This is something I've been thinking for a while. I'm a bit torn to be honest. To be clear, I'm talking about American society as a whole, for what it's worth. It's without doubt that America has a warrior subculture... we're all part of it. The question is more... can America itself be considered a warrior culture. And yes, it's more difficult because 99%+ of the population immigrated at some point.
Look at a wide spectrum of warrior cultures, like the Sengoku-era Japanese, the Maori, the Mongols, the late Republic and early Roman Empire, the Spartans, the Apache, and the Vikings. From honorable single combat to professional conscripted soldiers, from hunters-turned-conquerors to fearless raiders just trying to get by. There's a huge variety of what any person could consider a warrior culture. But is America such a culture?
Can you define a warrior culture by the percentage that participates in war? Japan may be disqualified if that's the case.
Perhaps the percentage of time that the society spends in warfare versus in peace? But if that were the case, a great many nations, societies, and cultures would qualify that normally one would not think of as a warrior culture.
Maybe discipline? Discipline takes many forms and is worth talking about... although America has pretty much everything but discipline.
Maybe a willingness to die in combat? Is that for the entire population or just the warriors?
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