Those are food and architectural things, not culture. Back to the drawing board.

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thats what culture means moron

Little men with little dicks like to post huge colored words to compensate for their feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem.

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"Anti-Semitism is the final consequence of Judaism, an unavoidable result of their own actions." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
"Gummer is a crazy old fart who loves to suck nigger cocks, and he so admires Lasher, he's gay for Him."

I am sorry that you are an illiterate jewhating hillbilly.

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GOD BLESS AMERICA

none of the lefty losers who think that we should be more European like in our lives can articulate a single aspect of Euro culture.

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As a republican, I appreciate the differenced in class and how people know their station in life. It's nice to know there are places that the crumbs are not mixed in with the cake so to speak.

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"A nation can survive its' fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. "Cicero, 42 B.C., Roman Statesman, orator, and author.

Is there a 'New world' culture which includes all the American countries from the arctic to Tierra del Fuego? That's the equivalent to what you are asking for. How much has Lapland in common with European Turkey, Ireland with Armenia? If you want sensible answers, be more specific, and distinguish between culture as way of life/culture as artistic achievement.

Why do you suppose 'lefties' are 'losers', by the way? Doesn't that contradict all the codswallop about 'elitists' that the very rich in America so much favour as a political non-argument against their literate opponents?

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nox est perpetua una dormienda.

culture is what we learn. some thngs we get genetically: hair color, height, brains or lack there of.

Everything else is culture...the particular language we speak, our religion, dance, music, science etc etc

Buildings are part of cultural and history. maybe people like that in europe.
I like castles, not palaces, but the old moat and drawbridge castles

i also like languages: speak 4 (roughly) so going to Europe is a linguistic adventure. I screw things up royally but its enjoyable to try.

i don't know much about art but dug the Van Gogh museum.

Beer is a cultural artifact, made by man, and in the Franken area of Germany it is local and out of this world.

girls on motor scooters..barcelona

the picasso museum in barcelona...in a 13th century building...gaudi...also barcelona

topless beaches..all night bars...big old churches to feel guilty in after enjoying the former

Should I go on or is this enough of an idea of what someone might like about Europe?

I think the question is about this European enlightment (code for liberal views)that some seem to see. In my exprience you find this the same place you find it in the US, on college campuses and in the Cafes of large cities where people have time and money to sit and fantasize about how the world should be. Get out into the country and work with people who in are inmanufacturing, distribution, etc. and it's motly the same as it here.

BTW, two major fallacies:

1. Europeans are far more open minded about racial equality. if you believe this read up on France and North Africans, Germany and Turks or any of the huge number of other brewing racial tensions.

2. All Europeans speak multiple languages. Many Europeans speak multiple languages out of necessity since they live on top of each other or live in countries so small you candrive out of them in 45 minutes no matter where you are (Holland is a great example). I grew up in Chicago, if they spoke a different language in Wisconsin, I'd speak it. Also, thisconcept is simply not true when you meet the everyday people in in the larger countries (France, Germany, Italy, etc.). Many of these people speak only their native language.

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Fanatically Moderate.

I think it is the cultural diversity that makes Europe attractive, certainly, and also creative. Less than a million people speak my own particular language, but we have our own literary culture reaching back (probably anyway) to the fifth or sixth centuries, and in general our own way of looking at the world. I think that sort of variation is worth having, despite the inconvenience of so many languages. The US has other virtues, and it's not a competition, but I think that when Americans 'get culture' as when they 'get religion' they tend to go over the top a bit, like Ezra Pound and such, which may be what creates the reaction.

I hate castles myself - they were build in profusion to hold us down (we were good fighters) - and prefer farm-houses and churches. I speak three languages to a reasonable degree of proficiency and used to know Chinese as well, but it seems to have been destroyed by drink. That means I've got three ways to see life, I reckon. The Van Gogh museum was great - wasn't the paint thick! - surprised me that. British beer is best nowadays, but there is good stuff to be had in Belgium, Poland and, of course, the Czech Republic as well as Germany.

You were luckier with Barcelona than I was though - thieving buggers as they are!

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soles occidere et redire possunt;
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.