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Buddy of mine and I were chatting on Discord and we ended up having a conversation about this topic.

Namely imagine you just put two people in a room. One from New Jersey and one from LA and observe

Wild how different cultures can be even inside a country.

What do y’all think? Is it due to the size of the US (geographically)?

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[–] CheeseAndCrepes@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Born in the south and moved to Philadelphia in my early twenties. It was more culture shock than some other countries I’ve been to. Folks in Philly don’t hold back. If they don’t like you they tell you, to your face. They also don’t feel the need to add all the extra and often unnecessary pleasantries to every social interaction. Honestly for a “well mannered” southern kid it was pretty liberating to get to drop all that.

[–] lamentforicarus@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Growing up in the South is learning to be mean by way of looking nice.

[–] Spacegrass@artemis.camp 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] lamentforicarus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Proudly have never had that said to me lol

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