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Social differences even between coasts are massive (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Buddy of mine and I were chatting on Discord and we ended up having a conversation about this topic.

Namely imagine you just put two people in a room. One from New Jersey and one from LA and observe

Wild how different cultures can be even inside a country.

What do y’all think? Is it due to the size of the US (geographically)?

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[–] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s an interesting point but I’d say that most of the time, people in a neighborhood who have been living there at least for a couple generations are likely to be pretty similar as opposed to east vs west coast

Also because sometimes people don’t have the same perspectives as each other or knowledge and thus can be surprised when you are not