Misconceptions about American culture
I think there is a massive misconception about the culture that the American public makes when thinking about the culture of America. This misconception is that culture is independent of its progenitors. There is a rather hasty belief that culture can come from non-culture, in the same way, that life doesn't come from the entropy of the universe, or perhaps that the culture of a people can exist in a vacuum. Indeed it is truer to say that culture comes from culture than to say that culture is born of the people. Well, people are the givers of the origin of culture, the primary function of people is to be the force that changes, adapts, and evolves culture. On these points, we can see that the culture of a country is derivative of the culture of its people. So for a country like Ethiopia or any other country that has existed sovereignty for many generations it would be more than fair to say they have become the progenitors of their own culture, but what of us, have we become th...
