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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ethnicity IS culture, though. (What else do people think it could be?)[/quote] No, you're wrong. Culture is a subset of ethnicity, but ethnicity incorporates not only culture, but shared history and ancestry. I think there is a general American culture, plus regional cultures as someone mentioned (American south, Cajon/Creole, Midwestern, New England, West Coast, etc), but there is not American ancestry. With European and African ancestry ranging back to before this became a nation, plus Asian ancestry added about halfway through our young history, there is no single unifying ancestry and history. This nation was founded on a concept of the great American melting pot where we mixed many ancestries, cultures and social customs into one very diverse and oft-times fluid culture so that we do not have a standard ethnicity that you can label as distinctly American.[/quote]
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