Talk:Urban culture

Better citation needed for "Urban Culture"
I call into question the citation for Urban Culture being a euphemism for Afro-American culture. The Time Magazine article makes no use of the words "African American", "black", or even "culture." It is more likely that this reference is evidence for an *argument* that one could make that journalists et. al. use "urban" as a proxy for "African American," but without citing that argument this reference does not directly support the claim that "Urban Culture" is a euphemism for "African American culture." --Aecarrillo594 (talk) 12:03, 3 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Say what you want about the use of urban as a proxy for African American (which term itself hasn't made sense for the past 150 years) and whether it should be or shouldn't. You and I might agree that it shouldn't be a proxy, but in the southeast U.S., it absolutely is. Or at least I grew up in a predominantly white culture of south-central Florida in the 1990s to believe that urban culture == black culture. I have no source to back me up other than my experience.


 * But if you had to imagine what folks mean by "urban culture" and "black culture" they would probably match up perfectly, no matter the races involved. High-top sneakers, basketball, wife-beater shirts? White or black, truly urban or suburban or rural, to people that use "urban culture" to denote these things, it is "black culture" and is undesirable--again, to those people. D. F. Schmidt (talk) 15:15, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Vague
This term is vauge-- I wonder if it should even be defined? futurebird 15:09, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I hate to be a pedant, but i think you mean 'vague' (i changed the title to save face!)? I was astonished at some of the claims made in this article. In the internet age, do suburban or rural communities have less access to culture, does anyone!? Also, do so-called 'rural' communities not produce their own culture? The most contentious is the claim that urban culture is conflatable with race, which is just absurd. I think the points i have picked out warrant some expansion alone. --Turkeyplucker 12:48, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Americentrism
This entire article give no mention of the fact that both this term and the use of it by either noteworthy persons or the general populace are very much localized to North America; apparently it has spread to Canada by diffusion and presumably this is also possible in other countries that broadcast a lot of U.S. media such as the U.K or Australia

Not only does the wording imply that this is something that exists in every country all over the world despite lacking any examples outside North America, it doesn't even offer speculation or explanation as to why it would or should be considered a global phenomenon. 202.89.189.7 (talk) 08:01, 15 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree. I did a Bing search for "urban lifestyle" and this came up. This might be the worst Wikipedia article in terms of the disconnect between the term, the article's lede, and the supporting material. D. F. Schmidt (talk) 15:07, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

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