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[โ€“] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is a decent explanation.

People forget that from the time Christopher Columbus arrived to when Europeans began expanding past the Appalachia is a span of 300 years. That's longer than we've been in a country.

American expansion would not have been possible without hundreds of years of what is basically a Continent wide apocalypse. Culture just doesn't survive that level of sustained trauma unchanged.

[โ€“] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Does Lemmy also hug sites to death?