Tibexas Will Rise Again!
Dis, I have to say that this started out as an eloquent bit of Euro-bashing, but your lasts posts in the thread by far outweirded even Minidoh’s navel-centered worldview. The whole idea of an ‘Anglo-Saxon’ culture in the US is one dating back to the early to mid 19th century, when original ‘anglo-saxon’ inhabitants of the US tried with all their might to stop immigrants from countries like Ireland, Germany, (later) Italy, Eastern Europe (i’m sure you know a lot of Polak-jokes) and (nowadays) Latin America and Asia. Traces of this purely racist theory can be found in quite a few aspects of the United States: religion, politics, social climate, the lot. The KKK being one of the more extreme examples obviously, but one very proud of it’s ‘Anglo-Saxon’ roots.*
Pretty often of this Anglo-Saxon ‘racism’ rears up it’s head, usually in an evolved and camouflaged form (such as American Exceptionalism), but sometimes obvious. For example, the stubborn denial amongst right-wing Americans (and their Canadian cheerboys 😉 ) that the American political, social and cultural climate as founded in 1776 has a lot more in common with French political thought than anything even remotely ‘anglo-saxon’. Annoying facts like these are usually overwhelmed by bumper-sticker debate (“Texas is bigger than France” – as is the wife of the guy driving that Dodge Ram, actually), talk radio and whatever the reverend might have to say.
The apocalyptical world view you demonstrate seems to be mainstream in only two sub-cultures these days: militant Islam (kill all infidels, we’ll be going to Paradise and score even more virgins) and right-wing religious Americans (with the EU being the new Roman Empire, gathering momentum for the great battle on the plain of Armageddon). Wass sich liebt, das neckt sich!
* = there is something funny about this Anglo-Saxon pride if you add the White Supremacy BS to it. A very large, percentage of people of anglo-saxon decent in the (mostly Southern) United States were actually imported to provide cheap labour, for which slaves were simply too expensive. Remember that a slave was bought at a pretty high price, whereas you could import uneducated English peasants and have them do the really dangerous work, like mining or cutting trees. If a slave would die during this work, you would have lost an investment. If an imported peasant worker died, you scratched him from the payroll. These people really were the sorry scrapings on the bottom of the economical barrel in the US of the 19th century, the only thing which saved them from also being the lowest of the low on a social standard was their skin colour.
The name given for these cheap Anglo-Saxon labourers by their wealthy bosses of Anglo-Saxon descent? White Trash. Funnily enough, quite a bit of the offspring of these expendable labourers now still live in cheap housing (welcome to my trailer, y’all) in the former mining areas of Virginia and the like, giving themselves family names as first names (Lyndsay England anyone?), and with often enough still little more to feel good about themselves except for their skin colour and nationality. Poor dumb White Trash, what a sorry lot you are.
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