MrWayne said:
contestgamer said:
Because I'm half American/half European. In American I enjoy the multiculturalism, especially here in NYC. Everyone is different, every cuisine is available. It's fun. When I go travelling back to Europe though I'm sick of seeing it becoming more and more Americanized. Same thing when I travel to other overseas countries. I travel because I want to immerse myself in the historic culture of the location, and ONLY its culture - not its culture diluted/mixed with others. When I go to Turkey I want to see Turkish/Islamic culture - I dont want to see it diluted or mixed with other faces/architectural styles/languages and customs. I dont need the whole world to become the same in an ironic quest for diversity.
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Do you think that the world outside of America is some kind of museum and that people with different cultures are only allowed to meet in New York?
I'm 100% Bavarian, I like to speak with a strong bavarian accent, and I love many things in our culture, but I also love Japanese video games, turkish food, American music and my Serbian friends. I don't want to travel to have all this.
The mixture of cultures has always been the driving force in human history.
Imagine Europe and America if Europeans in the fifteenth century decided to preserve their medieval ideas and not adopt ancient Greek and Roman culture.
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