The Impact of Culture on African Americans: Tradition vs. Progress
The Impact of Culture on African Americans: Tradition vs. Progress
In this Blackout short, Rashad Bilal explores the complexities of African American culture and the absence of traditional cultural structures. He delves into the idea of whether African American culture needs the same stringent rules and traditions that are present in other cultures. Rashad highlights the benefits and drawbacks of not adhering…
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What a thoughtless take; the guy in the glasses is right. The lack structure, rules and basic shame or respect for elders is gravely missing and i see no benefit to moral less, boundary less culture…its called Atlanta.
pump ya brakes, research heavily, think deeply, return humbly, then get specific, speak succinctly and be solution-based in the approach according the reason you've developed, i appreciate the bounce to a consideration of value inherent in established structures, everything does not have to be modeled, but blueprints have been provisioned for longer than the infancy of our modern perspective
WHITE AMERICA has no culture either…😂
Hamburger and Country Music 🎶 are not significant to be looked at as a culture.
WTF
It was a creole or patois a remix but a lot of the values of African americans & culture have been lost.. daily. American goverment and systematic and institutionalized racism destroyed black family values. Culture right now is dictated by hip hop and hip hop is dictated by elites who want to push sex drugs violence. Stop the cap this is a horrible culture. Yall need to go back to those values.
Wow, I know these mutants are not the true reflection of our AA branch of the Royal Nubian Family. A Chinese person who has live in America for over 300 years will never say or admit to such ignorance about his roots. Your roots are what gives you your mental and physical strength, without roots you are just a rut.
We are the true Israelites, we are one of the lost tribes.
My culture is being AMERICAN
If of all I never classified myself as African American I put down AMERICAN…..
WTF is he saying. Our culture was built from oppression and over coming oppression that is who we are. We don't run like others and that is the difference between immigrants and black Americans. And no one is more American because our culture was the only culture built in the USA. And don't let no one forget.
There isn't a pure culture, and I think that is wonderful. As humans, if you need an organ and I have an organ that I can donate to you, then there isn't a problem.
We do have those same stigmas, we just don’t care. People are going to do what they want🤷🏿♂️
Ian was going there…..without rules,regulations, and structure, you don't have a culture.
We do though. The mothership must have just dropped you off😂
Was that statement expounded on/explained? 😢
"Backwards" traditions would be LAWS we NEED MOST.
We are Israelites, and need OLD LAWS in ALL WAYS!!
You know we’ve had colleges right? Southerners with land right? Current shifts in music is bastardizing the value systems that is not African American Culture sir that’s just another overlay of living within this society it’s a branch of I’ll pay you to disenfranchise yourself kinda how you are speaking sir. Please speak impeccably about the greatest thinkers of all time at all times or else you are holding the whip!
When I hear black culture my first thought is crime
Our “culture” is do what thou wilt. Which is satanic and leads to anarchy and destruction.
The most powerful and actually beautiful perspectives on African-American culture I’ve heard have come from Ghanaian, Nigerian, and Kenyan men and women I’ve worked with (who had very pan-African ideals) and a Russian man who played professional basketball for a couple years. We tend to shit on ourselves more than we think. There are people who love how outspoken we are, especially when it comes to challenging toxic attitudes that are passed down from generation to generation, or shitty leadership. We are not afraid to speak up, though it comes at the cost of us being pre-judged as aggressive to some. There are people on the outside looking in who love our “showmanship” – the flair we add to whatever we do, and how we can translate a feeling through various art forms, which allows a lot of our art to transcend language and cultural differences. We carry aspects of Africa with us that American culture tends to shame, like being much more relaxed when it comes to “timeliness”. A Nigerian friend told me southern African Americans tend to speak in folkloric terms like many Nigerians do (saying “I gotta rob Peter to pay Paul” instead of “I’m struggling financially”, for example). No one African culture on the continent or abroad is 100% disciplined nor perfect. The comparisons are ridiculous. The warped lens many use to view our culture and our people has to do with mass media (which we consume a LOT of) and it has SERIOUS psychological implications. As all the children of Africa, we are all beautiful and we all still have a LOT of work to do. #my2cents
Sorry i dont agree. If your culture as a general rule only buys black. Only supports black. I dont think even you guys understand how rich you would be because you own what is cool. White people do not own that. They own money and capital.
Black American culture is rooted in the rural Christian South. It is wholly created by black people and it's distinctive from every other culture in the United States. You can recognize the influence of black culture on every other culture on the planet.
Black American is unique and distinct subset of American culture. Black as defined by manifest destiny /slavery vernacular is different, although one of the pillars of Black America culture. The evolution of Black American culture speaks to a birth of a people originating from te remnants of an old empire. More American than apple pie.
Smh.
We don't have a culture anymore. Whatever our ancestors were building was sold off to corporations in the 80s. They took organic AA culture and bastardized it for white people. Now we have goodies defending the caricature of Blackness that is promoted today. We are lost. Culture is defined and protected through structure and ownership and we have neither.