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there are two countries. USA, and Europe. and everyine who says anything about the USA, that isb ad, is a Europeman. you use Celsius? congratulations. youre from Europe (the country)(European). you dont .ike Eat Delicious Jimmy’s Regional Hamburger Chain? okay Europe guy. youre not Joe Biden president? well then youre Privileged to have EuropePresident (the president of Europe) (Boris Johnson? ithink) so shut up about our American politics you ()Europe) (the only other place in the world) would never undrestanding, rthat in America, we have regional subdivisions and local dialects(you dont have those in Europe)(the other coutnry there is)(iuts just one coutnry basically and america is like 50 countries in a trenchoat did you know that?). and so. Youre not allowed to be mean to me or hamburger every again :/
most of the time i hear about it, it’s not even that, it’s about the US’s internal variety, as in the variety of dialects, culture and the such
which is very funny because for a country of it’s size and population, the US (white, colonial) culture is shockingly homogenous. even england, just england, has more internal variety! and that’s not even mentioning countries like india or china
the claim that the US has a ton of cultural variation would make sense if we were talking about Indigenous people and diaspora communities. but it’s never about them, strangely, it’s always about how north texalifornia says scrimble and west massachuvania says jonkle…
Yep,
And things like Reservations are also always conveniently left out of debates about the electoral college and states representation in the US senate. Like, I’d like to hear them advocate for representation for the first nations before I buy that they really believe the bullshit they spew about “states rights” and “small states need to be protected from big states”.
It’s a common refrain that the United States geographically is one of the most heterogeneous places in the world, but we way we build our cities and towns and how we choose to operate as an overall society is super homogenous.
Although I disagree with the notion that there isn’t diversity within the US (some states may be less diverse than others however), there is a degree of truth that we tend to have the same people doing the same things from Alaska to Florida. That’s not to say there aren’t tweaks to the system depending on what the populations want (Compare California’s government policies to North Dakotas for example), but we have sort of accepted a homogeneous lifestyle as the way to do things, for better or worse.
Great video from Wendover Productions explaining this
My point is that you are stating differences between states, when your states are country sized. We have differences between regions in the country itself, wilder differences that yo have in your whole ass country.
There ought to be some differences in a country the size of 5 countries. What shocks us is how little differences there are.
Well, the US is about 250 years old as a society. How old is your country bud?
I mean, then don’t go saying that it’s very diverse? Idk.
Spain is about a thousands older, my region even more.
Do me a favor and look up the Diversity Index of the US, France, and Spain. It’s literally a measure of how diverse a group is. Tell me which scores higher - the highest score would be the ‘most diverse’ by definition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level
Funny enough, Spain and the US are both almost 0.5 by the looks of that chart. Most of Europe are way less diverse. Holland, Greece, and Switzerland not withstanding, though I bet if you use income diversity, Switzerland turns navy blue.
There are 3 major places in the US. Cities, Suburbia and the countryside. Possible 4th is small towns/college towns, though suburbia is always trying to absorb them if there are jobs to be had (or at least real estate value to be extracted).
Gentrification is also how suburbia tries to take over cities it’s not afraid of, or that it can’t ignore the all that value it wants to extract.
Suburbia is what most people see most of America as. Right wing media see it that way too and cast anything else as dangerous, especially cities that haven’t largely gentrified. They
There’s more variety in language in the freaking Basque country, a subregion of France and Spain. We have our own language with 7 variations, inside those there’s major sub variations from town to town, and then we have all the other Spanish and French languages.
They speak of differences between states when their states are the size of countries, and inner state variance is minimal. Compare Texas to Spain, we have several regions with wild cultural and language differences…
It’s laughable.
You think Texas is homogenous?
Not as diverse as Spain lol.
Is it soda or is it pop? Or is it a coke? Or this one will get ya, is it soda pop? We have so much variety in America /s