Why does it feel like I have no culture?

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I'm a Black American. My dad is Dominican and Jamaican. And my mom is just a regular Black American. My dad doens't even embrace his own culture. I'm in internnational club and all of the kids are from everywhere, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin American. And they were all talking about their countries and cultures and languages. I envy them because it seems like Black Americans don't have all of that. We're just Black.It's not fair, we don't even have a real country for ourselves.I hate when people say "go back to africa" and stuff. We hardly have a home in Africa.Yeah, you can say that we have African ancestors but where in the world were they from???? I feel no connection to Africa at all. I'm trying to embrace my Caribbean heritage but I know nothing about it.....It's weird because I like Asian culture and I like to learn about it more.
mr. incognito!-Hip hop music is very universal now. The hip-hop that is out is mostly garbage...So I barely listen to it, because all they talk about is dumb stuff and none of it is conscious.
tzddean-American culture is predominately white and Eurocentric and I can't identify with it at all.
 
what you are experiencing is an racial identity crisis because of the drastic effects we've had on our racial identity.

history examples -
slavery and the slave trade is an occurrence, another occurrence is the romans in which they believed to conquer our history and identity to disadvantage us including the greek colonization in parts of the middle east and africa.

a wealth of knowledge and our true history can never be recovered because of what white peoples ancestors have done. we are lost and to our hurting we feel disconnected...

king of london - the culture of hip hop stems from jamaica.

authentic black american - after the british abolished slavery in 1834 there was a socio-political, economic hardship. which caused many jamaicans to migrate to the northern part of usa seeking opportunities in the 1900's. when jamaicans brought various caribbean culture elements, the culture of hiphop was introduced.

authentic black american -
how much migrated is irrelevant. there were jamaicans in america before the 1970's, even during jim crow. black americans migrating to the north was to seek opportunities, same reason for jamaicans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_American
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_culture

authentic black american - so yes. you are correct. new york city is where hiphop was truly developed. but those black americans which developed hiphop were "black" americans of jamaican descent.

authentic black american - the evidence i provided is right in front of your face.
 
What's wrong with American culture? You're not from an African country, so it's not surprising that you don't feel a connection to it. Why don't Americans see that their own country has a culture, separate from the culture of other countries? See the first answer.
 
Hip Hop Culture is by far the largest and strongest Black Culture in the western world and its Black Americans. Or if your not into the Hip Hop culture I dont theres alot to chose from but every human on earth has culture they just dont all have names for them

Culture is
Language
Clothing
Food
Music
Belief

And everyone has those
 
And what makes Black American culture any less of a culture than Dominican and jamacian..Jazz, R&B, hip-hop, rap, blues, soul food. Black American culture is the most world renowed black culture in the world..

And seetheworld hip-hip did NOT stem from Jamacia. You dont see any hip hop companies in Jamacia do you?


Seetheworld: jamaicans didnt even come to the U.S. enmass untill around the 70's. The blacks in the nothern U.S. got there through the great migration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_bone_express
Carribean culture has had little to no effect of American culture..Bob Marley is barley even known in the U.S. If Jamacians started hip-hop then why the hell are all the CEOs of hip hop Black AMERICANS..If you wanna see Jamacain culture GO TO JAMACIA!!

seetheworld: Bullsh!t, 95% of the people migration to nothern cities were black Americans and if the other 5% werent black southerners they still carried black American CULTURE and didnt recognize themselves as anything but a American ne'gros. And lets not forget there were always free black American in the north anyway. Jamacians (in jamaica) even complain that thier country has become too "Americanized" by hip-hop. Jamacia played a large part in reggae but as far as the influence in hip-hop thier contribution is negligible outside of a few American-born performers. I have nothing against the carribiean, they have a very influential culture but just not in the U.S.

seetheworld: You dont actually think im taking evidence from wiki do you..Especally from a page thats mosty NOT SOURCED.
 
The term culture is so figurative.

I could be black, but that doesn't mean I know what my culture is. I do day to day things that are very unusual to some, so I don't see when it is I ever do anything cultural.

Maybe the music and food aspect of it, but everything else is a midst to me.
 
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