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• IZZI@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It gives context?

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  • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It also highlights, hopefully, that a person is being less geocentric or culture blind.

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    • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I strive to be heliocentric

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• nick@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As an American, who gives a fuck

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  • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What kind of American, is my question. For larger sub-types, we have the great state of Canadia up north, Texas in the south, Mexico in the south-south, then and then the Panama canal, that splits us from Antarctica. (The rest is just volcanoes and rain forest; Not even worth mentioning, really.)

    In the Murica, we have about 50 states, each with their own ideology, culture, food, language, road system, religion, insurance policies and vehicle preferences. By far, the biggest ideological differences spawn from if you fight for Carl’s Jr. or Hardee’s.

    Texas is by far the most independent. Unless there is a hurricane, measles outbreak, electricity shortage or need for other commodities from the other bastard states… They will temporarily join the Union followed by absolute denial that they need the rest of the states for anything. So completely independent and we should be scheduling our next civil war shortly, but the forms for that got lost by the USPS which is yet another service they have never needed.

    But yeah, we have a million different sub-cultures here is my point. It might be easier to call us out by car type, TBH. The differences between a Ford/Chevy-American and say, a Honda or Tesla-American are very telling. The Tesla-Americans are going through a transition now, so we can put them off to the side.

    So, with all of that, bunching is all up as “THE muricans” is really silly. Most of us can’t afford the trip through the Rockies to mix and mingle with rumored the California and the Washington anyway. (Those “states” don’t even exist to me.)

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• quill_pusher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think understanding that not all Americans are Nazis is important.

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a German I’m inclined to agree

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• WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In the sterile text fields that compose the internet, you can’t hear the slide rack sound that precedes every American utterance.

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  meanwhile about time anyone actually followed your complaint, many more would be saying “omg you Americans are so self centered, you aren’t the only ones in the world you know”

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• chronotron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  go gettem champ

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