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What (or where, or who) do you consider as "real America" ?

Tender Branson

Tender Branson

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As an Austrian, I often think about rural Kentucky or West Virginia as "real America".

A house near or as a farm, with an American flag outside, some pickup truck and a hot girl from next door nearby.

Country music and barbecue too.

What do you think ?
 
Tender Branson said:
As an Austrian, I often think about rural Kentucky or West Virginia as "real America".
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So do they.

Tender Branson said:
A house near or as a farm, with an American flag outside, some pickup truck and a hot girl from next door nearby.

Country music and barbecue too.

What do you think ?
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I think it's wrong to use language like 'real America' about something like that. And that we have a lot of diversity with differing ideas about what's better. What if the family you mention heads to a trump rally? I don't think that represents America much at all. I think you mean a sort of cultural icon, like a Frenchman at a cafe with wine. Or an Austrian holding a "Hitler, please come take over" sign (sorry, cheap shot, too soon?)
 
Tender Branson said:
As an Austrian, I often think about rural Kentucky or West Virginia as "real America".

A house near or as a farm, with an American flag outside, some pickup truck and a hot girl from next door nearby.

Country music and barbecue too.

What do you think ?
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All of it.
Perhaps especially the parts we haven't fully accepted yet, such as territories and illegal/undocumented immigrants.
OR the parts some of us don't want to see, like incredibly racist violent assholes.
All of that is part of America, whether we like it or not.
 
Some 'real Americans' I'd say were Mike Pence *when he refused to attack the election*, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger *when they supported the 1/6 investigation*, the people who resigned and leaked under trump, such as the career officer who exposed his Ukraine call that led to his impeachment at great cost to him and his family, Jack Smith who is working hard now for justice, Bernie Sanders fighting for better government, just for a sample.
 
Tender Branson said:
As an Austrian, I often think about rural Kentucky or West Virginia as "real America".

A house near or as a farm, with an American flag outside, some pickup truck and a hot girl from next door nearby.

Country music and barbecue too.

What do you think ?
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I think that as much as that type of picture is romanticized one should also consider that this:





is the reality for many Americans.
 
well this is already politicized with the usual ..so im not going to answer thoughtfully except real america
is a very diverse place/populace...you'll find real america where you look for it
 
Tender Branson said:
As an Austrian, I often think about rural Kentucky or West Virginia as "real America".

A house near or as a farm, with an American flag outside, some pickup truck and a hot girl from next door nearby.

Country music and barbecue too.

What do you think ?
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Nowadays 'diversity' rules in the US. Which implies division. This once great state is tearing itself to pieces so the concept of a 'real America' is increasingly meaningless.
 
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What do you think ?
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I am 86 years old.

We used to be told that Midwest values were the closest to American values.

You know, such things as having a work ethic, going the extra mile, making your word your bond, etc.

This is 2023.

I do not know whether these values still prevail in the Midwest (Iowa, Kansas, etc.).
 
Tender Branson said:
As an Austrian, I often think about rural Kentucky or West Virginia as "real America".

A house near or as a farm, with an American flag outside, some pickup truck and a hot girl from next door nearby.

Country music and barbecue too.

What do you think ?
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Sorry to bust your bubble, but America today is mostly made up of people who hate each other.


That farmer you have in your picture? You can replace him in the picture with a man in a suit and tie, because today's farmers are just the watchmen looking after the interests of large corporations.
 
Tender Branson said:
As an Austrian, I often think about rural Kentucky or West Virginia as "real America".

A house near or as a farm, with an American flag outside, some pickup truck and a hot girl from next door nearby.

Country music and barbecue too.

What do you think ?
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The girl next door is 31, divorced, and has 2 kids and a meth or opioid habit.

They're barbecuing possum, squirrels and rabbits. I'm amazed there hasn't been a tularemia outbreak.

Country music speaks for itself.

Yep, you nailed the real America.
 
Tender Branson said:
As an Austrian, I often think about rural Kentucky or West Virginia as "real America".

A house near or as a farm, with an American flag outside, some pickup truck and a hot girl from next door nearby.

Country music and barbecue too.

What do you think ?
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I grew up in Miami and all the Americans I knew had families from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Haiti. An American is simply anyone who was born here or naturalized through the immigration process.
 
The land mass between the poles, which resides West of the Atlantic and East of the Pacific.
 
Tender Branson said:
As an Austrian, I often think about rural Kentucky or West Virginia as "real America".

A house near or as a farm, with an American flag outside, some pickup truck and a hot girl from next door nearby.

Country music and barbecue too.

What do you think ?
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40% of the US population lives on 10% of its land mass at its coasts. The other 60% is spread out in its non-coastal states.

That figures into this somehow though precisely how I’d couldn’t say.
 
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