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There really isn't. Europeans consistently wildly overestimate the difference in cultures between countries. The language barriers probably don't help there.


Compared to what? Are cultural difference between US, Canada and mexico any greater than those between Switzerland, Italy and Russia?


Yes, of course, each of those countries is internally very diverse, and in relation to the others.

Each of those countries was made by a mix of native, European, African and Asian peoples of different kinds, in different proportions, at different times. Europe is made of just Europeans, and immigration is a very recent thing.


Is this what American education sounds like? Do you recall that European nations practically ruled the world at different times in history and gladly took in and integrated foreigners? Unlike Americans who mostly wiped out the natives and grandfathered in slaves.


> gladly took in and integrated foreigners?

So why were non-white populations in Europe negligible until about 60 years ago? Statistics are hard to come by, but do these pictures of London shortly after the fall of the British colonial empire look like a capital that "gladly took in and integrated foreigners"? https://www.vintag.es/2012/12/london-in-color-photographs-in...

Or Paris? https://flashbak.com/24-color-photographs-of-paris-from-may-...

Or if you don't like to go by random photos: "Historical migration into or within Europe has mostly taken the form of military invasion" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Europe

> Is this what American education sounds like?

Having been educated in Europe myself, there was no hint of this "gladly took in and integrated foreigners" you speak of in the curriculum. May I ask where you got this idea?


Dude, WTF, Egyptians have been living in Italy four thousand years before USA existed.


No, we don't. We have millenia-old nations that have been through what the US is about to be. We've had enough wars, treaties, territory shift, that everyone's family tree is nomadic. To put it simply, there's more culture in a territory the size of Texas, than the whole US combined.




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