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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 217137" data-attributes="member: 363">I'm not sure about your point. America is a land of immigrants; there really isn't a race that is American. No matter how much bad press the US gets for race relations, it still is quite accepting of new people and ideas - when you think about it, we're remarkably peaceful considering all the various races/creeds/ideologies that live within close proximity to each other. That's more important than the provenance of inventions. The US takes ideas and makes them work. For that matter, being an American is, itself, an idea. That idea is what binds us together as a nation. Maybe that's why others outside the US criticize the US for jingoism; we have to declare that we're American because there are no racial, cultural, or religious cues to indicate so.And the assertion that the US makes no good music is nonsense. There is an enormous varity of music here, that comes from literally thousands of cultural influences. On what is the assertion there is no good music here based? What gets played on Mtv, or makes the Billboard charts? That's pretty myopic.</blockquote>