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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the US we are pushed with the idea we need community, a friend group, to know our neighbors, etc. And I don't have any of that and feel lonely. But after giving it deep thought I realized I don't WANT that and maybe I only feel lonely because I'm being told what the ideal is. So what if the ideal what more independent? Is there some society or place I could move where I could just have a dog, and see people like once a week when I go buy food and a couple times a year to take the dog to the vet? [/quote]

we have no culture in the US.

Denmark, Portugal, they have communities and they have a culture. [/quote]

Agree

No shared history, values, respect, language, k-12 education, foods, religion, sports, clothes, and so on. [/quote]

This is kind of reductive. There is at least a majority culture that eats turkey on Thanksgiving, watches the Superbowl, celebrates Christmas at least secularly, celebrates July 4, etc. Maybe recent immigrants don’t do those things but those things are American. [/quote]

Sorry but lots of mixed families or singletons do absolutely nothing for Thanksgiving or the NfL or Christmas of July 4th.  Many moms are so flat out exhausted they don’t give two F’s about big dinners, the tooth fairy, catering to others, planning more stuff, or doing 2-3 countries or religions worth of “tradition”.

Females are the culture carriers, since men rarely were or are. Now no one is. [/quote]

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