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0 pointsHerring4mo ago0 comments

You're European? You guys shipped over all your individualist (aka antisocial) people to the US. They have no idea how to work together to build a society, can't trust each other, so all they do is hustle and pray that having money will insulate them from each other. Doesn't work.

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ifwinterco4mo ago

I'm British so we are in a strange place where it comes to this stuff.

The shared language means we're totally submerged in US culture in a lot of ways, but equally we're quite distinctly European in others.

That cognitive dissonance explains a lot about the modern UK I think

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