I think american cluture sucks. is it normal?

You're picking specific "great" civilisations at the height of their culture AND only picking the best of their achievements over hundreds of years. It's a trebly unfair comparison.

Compare America against a random other civilisation in a random time period, and I think America would come out exceedingly well. America is the country of Salinger, Twain, Heller, and Vonnegut. I've read everything Vonnegut wrote, but only some of Homer, Virgil and Ovid. It might be sacrilege but I'm tempted to say Kurt Vonnegut is more important. Certainly today, and that's all any of us can judge by.

I'm sure there was plenty of losers back then too, but history tends to only tell you about the good things. In a couple hundred years, what do you think will be officially recorded about us? And not just officially recorded but most popularly read subjects? Probably only the greatest achievements and the bottom of the barrel, the mid section will fall by the wayside, as usual. There's been horrible people, great minds, wonderful artists and everything inbetween throughout history but when you delve into the subject you tend to find exactly hat you're looking for-either the worst or the best-the in-betweeners don't tend to make history.

I think the united states has its own history that makes it unique.

It would be boring if it were the same as European history.

Wild wild west anyone?

I think South American history is really fascinating too!

America is less than three hundred years old. You can't expect one nation to become Greece or Rome in that amount of time, especially not in this era. Those were civilizations at their peak. Broaden your mindset.

America culture is being a melting pot, freedom, and escaping prosecution. Most meals eaten in america are american versions of other cultures food. So America has no real culture as it is the blending of all the other cultures. What are you going to expect? So yes you might think everywhere but america is fun since America just adapts every other culture that comes into it.

you are preaching to the choir amen and all that good shit/ aka I agree

Cluture?

its okay i agree with you. but the reason that the u.s. is not “famous” is simply because americans are lazy and have always been lazy thats also one of the reasons for the high rates of obisity because we are lazy

America is going to hell.And no one seems to care.Ancient greece and Rome where not onley the first but the best examples of democracy think about it!In ancient greece you never had to wory about being frowned apon because you where of a diferent race or wory about being diported for no reason!America is without a doubt becoming the crapiest country on earth!

Compare those tubby lard-buckets to the wealthy of the medieval era, or Tongans and Samoans of the old hierarchical system. That was considered a sign of high wealth. People in the 18th century also wore shitty (literally), torn, infested rags, working class people wore shoes made of cloth, and might've had two outfits. People back then read those books because they were relevant and cutting-edge. They are still read because they helped to formulate and create a basis for what today is relevant and cutting edge. Ancient Greece and Rome were great, you could own slaves, own women, and the enemies of your people could be raped, pillaged, and sold into slavery. You might be the worst liberal ever, but if you like all the things I've described, move to Sub-Saharan Africa, all your dreams await you there.

@ above

still

trying to compare the US with other cultures that have thousands of years of history does just not work.
yes there are a lot of "fashions" in the US like this jersey shore shit or your music industry and you can be as patriotic as you want about it.

just try to be objective - you will see that not only what you call "US culture" sucks but also that its waaaaay more superficial and just not as traditional as "real" cultures.

but w/e...

"People used to read "The Prince," "Ammianus Marcellinus," "Homer," Were the slaves and peasants reading those though? How many people were even literate in those societies compared to modern America? I'm sure there were elites back then looking down on people with less status than themselves. You can't compare the greatest works of one culture -spanning decades or centuries to currently popular works in another. Compare Homer to Mark Twain or something.

I'm an American and I'm not ashamed to say that our culture sucks we stole pretty much everything bits and pieces of other peoples culture fused them together and "made it our own" even the freaking food we eat chinese food, mexican food, italian food the most delicious foods came from other countries I could go on and on but gotta go to work !

I agree that American cluture sucks so does the education... But yes I do agree it does suck

I have to agree with the above poster. America hasn't a very long history, and I can't think of anything in American 'culture' that isn't influenced by or already existing/in practice elsewhere.
America is the result of a medley of cultures, if you want to call the result of that a culture, fine, but it contains nothing unique.

maybe an american cannot understand that but to me, im german, there is no such thing as an "american culture. since you're talking about the usa....

correct me if im wrong but for the most part the "usa culture" consists of european, african, mexican and asian influences. so if you would take these things away what is left?

trailerparks and mcdonalds? if you call that a culture i'm very sorry for you.

The thing about America is, you CAN wear, read, act like people did in those cultures. We're a combination of every culture, modernized. The whole world is modern now, actually. (or a majority of it.)
Stop complaining. Go to a toga party or something.

There are a lot of ugly sides to Americanism but there are some beautiful ones as well. If you don't like what you see, change it. I love the culture of my town. It is getting to be event season where people gather on the waterfront every weekend to eat local food, drink local beer/wine, listen to local music, and just generally enjoy each others company. Artists sell their wares and give of themselves. Handmade/homemade everything. People exchanging their skills for that of another. It's about building community, not shutting yourself in and fearing your neighbors. I love this time of year. I just hope this energy spreads.