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It depends on the person. I think education and keeping up to date with the trends is the most important key to culture. It is mentioned on this thread before that traveling and gaining perspective on the world would aid you in being cultured. Large metros offer amenities and culture while small remote towns offer nature and open space usually with limited amenities.
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I'd love to see the stats on 'people who have never left their native metro area'...seems like that number should be almost zero, but it's probably quite a bit larger than I'd guess or realize
This article from 2018 says 11% of survey respondents had never left their state and 40% had never left the US.
LOCATION has a lot to do with the original tag at the top of this thread. Hawaii? You get people here from EVERYWHERE. Tourists from Europe, Japan.
But Japanese, Filipinos and Pacific Islanders are a big chunk of full-time residents. Native Hawaiians still exist, but they have shrunk to a tiny number.
Yes, there's every manner of food and music and dress and language. It certainly would keep you from becoming too parochial in your views. But I've been wrong before! Just ask Winston Churchill, who said: "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." He was RIGHT!
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