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Re:Poll: Where do you live? by amilios on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:18PM (#30216800)
The US is still far more culturally homogenous than the EU, so this comparison falls kind of flat. Even if the US began as you say, with large cultural differences, it isn't really the case anymore. You could make the argument that there is a cultural divide between cities and the countryside for sure (in the sense that someone from Austin and someone from Boston are more similar than someone from Austin and someone from the Texas countryside), but this divide exists within individual EU countries as well, and is not limited to the US.
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Re:Poll: Where do you live? by albrewer on Monday February 07, 2022 @11:38AM (#30247192)
> The US is still far more culturally homogenous than the EU

U.S. cities, maybe. But get gather natives from the rural parts of any state and you'll find a ton of cultural variation. Saying rural Louisiana and rural Oregon are culturally homogeneous is just wrong. Sure, we all speak one language, but so do France and half of eastern Canada.

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Re:Poll: Where do you live? by xeromal on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:39AM (#30218776)
You can be culturally homogenous and still have different identities. Put a Georgian (US) and California in the same room and they will not have much in common.
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Re:Poll: Where do you live? by selestify on Saturday February 05, 2022 @03:33AM (#30219064)
> Put a Georgian (US) and California in the same room and they will not have much in common.

What? If they're both from major cities in the two states, they have way, way more in common than a Belgian and a Slovenian in the same room.

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Re:Poll: Where do you live? by sofixa on Saturday February 05, 2022 @10:18AM (#30221871)
Same language, same culture ( books/TV shows/movies/music, cuisine ), a lot of shared history.

A Serbian and a Portuguese are much farther apart ( language, cuisine, history ( even if there are some small parallels like both being occupied by a foreign neighbouring power, independence being won by blood, and an oppressive regime in recent history, Ottoman occupied Serbia , world wars, Yugoslavia couldn't be farther from seafaring trade and colonialism Portugal).

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