"...Impell Them to the Seperation."

After a conversation with a few friends at the dinner table, we were faced with the fact that America is a country of everyone's culture but their own. Among other things mentioned from the Olympics, to scars to bobcats (lol), we just realized that America has an abundance of culture, but no culture at all.

The conversation began when we were talking about the little Chinese lip-synchining girl, then all the Chinese children carrying the flag in a variety of traditional clothing. I thought: what if this would have been American children carrying the flag? What would they have worn? It might have been a mixture of Vans sneakers, skinny jeans, cowboy hats, Fubu jackets, hypebeasts, punkrockers, Paris Hiltons, college students, orthopedic-shoe wearing elderly people, soccer moms and CEO's. And believe that they would not have all be Chinese either.

Now don't get the wrong impression, I love America, and not just because the Patriot Act prohibits me from saying otherwise. I love America because where else can you get tacos, cheeseburgers and curry chicken all in one place? I love America because where else can you unintentionally become famous for being bipolar and swearing at a random old woman on the train? Where everyone knows you because you have a name like Crunchy Black, Soulja Boy or Garth (as in Garth Brooks).

But in all seriousness, I really do love America. Despite governmental faults, America is still the land of opportunity and prosperity. And along with all the opportunity comes the opportunity for all ethnicities to assimilate and contribute to what America is. On a small scale I go to school with people who are first generation American, where in my classrooms are people who like like me or nothing like me at all in 25 different ways. But on a large scale we have fast food companies that capitalize on introducing new cultures to us, i.e. Taco Bell.

Because America has no specific culture, we have really become a melting pot. I really see America as a land full of immigrants, after all, what really is American? I also think that because of such diversity, no specific ethnicity will exist in about five generations, but thats just me and my California state of mind.

But the fact is, America does not lack culture at all. I think its effervescent with culture, and I love the diversity. I know other locations across the country may prove me wrong about the diversity part, but that what makes America what it is.

So, I'll leave you with a few last words:
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it" -James Baldwin