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[–] TheManuz@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Lack of history.

In LA I've been told that old buildings are demolished to build new ones.

Something 50 years old is an historic landmark there.

[–] GreatGrapeApe@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We have a history it's just that the Europeans who came over murdered most of the people who knew it.

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not just that...the Spaniards purposefully destroyed written histories of entire cultures and civilizations in Mexico and South/Central America.

[–] landlordlover@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Call 911 I just witnessed a murder 😂

[–] mob@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While we don't have nearly as cool old architecture like other continents, buildings/houses from the 70s are all over. I think most historic buildings tend to be closer to 100+ years old, which is almost half the age of the country.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Depends on where you're at too, in my area there are still houses from the 1700s, but people hadn't even been building houses in LA (where he mentioned) until like what 18-something? The Mexican American war was 1846 and then the gold rush was 1849, so I'd guess somewhere around there. And before that there were whole ass Adobe Villages made by the native population of our country out west (not sure about LA, but), and as the other poster said, they count as history it's just that the europeans came and killed most of the people who knew that history.

Basically, he's just wrong and/or expecting us to have buildings older than our country (which, actually, we do have them and I've been in them. Not older than the colonies though.)

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

In America 100 years is a long time, in Europe 100 miles (160km) is a long distance

[–] DrMango@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

As an American it's always been really cool and humbling to travel and see still-standing structures older than my country

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 year ago

They have highways on their place