Well, Nuke clipped out the part of my response to StA that said America could be the homeland for anyone who appreciates enlightenment values and a state founded on them. That pretty much sums up what I think the best part of a uniquely American culture is. Other countries embraced the enlightenment, our country was born of it.BjornP wrote:A colony becomes a homeland when the descendents of the colonists/slaves/immigrants no longer share the cultural connection to their ancestral homelands that its current native populations do. Virtually no American have that connection any longer, so your homeland is the US. Virtually none of you are culturally English, Irish, Scottish, German, any sort of Scandinavian, or any sort of Eastern European anymore. Or any sort of African, if you're black. You're all Americans, with your own, distinct American culture(s) unique to your nation.Hanarchy Montanarchy wrote:
I didn't say there weren't always white supremacists. I am just saying America isn't their 'homeland.' It started as a colony,which is sort of by definition not a homeland, and became a nation defined by constitutional law, which is, again, by definition, not a 'blood and soil' version of a state.
So, I'd say that your whites do have a homeland in America. Yet, so do the black descendents of slaves, Chinese railroad workers, Hispanics, and any number of other American ethnicities who've been part of your country for several generations.
I genuinely beam with pride and patriotism when I discuss American culture and its founding with shit talkers, who I encounter regularly over here in California, so I would never say it isn't a homeland, or that it is lacking culture. But, as a series of colonies, it started with what we've lovingly decided to call 'diversity problems' brought by people with different homelands. Once it became a legitimate nation, it did so on the basis of rule of law, not ethnicity, precisely because it had to square all those diversity problems with running a functioning government.