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Whole "West" is full of cultural differences, despite the internet is not broken. Actually, there are more well-preserved cultural differences between TN, and N
by kingofhdds 8y ago
Whole "West" is full of cultural differences, despite the internet is not broken. Actually, there are more well-preserved cultural differences between TN, and NY in States than between most places in Russia (except maybe Tuva, and other poorly connected regions in Siberia, and Arctic) due to centralist, paternalist, and chauvinistic policies of Moscow internet haters.
- neuromantik8086 8y agoAs a corollary, the only cultural differences that have actively disappeared have usually been due to decidedly non-Internet causes (e.g., students being hit with a ruler if they spoke Cajun French in Louisiana after World War II, non-Amish Germans deliberately shedding their language and speaking English to avoid anti-German sentiment after the outbreak of World War I, etc).
- village-idiot 8y agoTo expand on your point, anyone talking about "Western" culture (e.g. America, Europe, and typically former crown territories. That selection in its own right is suspect as hell) is painting with a brush so wide to be either meaningless or straight up deceptive. There are large cultural, political, legal, and economic differences between countries in that grouping and even inside said countries. California is not like Texas is not like Ohio is really not like Spain or Germany.