Buddy of mine and I were chatting on Discord and we ended up having a conversation about this topic.

Namely imagine you just put two people in a room. One from New Jersey and one from LA and observe

Wild how different cultures can be even inside a country.

What do y’all think? Is it due to the size of the US (geographically)?

    • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 months ago

      I’m gonna make the argument that cultures between the us and other countries are also massively different in a lot of ways :)

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        11 months ago

        As an outsider, the us just seems like a different version of europe, culturally

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          I think there are some easy social cognates for sure but I think there are also lots of differences in attitudes and speaking styles. Social expectations, public considerations, govt expectations, etc etc

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          Someone from the UK I once knew told me this:

          I woke up in my quite used to be a farm town exoburb, went to the shuttle to JFK through Manhattan, got on a flight to New Orleans, drove two hours to go visit my swamp living inlaws. So I am sitting on their boat and it just occurs to me that this is all one country.