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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 29, 2026

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Americans conquered this land, established it's institutions, and then fucked. They fucked a lot. And they made more Americans as surely as Indians make more Indians, or Africans make more Africans.

A significant chunk of Americans, including just of the white population don't have any strong genetic ties to the colonists. I have German and Irish and Italian heritage myself in my grandparents/greed grandparents and while I don't know the full lineage of my ancestors the idea that I, and many others like me, exist because the colonists fucked a lot is just incorrect. I may or may not have genetic ties to the colonists somewhere, but it's not some overwhelming key piece. And in fact about 40% of the country can trace themselves back to Ellis Island alone which only operated for 62 years out of the 250 we've been around (and was for the east coast, the west coast had Angel Island which processed a lot of the Asians). Now some of those people may have higher percentages of colonial heritage than someone like me does, but the idea of it just being beause the original colonies reproduced is incorrect.

The mistake of America is believing anyone else could possibly achieve this. It's resulted in 100 years of global misadventures trying to spread "Americanism" and failing every single damned time when 3rd worldism just drags it back down to the lowest common denominator.

Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Italy, and a significant portion of post soviet nations, among quite a few others here and there are success stories of Americanism spreading. So successful that you didn't even consider them, we literally did an anime style defeat means friendship with quite a few. Those dirty inferior Japs are now our friends and one of our closest allies. There's also of course Israel (which is a democracy and generally an ally even if they're a shit one), and the other nations that Olive mentioned.

And in fact about 40% of the country can trace themselves back to Ellis Island alone which only operated for 62 years out of the 250

And 30 million of us can trace ancestry back to the 53 survivors of the Mayflower.

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