Choose one piece of culture to represent your nation!

[Easo]

Song and Dance Festival
Sixteen thousand singing at the same time is something spectacular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia...Dance_Festival

[MCMLXXXII]

As a Dutchman let's go cliche:

Windmills
Tulips
Clogs

[the game]

i choose this:

the charts don't lie.
albeit i wouldn't actually give them this. i just feel it perfectly represents our nation's culture right now.

I didn't realize covid-19 has hit Azeroth yet.

[shadowmouse]

For my origins, as an American? The Lexis database.

For the first honorable mention, a nod to my time as a long time expat in China -- The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

<shadowmouse replays the Lone Gunmen kidnapping Morris Fletcher and considers suggesting Donald Trump be given to aliens.>


Oh well, to keep to the spirit of the game ... for second honorable mention, flipping back to the US -- Voyager2.

[Grimbold21]

These days? Colonialism

[Soulwind]

Maybe a bit obscure, but...

[Pannonian]

Starting World Wars.

[Yunru]

Food i guess:


So much to go with it:
https://www.travlinmad.com/blog/trad...ian-food-guide

Other part of culture would bore aliens.

[kail]

The Burger King Whopper.

[Dsonsion]

There's other stuff but this is unmistakable.

[Theodarzna]

For my homeland:


For the place I live now:

[Iphie]

Windmills, Tulips, Cheese, Clogs, Weed says the Dutchie in me.
Sauna, Mämmi, Perkele, salmiakki, Tuska Rock festival says the Finn in me (yeahyeah, getting that nationality in the next couple of years)

[Voidism]

I'm half-swede and half-finnish.

Meatballs for Sweden. The concept of sisu for Finland.

[Macd123aw]

Our Winston Churchill statue.

He gave you the freedom to protest against him.

Try and take it down fu*kers and watch what happens to you.

[Femininity]

This guy right here.

[Doctor Amadeus]

For better or worst the Waltons story is our story.

[Thalassian Bob]

She is singing about the sea, translated to English the song is called The Song of the Sea.


That is common sense for us... Not for the rest of the world.


We mankind are on the way.

Cool! With Britain being an island nation the sea has been very important culturally for us too. Half of English folk is sea shanties!

It's amazing how such a strong friendship can be built from a mutual animosity to the French and Spanish... ^^'

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There's been lots of interesting and illuminating suggestions, guys! Thanks! I'm particularly intrigued by the Finnish "Sisu". Feels like a similar notion to the British "stiff upper lip".

[Fencers]

Hmm. Probably Hamilton is the best media summation of the United States that is not... depressing or horrifying.



Runner-Ups...

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Alan Taylor's The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832; both of which I consider to be two of the best books ever written.

[Kellhound]

Being Greek, it's hard to narrow it down to one thing.

A hoplite? A book of philosophy? Democracy?

Or a gyro.

A hoplite eating a gyro having a philosophical discussion of Democracy.

[xChurch]

It'd have to be hockey for sure. I don't even like it and my team sucks, but it's our game dammit!