I’m not saying there’s no potential, but come on, for the size of the US it’s incredibly homogeneous. Compare that to, say, China, which has many different provinces with different majority ethnicities, same in Russia, same in India regarding languages… The US is definitely a very non-diverse place for its size, as a byproduct of its short history and the policy over the past 200 years.
We must live in very different Americas. It looks a lot more different when you’re out there with the people. Every region is different. Cultures, goals, a hodgepodge of immigrant customs and a beautiful mosaic of faces. Even in my sleepy midwest city there’s so much more than white Christian culture that has stood in stark contrast to the narrative that we are solely an anglican-aryan nation.
I grew up a military brat. I’ve seen nearly every corner of this country. I’ve seen with my own eyes what the melting pot actually looks like beyond my own social media bubble. A nation is more than it’s incumbency. People live here.
Again, I’m comparing to other nations. Go to China, for example. Go to Canton, then go to Xinjiang, and finally to Beijing. Three entirely different cultural areas, with different majority languages. You simply cannot find anything remotely close in the USA. Now do the same in Russia, and move from Moscow to Tatarstan, then Ulan-Ude and then to Chechnya. Again, the US is very homogeneous for a country with its span and population.
West coast, new england, bible belt, bayou/french south, texas, the midwest, the latin basin. These are vastly different cultural regions. Your argument isn’t holding water to me. I’ve lived in many different places, and you just can’t have a landmass as big as the US or China and make it homogenous. It just doesn’t happen. People don’t work that way.
I’m not saying there’s no potential, but come on, for the size of the US it’s incredibly homogeneous. Compare that to, say, China, which has many different provinces with different majority ethnicities, same in Russia, same in India regarding languages… The US is definitely a very non-diverse place for its size, as a byproduct of its short history and the policy over the past 200 years.
We must live in very different Americas. It looks a lot more different when you’re out there with the people. Every region is different. Cultures, goals, a hodgepodge of immigrant customs and a beautiful mosaic of faces. Even in my sleepy midwest city there’s so much more than white Christian culture that has stood in stark contrast to the narrative that we are solely an anglican-aryan nation.
I grew up a military brat. I’ve seen nearly every corner of this country. I’ve seen with my own eyes what the melting pot actually looks like beyond my own social media bubble. A nation is more than it’s incumbency. People live here.
Again, I’m comparing to other nations. Go to China, for example. Go to Canton, then go to Xinjiang, and finally to Beijing. Three entirely different cultural areas, with different majority languages. You simply cannot find anything remotely close in the USA. Now do the same in Russia, and move from Moscow to Tatarstan, then Ulan-Ude and then to Chechnya. Again, the US is very homogeneous for a country with its span and population.
West coast, new england, bible belt, bayou/french south, texas, the midwest, the latin basin. These are vastly different cultural regions. Your argument isn’t holding water to me. I’ve lived in many different places, and you just can’t have a landmass as big as the US or China and make it homogenous. It just doesn’t happen. People don’t work that way.