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Can someone explain me USA obsession with prom and similar school rituals? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by FookReddit69@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I just don't get it... Why is that important, especially for kids now, that feel like they need to do a YouTube video asking for a date or doing some meme stuff. Some teens even hire the hottest celebrity or ask them to appear in their prom? This is so bizarre for me, all that just for a frivolous night.

In my country prom was a thing but nowhere near as theatrical, I didn't went to either my prom trip or the party. Also skipped half of my middle school trips.

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Tbf, being a melting pot also means all those cultures impact and influence "ours." Plenty of Americans have bat mitzvahs, for instance, of course they'd be particularly the ones that are Jewish, but plenty of Americans also observe Ramadan. We have a lack of cohesive culture because we're not just one cohesive "people," yet we all are under the banner of "American."

Our country is a melting pot, and so "our culture" is too, made up of pieces immigrants have brought with them from everywhere in the world. I think it's pretty cool, personally.

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off."

-Tyler Durden

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You have fun with all that! I otoh am going to eat shwarma, then hit the mexican ice cream truck for dessert. Maybe watch some anime after that with my friend from Prague.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or to put it concisely: "even the fascists eat kebabs"

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes yes I'm a fascist because I was born in a place you don't like and appreciate the cultures others have decided to share with us. Does it get tiring, being a contrarian just for the sake of it?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I was agreeing with you. If even the far-right consume the foods of the very cultures they rally against, then those cultures have already assimilated into the public's unconscious

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Ah I misunderstood, my mistake.