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Alright. Let me weigh in here.
If by "cultured" you mean knowing about the world and what is going on? OR at least knowing about famous tourist landmarks in other cultures, perhaps these video clips on Australian TV can answer the question while giving ya'll a good laugh:
As for "culture," well if Europe has always been seen as the center of civilization and culture in the world (Greeks, Rome, Britain, etc) in terms of art, music, governance, democracy and all these other "universal" ideals which todays "modern" institutions aims to spread, then Europe > America in terms of culture. Why? Because Europe as a continent and collection of nation-states has a longer history, royal families, older buildings/land-marks, older philosophies etc etc.
For myself, I can only relate some common dinner conversations in some working class households in parts of Europe I've been in when on student exchange. And it has become a cliche to diss America and Americans at the dinner table (I am not sure if that is true in other parts of Europe), where it is common to say things like
"the American are so into our royal families because they secretly are jealous of European royal families because America does not have one." (Danish household)
"Americans have no culture," (English household)
"Americans cannot win wars, they are armed civilians," (French dinner conversation, although I found this pretty ironic coming from this French family I stayed with)
So... Stuff like that, if you interpret culture in such a way.
But some guys here have a point, you have new hip hop culture that is non European, drawn from African-American people. There is also this idea that America is the New World, new in terms of being the new center of civilization/culture?
Isn't today's EU a kind of mock-version of the USA? What exactly is Europe?
It all depends on what you mean by culture and how you define these terms.
You mention Canada? I do know Canadians painstakingly want to disassociate themselves from Americans, and so do the Australians. But most Australians identify themselves as Aussie, and NOT European, although they acknowledge English roots/heritage, and many Australians today do have relations in the UK as well as in Australia. And then of course there are divisions between first fleeter Australians and subsequent generations of them.
Furthermore! What sort of Europeans are we talking about? I believe there are boundaries between East and West Europeans.
And ofcourse you do have Americans pain-painstakingly trying to constantly play up the fact that they have European ancestry and connections, which can imply a sense of inferiority or insecurity.
So I believe there definitely is a culture barrier. But how specific it is, it really depends.
Sorry. I forgot to directly address the question.
Americans can get a bad rep sometimes depending on current events, If the USA messes up in something, economy/war whatever, then yeah Americans will get dissed by Europeans as if there's something inherently wrong with them (e.g. being uncultured) . But if not, then Europeans tend to get quiet.
Is a stereotype? Yes. But think about where stereotypes come from? THey may have been true sometime ago, but they persist even if things change.
I like your answer. Thank you :)
Americans are less European then Europeans.
What does it mean to be 'cultured'? To care about culture? You might argue that the average European young person knows more about classical music or art, but I might argue the average American knows more about hip hop. Continental European 'pop' is (with some exceptions) 'derivative' in comparison with American/uk music. There is some really avante garde stuff for sure, but there's a bigger gap between the avant garde and mainstream.
There's also less of a class system in north America, so if you are basing 'culture' and 'sophistication' on the rich, a higher proportion of the European 'rich' are rich people descended from a long line of rich people, who have focused on 'taste', as opposed to being self made or having someone self made within a few generations. I'm not sure that this is an advantage.
Its also an open question as to whether Americans or Europeans are more 'open minded'. It really depends what you ask and how.
Its also unfair to suggest that Americans aren't knowledgeable about other countries (though they aren't.). Its unfair because the rest of us so easily view 'the u.s.' as one country, while 'Europe' is many countries. But this is in many ways an accident of history. The U.s. is a huge country - not just physically but in terms of population, and regions. Most of us 'know' something about washington, new york, boston, chicago, los angeles, maybe seattle, a little about texas and miami as well. But we look down on Americans for not knowing every country in Europe, yet how much to most of us know about that big center bit of the u.s.? How many people who sneer about Americans not knowing the capital of European countries can name the state capitals of california or florida - which would be big countries in Europe - let many of the mid sized or smaller states.
There's a lot to complain about with regards to 'Americans', but a lot of US are being smug in acting like we know so much about them.
In terms of behavior, my experience is that Americans are loud, optimistic, outgoing and friendly. Those outside of big urban areas are friendlier - just as it is everywhere else in the world.
