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Old 2010-09-08, 03:47   Link #51
Vexx
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
Many people from elsewhere forget there are 50 states.. each with its own somewhat general attitudes and then the major fundamental differences between urban and rural settings within each state. Its not much different than trying to characterize the former Soviet Union, which was a rainbow of very different cultures and ethnic peoples (though that was masked by the heavy Moscow/Leningrad presentation to the world).

For example, New York and the Pacific Northwest are so culturally different they might as well be different countries in attitudes and values. Another example (from someone who is a pharmacist), regional dialects vary wildly enough that a number of patients from New Jersey discussing a prescription with a pharmacy call center stationed in Alabama accused the pharmacy mail-order company of outsourcing the call center overseas -- they couldn't understand Alabama-speak.
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