Exactly.

It’s always an unknown factor at other places. Some of them you feel like you are taking your life in your own hands.

But Buc-ees is always a guaranteed a clean experience.

Judges others

Gets mad when others do the same to them

That’s actually pretty ignorant and judgemental. That statement sounds so MAGA.

Setting aside the U.S.'s current political disposition for the moment.

The U.S. has always been a huge melting pot of different peoples of the world. A lot of those people would stay together, creating little islands of culture all over.

They would celebrate their culture and often celebrate other people’s culture along with them. (I have been told that the U.S. celebrates Cinco De Mayo way more than Mexico ever did.)

A lot of it comes from asserting your own culture identity against this broad mixing pot. Or even asserting it against active suppression. Some of it is evolved tradition over the generations.

Many people value their ancestral roots and like to celebrate it.

Saying America has no history is so ethnocentric.

The U.S. is made up of immigrants from the entire globe. The U.S.'s history shares its history with every other nation of the world.

I love that there are so many different festivals, from different cultures, all the time. Houston is in Texas, but it is a massively diverse city. We named a highway after a Sikh policeman who had been murdered in the line of duty. The city (county maybe) even lets us sell fireworks for Diwali. There are Greek festivals all over. (Yes it has a terribly racist past, and it is considered the human trafficking capital of the U.S., fuck you big oil.)

I have never had someone introduce themselves to me as a <culture>-American. But plenty of people will talk about their ancestral culture if you ask.

I guess if you live in a monoculture, then you may not value that culture identity as strongly as you might when your ancestral culture is just one of a thousand.

Diversity is king. If someone wants to let their cultural freak flag fly, who the hell are you to judge?

Thank you. I actually had it backwards in my head until read your comment.