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Everyone loves to hate on Americans not having culture, but we very clearly do. We have our own dialects that are unique from the rest of the world. We have sports and holidays and foods that were created here first.
The reason that it looks like America doesn't have culture is because we've exported our culture around the globe, and now you just think those things are normal.
American culture is also an amalgamation of the different ethnic groups and cultures that have settled here with 17th/18th century British culture being the frame work. Halloween is uniquely American although its roots are in Irish and Scottish traditions that are themselves derived from Celtic Paganism.
Another example is music, everyone wants to argue which culture invented different styles but generally different musical genres borrow and build upon other previous styles.
It could be argued that Rome didn’t have a culture either because their’s was an amalgamated culture of the groups they conquered with 5th/6th Century BCE Greek culture as the frame work.