• sndrtj@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    The differences between California and Alabama are still an order of magnitude or more smaller than between e.g. Portugal and Latvia.

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      11 months ago

      I live in California. I’ve been to Alabama, Portugal, and Latvia (just this year for the Baltics, great places). I disagree.

      Parts of the deep south are just fucking alien in a way I’ve never felt anywhere else.

      Different places in Europe are, of course, different. But different in a way you can wrap your head around with an undercurrent of commonality. The same things being done in interestingly different ways by normal people.

      The sense of dislocation and strangeness I feel in certain (not all) places in the deep south is far beyond anything I’ve experienced, not just in Europe, but also Asia, South America, and North Africa.