The bit about brown people was just supposed to rile you up.
i'm 32, you're 23, and i'd like you to pipe down.
Sorry for upsetting you, but it is the truth. I just like the stir the pot. :x
Please don't call me brown, though. It's bad enough that my girlfriend says I speak spanish like a mexican.
I was born in 1992. What the fuck am I supposed to know about how different it feels to live in this country than how it did 40-60 years ago?
having an old school conservative father who taught you how it really do.
IMO the main reason for this is that it seems like Americans have zero national pride anymore. And that's fucking weird because when I was growing up, the #1 American stereotype was that they were absurdly patriotic, flag-waving, "MURRICA FUCK YEAH!" people. Even American lefties seemed to used to have this mentality (it's just that in the 2000s, they'd say Bush was a bad example of America and "not a real patriot" for instance).
These days, all that American sense of patriotism is gone. The lefties gave up trying to change America and instead decided they need to destroy it and all its history. Meanwhile, the righties feel that they've been let down by the system and that the US is fundamentally cucked, so they gave up on it too.
It's just such a strange thought that the America I thought I knew from the 00s is just completely dead now. We used to think that "U-S-A! U-S-A!" type patriotism was cringe back then, but IMO the soulless hellhole that is America in 2022 is far worse.
the left realized that nobody was buying their green energy pitch, so they switched over to racial oppression.
I’m more appalled by the self-erasing-guilt thing. Over here some pro-west people also have that as in “I am Russian and I hate Russia” type of thinking.
But over there this mindset have been almost normalized to the point when being even mildly patriotic is considered wrong. And it’s not just that they also deny this to themselves they also deny it for others. It’s like the normal state of such people is constant guilt and self-hate for being born at all and they do their best to prove everyone this is how everyone should be.
It’s annoying.
I disagree on the 1960-1980. Bear in mind that we still have a large cohort of boomers who were born in the 50s and early 60s. While they would have come of age past 1960 they were still shaped and influenced by that culture of their childhood.
We are still living in the echoes of the 1960s when it comes to American culture. Sometimes it feels obnoxious like we're living in a zombified version of it.
>When protesters are just aping the pastiches of protesters back then (if I hear another "HEY HEY, HO HO, [blank] has GOT TO GO HEY HEY" I will have conniptions),
>when the traumatic echoes of Vietnam still define our worldview the same way you Russians' trauma of the 90s and WW2 defines your own country's perspective
>Racial conflict is still defined by the 1960s rather than the 1920s (When it was more than just white-black)
There's some new changes to it - class warfare is bipartisan, fear of outsourcing isn't a case of the 60s. But the bigger issue is Could be the cumulative misery and nihilism of gen-x and millennials come home to roost. That feels like it to me as if one is self-loathing of themselves, then by extension any part of their identity that isn't untouchable (minority race or lgbtq shit) is similarly loathsome.
There's America before Rupert Murdoch and America after Rupert Murdoch. I can't believe how much this Australian bastard managed to divide America.