Technically? Yes. Culture is basically defined as the collective achievement of arts and other intellectual manifestations. Europeans have a longer history than Americans, Canadians and Australians, so it's reasonable to say that they have more culture. They've had more time to cultivate it.
But I think a lot of Americans, Canadians and Australians tend to think they have "no culture" which I find to be completely false. Whilst the merit of such culture may be debatable, I don't see how anyone can contend that it doesn't exist. The very fact that someone can distinguish a culture shows it exists. But that's beyond what your question is asking :)
Basically, yes - Europeans have more culture. They've had a longer history which means more revolutions, movements, wars, empires, etc. It goes to stand that they'd be more cultured as a result of that.
What do you think of moaterboat's answer?
I disagree with his reasoning. First, he says that "Europeans have taken in far less immigrants". If you look at statistics, Russia, France, Norway and even Ukraine have incredibly high immigrant populations. Europe, as a continent, hosts the highest number of immigrants (IOM stats). He then says Europeans are more likely to visit other countries, but only as tourists. Here in Australia we have VERY high numbers of European immigrants, and inter-Europe it's the same... (cont'd)
He then suggests that "most of the time they just visit other countries in Europe. Which is far more similar to their own culture than going to another continent." That's very short-sighted. Across Europe there is MUCH diversification in culture. If you compare Scandinavian culture to, say, Mediterranean - they are well near incomparable. I think motorboat is confusing "cultured" for "multicultural" or something. And even then, I disagree.
Read moaterboat's comment :D
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What do you think of WeaponZero's answer? :)
I agree with your point and if we're defining culture the way you did, I have to agree. But I personally think that culture leans more toward referring to a country's identity, in a way.
well,it depends on the person,but I think an American would have to get cultured on their own (not many of them choose to do that) since their education is pretty below average when compared to European standards. and I'm just saying this from a bosnian point of view-i'm not even going to begin talking about the difference between germany,france,similar countries and America-the difference is immeasurable. a friend of mine-born in bosnia,lived in America since he was 5,spent a year in my class and all he got were F's,while in America-all he got were A's,he decided to go back to America cause it was too hard for him here. so yes,we are more cultured,cause our education is better,and cause of this link our history makes us seem more sophisticated than Americans (perception is everything)
I'm not going to get into this whole argument, because wherever people are from they will give a valid answer according to their experiences and travels. sexually speaking Americans are so so behind, they may have the p*rn industry but that's all. If you've ever slept with US or UK man, they're retarded in bed. I live in the UK and can tell you European men make much better lovers and treat women more respectfully based on a soild understanding of their bodies and attitudes to sex. American men just suck and thrust, emulating what they've see in p*rn. Incidentally, we must clarify a point made by someone earlier that the Brits/English are not European, they do not buy in to being a part of Europe yet and I can't see that changing.
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I hate generalisations. It's like saying all apples taste good because all the apples I've ever eaten have tasted good to my palate.
Whether or not someone is cultured is subjective and difficult to place a blanket statement on. It can be reasonably defined by:
1. An individuals upbringing, and environment (which gives the parameters of what can be defined as "cultured")
2. Another individuals view of that person (which is the interpretations of others within society of what is "cultured")
Hence, there as as many views on culture as there are individuals who can possibly view anything considered "cultural". One person will consider a painting by Picasso as a cultural artefact, another sees Korn as a cultural icon, and my mum might consider a gourmet (she pronounces it gore-met) sandwich as cultured.
I, myself, am an Australian. I consider myself slightly more sophisticated and cultured than the average person, and definitely more so than the average microbe. I can rationalise until my eyes water and quote Socrates until my face comes off. What I consider as cultured and sophisticated is demonstrated intelligence, and the ability to articulate one's own opinion on a subject, generally of an "arty" or "cultural" nature (nonsense), for example, developments in New Media Artefacts.
That doesn't change the fact that the kid in the front row of my class still considers me as simply being a douchebag.
considering how I answered the original question previously, the answer would be yes, to some degree, in certain people, maybe probably.
