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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

let's not forget that America is a big, diverse country

We just did a 5 week trip in the US which was LA, drive to Vegas, fly to NYC, then drive 5000k to the middle of Texas, and man... I keep hearing about all this diversity but that joint is the same all over. Having some mountains in the background instead of a desert, and having a majority RAM 2500s instead of majority Teslas is not the "diversity" I'd been led to believe existed. It's all just chain stores, tipping, and bad coffee anywhere you go.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most places in the US developed in a similarly shitty way thanks to the logic of American capitalism. That doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t ethnic and cultural diversity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If you say so! Place was the same from coast to coast from our outsiders perspective.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

America - where you can get any kind of fast food you want, as long as it's a hamburger.

-Neil Gaimen