What is the difference between American culture and other anglophone cultures (Australia, Britain, Canada and Ireland) ?

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Innuendo64_@reddit

There's a lot more to this answer than can be answered in a single comment without turning it into an absolute TLDR novel, but the most basic form is that the US broke off from the British Empire a lot earlier than the other former British colonies and therefore had more time to establish its own culture.

The British Empire became the strongest after the American Revolution, and put a more permanent imprint on Canada and Australia. Both didn't become 100% legally independent until 1982, 199 years after the American Revolution ended

And Ireland is literally one of the British isles

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QuarterNote44@reddit

I think it stems from their origin stories. The other colonies got their independence through political means. The US got it by actively rebelling. So while many American folkways are still very much traceable to the UK, our system of government is more distinct from the British way than, say, Canada.

People as whether Canada counts as Europe. Nobody ever asks that about the US.

We still have an independent streak in the US. Now, could very many of us actually cross the plains, live on old biscuits and buffalo meat, and build a log cabin from scratch today? No! We are nearly all very dependent now, and I'm sure the few that aren't are on some kind of list. But we still like our guns and our ability to camp in the wild and such.

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Kingsolomanhere@reddit

We are definitely a more individualistic and entrepreneur society than Europeans. Both Apple computer and Amazon were started in a garage (Job and Woz for Apple and Bezos in his rental home garage)

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justwatchingsports@reddit

That's one of those questions that you could write a book to answer.

My short answer would be, compared to other Anglophone countries, we are significantly less interested in what goes on in the rest of the Anglosphere, and far more connected to the Hispanosphere. The Anglosphere outside of Canada barely registers there at all.

The US doesn't think much about the UK, sports invented there, its music of the last 40 years, or its food. I'm barely aware Australia or New Zealand even exist, they matter so little to the US.

In exchange, we get big influence from the Americas. The US has more Spanish speakers than Spain and if you walk down an American street, you will hear Spanish, see Mexican food, hear Bad Bunny and Grupo Frontera, and all kinda of other Hispanophone things.

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coffeewalnut08@reddit

I’ve noticed Americans, generally, tend to be more well-rounded and curious about everything. It makes for more stimulating conversation.

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huazzy@reddit

Ton of differences. You might as well ask about a specific topic.

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Cheap_Coffee@reddit

All the other anglophone cultures misspell the words color and neighbor.

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uses_for_mooses@reddit

They sprinkle extra u’s in words to try to look fancy.

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MyUsername2459@reddit

American culture is much more individualistic, and non-conformist, and tends to place much greater weight on the idea of individualism and independence, and much less of a role on the idea of government supporting or helping people.

American culture definitely has a very different view of firearms, largely seeing them as an intrinsic part of being a free person, seeing gun ownership as a civil right, and that a government that seeks to take your guns is tyranny. . .as an outgrowth both of the role of guns in the settling of the frontier and American expansion westward, and hostility towards how British forces treated American colonists leading up to the American Revolution (such as the "Powder Alarm" scare with General Gage ordering the seizure of colonial weapons).

American culture is definitely more antagonistic towards the idea of nobility and royalty, as a legacy of the American Revolution and hostility towards what they saw as betrayal from King George III towards the Colonies.

American culture definitely does NOT have a "tall poppy syndrome" and people are pushed to excel instead of conform.

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