I believe in a culturally pure America.

[Shadow Wolf]

More and more, I think my home state may be one of confusion.

I put in quite an effort into not sounding like I'm from rural Indiana. Although, rural Indiana, rural Missouri, they aren't overall that different as far as I can tell. But leaving Indiana and the MidWest, it was definitely a time when listening to those who pissed me off by telling me to leave actually did turn out to be a great idea.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I'm glad I curb stomped my rural Hoosier accent. I'm not a Hoosier, I hated sounding like it, and now people apparently think I'm from the Northern US states, some even put me into Canada even though I don't pronouce "au" as "oo," eh?

The Ozark accent is sort of unusual. It has southern influence and is very rural, but it seems to be one of a kind. Probably the strong southern influence is the most notable feature. I like it. I still get some people that notice it. How yawl doin'? I'm fixin to getter done.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I put in quite an effort into not sounding like I'm from rural Indiana. Although, rural Indiana, rural Missouri, they aren't overall that different as far as I can tell. But leaving Indiana and the MidWest, it was definitely a time when listening to those who pissed me off by telling me to leave actually did turn out to be a great idea.

Oh no. Rural Missouri is not some hoosier lingo. We would never stand for that. Oh my. I'm getting the vapors just thinking of it.

When dialects collide. The movie. See the passion on the big screen. Six years of war over who sounds the most simple. Then Johnny comes home to the farm, wounded and lost. A shell of a man no longer the boy that left home. It is up to Mable Proud to help him find his way. Her strength will become his strength. I think Russel Brand and Keira Knightley should play the leads.

You are likely right. I would expect some similarities, especially these days when there is more interchange and blending due to people moving around.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Oh no. Rural Missouri is not some hoosier lingo. We would never stand for that. Oh my. I'm getting the vapors just thinking of it.

I meant not much a difference more from a cultural perspective. I'd say Missouri is better (because I didn't live there very long at all), but they were unreasonably hateful towards Mormons there for a while.

 

[Ellen Brown]

What about Native American cultures and languages?

The European invaders are already on record as to the genocide they committed against the Native Americans.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The Ozark accent is sort of unusual. It has southern influence and is very rural, but it seems to be one of a kind. Probably the strong southern influence is the most notable feature. I like it. I still get some people that notice it. How yawl doin'? I'm fixin to getter done.

If I wouldn't have moved from such a young age that's how I'd be talking. Assuming I didn't end up hating that place so much I wanted to sever all such ties to it like I did Indiana.

 

[Stevicus]

I like the accent here.

And some decent Cajun music:

 

[Dan From Smithville]

If I wouldn't have moved from such a young age that's how I'd be talking. Assuming I didn't end up hating that place so much I wanted to sever all such ties to it like I did Indiana.

Where did you move from to Indiana?

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I meant not much a difference more from a cultural perspective. I'd say Missouri is better (because I didn't live there very long at all), but they were unreasonably hateful towards Mormons there for a while.

I figured that is what you meant. I was just being funny.

When I was younger, the Mormons started moving into the area. It wasn't so bad. They are pretty well educated. That might explain some of the animosity, but not from my family.

For some reason, they think that the Ozarks was the original site of Eden. I could have told them that. At least it was until all the people showed up.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Where did you move from to Indiana?

I'm originally from Joplin, and I went there from rural Indiana, living inside an actual town for only about a year.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I rather like the southern accents. When some beaming young lady asks, "May I help you suh", I am all ears. Sometimes I can even tell what part of the country they are from.

Do you think some sort of youth service would help? Maybe get them some uniforms with armbands. That would make them all look the same.

Except for the Deep Georgia accent. I just can't tell what they're saying half the time .

 

[Twilight Hue]

We need to go back to being one nation again. This "under god" nonsense was only added as a means to further divide and deeply entrench "us vs. them."

It was really just a cold war tactic to miff off the Russians.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It was really just a cold war tactic to miff off the Russians.

Yup. Which is why it needs to go.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I'm originally from Joplin, and I went there from rural Indiana, living inside an actual town for only about a year.

