> 1)Germany is large too with different dialects It's not large on US scale. And, compared to the US, it's a monoculture. Seriously - there's more diversity

> 1)Germany is large too with different dialects It's not large on US scale. And, compared to the US, it's a monoculture. Seriously - there's more diversity in a San Jose strip mall than in a major German city. (Dialects? I've got several restaurants where the vast majority of the patrons speak different languages within 1 mile of my house.)