Stannis wrote:
MonsterGuy wrote:
My parents are Turkish and Muslim, and I was born here. I feel like Im falling in love with American culture as I have normally identified quite strongly with Turkish and Islamic culture. Im thinking of changing my religion, too, and start dating, and be okay with drinking alcohol (when Im 21 and up), and feel like an American only. What do I do?
Why would you want to be a selfish jingoistic ignoramus, though? Don't mistake secular values with american values. America is a brainwashed oligarchy with a level of
religious fundamentalism close to Iran's.
"religious fundamentalism" perhaps in another way too...
America is a "debt culture". A lot of Americans joke that their "religion" is the pursuit of the 'Almighty Dollar'.
"Almighty dollar is an idiom often used to satirize an individual or cultural obsession with material wealth, or with capitalism in general. The phrase implies that money is a kind of deity"
source,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almighty_dollar
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