The USA is not a Western culture

America is a unique culture in its own right.

If anything in general, we are a New World culture, owing much of our culture today to Europe, Africa, and Asia. Like the rest of the New World, we have been emigrated to from the Old World, both East and West, in the last 500 years. But even in earlier historical times, it appears there was emigration to the New World from the then East and West.

It’s a heritage to recognize, and be pleased with. In theory and fact (most believe) we have taken the best of the Old World, sloughed off the worst of the Old World, and become us. Even our federal republic is different from most of the Old World governments, and we have avoided royalty and nepotism and dictatorship so far. And we are not perfect, nobody is, but compared to the rest of the World, our unique culture is worth tooting our horn about.

Will the status quo last forever. Probably until tomorrow, maybe. Our geographical isolation is shrinking by a global world expanding. Our incessant overspending and borrowing to pay for it will eventually collapse of its own weight, but what emerges will be uniquely American, and better than before (and after great hardship). Will we still get dragged down by Old World problems? Probably not, as we have already sloughed off Old World problems and failed ideas, and we do have our own unique National Interests. Will we sometimes have to be ruthless defending our culture? Yes (the best we can), after all we are an attractive melting pot for much of the World.

The converse may turn out to be the World’s future, as the New World drags the Old World along. If that is the case, American culture will probably play a large roll in this.