German here. People here really love to point out that we have a democracy but it’s just for show.

The greens just agreed to build more coal plants and close our last nuclear ones and together with the “workers” party they up our military spending and encourage more wars. Did I also mention that we basically single-handedly stop the entire EU from advancing their climate goals?

There is nothing to be prouud of here, but everyone loves it as all people I know embraced neoliberalism.

Some even say it out loud no joke: “I don’t care what happens to people in 3rd world countries as long as the government at least keeps me happy.”

I don’t identify with any of this, I guess at least we fund people who want to study with affordable and really easy to pay off loans (for me going to college now I don’t even have to pay it back).

So given the following:

• The Beaver Wars, The Northwest Indian War, Tecumseh’s War, the Trail of Tears, The Sioux Wars, the Apache Wars, and everything in between.
• The extermination of Native American cultures through Residential Schools, land grabs on Reservation land, Forced Sterilization, and Neglect leading to thousands of preventable deaths.
• Chattel Slavery and the creation of modern racism to support the social structure of slavery.
• Racist policies (like redlining) that have always kept People of Color in not only physical segregation, but also in servile roles where even those with status could have it taken from them within hours of a change in sentiment.
• The burning/razing of black neighborhoods and near-random lynchings of black people.
• The oppression against Chinese migrants, particularly as physical laborers.
• The continued use of Latino immigrants for underpaid migrant contract work.
• The Conquests of Hawai’i, Puerto Rico, and the Phillipines and the suppression of their self determination as Nations.
• The Construction of the Panama Canal, during which 200 people died per month.
• The Monroe Doctrine and the continued policy of suppressing Latin Americans acting in their own interests, including the assassination of Salvadore Allende and the Bay of Pigs invasion.
• The assassinations of American Marxists, and mass murders committed by detective agencies against labor organizers.
• The police suppression of lgbt culture and the current reaction of calling lgbt people “groomers”.
• The methodical dismantling of American labor movements and their integration into liberal power structures, which continues to this day.

I cannot in good conscience identify with anything American. The various peoples manipulated into coming here through imperialist wars, plunder, and imbalance of trade might call themselves Americans, but their freedom would be better won through the dismantling of the machine that created the conditions of their oppression. People are not citizens of a nation state before they are human beings. Their participation in the project is an illusion designed to exploit them. Even capitalist realist art is carefully censored to redirect anger from capital in order to manufacture consent for the hegemony of white men to continue on as the owning class of the West. Jeff Bezos is America, Bill Gates is America, Nancy Pelosi is America, and Donald Trump is America. And the mobs of reactionaries they recruit to bomb, burn, lynch, rape, and acculturate for their ‘values’ are America.

[Insert John Brown quote here.]

New Afrikan as we created our own culture out of almost nothing

Too bad it’s constantly being stolen though

I’ve never felt that much connected to my birthcountry, The Netherlands. I do feel a connection with the town I grew up in, a rougher working class town. But not so much the country. I don’t have special feelings for places like Amsterdam or Groningen or whatever. But I don’t dislike them or their people either.

This became even more clear when I migrated to another country. People sometimes ask me what I miss and I can’t think of anything other than maybe family and friends. But not a cultural thing. I do sometimes struggle with a lack of Dutch directness but I don’t really miss it.

At the same time I don’t feel ‘Belgian’ or something right now either. I like the place where I live and I like my friends over here, but I don’t feel culturally connected or something.

I’ve always felt like me I guess. I’m sure my country of birth had some influences on my character but I don’t really feel the need to do things ‘the Dutch way’, whatever that is.

Same, homie. There’s aspects of my local culture that are cool, but they all originate with the Latin or black communities. I don’t feel American, I don’t even really identify as white (like, I know I look it). I think I’m just a communist, honestly.

I really like pie and chips. I think English breakfast is nice. My list is mainly food related.

For some reason our country’s obsession with history is mainly war or capitalism. WW2 and the industrial revolution. Both events resulted in the death of common people.

It’s all competition, all about being the best which is pathetic. Especially when we whitewash the shit out of our history. There are some good historical figures in different fields but they all get overshadowed by capitalists or war mongers.

