In case you didn’t know, some non-Americans throw parties revolving around American pop culture aesthetics like cowboys, red solo cups, and greasers.

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  2. No, but when I was in college I had friends from China ask me to help source solo cups and get recipes for American party foods.

    Edit: my friends really loved my mother’s kahlua dip which is cream cheese based. They also loved this blue cheese dip I made and ate it with Buffalo wings, potato chips, and fresh carrots, celery, radishes.

  4. So I learned about how Red solo cups are a thing for American themed parties. So I found a place that made ceramic red solo cup’s and had it custom engraved for my SIL. She teaches kids English over in Japan and tells me she’s the queen at any American-themed party now.

  5. By your description, wouldn’t that just be a regular party in America?
    Anyway, no, I haven’t. But I think some Americans celebrate by having a cookout or party on 4th of July with flags and red white and blue decor.
    Although, now that I think about it, when I was a teenager, I was invited to a redneck themed party.

  6. >In case you didn’t know, some non-Americans throw parties revolving around American pop culture aesthetics like cowboys, red solo cups, and greasers.

    That’s wild, I thought they could care less

  7. No, the only parties I can think of that I’ve really seen where the theme is based on stereotypes of another culture are St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco De Mayo (Irish and Mexican). I’ve never really participated in either of those though.

  10. Sometimes people have parties with specific American pop culture aesthetics. I remember going to a 50s-themed party when I was in high school once. Greasers, poodle skirts, etc. Redneck parties are definitely a thing, although most often it’s just rednecks being themselves and not so much a deliberate party theme. I’ve been to cowboy/rodeo theme cookouts/kids’ parties, with western dress (or as close as people can get with their existing wardrobe and a hat and/or bandanna) and games like water gun shootouts and roping competitions.

    We wouldn’t generally mix all that stuff at one party and call it an American theme, though. And solo cups are mostly just a utilitarian item here for big, casual parties.

  12. Why would we need to do that? We live here lol

    We have 4th of July parties, which are essentially American themed. There’s Super Bowl parties, which I guess is distinctly American.

    For pop culture, we do themed parties by decades. 1920s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s parties are all their own party themes. I’ve been to several.

  14. I’ve never been to one but I have friends in France that had an American party and ran the check list past me for authenticity. I guess American party means red cups, trucker hats, cowboy hats, cheap sunglasses and tee-shirts with random slogans. And hamburgers. It’s like high school/college parties in movies. It’s cool.

  16. I guess 4th of July and Memorial Day parties/celebrations are American themed. Most parties use solo cups, regardless of theming. I’ve been to a Wild West themed party, which I guess would count as well. I don’t think I’ve been to any other party that would be considered American themed.

  19. We had a farewell party for our English teacher (who is American) and the theme was “MURICA”. I dressed up as the goddess Columbia with an annexed map of Canada on my back titled “Manifest Destiny”.

    This is the 3rd time I’ve mentioned it on this sub!

  20. People sometimes have white trash theme parties, seems to be especially popular with college kids. Does that count?

  23. Why are foreigners so obsessed with red solo cups? They’re just cheap disposable cups. Do other places not have plastic cups?

  24. If I go to Beijing I don’t get “Chinese food” because they would simply call it “food.” Similarly, we don’t have “American themed parties,” we just call them “parties.”

  25. No but as a Texan I would LOVE to be an advisor to a planning committee for one.

  27. “Greasers.”

    People do realize that that type of person hasn’t existed since the 50s, right?

  28. Not unless you count our Independence Day celebrations. I have heard of other countries having America parties and sounds amazingly fun. Americans would do this if it were a different country’s theme. I approve of this!

  30. I can’t say I’ve ever heard of such a thing. The only place I’ve spent a lot of time outside the US is France, so I guess not many people there do that.

  32. Decades dances, like 5 holidays, election night parties…

    Americans have a lot of American themed celebrations. I’d assume everyone has a lot of “their culture,” themed celebrations. If you include cowboys, why not pilgrims? Thanksgiving. Any pep rally at a school with a Pilgrim, Native, or Cowboy mascot is an American themed party. All African-American celebrations are American themed parties.

    I think your whistling for birds on that one. Most birds whistle but none like you.

  36. You mean the fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, etc.

    I do find it hilarious though Europeans do this. Kind of like I find people in Japan eating KFC on Christmas funny.

  40. Never been to one exactly but I can imagine that it’s a lot of alcohol and country music—I wouldn’t mind visiting

  41. This seems like something that would be really offensive if you did it with any other culture but for some reason it’s not with us.

  43. All American themed parties should end with the party being subverted with a “democratically,” installed puppet party host who sends the all booze to foreign party occupiers in exchange for protection from Communist Party dictators.

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