As a corollary, the only cultural differences that have actively disappeared have usually been due to decidedly non-Internet causes (e.g., students being hit wi

As 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).