I think that this song is a political commentary on immigrants who come to the USA looking to find that "the truth is sickening" and that life in a new country isn't as some say it is. The streets here are not paved with gold. And things probably won't get much better because "we don't need to change that really" because I ( Joe America) "kind of like it ugly." Also, I think the first line of the first verse hints that this song is more about the immigrants of the late 19th/ early 20th century.
@Nyg1515 I agree, and I think that the "mother culture" refers to the culture of the new immigrants that English America despised and tried to pressure them into abandoning. (As a descendent of Polish immigrants, I am glad that they seem to have mostly failed.)
@Nyg1515 I agree, and I think that the "mother culture" refers to the culture of the new immigrants that English America despised and tried to pressure them into abandoning. (As a descendent of Polish immigrants, I am glad that they seem to have mostly failed.)
I think that this song is a political commentary on immigrants who come to the USA looking to find that "the truth is sickening" and that life in a new country isn't as some say it is. The streets here are not paved with gold. And things probably won't get much better because "we don't need to change that really" because I ( Joe America) "kind of like it ugly." Also, I think the first line of the first verse hints that this song is more about the immigrants of the late 19th/ early 20th century.
@Nyg1515 I agree, and I think that the "mother culture" refers to the culture of the new immigrants that English America despised and tried to pressure them into abandoning. (As a descendent of Polish immigrants, I am glad that they seem to have mostly failed.)
@Nyg1515 I agree, and I think that the "mother culture" refers to the culture of the new immigrants that English America despised and tried to pressure them into abandoning. (As a descendent of Polish immigrants, I am glad that they seem to have mostly failed.)