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Why does Anglo-American (mostly the latter) political and cultural

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Why does Anglo-American (mostly the latter) political and cultural discourse focus so much on the individual or family unit and so little on the society as a whole? The individual-as-atom thought process dominates both left and right--cultural liberals are obsessed with self-affirmation of invented identities and their stance on everything (except gun control) amount to "if you don't like x don't do it!". The American right subscribes to an absurd, asocial variant of free-market capitalism while assuring themselves that private charity will somehow work better than social security, while American evangelicals (who are spreading their filth to the good people of Africa and Latin America) treat Christianity as a *personal relationship* with Christ. What arrogance.
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>>2836693
In America the private sphere is everything now. They just can't into Big Concepts anymore.
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>>2836693
of course private charity is successful fool, just look at that birth rate in Africa
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>>2836693
Because society is an artificial construction made up of many people you don't give a fuck about and are begrudgingly forced to cooperate with and pay taxes to and the government that represents it doesn't give a fuck about you either and would gladly fuck you over it had the chance.
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Because Americans value personal liberty more than any other people on the planet. Something I've found in talking with people from other cultures is they fundamentally don't respect freedom and don't have a real concept of freedom. I tried talking to this french guy once about freedom of speech and he actually didn't understand that rights don't come from the state. He kept talking about it as something guaranteed or given to him by his government. Really sad.
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>>2836738

And America also has more crime and poverty than any other first-world nation...
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>>2836738
Euros can't even into /natural rights/.

>>2836741
And yet we have a stronger military and larger economy than any other country in the world. Really activates my almonds.
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>>2836741
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
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>>2836748
Wow whataboutism goes back to the Soviet days. Really innervates my neurons.
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>>2836741
Parts of our country maybe. If you go by state, most of the USA is far better off than Europe. We just have a few problem areas that drag our total down. Like if we were to lump in all those eastern european hellholes with the rest of Europe and see how the numbers shake out. Probably more even that way, but I'd stlil wager on Europe pulling ahead cause they don't have massive ghettos filled with violent blacks murdering each other in numbers you'd normally see in war zones.

Doesn't really affect me though, my state has a black population of less than 2% and consequently our crime and poverty rates are both lower than pretty much any country in Europe.
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>>2836738
>tfw you're not American
The worst part is that some illiterate spic can just cross the border and become American while us Europeans have to wait for years even if we're educated.
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>>2836763
>some illiterate spic can just cross the border and become American

Not with Trump at the helm.
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>>2836761
>Not having massive ghettos filled with violent blacks murdering each other in numbers you'd normally see in war zones
Well Britain did just leave the EU
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>>2836753
Communists basically invented this kind of diversionary argumentation.
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>>2836767
Ha. Yeah I was just thinking, if Europe had about 10 more Londons then maybe the crime rate would be equal to the US.
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>>2836764
>Trump
Back to /pol/
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>>2836764
We get plenty of polish illegals. Many illegals just overstay their work visas after flying out here.
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>>2836795
meant for
>>2836763
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>>2836729
>muh constructs
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Americans are delusional, what's new? They think they're free, but their government reminds me of a third-world country with its corruption and cronyism. Just look at the last election, having to decide between Trump and Clinton, and calling it democracy... fucking delusional. And I don't even need to get into the NSA, CIA, and FBI spying on citizens who did nothing.

As for their belief in the free market, that's an even bigger joke. There is no truly free market in the US. Not to mention the completely brainwashed hatred of anything socialist, without realising that in effect, the US government already enacts certain socialist policies. Without them there would be an even greater divide between rich and poor, and I would bet all my savings on a new civil war eventually happening.

Even funnier is the amount of uneducated poor people who somehow think they'll become rich someday.
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