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Viewing humans through a lens of regional characteristics is also reductive so, so long as you still think that's worthwhile, it's more a question of which redu

• quesera 3y ago
  I don't really understand your point. I'm arguing the case against dismissing regional variations. I don't mean to suggest that regions are the last stop on the differentiation train.
  • emodendroket 3y ago
    I could easily take a plausible position that people within the same town have so much difference between them that trying to lump regional characteristics together is meaningless. Since you don’t, apparently you’re OK with some reduction.
    • quesera 3y ago
      Of course. People are people, but Bob is Bob. There's more variation on the street I live on today, than between MA and CA taken as a whole. I'm not sure what I "don't" in your comment above, but clearly my intent is not clear, so I'll restate: (Parts of) MA and CA have a lot of similarities. Some of the places physically between them are very different. You may disagree. If so, you are surely measuring by a different metric than I am, or have not seen the places I've seen. But that's all I intended to say.
      • emodendroket 3y ago
        It doesn't really seem like you've understood what I've said either, then: I'm saying is that there are essentially two American cultures, the urban one and the non-urban one, and these two parallel national cultures have almost entirely subsumed what were formerly much more varied regional ones. Anyway, you're being glib about how much I must not know about the various other states since CA and MA are "so similar" as if Los Angeles is just like Bakersfield or a California farm town, so it's no less facile.