Germans are so stubborn

[lonelyjak]

that doesnt disprove what I said though. I was musing if there were residual personality traits. I was never making the argument that undiluted germanic personality traits still exist in the american psyche. if americans forged their own culture then where did that come from? out of the ether? its only rational to posit that the american cultural mindset is a pastiche of all the different european immigrant groups that settled here, among which germans were a major immigrant group.

there is something vaguely germanic about many other americans ive met (personality wise), but I cant put my finger on it exactly. I dont rule out that maybe im just imagining it either though

there's no definable 'culture', the point is for it to be an on going experiment

that doesnt disprove what im saying. america having no definable culture doesnt invalidate my suggestion that there are possible residual germanic personality/cultural traits in the broader american culture

it does because Germany has a culture and it shines through any lineage left in foreign soil. however, this does not last in America, so i will my point better, America is precisely anti-culture

youre making a statement of opinion not fact. there is no way you can definitively prove this 

america being anti-culture is also an opinion, one that I happen to agree with, but the fact that america is anti-culture doesnt mean that it completely wipes out the vestiges of various founder cultures that constitute what we consider as american culture

also I didnt explicitly state this earlier but I did very subtly suggest this; what about the genetic component of behavior? if we assume that racial behavioral differences exist then it makes sense that on this broader spectrum of race there must also exist ingrained ethnic behavioral differences. ergo, assuming that race/ethnicity is related to behavior on a genetic level then as long as germanic genes exist in the american genepool then there will be traces (to varying degrees) of genetic german behavior as well. accordingly this influence would be impervious to any kind of anti-culture