I know that town a little. Pretty south and west of where I am from though. I would say where, but there is another poster on here that followed me from another forum and I would just as soon he did not know where I am from.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Yup. Which is why it needs to go.

True. I wouldn't mind our currency going back to its original form.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Except for the Deep Georgia accent. I just can't tell what they're saying half the time .

There are a few like that. That was also a thought I had when the English accent was mentioned as a choice for our national accent. I am sure that ChristineM and some of our British friends could offer some examples of British accents that are barely understandable.

 

[Wandering Monk]

Cultural purity starts with high standards in education.

I believe in a well-educated America.

The ultimate weapon against societal ignorance is high academic standards which are strictly enforced by federal law.

I believe in eradicating all that divides us. I believe in the preservation of our national borders, language and culture. I hate "press one for English" with a passion. I believe that the standard American dialect should be taught and enforced in all fifty states. The standard American dialect is Websterian English or the American language. This is the language that is typical of the college-educated adults in San Francisco, California and in many other major American cities.

Southern accents sound ignorant. Southern accents should be eradicated completely in America. Southern accents are typical of hatred, racism, self-righteousness, hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness. The New York and Boston accents should also be eradicated. They are typical of mob mentality and corruption.

America needs to be culturally and ethnically cleansed. There is only one pure ethnicity and culture in America. This is the same ethnicity and culture of George Washington, Richard Nixon, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Joe Namath, Jack Dempsey, Joan Crawford, Doris Day, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Babe Ruth and Neil Armstrong.

It is the duty of the federal government to force schools nationwide to strictly teach the standard American dialect through various legislative and judicial acts as acts of Congress and Supreme Court rulings. It is the moral responsibility of the American people to elect federal officials who stand for such academic excellence nationwide.

I wish to see foreign accents as Spanish accents obliterated on American soil. I want to see Ebonics dropped once and for all in the manner of a hot potato.

America is a melting pot with one exclusive culture in all the world.

I want the American people to start dressing, talking and acting like ladies and gentleman once again. I want public schools to implement and enforce strict dress codes. I want weird hair colors, tattoos, body piercings, buzz cuts on females and beards on males to cease at once. Public schools both educate and condition our citizens culturally speaking. Uniform dress requirements would be ideal in developing young minds and for instilling discipline and national pride.

I want the widespread littering and graffiti in communities, residential neighborhoods, cities, towns, parks and wilderness areas to cease once and for all. I want federal law to require all public schools in the country to have comprehensive litter and environmental awareness studies. I want children in schools to be tested and graded on what they learn about environmental awareness. I want people to once again "give a hoot" by not polluting. I want people to fear serious penal consequences for being lazy and uncaring pig-like animals in regards to dumping trash anywhere and everywhere they please. The sight of litter and graffiti all over our fruited plain saddens me so.

America is only as beautiful as her people and their level of pride.

Yes, it will take tough federal legislation to purify America and make her a shining example among the nations of the world.

Yes, I'm a cultural conservative, an environmental liberal and, most of all, an American striving to live in one proud and glorious nation under the grace of God once again.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Really sorry I even stumbled upon this thread.

What a tiny, uninteresting, mind-numbingly dull world it would be if everybody was just like me. Believe it or not, like it or not, there is an enormous pool of strength in diversity. People who speak other languages than mine can actually think things that I cannot. Different points of view bring give a clearer picture, just from seeing from different angles.

I wonder, would you Americans mind building a wall along the border to your north? I'd feel a lot safer, frankly.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

And all brown folk should get their skin lightened....& lip reductions.

The third edition entry for "negro" in the Encyclopedia Britannica (1798) says, "the Negro women have their loins greatly depressed and very large buttocks, which give the back the shape of a saddle," which he claimed were ugly. He does not seem to have noticed, for some reason, that the women of his era padded those regions, for the sole purpose of imitating the steatopygia regarded as so charming in the tropics.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

UMM- You do now that is a TV show, right?

OP seems to have difficulty distinguishing between TV and reality. This is one of several threads where he's bemoaned the fact America isn't just like some imaginary televisual idyl.