Mikeychance

[Mikeychance @milcastil]

@fruitsnacks42 I love Boston and I think this criticism is obviously highly exaggerated since it is a minority majority city.

However, Boston has historically been quite segregated - and the majority of that 25% black is concentrated in Mattapan, Dorchester, Roxbury.

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@PeterDiamandis Too broke* to care

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@BjorkBrodern The beach pic isn’t America.

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@Crimb1eCrumb1e Scotland is indeed beautiful.

But c’mon, man. The only desert in all of Europe is in Spain - and Arizona alone kicks its culo, let’s get real.

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie I also don’t know enough, admittedly, on how ‘wildly different’ each European nation’s legal and political systems are.

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie My point was that politically there’s enough agreement that the entire continent agrees to be a part of the EU.

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie Fun fact - DC (and the rest of the nation is modeled after Massachuetts.

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie I don’t think it’ll ever feel as the US precisely because of the language piece that you’re pointing to.

Cultural/political attitudes are close enough that the EU does exist, however.

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie This is a fair point.

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie They’re all grouped together because one nation largely colonized all of those countries. It is a shame that this happens though because these nations are quite unique once you’ve spent a good amount of time there.

Highly recommend Chile btw.

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie Political view are largely similar - this is why you all can have the EU (minus UK, I suppose).

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie The variance in cuisine is not that vastly different outside of the nations doing most of the heavy lifting - Spain, France, Italy. Everything else is some version of meat/fish and potatoes.

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie Architecture is also quite similar within the larger groups - Latin countries are heavy Roman/Gothic style, Scandinavia has it’s own thing going on, etx.

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie I think this is a laughable take. Spoken as someone who’s traveled quite a bit in Latam and who’s family is from Latam.

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie And this is because the country is so biodiverse and its history is influenced by so many different countries.

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie I have conceded the entire time that of course European nations are more distinct than US states are.

What I put forth is that the states do have many differences, and they are especially pronounced here vs other large nations

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie As a Spanish speaker, I felt very at home in Italy and understood about 80% of what people said.

This comparison could also be made of the Scandinavian nations, or Belgium/Netherlands, or Germany/Austria, etc.

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie And another question for you

Are Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy all that different? Outside of the obvious difference in language, some cuisine, do you not concede that they are culturally quite similar places?

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@xereeto @hellspatisserie Sure. No lies detected in what you laid out.

My point is that language is not the only thing that defines culture.

Have you likewise traveled in Latin America? Will you say here that all Spanish speaking countries are the same?