While these considerations in cultural prowess may or may not be true, there is definitely rivalry between regions. For example many native melbournians may dislike sydney-siders and there is a well documented race towards the being the cultural center of Australia. Farmers don't connect with urbanites and miners dislike the rest of the economy intensely.
wana hear a European;s pov? : this is ignorant bullsh*t.
most Europeans copy-cat American culture. I spent most of my winters and summers in Europe. I have family in Odessa, Ukraine... Marsiella, France and Manchester,England... and moved to the states myself when I was 14. everywhere I f***ing go in Europe I see jay-zee posters and rap music in different cultures. the kids I spent time with there obsess over American culture...
we can legally drink at 18.. yet we still have 21 year old bar tours... because this is AMERICAN... Europe.. is failing socialist network of collapsing nations...
young Americans in their repulsive ignorant spit upon the states and put European nations and cultures on a pedestal
the amount of young Americans that talk sh*t on their culture and don't realize how amazing it is... with its ability for upward progression and the revolutionary success it gives the ambitious... deserve to be deported or killed for their ignorance and traitorous attitudes.
i LOVE the US and its culture with all my heart. but this is probably just because I know better.
dumb f***s.
its true that the whole entertainment scene used to come from America. but people in Europe, also the younger generation is starting to grow away from America and its image is getting worse
So American culture... Actually USA was founded by imigrants so your culture is basically our culture. There are different "drinking" laws in some countries you can drink at 16 and go to clubs with that same age, the cigarettes now that's a different story. So yeah we listen American music like we listen our music, we eat American food like we eat our food.. So you actually don't know better
Well, European people are in any case not as loud as Americans.
In general Id say its harder to reach them, but that's not a guarantee they also have better beahviour...
Atmosphere means much to people in general there however.
And people don't just live loose as much as in the U.S.A.
We like to keep some values, like medical care for people and stuff for free.
So in general we'd less say f*** society, BUT we're not pro things as they are.
There are no standards for a conversation as they're more there in USA I think.
Yes, people will ride in a train without ticket, even first class if they know the route.
A lot.
But that's because there's a twisted view of what is fair.
Society is not really fair.
You don't have to fight for money here, so people tend to want to get the system more fair in general I guess, instead of worrying about money that brings nothing, no fears about it.
You get 0% rent for study, paid if your outta work, food if you don't have food, medical care for free with insurance.
But... some people completely lack respect too here.
But that's most of the times because they think the society is pretty sh*t, I personally think that.
Well, but most Europeans aren't capable of changing it... changuing anything.
I guess were more silent perhaps more cornered off but we live up in the right circumstances and we cling onto things more than usa people I guess in general.
Dunno what more to say.
Btw I'm 100% Dutch myself. (Netherlands, Europe.)
yes thank you! I just read the first line and that's what annoyed me the most in America! people are so loud there, its full of (male and female) attention whores! and their superficial friendliness also gets on my nerves
history as we know it is written out of a western view. As most of this history occured in Europe , people in Europe know more about it , and have seen more places involved in this cultural history.
In America they see way more American history than we do here in Europe , neither America or Europe see a lot of Asian history I think.
so it all depends on the viewpoint .. some Americans seems stupid because they don't know paris is the capital of france , but I must be honest , I don't know that much about the states of America and their capitals !
I know a lot of European history , partly because we see it a lot in school . but when it's about the civil war or something like that my knowledge is little...
you could say that there is an overall more (western )cultural base in Europe because it is habitated longer than the USA , canada or australia . We tend to find western culture more important and 'better' than the older cultures of those area's .
also , it might be due to the fact that USA has the tendency to see itself as the center of the world , as the leading cultural nation. there is less unity in Europe so more different thinking paths.. It's a little bit like learning other languages , something that seems to be more common in Europe. but every country / culture /region is self centered in a way , although it MIGHT be that it is slightly more in the USA than in Europe , but it depends on the person you are talking to :)
really? I bet 90% of the Americans I met wouldn't have known when their war of independence was.
hmm , well depends on the people you meet probably ha ha :D I always thought they saw a lot of American history in school , and they learn the capitals of the state and all - I don't know all that stuff :D
If we assume that by cultured and sophisticated, we mean having been exposed to and influenced by different cultures, then I think there is really no contest. Europeans have taken in far less immigrants than the other nations mentioned.
