Olerand wrote:Uxupox wrote:
Our constitution is inherently different from any sort of European influence (the only European having any sort of influence on it is John Locke). Religion? Do you mean by religious basis that South Korea is also inherently "Western" due to the Abrahamic influence over its population? Our values are also different as you have stated previously. What about our everyday life? Who cares about ancestral traditions.
Separation of powers? Montesquieu no? Democracy? The ancient thinkers, no? Literally every part of it was influenced by Europe.
Well no, religion in play with other factors. Religion alone does not make you Western, which is why Uganda is not Western. Though your Christianity is closer to ours (outside of Evangelicalism) than it is to Uganda's.
Oh they are different no doubt. But yours are derived from Western thought. America's obsession with freedom doesn't come from the east, no?
Your everyday life is more similar to ours than it is to the east or south, no?
Well... Many Americans do, as they repeatedly say and do. Many Americans are, again, from my personal experience, very proud of their Scottish-English-Irish whatever roots.
Our roots are own shaped by our own experiences with each other. African-american, Chinese American, Latino Americans, Arabians and etc. The culture aspect is unique in the fact that it is a melting pot unseen around the world (as Israel Zangwill personally stated). Heck inside the United States somebody from Washington state will be completely different in all values of life to someone that comes from Florida. Not to mention NYC in which you could go outside and be beseeched by maybe dozens of languages just by going to the nearest store. The only actual values that Americans do in fact however share is the love of both liberty and freedom. Those Irish-Americans are just one part of the pie that is the United States.