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 They always say that Germans have no culture and they should definitely not force it on others and they should be ashamed of it.

*logic* Like the old joke that being American meant never having an accent. 
 I'm half-German, so I sometimes feel like I'm standing on the sideline, watching this weird cabaret show, and not really getting the joke. 
 There's also just the sheer confusion of making me feel like I've hitched my horse to a broken carriage, while they stuff people into the carriage and shout giddy-up!

Worst carriage evah. Best would be to burn it and rid the world of it, forever. Okay, everyone get in. 
 Haha exactly. We get told England was built by immigrants, but since 1960 we've been in decline and before that we had a world spanning empire 😂 
 That's all-too-familiar. "Canada has no native culture." 

Heard that for years.  
 Yeah, it makes me so sad. Especially, as I've had so much trouble integrating into the nonexistent culture, that it's like ????

Make it make sense. 
 Same in England, when the reality is most of us can trace our heritage back 1000 years. By contrast the Maori only go back 600 years. Indigenous just means not white at this point. 
 Ugh. Yeah more or less.  
 As we go along, it's all becoming even more nonsensical, as an increasing portion of the Euro-indigenous aren't white, or at least, completely white.  I'm not sure what their rhetorical Plan B is.

Guess that's where "white adjacent" comes in. When in doubt, just make shit up. 
 European culture is so rich and incredible  
 Agreed. I find it endlessly fascinating.