The Myth of American Culture

Among the American Right, there has been a relatively recent longing for a return to a perceived “American culture” that is especially shown within propaganda, art, and photographs from the 1920s through the 1950s. On the other hand, modern more “patriotic” liberals enjoy the multiculturalism and melting pot of the U.S. neoliberal project. Many to this day still even question what American culture even truly is. Even historians and the most hardcore of American patriots struggle with this question, without pointing to a culture that can be only really pinned down on a specific state or area. Is the traditional middle-class WASP family American culture? Is urban black hood music and slang American culture? Is the stereotypical rural redneck American culture? Or, are these vastly different environments just subcultures of one that is ultimately like all of them? It’s a very difficult question to answer, and the expansion of American Westernization to other countries makes it even more difficult to answer, as many things that people may consider to be American culture is just a norm across most of the First World.

The problem with American culture gets even worse when you consider the increasing divide between the urbanite and the ruralite. These two environments are, for the most part, considered the two largest cultural factions in the United States. Despite this, with the exception of a shared language, the two areas may look like two completely different countries to an alien. These cultures have completely different values, environments, aesthetics, and architecture, and with the recent revelation of most Americans supporting a national divorce, it just shows that it is very difficult to believe that these cultures can belong to the same country. While spending and infrastructure is getting poured into the urban cities, very little is getting put into the rural areas in an attempt to modernize or give aid to the ruralite. It’s almost unfair to think that these people must pay taxes to the same government that neglects them, and part of the same country that demonizes them for their race, values, and religion.

The large cities of the United States share the same status quo, materialist, consumerist, and liberalized culture, much of which serves to keep the rural areas of their respective states in check. The worst part is that it is difficult for the majority, who read more intellectual and philosophical political works about the topic of White rural America, to relate to the struggles of the unindustrialized working-class people (including myself, as a Hispanic city-dweller, who cannot relate to them other than the composition of the majority of my blood being of European descent). The American system has made it impossible for someone in the city to relate to someone in the country and is also actively trying to make it impossible to even sympathize with them. It’s truly a miracle (and a tragedy) that rural Americans have been this patient.

The truth about American culture is that it does not exist. A culture that is just a “melting pot,” filled with dozens of other cultures from years of unregulated immigration, is not a culture. The United States does not have a culture. What the current Right sees as the good ole days of Old Americana is simply a time when Whites were, for the most part, voluntarily segregating from other minority groups, which many conservatives refuse to acknowledge, as to either defend themselves from accusations of racism or even attack racialism and ethnos. This is also the reason the American Left has gone so far off the deep end, to the extent that nobody could have predicted (the glorification of Marxism, deeply transgressive and degenerate lifestyles, open anti-White hatred, iconoclasm, etc.). Because there is no nationally recognized culture, these people choose to attach themselves to something else entirely. Because human beings naturally want to be part of something greater and a community, no matter how individualist at their core they are, they will adopt a culture or belief system.

This is also why Americans tend to also attach themselves to an ethnic label, such as Irish, Italian, French, British, or whatever other country is within their bloodline. There is no true American pride, because there is no reason to be proud of being an American. There is no current war or unification to make someone proud to be “American.” There isn’t even an architecture or aesthetic to gawk at and spurge over in America (that wasn’t already created by another nation). This melting pot is a consequence of many things, including capitalism and the Jewish occupation of powerful businesses, government, and culture (which could arguably be said to be the same thing).

Luckily, there is an escape from the “anti-culture” of the United States. For that, we need to look a little deeper and closer into these United States. Each state has its own unique history and culture, especially in the South, that can be counted as a set-in-stone culture, especially if its citizens awaken and become aware of the cultural importance of their state. As a Floridian, I truly believe that Florida has its own traditions and culture that must be reawakened and embraced among other Floridians. There needs to be a new awakening of Floridians, and members of other states, that we are our own people. We do not belong to an anti-culture economic zone (the domestic American Empire).

Florida needs an independent government, one that is beneficial towards its people instead of one leeching from them. There are many things that could fix Florida, and even many other potentially independent states. The overall point is that people need to start accepting that American culture is a legend, a fake legend that will only serve to lead people to keep serving the anti-culture. Instead, we should look to the future and preserve our own traditions, but also make our own to be truly separate and free from American culture.

-By Florida Anon