I’m Born in America, my grandma was born in Poland(modern day Belarus, but she doesn’t identify as Belarusian) and during WW2 Stalin allowed refugees and orphans. She lived in Leningrad for years and years. Eventually she lived in Mexico for a brief while before meeting up with her brother in USA where he was evacuated. Given that, our family personally identifies more with the Russian side because my grandma’s cousins and nephews that still live in Europe are all living in Russia. My great grandparents on my Mom’s side were all from Ireland. I basically split my ethnic identity between Irish and Russian, I speak a bit of Russian with some family. But tbh, I’m white and from the US and both my parents are the same, so Russia and Ireland are foreign to me. I guess my ethic identity by now is American. I went to Ireland once and enjoyed it but I didn’t feel Irish. It’s not disappointing or awful, it’s just one of those things, the US is trash and if I’m gonna identify as American I might as well just go ahead and try to improve the place and participate in organizing and agitation(also bc I’m too broke to leave this godforsaken dystopia)

I’m not from the imperial core. I’m from the Caribbean (SVG). I have rather mixed feelings about where I am from. I identify (especially lately) quite strongly with certain aspects of the culture. I like the laid back „we do it when we do it“ attitude, I like the partying, and the community. But the homophobia and pressure to conform forced me to leave.

As someone not from the Imperial core, I can relate to my brazillian culture. I love our songs, partying such as festa junina, our food such as brigadeiro, etc… Though I recognize that our culture is mainly due to the African influence along with some from European and Indigenous.

I think regaining culture is a must for socialist revolutions. In the case from the USA for example, I really like Jazz and country music.

Well, I do have a strong connection with my country,same as the rest of my family, the thing is, that country disappeared 30 years ago, and no, I don’t have even a tiny bit of connection with whatever the fuck this is now…

Also, here is a hug!🤗

im an american and do not identify with America, the closest thing that I do identify with is the international communist movement.

Many European nations did have a vibrant and beautiful culture before capitalism destroyed it all. I’m reading the Count of Monte Cristo right now and Dumas’ description of the Roman carnival sounds so fun and jubilant, with so many unique traditions such dressing up in costume, horse races, the lighting of candles representing life and death, etc.

Of course, nowadays? Very little to be proud of. But I think to say there’s not a history of culture to look back on and draw from once the revolution has succeeded is misguided.

(this isnt patsoc btw)

England is a facile invention and lacks any kind of notable culture as a result. In this specific context, regional identities are far more notable. Liverpudlians, Mancunians, Geordies, Cornish, etc, are felt far more keenly.

Sometimes these things find their outlet in food culture, but dialect and language is an extremely prevalent cultural marker in England. Even those engaging in received pronunciation play this game. Compared to, say, France, it’s incredibly diverse.

There’s also a cultural memory of grievance - that which has been done to “you” by other English regions, or England as a whole. Hillsborough is an example of this; boycotting the Sun is a a big deal in Liverpool, even today, while in Yorkshire, they’re still bitter about the harrying of the north, and salty about lancaster to boot.

Regional-level sports also carry this charge, whether it’s county darts or county cricket.

But England? Nah, it’s not even real.

❌ “american” ❌

✅ “future partisan” ✅

So reading this thread has been quite depressing. There is so much self-hate here it is frankly concerning.

To clarify a few things and the position from which I speak: I am a Russian citizen of Jewish ancestry. Now, my family had never really kept in touch with the local Jewish community, nor its culture. All of it as about as alien to me, as cultures of foreign countries. At the same time, I very obvioulsy do not look “Slavic”, am not Christian and have a fairly rare name and surname (the latter is German). So I am pretty much alienated from what is often considered “Russian” culture.

With that in mind, I am rather alarmed to see people here say things like “I have no culture”, or “whites have culture”. Your (and mine tbh) cultures have been co-opted by capitalists and commodified to hell and back, but so what? Do you really have to bash yourself, just because some aristocrats were pillaging other people across the globe? You weren’t there, you did not participate. Being “white”, or English, or Anglo-USian is not a crime by itself.

TL;DR I am concerned for the mental state of the comrades.