#culture tag: america

[haveyouheardthisfolksong]

Culture note: US American initially, at the very least since the mid-20th century there have been French, Welsh, German, Norwegian and Icelandic versions with the same tune but sometimes vastly different texts (submission)

If you have heard any version of this song, vote "yes."

[americaisdead]

modernist drive-in bank vestibule. wichita falls, texas. september 2023

© tag christof

[jasmineiros]

São João em retratos — São Luís, Maranhão, maio 2022 🧡💛🧡

[the-everqueen]

...not to be insane but i stumbled on a fic where h*b is the Nahuatl deity Quetzalcoatl and i. i cannot. the once slave trader has been posed as a Native god. what.

[glacecakes]

Of all the things US citizens are divided on, I’ve never seen one more universal than the convenience store war

(Feel free to add your propaganda in the tags)

[lochiiee]

natlans cultural references so far: mexico, aztec, africa, dragons, and…dinosaurs?

[giantkillerjack]

Posting this here for receipts in case someone decides to steal this killer line of poetry I wrote for a spotify playlist description of all things (and which, together with the title, sounds like the heading of an essay that I would immediately want to read very badly):

[pcktknife]

oh woah some europeans are kinda dumb. how do you understand that lumping the entirety of europe is making broad generalizations of the whole continent but not that lumping the entirety of america is not similar to that if not the same ?

[haveyouheardthisfolksong]

General Disclaimer: While this song has religious connotation, this blog is purely for polling and does not intend to promote any religious ideologies.

[pandorem]

Wait… do people in the US actually wear their shoes inside the house?? I’m Canadian and I think I convinced myself that people only did that in tv shows bc it might not be safe to go shoeless on set. Do people actually do this???

Like whenever someone explained that people in Japan do not wear their shoes inside I translated that as “yeah they’re more strict about that then us, no popping in with them on just to go to the washroom before leaving again” or something? Not that people actually just left their shoes on all day???

(Canada added to the poll just to see if I’m the odd one out there even in my own country, feel free to add more context in the tags if you answer the poll etc etc.)

[jasmineiros]

São Luís do Maranhão, Maranhão, Brasil ✨

[mwagneto]

i know it's my fault for interacting with western politics in the first place but it's such a massive and extremely annoying mistake on the west's part to keep assuming that eastern european misogyny works the same/is worse than western misogyny like. the culture of america and the west as a whole is way more extremist christian and their version of misogyny is very heavily built on the 50s housewife/"women are incapable of doing anything but raise babies" worldview and they just assume anyone perceived as "less developed" than them must then have an even worse case of misogyny automatically even though the culture of gender in the eastern bloc comes from the world wars & soviet union culture with the former bringing the necessity of working women (due to lack of male work force) and the latter just. inherently not being a misogynist culture like people straight up don't know that the soviet union was actively pro equality like being the first to legalise abortion in 1920 and always pushing for women in all fields including STEM and politics. like obviously there was still misogyny, it wasn't some sort of utopia/a haven of women's rights but the eastern bloc's misogyny is founded on THAT and not the same christian capitalist "man go work big job woman have 100000 babies" thing that the west and especially the US is built on, like this is from personal experience now but I've literally never heard a single negative comment about women in politics and our president is literally a woman without anyone melting down about it like americans did when a woman decided to run for president. so like. TLDR stop assuming bigotry has developed in the same way all over the world and that every country you think of as poorer than yours must then be inherently worse and more bigoted in every way

[wethecelestial]

using up my one petty and meaningless post of the day to say that that fucking jellyfish as food post and all of its replies make me wish that i was a jellyfish (blissfully unaware of people being loudly wrong on the internet)

[mzminola]

Thinking about differences between types of stories in which children are stolen. How so many of them are just straight up blood libel, but there’s a subset which isn’t, a type that I can only think of two examples for, both in stories with Jewish characters / themes / sensibilities.

In the blood libel type stories, children are taken for a violent use. For blood sacrifice, for sexual exploitation, for organ harvesting, etc.

In the other type, children are taken to be turned.

Converted.

My current examples are Labyrinth and Star Wars Rebels (S2E10, The Future of the Force). There’s been discussion before of Labyrinth having Jewish themes, and Ezra Bridger is a Jewish character.

In Labyrinth, the King of the Goblins takes Sarah’s baby brother, and she goes on a quest to get him back in time. Not ‘in time’ before he’s killed or injured, but before he’s turned into a goblin too.

In Rebels, Ezra & his crew rescue two infants who have been kidnapped by the Inquisitors (enforcers of the evil Empire). The villains intend to take the Force-sensitive babies to the Inquisitorius, where they’ll be raised up into more Inquisitors. The heroes reunite the babies with their families (who now have to go into hiding from the Empire).

In the real world, the church or other authorities finding a pretense to take Jewish children from their families and raise them as Christian is an old, ongoing threat. It’s a form of genocide, a way of wiping out a culture, and often framed as being “in the child’s best interest”. It’s done to Jewish children, to Indigenous children, and to so many others...

The stories we tell can be a way of wrestling with anxieties. The blood libel works as propaganda because it yanks on the visceral fear of one’s children being hurt or killed. In these stories, it’s by a lurking, secretive monster that is sometimes pathetic or sometimes unnaturally powerful and in true propaganda form, often both at once.

Of course Jewish and other marginalized peoples fear our children being hurt and killed, but historically speaking, that’s going to be done openly by the majority culture. It’s bomb threats against daycares. It’s politicians trying to overturn the ICWA. It’s lynch mobs.

Why would the majority bother furtively stealing children? Why would they hide hurting them, killing them, using and discarding them?

Why would they hide anything, when they can get away with it?

[hussyknee]

If you're dual citizens or parents are from different countries, please tag both. Include a cool fact about your country as well if you like. :)

(Tumblr only has ten options, so I've mostly divided the regions into Western/ non-Western.)

[solradguy]

You know, we all make jokes about Sol/Frederick and Jack-O'/Aria being married (myself included), but they never actually refer to Aria as Frederick's wife in Begin (or anywhere else, afaik) and definitely not with Jack-O' anywhere.

I think the closest they got with Aria has been 恋人 (koibito; lover/boyfriend/girlfriend), which was kinda tricky to render in English when it was used gender neutrally. I ended up translating it as "partner" at least once for the Begin translation.