Why are AA's the only group in the diaspora who are told get in tune with their culture?

[The Fade]

You are annoying because you are stupid and probably the dumbest person on the TLR...

You probably the most insufferable and stupidest person I ever met on the internet.

I listed African American thinkers and scholars that defined the African American race and our worldview.

Every single race and ethnicity has that because that's how society works.

African American equivalent of Plato and Aristotle already existed, it's just most Black Americans aren't educated on them

You have thought leaders that outlines the world for everyone within their group. That's how human societies work.

WEB Dubois and his the Double Consciousness theory and all his works

Alain Locke and the New Negro movement and the Harlem Renaissance.

David Walker and the Appeal

Frederick Douglass and his countless works

These are the works that is the foundation of post slavery African American life, expression, identity and outlook on the world.

Not food. Not music. Not celebrities.

No Japanese person gonna tell you anime and sushi is what defines them.

No Italian person is gonna point to Mafia movies and pizza and spaghetti as a defining their identity.

Breh the Greeks lived their whole lives aspiring to become bullshyt from the fukking odyssey and Hesiod. They’re fukking poems. Music is a part of culture but is not the culture. Philosophs were only a part of that culture, everyone thought they were full of shyt and they mentally masturbated amongst each other and the elites. That’s why they made Socrates kill himself. If music was not an important part of culture why would the Greeks distinctly name the major scale modes we musicians use today distinctly such as Aelian, Ionian, Phrygian, Lydian etc.. they’re named after distinctive Greek people in Greece and Anatolia

Only the elites bothered with that shyt till people could read.. which is when the printing press was invented. You should have said Lycurgus or Solon, Draco, Demosthenes, Pericles. The philosophs were pretty much poets themselves

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

I will say this, I was alarmed to see how many Africans reacted to black Americans wearing African garb. I felt an air of anger and arrogance towards African Americans in their "think" pieces and these same Africans are actively taking apart in African American culture as if it is their own. As a person who is born in America to an American parent and also a Jamaican parent I find myself in long arguments with Africans who feel that their culture is far more sacred than black american culture for whatever narcissistic reason. Yes, narcissistic because that's all it is.

Those people are idiots. Dashikis and Kente cloth etc are not even traditional garb for most Africans. They have been adopted even on the continent by most people that wear em.

 

[mykey]

Our culture is international. No offense to my fellow black people around the globe but we are the most influential. I know this didn't really answer the OP but that is all

I agree.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Op says slick shyt about AA on the regular

 

[K.Dot]

Most hated most imitated

 

[The Fade]

I agree.

Only white people wear that Frat Daddy/Country shyt/Gold wannabe/Footbal coach attire.

But EVERYONE copies the shyt out of Urban Streetwear world wide. I know a white Pike frat boy whos already high p*ssy game went UP after my nigerian friend showed him how to style.

Asians are racist as shyt, BUT WHY THE fukk DO THEY DRESS LIKE US? Especially Koreans

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

fukk whoever doesn't respect dominican identification, they can suck my dikk

Why would you offer your dikk to men?
Nobody has to respect recently created ethnic identities exaggerated to offset the blow of racism.

Flags ain't gonna save you, they're toilet paper.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Food and music isn't culture...

And we are already know who we are...

That's thing....

I ain't confused about who I am...

I have no desire to look towards Africa

I don't need to put on a daishiki

I don't feel the need to think food and music is what defines me...I do not point to celebrities and food dishes to signify my African Americanness...that's stupid...

No Nigerian man is gonna give you some Fufu and say this defines me...

The fact that when people think of African Americans and think about fried chicken and collard greens is offensive as fukk...so no...food doesn't fine me...

I have my cultural heroes...I got David Walker, Frederick Douglass, WEB Dubois, Alain Locke..they tell me who I am and where I come from...and people can go read what they wrote and what they said and what they did and get the entire meaning of what it means to be an African American...

That's the point of culture...

And you are annoying as fukk...you always defenisive like a hoe on the block..

Always being passive aggressive like a bytch...

Says who? man you don't even know how deep this rabbit hole goes. you don't see the endless debates on jollof rice and afrobeats ?

Food and music is a very defining point of culture but it should not be the end all be all

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

That's not exactly true.

Are there's less intact African-cultural retentions in AA culture than most Caribbean cultures? Yes, but, there are plenty of Afro-Diasporan groups in continental Latin-America that have less African cultural retention than us. For instance, we have THREE surviving creole langauges, whereas most of them have none.

Edit:

Not, to mention due to factors of the uniqueness of the US slave experience, there's been a lot of uniquely African-American modifications/innovations on African cultural concepts, such as the backbeat rhythm which takes an African polyrhythmic concept of syncopating the off-beat(2-4), and made it the basis for entire songs to be written.

There's nothing like that native to other Afro-decedents in the Americas, because US slaves formed it as a simple, yet ingenious way to keep the rhythm times in an Africanized way that was familiar to them after percussion instruments were banned for slaves to use after the stono rebellion.

AAs are more in tune with their African side than their latino count parts with the exception of brazil and haiti

 

[mykey]

AAs are more in tune with their African side than their latino count parts with the exception of brazil and haiti

No way. What about Afro-Cubans who speak Yoruba to this very day? Afro-Ecuadorians?

Check out these Colombians

 

[Supper]

AAs are more in tune with their African side than their latino count parts with the exception of brazil and haiti

Excluding Caribbean latinos, AA retain more African-culture elements than all latinos except brazilians, columbians, french Guianas, and Panamanians.

I'd say we're on about the same level as Afro-Columbians as far as cultural African retentions.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

No way. What about Afro-Cubans who speak Yoruba to this very day? Afro-Ecuadorians?

Check out these Colombians

ohh yeah I forget about cuba they up their too also with colombia, haven't meant many Ecuadorians in my life time

Excluding Caribbean latinos, AA retain more African-culture elements than all latinos except brazilians, columbians, french Guianas, and Panamanians.

I'd say we're on about the same level as Afro-Columbians as far as cultural African retentions.

Dominicans aren't that in tune with their roots, a lot of them be on some other other shyt followed by Puerto ricans

 

[Supper]

No way. What about Afro-Cubans who speak Yoruba to this very day? Afro-Ecuadorians?

Check out these Colombians

They don't speak Yoruba in their day to day speech. They use it as a religious liturgical language during rituals.

In a similar sense that the Gullah/Geechee people use the Mende language of West Africa in their folk songs(which also came from africa and remain intact among the gullah/geechee).


Lorenzo Dow Turner also noted that the gullah people could count from one to nineteen in the fula language.

 

[mykey]

They don't speak Yoruba in their day to day speech. They use it as a religious liturgical language during rituals.

In a similar sense that the Gullah/Geechee people use the Mende language of West Africa in their folk songs(which also came from africa and remain intact among the gullah/geechee).


Lorenzo Dow Turner also noted that the gullah people could count from one to nineteen in the fula language.

Agreed,but the Gullahs are a very small percentage of AAs in general.

 

[mykey]

She sings in perfect Yoruba. From Trinidad.