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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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