I recommend not traveling here. If you must, stick to greater urban areas and national parks. Stay out of the interior! Rural and outlying exurban areas could be dangerous for anyone who doesn’t appear to be white, English-speaking (but not too educated), and completely conforming to conservative values.

Jeffrey Wright. Just one good performance after another.

One of my sociology professors was involved in a project to assess the effectiveness of DARE. She found that it was slightly effective with one group – 8th grade boys.

Of course, her findings didn’t fit the 80s narrative, so her study was shelved and the LAPD was happy.

"As part of your onboarding process, we’re just going to implant your Company ID. That way, for your safety, we’ll always know where you are. If you hear a buzzing sound, that means return to the office immediately. Reduced work speed will produce a mild reminder shock.

“Welcome to the Corporation.”

In my burb, workers have to race to the bus, in order to get their bikes into one of two racks.

This is a test case. There are some deep Christofascist pockets behind her.

I agree with the general consensus, there is no “white” culture per se, uness you’re talking about the bad craziness of nationalism.

What I think OP means is “plain vanilla American culture.” And that’s the thing. The US is so huge, so comparatively young as a nation, that it’s hard to even have a culture.

Furthermore, anywhere you go in the states, you have pretty much the same TV, same radio from central locations, news anchors from the same school, holding the same rip ‘n’ read newscast. The corporate world has skin in this game. Keep us homogenized and you keep us focused on the consumer culture they want us to have.

That said, we Americans who don’t identify with any ethnicity do have cultures, but it’s based more in what we do. Bikers, goths, snowboarders, rail fans, Trekkies, and then some. Those are all cultures.

Then too, when we try to do culture, because of our media obsession, it often becomes a parody. Case in point, I once went to an Oktoberfest here in California. I saw people wearing stereotypical “German” costume, playing a Polish-American wedding game (Chicken Dance) and singing an Italian children’s song (Rooki-Zooki). That’s about as all-American as it gets.

I’m on the autism spectrum, with very low support needs. My health care provider has that in my medical records. Now I’m worried that I’m going to disappear into some camp, and my wife will never know what happened.