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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm the OP. I eat turkey on Thanksgiving only if I'm invited to a dinner. If not I just treat it like a long weekend. I have never watched the Super Bowl, celebrated Christmas or July 4th. I'm not an immigrant. [/quote]

Did you parents take you to nay if these thing when you were growing up? 
Or did they poo poo holidays, big meals, entertaining, throwing bday parties, going on vacations, graduating, etc.?? [/quote]

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