US Cultural Homogeneity Debate

You're comparing apples and oranges. EU and Asian countries are ethnically homogeneous. You need to compare America to other melting pots, like Brazil and Argentina.

Considering that Europe is composed of many countries with massively different histories, cultures, economies and languages I find that a very unconvincing argument. The US are much more culturualy homogeneous than Europe. I mean just go across the country and look at the patriotic displays of flags which also transcends political differences. In contrast in Europe you first would be seeing different flags, but also displaying flags has very different acceptance rates in different countries.

I'd be careful around claims about cultural identity and homogeneity. A lot of countries, like the scandinavian ones and NZ (and Australia) can look that way from the outside, but I think its a simplistic view. From our perspective, for example, apart from the obvious catastrophic partisan politics that have gripped the US, the US looks like it has a united cultural identity (e.g. a religious devotion to the founding fathers, patriotism, commitment to freedom of speech etc).There was a r

To some degree yes, but mainstream US is still far more culturally uniform from state to state than Europe's countries are. In Europe most of countries are nation-based and as such encapsulate also all the possible differences in ethnicities, languages, culture, religion and history to a much higher degree. Imagine each race/denomination/ethical group in US having their own independent state with their own laws and ways of life, and you get something like Europe.

The "homogeneity"/"diversity" argument for why things that work elsewhere won't work in the US is often just racist dogwhistling. The Nordic countries are not actually as homogeneous as Americans seem to think, and the US isn't as diverse as they seem to think, either (hint: diversity != skin colour). See for example the lists here:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level" rel=

US cultural homogeneity is overstated by comparison to countries or regions with different languages. But Australia and Canada and the US are all English speaking—do they not warrant being separate countries? What about Australia and New Zealand? Ireland and Britain and Scotland? And language aside—are Denmark and Sweden more different from each other than New York versus Alabama?

> One reason is that the US is substantially more ethnically and culturally heterogenous than Finland or FranceNo it isn't… but USA needs to be exceptional so you believe it is :)

what countries? i suspect the ones you're referring to are demographically different from the US and are homogeneous in culture/race/faith.

America is made up of 5+ full fledged nations of people inside it with different ethnic, cultural, and genetic backgrounds. Why do you expect them to be anything like the Finns or Norwegians?

I can absolutely guarantee that this is not the case in France. Try comparing Île-de-France and similarly sized Limousin for example.I spend a lot of time both in the EU and the US, and find the US remarkably culturally homogeneous compared to Europe. In a country the size of a continent, from coast to coast, you find the same dominant language, traditions, politics, religion, holidays, sports, restaurant chains and stores.What is the case I imagine, is that one is trained from birth to di