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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)?

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[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.