Oh sorry well just take our BBQ, rock and roll, jazz, blues, denim jeans, burgers, sitcoms, movies, superheros, Mark Twain, Lovecraft, Fitzgerald, GRR Martin and Beyonce to a different planet then.
1. If you patented first is not mean that only you invented. History example - radio.
2. Most of "your" culture was created in other countries.
Do not flatter yourself. You are nothing without rest of world.
All the examples I listed were original cultural creations of americans or people whos works have a large cultural impact on the country and the world.
About origins:
BBQ - barbe à queue (fr. "from head to tail") just way to cook the whole carcass that known by all world something near 2 million years.
Burger - just sandwich from Hamburg. And do you know about Pljeskavica?
Superheroes - just idea of god-like men that was stolen from ancient myths.
Movies - really? France, brothers Lumière. European cinematography.
Music, it's a matter of taste but we can compare:
old: folk music (Ireland), classic, tango-lambada-mambo (any latino-american), chanson;
modern music origins: pop (eurodance), techno (german kraftwerk and Jean-Michel Jarre), trance/edm (most of them: Scandinavian and Judish)... etc
Writers? Once again, a matter of taste. Most of the people never read Mark Twain, Lovecraft, Fitzgerald. But Shakespeare, Kafka, Tolstoy, Molière, Dumas... and they made a more tangible contribution to the world literature.
GRR Martin and Beyonce... khm... you can take it back.
Half of what your saying is subjective opinion. Im not debating quality of american culture. Im defending its exhistance because there are original aspects to american culture. Im sorry if some asshole american cut you off in traffic or spilled your drink but america has some originality to its culture and i will defend it.
I had a comment earlier but i didnt like it so i said this instead.
Edit: spelling
Nobody said about existence. I said that "You are nothing without rest of world." and there is nothing really "yours". These are things like wheel. No matter who invented it.
The post is talking about exhistance so i am. "You are nothing without the rest of the world" expresses denial of exhistance or at least that's what i got from it.
There are things that are ours and we are something without the rest of the world. In fact where would the world be without us. Im not gonna try to sell you some romanticized notion that the US is perfect in everyway. Its not and anybody who tells you that is lying or ignorant.
BUT you cannot deny the impact the US has on the modern world on a cultural level. You watch OUR movies eat OUR fast food wear OUR clothes listen to OUR music read OUR novels watch OUR sports. Its OUR culture.
We didnt invent food we created cajun gumbo fried alligator, burgers and fries.
We didnt invent video but we created batman alien jaws star wars and star trek and hollywood lifestyle.
We didnt invent literature or story telling but we have mark twain scot fitzgerald grr martin edgar allen poe and steven king.
We didnt invent music but most modern music played around the world is american and the genres also originated in america rock jazz blues rap are all american.
2. Most of "your" culture was created in other countries.
Do not flatter yourself. You are nothing without rest of world.
BBQ - barbe à queue (fr. "from head to tail") just way to cook the whole carcass that known by all world something near 2 million years.
Burger - just sandwich from Hamburg. And do you know about Pljeskavica?
Superheroes - just idea of god-like men that was stolen from ancient myths.
Movies - really? France, brothers Lumière. European cinematography.
Music, it's a matter of taste but we can compare:
old: folk music (Ireland), classic, tango-lambada-mambo (any latino-american), chanson;
modern music origins: pop (eurodance), techno (german kraftwerk and Jean-Michel Jarre), trance/edm (most of them: Scandinavian and Judish)... etc
Writers? Once again, a matter of taste. Most of the people never read Mark Twain, Lovecraft, Fitzgerald. But Shakespeare, Kafka, Tolstoy, Molière, Dumas... and they made a more tangible contribution to the world literature.
GRR Martin and Beyonce... khm... you can take it back.
I had a comment earlier but i didnt like it so i said this instead.
Edit: spelling
There are things that are ours and we are something without the rest of the world. In fact where would the world be without us. Im not gonna try to sell you some romanticized notion that the US is perfect in everyway. Its not and anybody who tells you that is lying or ignorant.
BUT you cannot deny the impact the US has on the modern world on a cultural level. You watch OUR movies eat OUR fast food wear OUR clothes listen to OUR music read OUR novels watch OUR sports. Its OUR culture.
We didnt invent video but we created batman alien jaws star wars and star trek and hollywood lifestyle.
We didnt invent literature or story telling but we have mark twain scot fitzgerald grr martin edgar allen poe and steven king.
We didnt invent music but most modern music played around the world is american and the genres also originated in america rock jazz blues rap are all american.