• Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Quick reminder that “Europe” is a mosaic of countries, and that there is a huge difference between let’s say, Portugal, Austria and Latvia.

    I don’t really think there is a country which would be so liberal regarding marriage that you could get married by Elvis or a Machine on short notice amd drunk just to get laid (on the other hand, most European cultures stopped caring about marriage, and donxt need it to get laid or have kids)

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, the region in question was meant to be broad since this is a pretty specific and peculiar subject.

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      1 year ago

      Kinda like when people lump California and Alabama together when talking about Americans. Annoying, isn’t it?

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        The differences between California and Alabama are still an order of magnitude or more smaller than between e.g. Portugal and Latvia.

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          I live in California. I’ve been to Alabama, Portugal, and Latvia (just this year for the Baltics, great places). I disagree.

          Parts of the deep south are just fucking alien in a way I’ve never felt anywhere else.

          Different places in Europe are, of course, different. But different in a way you can wrap your head around with an undercurrent of commonality. The same things being done in interestingly different ways by normal people.

          The sense of dislocation and strangeness I feel in certain (not all) places in the deep south is far beyond anything I’ve experienced, not just in Europe, but also Asia, South America, and North Africa.

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        Not really, that would be more like lumping the states Bavaria and Schleswig-Holstein together when talking about Germans.

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          Naw, that’s more like LA vs SF when talking about Californians. Different beliefs, social behavior, dialects, history, architecture, etc.

          You guys really need to get away from lumping Americans in the same bin in conversation. The US is huge and covers more diverse cultures in a single state than most people understand. We’re friends with Europeans, regardless of what country you’re from. We love you guys! Stop falling victim to propaganda and remember that we are allies.