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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by tmtvl on Sunday April 02, 2023 @04:46PM (#35415024)
Oh no, Peruvian culture and Canadian culture, for example, are very distinctly different, at least to my Belgian eyes.
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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by qlm on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:00PM (#35415159)
This isn't what they meant, but I suspect you know that.
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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by seydor on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:03PM (#35415185)
and so are Italian and Finnish cultures. But inter-USA cultures are as differnt as local cultures are within a single european country.

Would be interesting to have a distance metric for cultures , however

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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by tmtvl on Sunday April 02, 2023 @06:18PM (#35415875)
Yeah, the Navajo and Lakota are very noticably culturally distinct from each other, maybe even more so than people from Swabia and people from North Frisia.
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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by pessimizer on Sunday April 02, 2023 @07:17PM (#35416409)
The Navajo and Lakota are nations.
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