While it could be said that Europeans are far more likely to visit other countries, this is misleading because tourism only gives you a little nibble of another culture. Also most of the time they just visit other countries in Europe. Which is far more similar to their own culture than going to another continent.
The end result of all this is Europeans are not more cultured than people from other countries, and in fact, the opposite may be true.
What do you think of tohrment's answer and her comment to your answer?
Actually I think she is completely right, I just gave the answer I did for the sake of arguing a different perspective. :) I think she should get BA
the inhabitants of a country can not be seen as cultured or sophisticated because of the amount of immigrants... that's a weird conclusion you make there :p I think it's more about knowledge and education (it's explained in my answer below)
@rockingpianoman please reread the first sentence. It all all depends on how you define "cultured"
Moaterboat, you must be kidding :D
No, not at all. Someone has to argue the other side and present an alternate viewpoint. Here in America we call that "playing the devils advocate" I don't know if you are familiar with that phrase or not. Anyway, I do that sort of thing a lot, because if everyone just sits around agreeing with each other, we don't really gain anything.
Far less immigrants? Where did you get your facts? Europe has the highest immigration rate in the world. If you think latins are too many ill let you know my nations work force is made of about 45% immigrants.
Britain alone has an immigrant population of more than a million Indians and Germany has more than a million Turks. France and Italy have huge immigrant populations from Northern Africa. Half the illegal immigrants that enter Europe come through Greece, a population around 500,000 a year.
Yes, I know that Britain has a lot of Indians, and Germany has a lot of Turks, but if you at the past 200 years or so (which only makes sense if we are looking at cultural influences) I would be willing to bet that America, and to a lesser degree, Canada and Australia have been influenced more by immigrant culture than most European countries. This is not only because these countries take in immigrants of a greater variety, but there was less initial population, meaning the impact of the
Immigrating culture would be that much greater. With something like this, you can't just look at the total number of immigrants, it is more complex than that.
zickzack, it's amazing that you know how much I know, without even knowing me.
Yes, and in my view there are two important reasons for this 1. the American mindset itself and 2. the educational system. For me one way to see which is more cultured is by reading books by American or European authors. American writers are usually annoyingly approximative and superficial in their analysis, and they are not concerned with doing homework and documenting themselves on what they write (I'm not talking about great American writers, I'm comparing the average writer in America and Europe). European authors are more rigorous, WELL read and cultured in general, and you can tell their knowledge is usually broad. As for being less sophisticated, well yes, I just think about the way the average American dresses, or the junk food the average person eats (unfortunately this is becoming standard over here too...). But, as a person I know put it, at the same time nobody can be as good as Americans at criticizing their own culture and fellows, and this is something I really admire.
lol the Americans I met had zero common knowledge.
It's quite funny. I was on holiday recently in Prague. And naturally you mix with various different people from a myriad of countries. All the Americans were so loud! One of countless examples, we were in a restaurant, mixture of cultures, everyone was talking at a normal level, with a reasonable consciousness of other people around them. The bloody Yanks, were babbling to the point of overpowering the room. 'I really love to travel. It helps me grow and develop as a person'. *vomits*. I always thought Canadians exaggerated when describing the crassness of their border chums, but it's true! Everything they say is true! You distinguish between a Canadian and an American a mile off.
Actually, Australians are probably the most savage of the lot. Just looked greasy and generally dirty, and I spotted one didn't wash their hands in the bathroom! Dirty buggers!
"bloody Yanks, were babbling to the point of overpowering the room"
Wait until you get a table near some drunk Dutch or English. ;)
I find groups of 'foreigners' are often loud - wherever they are from. If they think the locals don't understand their language, they talk more loudly, because its _as though_ its private.
i know what you mean. it's so annyoing. I mean, italians talk loud too, but its because its in their culture. . when Americans do it, it just seems like they want to get attention. because they look around and brag (like what you just quoted here)
That statement isn't true for ALL Americans, nor is it true for ALL Europeans. It mainly depends on their individual background, their parents, the schools they went to, the country they live in.
