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as if the U.S. is a homogenous culture Compared to Europe, it certainly is. From a merely linguistic viewpoint, in North America there's English and Spanish (
by Typhon 14y ago
as if the U.S. is a homogenous culture
Compared to Europe, it certainly is.
From a merely linguistic viewpoint, in North America there's English and Spanish (Ok, and native american languages, but they're really not much spoken).
In Western and Northern Europe, there's French, Italian, Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish.
The thing is, identity is a matter of contrast.
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- Cthulhu_ 14y agoNot to mention the hundreds of local accents, sub-languages and even manners of speech and expression. Of course, that's also applicable to the US on a somewhat larger scale.
- euphemize 14y agoDid you forget that 7 million people speak French in Québec? And because a language is not much spoken, it doesn't count?
- Typhon 14y agoOh, right. It doesn't change the fact that the US is very culturally homogenous. because a language is not much spoken, it doesn't count? A langage that isn't much spoken is one you're much less likely to encounter. I neglected them because they're numerically negligible, and because if I had cited all native languages in the United State, I should then, too, have procedeed to cite all minority languages from Western Europe, which are more widely spoken. There are, for instance, 13 million native speakers of Bavarian. By comparison, there's less than 3 millions native americans in the United States. I could have been more pedantic, but for brevity's sake, I decided not to go too much into details. My point stands.
- canadiancreed 14y agoIf I'm reading you correctly, Quebec wouldn't apply, because Quebec is in Canada, not the United States.