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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Catolias" data-source="post: 8033561" data-attributes="member: 7017236">Not just US culture, but every culture.Language gives an amazing insight into this. Words like pyjama or bungalow are not English but Indian in origin. Beef is not English in origin, it’s French.Food is another. Spaghetti’s origins are in the noodles of China. Fancy an Indian curry? Well “curry” is not Indian. It’s a generic English word applied to a type of food. And if you want “Indian” food, where from? Kerala? North India? Think bolognese sauce was always available in the Italian peninsula? Think again: the tomato came from the americas and was considered poisonous well into the 16th century. So, that food didn’t exist as we know it prior to then. The idea that today’s nation states represent a monolithic culture is ridiculous. It is also ignorant of history to suggest that the cultures that exist today did not meld other older cultures. That melding might have been by force or by agreement.</blockquote>