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What makes the US a single market with 330M people and not a bunch of smaller markets? Is it just that somewhere like Europe has barriers to entry through lang
by mbg721 5y ago
What makes the US a single market with 330M people and not a bunch of smaller markets? Is it just that somewhere like Europe has barriers to entry through language and differences in countries' regulation that don't come up in the US?
- JumpCrisscross 5y agoNational identity, culture and distribution. I can relate to a story set in places in the Deep South and Midwest, places I have barely been, because the author speaks to common motifs, assumptions and subtext. (This also lets them play with implication, something lost if one must be explicit about what may lost outside one’s culture.)
- spoonjim 5y agoThe White Anglosphere (UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) has a somewhat shared cultural identity.
- mbg721 5y agoThis reminded me of a tangential complaint: I (in the US) recently bought one of Richard Osman's books, and its setting is more English than actual England is. So why did the publisher insist on adjusting the spelling to "Labor Party"? It's a proper noun, and I'm going to pronounce it "lay-BOOOUUURRR" like I always do... you're not fooling anybody into thinking this took place in New Jersey. Did they think Americans would find the extra U offensive or confusing??