Is it really that difficult for you to understand the concept of a group of people subjected, oppressed and tossed aside for a very long time wishing they could have a culture and place to call their own free from all that?
You have a thriving culture. I'm not sure why you'd think otherwise.
Culture was never some place, culture is created by and for a group of people.
Like Asgard.
A culture built on the foundations of surviving under slavery, oppression, poverty and constant subjugation that continues to this day. I love all that black people have been able to create, but that still is what we have to live with.
I said a culture FREE from that, which we dont have.
But the same could be said of all cultures.
The idea of individual freedom, not to mention the end of feudalism took a long time. In fact some historians consider WW1 the turning point, others the French revolution (although the outcome was still more of the same).
See everyone not a king, landlord or duke was more or less oppressed in the not so distant past. You could say that the communists were in fact 'slaves' as well as the Europeans under Nazi rule. The US was kind of an anomaly for a long time.
The type of freedom and wealth we all enjoy in the 21st century is quite rare from an historic point of view. They talk about the 1% now, it used to be the 0,01% that held all the assets.
Can it be improved, sure. But it wouldn't hurt to acknowledge just how far we've come so far. People seem to have forgotten that up until about 60 or 70 years ago a human live in general was expendable.