How did they form? What are their specific traits? Stereotypes (even untrue, if marked as such)?
If cultural differences coincide with geography, please mention in, too.

In the questions about weird things people from different continents do somebody pointed out, that Europeans have little knowledge of this, so please fix my ignorance.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    321·
    1 year ago
    • East coast: old money, lots of drinking, cold weather, violence, power, liberalism, deciduous forests
    • Southeast: southern hospitality, shithole school systems, conservativism, sweet tea, food influenced by french cuisine, nascar, lush vegetation
    • Southwest: cowboys, ranch homes, cultural mixing with Mexico, drugs, art, desert and mountains
    • West coast (basically california): hollywood, progressivism, new money, asian-pacific food influences, hippies, poop, surfing
    • Northwest: best weed, created grunge genre, rainy, dismal, chill, northern european food influences, rainforests
    • North-middle: liminal space, copy-pasted terrain, independent/libertarian, wheat, sparsely populated
    • Midest: mix of conservative and liberal, plains farmland, cozy houses, desperate to define itself culturally (see Chicago architectural publications), corn, soybeans, and pigs, neutral accent, german and polish food influence

    source: memory

    • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
      253·
      1 year ago

      Southeast: southern hospitality

      Should be “southern hospitality” in quotation marks. Rudest bunch you’ll ever meet unless you are exactly like them.

      • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
        141·
        1 year ago

        Nah we’re never rude, they’re all compliments.

        Well bless your heart, I would never have the courage to wear something like that in public like you do.

      • Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works
        102·
        1 year ago

        I’ve found DC to be the rudest bunch of people I’ve ever met. Everywhere I’ve gone in DC the people are just totally rude assholes. Everywhere I’ve been in the south has just been nice, polite, helpful people.

        • galloog1@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year ago

          I found it too be exactly the opposite. Everyone in DC is doing interesting things. There is a lot of passion and hard work as well. They mostly shy away from direct politics in a town that is incredibly political by its very nature. I’ve been helped on the street more by average people than I ever was around Atlanta, New Orleans, or the spaces between.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        I was thinking specifically of an apple cobbler recipe I once did that had me dotting the whole pan with butter after the end, which I thought was a French technique. Turns out cobbler’s got English origins not French.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          2·
          1 year ago

          Ah, okay. Yeah, IIRC Scotland also contributed a lot of the really grease-heavy dishes to the no-spice parts of the South.

    • maynarkh@feddit.nl
      9·
      1 year ago

      West coast (basically california): hollywood, progressivism, new money, asian-pacific food influences, hippies, poop, surfing

      One of these is not like the others.