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**Agrisalia** · 07-26-2011, 11:53 PM

Very few countries have a monolithic culture, that doesn't mean they are multicultural, America has an adaptable, assimilationist culture, but it is not multicultural.

That is my point, they assimilate other cultures but they are not multicultural.
All the culture in America is American culture, there are different influences but at the end it is only American culture.

---------- Post added 2011-07-26 at 15:58 ----------

IMAO multicultural countries are those that have several cultures living together without influence each other.
Canada is more multicultural than the USA because it has different official languages in different cities.

IMAO Russia is the truly multicultural country.

Well what countries would you call multicultural then? In my view having a bunch of different ethnicities living in a country together yet being closed off and seperate unable to even communicate together isn't quite multiculturalism, its something else that I cannot think of a word for right now.

A perfect example of monolithic country in my opinion is Japan, almost everyone there has the same biological and cultural background.

---------- Post added 2011-07-26 at 16:05 ----------

America is an "unofficial" multicultural country because there are plenty of people from all different parts
of the globe and all those people have their own ancestral culture/language/music/values/religion
all Americans share the same basic modern "American" culture but each individual family has its own culture they "practice" when they're at home or when their with people who share the same ethnic/ancestral nationality

I agree, but the same applies to Europe also. Spain is more multicultural than the USA, in the USA congress people can only speak in English.
In Spain the comunidades automonas have their official languages: Euskara, Valenciano, Galician.

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Agrisalia Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 486 Senior Member	Very few countries have a monolithic culture, that doesn't mean they are multicultural, America has an adaptable, assimilationist culture, but it is not multicultural. That is my point, they assimilate other cultures but they are not multicultural. All the culture in America is American culture, there are different influences but at the end it is only American culture. ---------- Post added 2011-07-26 at 15:58 ---------- IMAO multicultural countries are those that have several cultures living together without influence each other. Canada is more multicultural than the USA because it has different official languages in different cities. IMAO Russia is the truly multicultural country. Well what countries would you call multicultural then? In my view having a bunch of different ethnicities living in a country together yet being closed off and seperate unable to even communicate together isn't quite multiculturalism, its something else that I cannot think of a word for right now. A perfect example of monolithic country in my opinion is Japan, almost everyone there has the same biological and cultural background. ---------- Post added 2011-07-26 at 16:05 ---------- America is an "unofficial" multicultural country because there are plenty of people from all different parts of the globe and all those people have their own ancestral culture/language/music/values/religion all Americans share the same basic modern "American" culture but each individual family has its own culture they "practice" when they're at home or when their with people who share the same ethnic/ancestral nationality I agree, but the same applies to Europe also. Spain is more multicultural than the USA, in the USA congress people can only speak in English. In Spain the comunidades automonas have their official languages: Euskara, Valenciano, Galician.
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