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Isn’t it a little odd that we can have culturally very similar places 3000 miles apart unless culture has mostly been nationalized in a couple variations?
by emodendroket 3y ago
Isn’t it a little odd that we can have culturally very similar places 3000 miles apart unless culture has mostly been nationalized in a couple variations?
- quesera 3y agoI mean, superficially odd perhaps, yes. I can think of a dozen reasons why it makes sense. Regardless, it is not evidence that the culture is homogeneous in the middle. There is, of course, a national culture. Again I think we might be drawing the line differently. I look for and enjoy the variations. They are there. But if you want to paint with a broad brush, you can make lots of generalizations too. It's just less interesting.
- emodendroket 3y agoWhat forces would we expect to act on the coasts of the United States but not the interior?
- whythre 3y agoCosmopolitanism- more multicultural cross pollination due to trade and travel. Wealth disparity is another. The coasts are also richer than ‘flyover country.’ There are isolated places in New Mexico, the Deep South, and Appalachia that are grievously poverty stricken, to give some extreme examples.
- emodendroket 3y agoIf we want to get so nitpicky there are poor and isolated areas along the coasts too. And heartland areas outside of major cities are less able to sustain independent media. Modern institutions like the military shuffle people around to and from these less notable areas and many broad trends do not fit the simplistic narrative you're presenting (for instance, many rural areas have large immigrant populations who work in farms, meat-processing facilities, and similar).