Re:Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds
by SomeStupidPoint on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @07:15PM
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But the point is that the US is 100-200 years of homogenization veneer on cultures ranging from Asian to African to European to indingenous.
In that sense, the US has a broader base of those enclaves within the country and less time to have built a coherent cultural identity between those populations.
Europe, by contrast, hasn't forced the veneer over all of the enclaves (eg, single language), but the enclaves share a more similar historic background.
It's different kinds of diversity, really. Stable multi-components versus broader partial fusion.
In that sense, the US has a broader base of those enclaves within the country and less time to have built a coherent cultural identity between those populations.
Europe, by contrast, hasn't forced the veneer over all of the enclaves (eg, single language), but the enclaves share a more similar historic background.
It's different kinds of diversity, really. Stable multi-components versus broader partial fusion.