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We just did a 5 week trip in the US which was LA, drive to Vegas, fly to NYC, then drive 5000k to the middle of Texas, and man... I keep hearing about all this diversity but that joint is the same all over. Having some mountains in the background instead of a desert, and having a majority RAM 2500s instead of majority Teslas is not the "diversity" I'd been led to believe existed. It's all just chain stores, tipping, and bad coffee anywhere you go.
America - where you can get any kind of fast food you want, as long as it's a hamburger.
-Neil Gaimen
Most places in the US developed in a similarly shitty way thanks to the logic of American capitalism. That doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t ethnic and cultural diversity.
If you say so! Place was the same from coast to coast from our outsiders perspective.