For instance, knowledge of foreign languages is certainly greater in Europe: basically EVERY HS-student learns at least one second language (some better and more than others! I learned Dutch, French, Latin and English in HS, learned German in college.My wife learned classical Greek -Koine- on top of these.)
Moreover I picked up a lot of Italian and some Spanish during vacations. I learned to read the Greek alphabet because it was used in physics an I trained it while on vacation in Greece.
Same for many people I know.
It's true that not all Europeans get their HS degree: there are HS dropouts in Europe too.
Only in certain things. Fore instance, when it comes to respecting their parents, Europeans are certainly more respectful than Americans. Also when it comes to interracial marriage, Europeans care less and are less bothered about marrying from a different race than Americans are. Majority of the white guys that showed interest in me for instance were European.
However, when it comes to being sexual, Europeans are certainly less cultured! I mean, more European guys aren't scared of posting pictures of their d***s online. You hardly see Americans doing something like that! And even the ones that do it, if you do a background check on them, you'd most likely find that their parents were immigrants or something.
I'll disagree with you. Europeans are more likely to date people from their own race than Americans. National pride is still very strong in Europe. Maybe the Europeans you met just tried to assimilate. For example one of my first girlfriends in North America was Asian. It was very interesting and different experience.
as far as what iv seen, most/many Europeans in general (living in Europe myself) seem open to dating girls of other races but it seems a bit opposite rather then more open. E.g in the US it seems from my understanding anyway tha white guys there are very open to dating Asian girls whereas in england at least... it seems that this coupling is rare to none existant or even hear about it . the most common race for them to date when they date out seems to be black girls, for the most part this is
I agree, I honestly think that Americans are really less cultured than any other region, that being said, I lived most of my life in another country until I moved to the U.S... so I can only speak about people from the U.S. Over all I think that Americans are mostly cold.. I hope you can understand me when I mean by cold... but, that doesn't apply to EVERY single person that lives in the U.S. not every one is the same.
What do you mean by cold? Europeans aren't cold?
Well, I am Egyptian and I have been to many places. American people are more outgoing and friendly than Europeans but both aren't as warm as Egyptians so they are considered the same to me.
True :)
Yea Americans are retarded compared the the rest of us. They have no history, no culture, no values and their country is a just a sex-fuelled drug-induced, oil-dependen tmess. Amercians are laughed at all over the world. Thank god great britain is distancing itself because we're getting dragged down with them.
I answered a question, for the QA. If you have opinions, write your own answers who cares if you don't agree with me pmsl
Yes I urrently live in UK but I'm not British, thanks. Also British people do not consider themselves European, never have been and never will.
Thanx, and @Kain6th they just do not consider themselves European, it's been their culture and way to stand apart from Europe at least since Maastricht treaty of 91 or whenever it was hence not adopting the Euro. The brits are not European by their own reckoning, maybe in a generation from now it might be different
you miss the point again, they may have been a part of Europe but they DO NOT SEE themselves as European. A huge part of british culture is the aversion to anything European
America is a baby country compared to
Europe though... What do you expect?
Read the question "Cutie" your comment has no place in here, the issue on this thread is whether or not the British consider themselfs to be Euro. The issue is not how old is America? lol you're dumb
Europe gets dummied down on ourpose, but USA is too. It's done on purpose ,so that certain people can manipulate others. I think USA is better tho. I live in Hungary, and belive me, culture is really dark here. People drink,smoke, they only think of themselfs and hate on others. Europe is going DOWNHILL, so is America. Lady Gaga is having tea with Obama about bullying...that is there left ot say.
I guess I was the only one who assumed that by cultured you meant well read, educated in the arts, fine dining, travels to historic places etc. If so, I would say yes, Europeans are certainly more cultured than Americans.
Europeans are more educated their test scores are higher than those of America. America ranks always above 20th in math science whatever. Americans set a lot of trends though so you can't call them uncultured, although their idea of culture is very unsophiticated. Americans are genrally more stupid and thickheaded? I guess like they are a bit less civilized? this is coming from an American so dnt hate
Depends on what you considered 'cultured.' I generally accept being cultured as exposing yourself to a wide variety of cultural things outside the one you were born in.
