>>511333906

americans didn't come up with anything original for at least 100 years, their entire hustle is either taking something immigrants brought with them from a foreign culture and trying to pass it as their own unique cultural thing or, increasingly, trying to pass something that exists in every country as a uniquely american innovation or somehow "special". When you ask them what exactly is "special" about it they avoid direct answer and weasel around it.

Israel does the same thing

The store in my neighbourhood with a huge maple tree growing through the middle of it is infinitely more interesting and unique than any "bodega"