Both things can be true, but it’s funny that two opposite sounding replies came to this one comment about US politics.

  • subtleorbit@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    You’re the first person to bring up language? As if that’s the only thing that can differ between places lmao.

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      4 days ago

      Having different languages is kinda a big deal. It means different stories growing up, different cultural practices, different emphasis across different interpretations of history. Americans may have a lot of geography between each other, but the cultural difference isn’t all that wide.

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          4 days ago

          If you say so.

          How does it compare to the difference between Finland and Greece?

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            4 days ago

            I’d actually say that Finland is closer to Greece than Orange County is to like Trimble, but I haven’t spent much time in Finland outside of Helsinki and Enontekio. But the point isn’t who has the most different, it’s “is EU to US a more apt comparison than any individual European country is to the US?”

            Netherlands and Poland would have been a better example for you to bring up than Greece and Finland honestly.