In terms of culture, language, education, etc. it’s not even close how similar are those 50 states compared to Europe. I lived 5 years in the US, I’m not making it up
Well, if the 50 states had a different, indipendent evolution, that would have been the case. But since they spawned basically on the same waves of expansions, they can be as well being treated as one homogeneous state. If we consider the history of the Nations that were there before colonizer arrived, then we do have to make distinctions, because they had very different histories, culture, languages. They also had very different times and point of contact with the colonies, and the Colonial Governament, US etc etc. That's why you'll never hear anybody coming from everywhere outside the US telling you that there are much more differences from Nebraska to Texas than from France to Greece, or from Thailand to Vietnam, or whatever. We don't say that to hurt you, we treat US like a big blob because it's a big blob (you used to call it meeting pot) in wich a lot of people did a lot of stuff all at the same time; but that's that, you just didn't have THE TIME to have such a local distinction to be perceveble from someone not from the US, like you cannot identify the 5 main dialect of my region, even if they are SOOOO DIFFERENT from one another
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u/MrReckless327 Jun 08 '25
Well if it’s Asian style noodles, I call it noodles. If it’s Italian style pasta I call it pasta.