What is culture, really—a badge of humanity, or just the dress code you need to avoid getting kicked out of the group chat? The Herd dives headfirst into culture as identity, survival strategy, and branded spectacle. GR claims culture makes us more than animals. Or is that just old-school anthropology with a sprinkle of social Darwinism? From code-switching to Coco, from bootleg tortillas to Disney-approved ofrendas, we ask: does culture rise up from the people—or trickle down from the owners of society?Gian finds beauty in school altars and multicultural gestures, but offers a sanitized highlight reel of U.S. history. CO isn’t buying it. He calls out the hollow performance of Día de los Muertos celebrations in schools and Runt’s CliffNotes version of America’s past. What about the deeper histories that get left behind—like the tangled, violent relationship between the U.S. and Mexico? Do we bury settler-colonialism so we can more easily stomach its modern version playing out in Palestine? Those who don’t know history aren’t just doomed to repeat it—they’re set up to ignore it while it happens again.ER drops some border town reflections, invoking church and the melting pot. But CO throws in the wrench: maybe we have more in common—economically, energetically—with a middle-class Guatemalan or Midwest MAGA-verse inhabitor than with our local oligarch living less than 10 miles away. Maybe culture isn’t proximity, but shared material conditions.From school pride to “my city’s team is better than yours” to nationalism to Panda Express, the Herd wrestles with the comfort and coercion of belonging. And in the end, if we’re ever going to leave the Herd behind, we’ll need a new culture—one not sold to us, but built by us.#disney #coco #diadelosmuertos #multicultural #usmexicorelations #history #settlercolonialism #maga #socialclasses #freepalestine #schoolpride #pandaexpress #counterculture #culture #culturalexchange #hispanic #hispaniccommunity #hispanicmoms #korean #koreanculture