In that regard, yeah, I'd say Europeans are generally more cultured, partly because there are more differences culturally when you across country lines there than state lines here.
The question here is what is your definition of cultured? What constitutes sophistication?
I don't really like to be very pecific in my questions so as to give people space to think and give me their best answers. So, define the word culture and answer my question please :)
I define culture as the dictionary definition, which is to say that no country can have more or less culture than another because culture is essentially your country's identity. Of course a country that's a melting pot of many nationalities and immigrants is going to have a weaker "identity" than others because of the fact that it is not just one type of religion/race/political belief. It is many people who, in many cases, keep to themselves because they cannot see eye to eye on these matters.
Interesting perspective :)
But by that same token, in its lack of identity there is also identity. The fact that it is many groups of people who cannot come to a consensus forms a uniqueness that other, more focused cultures cannot identify with. Our country is only 300 years old (VERY young) and was founded by combining English, French, Norwegian/Denish/Swedish, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies who all decided they wanted to secede frm their own countries and form their own unions.
We do not have the roots of thousands of years of empire building in our history like your own. You can look to your own country's history and date it back to the Pharaohs. It goes back to the BC days, even. And very few influences from other cultures have made it in to change your way of life (aside from the spread of Islam as a religion, and the influence Alexander the Great had)
unfortunately Kain there are so few of them they didn't really influence us all that much other than being a speed bump. It's sad and I don't like to think about the cruel things our ancestors did to them just because they would not adopt Christian beliefs.
But in any case, Sally, you're talking about a country whose history only dates back a few hundred years and started out as a mix of colonies from many different cultures. Of course we would not be cultured or sophisticated by the standards of people looking at us from the perspective of a largely static culture with thousands of years of history backing it.
But that's not to say that it isn't. It just isn't by your standard, your definition, because you only look for what you know as culture and sophisticated from your own culture.
Very interesting perspective :)
If you look at it from the native Americans standpoint America has had over 2000 years of culture starting from the Olmec and Mayan cultures. And they would argue that each culture here from the Iroquois to the Mojave are very different from each other just like the nations in Europe are.
You are totally right, Kain.
Also, when I said 300 years old, that was an overguesstimate lol. It's closer to 200 years old.
Kain 6th, too sorry there's not much left from from the Olmec, the Mayan, Iroquois, the Mojave, the Inca cultures and even less of the people. Why? Some European hoodlums invaded the Americas. (when I went to Yucatan I went a bit out of the beaten paths and I met people who didn't even know Spanish- Mayan, I suppose)
Am not American or European but am jus going to say what I think so this is just my opinion from the few people I have met.Europeans are more cultured and oh yes sophisticated and Americans are just so liberal so much that it is hard to imagine them as cultured.
im not sure about canadians and australians, but for Americans yes its true. at least from what I've seen...Europeans dress and act differently, have different manners, different culture (America didn't seem to have its own culture when I was there) etc.
Americans don't seem to care about anything seriously, they dress equally and well...just not my type. the people I liked the most during my stay in the US were Hispanics. I guess that says it all lol
If you believe in evolution, then the most cultured place on Earth, would undoubtedly be, Africa. If you don't, then I'd say it's probably a tie between the two. The only reason being is because America lets in all sorts of people on a yearly basis. Yes, we don't really get along with our northern and southern border but..other than that we let in all sorts of cultures.
Why I said it'd be an equal tie
Anyhow, the Canadian Air Force is under American control, isn't it?
Well, America is a new country, so naturally they would have less historical culture. In Europe we have lots of heritage and you are exposed to the cultures of all the other European countries around you. In the UK we can freely travel to N. Ireland, Scotland and Wales, then there's the Channel Tunnel, so we can simply drive into the European mainland. There is simply so much around us.
yup. there are American exchange students ant my university. there's a guy that talks as loud as I shout and one girl burped at my face. the fact that she was fat as hell makes it even uglier and horrifying.
Just another stereotype. I think we are pretty cultured in Canada. Over here people don't forget about their herritage as much as in the US, although that's a generalization. We tend to embrace Canadian culture while keeping our own heritage. People of different races here get along better than most countries and studies have shown that there is less racism here than anywhere else in the world! :)
well duh, I mean, we're all by ourselves over here unless we fly to another country. Plus our mentality is that we are the best and fk everyone else which is wrong.
