Submitted 1 year ago by stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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)?
Why were you and your buddy in the shower together though?
Mind ur business pal
You don’t shower with your discord homies?
I mean, I DO, I didn’t know everyone else did too.
It’s not gay if you say “no homo” after softly caressing the homies
I’m from a European country and you can drive 30 miles the same country but there’s already another language or different dialect that you hardly can communicate and they have 1000years old traditions and celebrations totally different from your own area
I saw a thing with Hugh Laurie not too long ago and he said something like, “America is too big to even know itself. Someone in Georgia has no idea about the day to day life of someone in Oregon.”
I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately.
Im obsessed with that idea 💡
I think you’d be surprised about how much of a cultural difference there is in NJ in itself
It’s pork roll.
Culture and societal constructs are wild. I always just chalked those words up to buzz words used by progressives but the more i learn about them and the more I think about em the more flimsy and random everything seems to be
Neat stuff - don’t recommend if you have disassociation problems
Almost like progressives have a point about stuff lol
Why would this be surprising?
You can get wildly different cultures between neighbors living on the same street in the same town.
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 perspectives as each other or knowledge and thus can be surprised when you are not
rolaulten@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Like most things there is a book that looks into this. Take a gander at the Wikipedia if your interested (the author argued that there are 11 ‘nations’ in the US). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nations
stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ur fuckin awesome for this thanks for the share!