Does your country have a national epic?
Yeshttps://youtu.be/WaKIX6oaSLs?si=NH7yyXj0ZDwb4Kbh
>>25340295Goated boomerslop, I can't even lie; I still listen to it every thanksgiving out of tradition.
No. Argentina has one. Guatemala has one. Even the Philippines has one. But Mexico? We got nothing.
>>25340334ay caramba
>>25340289Lithuania does not have it and is experiencing a lot of hardship.
>>25340289Yes. We have the trilogy “with fire and sword” about the mid XVII century wars and the epic poem “Pan Tadeusz” about early XIX century nobility shenanigans. I appreciate the poetry of the latter, but I don’t care much for the story. I prefer the former.
>>25340289no. literature is for poofters.
>>25340370From school bullies?
>>25340289Yes, there are a few
Yes: The HobbitRegards, a homeschool-american
yes, but mine will be an improvement. no, i will not be taking questions at this time.
I guess the closest thing would be The Man From Snowy River but that's not really an epic
>>25340623>The Jam Boy existed in places such as Kenya and India, both part of the British Empire. The colonial big shots living in these exotic locales loved their outdoor activities but they hated the insects. To ensure that no flying pests disturbed their games of golf or croquet, the Brits would hire a local and cover him with jam or jelly. The bugs would be attracted to the jam, leaving the aristocracy in relative comfort.
>americaour history is our epic
>>25342712That's horrible
Ours is Chinese romance slop about a girl being sold into prostitution turned into a 3000+ line epic poem that supposedly depicts our country's 18th-century social and political turmoil. I really should get to reading it for real someday since it's turned out to be pretty neat to study what little portions of it that we had to back in high school
>>25342712Proof?
>>25340289No.t. American
>>25340289Not only do we have a national epic, but it's the best epic in all of history since the Illiad.
>>25340370>mfw Polish national epic begins with the words:>O Lithuania! My Fatherland!Maybe this haa something to do with it
>>25342908Actually, it was good for all involved, the boys could take the jam home and I believe they generally liked the job.
>>25340965>>25342742>>25343123>>25343132the columbiad
>>25343381don’t poles dislike lithuanians?
>>25340289Yes. And it's written in fucking Fr*nch.
>>25343575It's the other way around.Lithuanians hate us while we simp to them visualising thier country as bucolic ancestrial Lithuania (Lithuania as an idea of the Great Duchy that is, not today's Żmudź-Auksztota state)
>>25340334
Came out last year actually.
>>25343389Big sleep
>>25343578We have Beowulf and Paradise Lost as well though
>>25340289It's actually unbelivable kino. Even better in the original Irish. Monks kept writing "insane!" along the margins of the manuscripts it was written on.
>>25343588They're right, P*les are as bad as R*ssians. One day the great province of Klaipeda Labas will stretch from Karalamiestas to Dancigas and the memory of your "language" on the shores of the Baltic will be but a bad dream.
>>25340295My dad loves the movie adaptation of this, he says it perfectly captures that era.
>>25343123Moby Dick or Uncle Tom's Cabin
>>25344456Those aren't epics. Epic doesn't mean really good book
Book of mormon or>>25343573Both picks are very appropriate for this nation
>>25343132Is that why it's so relentlessly gay?
Yes
>>25343573It's a national epic the way that reenactors are soldiers. There's no actual myth or organic nature to it. And I don't think it's particularly well (nor badly) written. The Illiad and Kalevala coalesced out of dim unrecorded centuries and represent an averaged sampling of the unconscious of the peoples they represent.
>>25340289When will an anon write 4chan's national epic?
>>25344635Hmm I've accidentally argued myself into considering Mark Twain more important to American culture than I did previously.Honestly though there was never one unified American culture, so probably there can't be one unified and unifying story for it. Particularly after the civil war, mass immigration, and the autocannibalization(?) of liberalism as a genuine belief system. Ginsberg has nothing to do with Heinlein has nothing to do with Faulkner has nothing to do with Franklin.
>>25344645Americans are not a people. They are an economic unit. They have no culture and never will.
>>25343079Has this been taranslated to English?
>>25340615>13%That's surprising from France.
>>25344652>Germans—or as I call them "Holy Romanoids'—are not a people. They are an imperial unit. They have no culture and never will.
>>25344657Getting raped by an immigrant likely doesn't count. I'm not even trying to be funny that's just how all that shit works over there. Inconvenient data aren't.
>>25344661>Another thing that struck me [in the American] was the great influence of the Negro, a psychological influence naturally, not due to the mixing of blood. The emotional way an American expresses himself, especially the way he laughs, can best be studied in the illustrated supplements of the American papers; the inimitable Teddy Roosevelt laugh is found in its primordial form in the American Negro. The peculiar walk with loose joints, or the swinging of the hips so frequently observed in Americans, also comes from the Negro.[3] American music draws its main inspiration from the Negro, and so does the dance. The expression of religious feeling, the revival meetings, the Holy Rollers and other abnormalities are strongly influenced by the Negro. The vivacity of the average American, which shows itself not only at baseball games but quite particularly in his extraordinary love of talking – the ceaseless gabble of American papers is an eloquent example of this – is scarcely to be derived from his Germanic forefathers, but is far more like the chattering of a Negro village. The almost total lack of privacy and the all-devouring mass sociability remind one of primitive life in open huts, where there is complete identity with all members of the tribe.
>>25345109>The Fenni are astonishingly savage and disgustingly poor. They have no proper weapons, no horses, no homes. They eat wild herbs, dress in skins, and sleep on the ground. Their only hope of getting better fare lies in their arrows, which, for lack of iron, they tip with bone. The women support themselves by hunting, exactly like the men; they accompany them everywhere and insist on taking their share in bringing down the game. The only way they have of protecting their infants against wild beasts or bad weather is to hide them under a makeshift covering of interlaced branches. Such is the shelter to which the young folk come back and in which the old must lie.
