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Texas is actually more than twice as big as Italy:
Texas ~ 700,000 km^2
Italy ~ 300,000 km^2
As for the matter at hand, you're obviously right.
The US come off as very homogeneous culturally, when compared to other countries.
Sorry I got it wrong. Even California is larger than Italy.
I'm aware of the diversity in the U.S, but the diversity people talk about usually exists in a segregated fashion. Yes, there are a lot of native people in Hawaii and they have their distinct culture. But Hawaiians and White settlers in Hawaii do not blend, the White community in Hawaii isn't that different from White community in suburban L.A. There is a Chinatown in San Francisco, but nobody except for Chinese speaks Chinese at all.
If you only consider the White people, the culture in all the White communities in the nation is very homogeneous. If you only consider Chinatown dwellers, those in SF Chinatown share common culture with NYC Chinatown. The same applies to other ethical groups. And what is the difference between Spanish spoken in San Antonio and El Paso?
El Paso is considered unique only because the Hispanic population is huge, other than that, I don't know what the culture of El Paso is. In fact, Texas happens to be one of the few relatively diverse state. East Texas is culturally identical with deep south states from Louisiana to Mississippi.
In a culturally diverse country like China, each province has at least one distinct dialect. Many of these dialects are so different that they are not mutually intelligible. Cantonese is widely spoken in Hong Kong and Guangdong, but it's not understood at all in other regions like Beijing. The difference between two Chinese dialects can be way bigger than the difference between Italian and Spanish.
Language barriers within China are not uncommon at all. How big is the difference between English spoken in Seattle and Boston? I know they are different, but still mutually intelligible.
The diversity of food is also minimal in the U.S, not so in China. What considered to be a delicacy in Sichuan could be considered inedible in Shanghai.
Spoken like someone who has no clue of the US.
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China is probably beyond your understanding, let's try Italy instead. Nearly 90% American wines are produced in California, mostly the Napa Valley. In Italy, each region has its own wine and cheese, they are very different and no single region can dominate the market like California.
You need a map to see the regionality of Italian wine. Don't forget Italy is only slightly larger than the state of Texas.
Sorry I got it wrong. Even California is larger than Italy.
I'm aware of the diversity in the U.S, but the diversity people talk about usually exists in a segregated fashion. Yes, there are a lot of native people in Hawaii and they have their distinct culture. But Hawaiians and White settlers in Hawaii do not blend, the White community in Hawaii isn't that different from White community in suburban L.A. There is a Chinatown in San Francisco, but nobody except for Chinese speaks Chinese at all.
If you only consider the White people, the culture in all the White communities in the nation is very homogeneous. If you only consider Chinatown dwellers, those in SF Chinatown share common culture with NYC Chinatown. The same applies to other ethical groups. And what is the difference between Spanish spoken in San Antonio and El Paso?
El Paso is considered unique only because the Hispanic population is huge, other than that, I don't know what the culture of El Paso is. In fact, Texas happens to be one of the few relatively diverse state. East Texas is culturally identical with deep south states from Louisiana to Mississippi.
As a tourists I found England to be boring due to their monotonous architecture, and I found Australia and UAE to be decently boring.
However, living in a country is totally different from visiting a country. In my opinion it is more boring to live in Scandinavia than to live in Australia or England. The reason Scandinavia can get quite boring, is because people are not outgoing, and many of the smaller cities have absolutely nothing to do. People don't go bowling, eat out very often or even go to the movies. And if you do go, it will cost a lot of money. In addition most people will not visit eachother very often.
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As a tourists I found England to be boring due to their monotonous architecture, and I found Australia and UAE to be decently boring.
However, living in a country is totally different from visiting a country. In my opinion it is more boring to live in Scandinavia than to live in Australia or England. The reason Scandinavia can get quite boring, is because people are not outgoing, and many of the smaller cities have absolutely nothing to do. People don't go bowling, eat out very often or even go to the movies. And if you do go, it will cost a lot of money. In addition most people will not visit eachother very often.
If anything I think the UK has a diversity of architecture from numerous historical periods through to the modern day.
I also find it strange that someone would label an entire country the size of Australia as boring, as it's an extemely diverse and interesting country with some great cities and natural scenery.
Sorry I got it wrong. Even California is larger than Italy.
I'm aware of the diversity in the U.S, but the diversity people talk about usually exists in a segregated fashion. Yes, there are a lot of native people in Hawaii and they have their distinct culture. But Hawaiians and White settlers in Hawaii do not blend, the White community in Hawaii isn't that different from White community in suburban L.A. There is a Chinatown in San Francisco, but nobody except for Chinese speaks Chinese at all.
If you only consider the White people, the culture in all the White communities in the nation is very homogeneous. If you only consider Chinatown dwellers, those in SF Chinatown share common culture with NYC Chinatown. The same applies to other ethical groups. And what is the difference between Spanish spoken in San Antonio and El Paso?
El Paso is considered unique only because the Hispanic population is huge, other than that, I don't know what the culture of El Paso is. In fact, Texas happens to be one of the few relatively diverse state. East Texas is culturally identical with deep south states from Louisiana to Mississippi.
Not true at all. White Hawaiians are very proud of Hawaiian culture and consider themselves quite distinct from mainlanders. There's also a lot of miscegenation.
If you only consider the White people, the culture in all the White communities in the nation is very homogeneous.
Also very untrue. Whites in Colorado are distinctly different from those in Las Vegas who are different from those in Scottsdale, Nashville, Presque Isle, Holland or Fargo.
The U.S. has a very, very diverse white population:
Haven't you seen those cheesy government videos that show how diverse the U.S. is? Everytime I land in the U.S. from abroad, my airport greets me with this video:
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El Paso is considered unique only because the Hispanic population is huge, other than that, I don't know what the culture of El Paso is. In fact, Texas happens to be one of the few relatively diverse state. East Texas is culturally identical with deep south states from Louisiana to Mississippi.
East Texas is very distinct from Louisiana and Mississippi. Louisiana's white population is much more Acadian, French and Catholic. Mississippi whites are also more culturally Southern and Antebellum in nature. East Texas did not have too many plantations so the culture is more frontier/woodsmen. That's not to say they aren't politically similar. All of these whites are heavily Republican. But culturally they are quite distinct.
Scandinavian countries for me is boring and their weather is foul
Have you been to Western and Northern Norway?
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