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)?

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why would this be surprising?

    You can get wildly different cultures between neighbors living on the same street in the same town.

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      1 year ago

      My memory of foreigners on Reddit are that they all believed the US is just a big Texas and everyone has the same opinions about everything.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t know about that, but few foreigner understand that the US is more diverse than just about any continent. Demographically, politically, geographically. Only some pockets of the US get any press, so I could see why some think there is only California tech bros, Texan oil men and Florida druggies.

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      1 year ago

      That’s an interesting point but I’d say that most of the time, people in a neighborhood who have been living there at least for a couple generations are likely to be pretty similar as opposed to east vs west coast

      Also because sometimes people don’t have the same perspectives as each other or knowledge and thus can be surprised when you are not