Maybe, except Russians, the British, Italians, Hungarians, Romanians, Greeks, Baltic States and Poland.
Emm.. what's left then?
The French, Scandinavia, Spain and some more.
So in general... yes, still more cultured than Americans!
Don't judge the nation by a small number of people. Russians, brits, italians and greeks have some of the richest cultures in Europe.
Russians or Englishmen or Dutchmen...
I think so, yes. Americans aren't uncultured but we have many groups in our country and they all do different things so we're less clear cut than countries Europe.
Yes we Europeans are more cultured! I think this is a truism.
USA, this is a mixing of all Europeans, so it`s only a kind of eclectizism. (you can also say it`s a patchwork blanket)
It's interesting how we can use the same evidence to reach opposite conclusions.
Oh if we go by the correct definition of cultured then most likely.
But actually how can you compare a whole continent with a country?
When the country you're talking about is the size of said continent...
not the same. there are many countries in Europe with different customs and things like that. Americans are 1 nation while Europeans are many nations
we also have devision in the countries bub + there are many countries
Inside European countries there are huge differences too: many countries have regions with greater or smaller autonomy: In Germany Bayern will be very different from Hamburg or Berlin. In Spain, Andalusia, Catalunya, Bask country (Euzkadi) have their own state government, often speak a different language. Same in Switzerland : they have three languages: German, French and Italian, divided over a number of 'cantons' with great autonomy.
Belgium has three regions (Brussels Capital, Flanders and Wallonia) and three languages (Dutch,in Flanders and 8% of Brussels French in Wallonia and German in a small part of Wallonnia. It took one and a half year to agree on a government this time) You Americans never heard about Belgium, except their chocolate? Yes, you did. An over enthusiast Belgian made a little patriotic movie: link
thank you jacquesvol !
Europe has a very rich culture. As a child you absorb all that atmosphere into you. Have you ever been to Europe?
Yes, I have.
Then you should have seen how many museums they have, architecture and heard the story which is behind each monument or area. America was built by hardworking men and women who tried to achieve their American dream. Majority of them people who moved to America were low and middle class from Europe. Where in Europe have you been?
I did and I have seen alot. I just asked this question to hear from you guys :)
All buildings are 'architecture'. The U.S. has fantastic depression era skysrapers, modernist ones from the 1950's, etc. Maybe they are not to your taste (or mine) but they are still part of 'culture'.
On a whole Americans are much less cultured than most Europeans.
Excellent answer, well put ;O)
I don't know about Canadians .Canadians are very cultured..This comparison is kind of racist. There are cultured and uncultured Americans as well as Europeans.
no matter who you are, what your heritige is, where you are from...
it all depends on how you were raised.
im American and id say yes every European I've met is really classy stylish and elegant from their accent to manners to style which I adore :)
European men are also quite nicer than American men they still follow chivalry and proper manners
in a way we are... but accent kills us lol I'm a European and I hate my accent!
well, I'm Canadian, but I do have some European backgrounds.
My mom's side of the family is 100% European. They're very very cultured, and very proper.
so yes, I do believe they're more cultured.
That's a load of barnacles. It all depends on the individual. That's like saying Americans are fat and British people have bad teeth. It's just a stereotype people repeat to poke fun at each other.
If by "cultured" you mean in the same way cheese is "cultured", then yes.
They all need to take more showers over there.
Everyone is more cultured than Americans especially when it comes to drinking
Ive traveled plenty plus I'm foreign so shove it
I suppose it depends on your point of view. We all can't generalise. It just appears like Americans are less cultured.
I think it's bullsh*t, just because they TOK LIKE THES doesn't mean they are more cultured
that didn't make sense
Kereru, excellent comment well put
u guys are lame
i feel like they're more formal in everything and Americans are more casual. but I wouldn't say formal equals cultured
in a lot of ways yes. however, if you are American, it depends where you are from. odds are if you are from a large city you are more likely to be more cultured.
Obviously. The one's that left Weren't.
I'd say so. Barely, though.
i think so...
yes
No doubt!
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