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Into the Night
Argument of the Stone fallacy. Inversion fallacy. You are the one floundering and flopping here.
Different European countries have different cultures...even under the auspices of the EU.
The main language in the States is English. There is not getting around that. Europe does not have a lot of religious freedom, which is why refugees came to America to get away from it all and worship as they saw fit for themselves. The same thing happened to what is now Greece. Many nations in Europe have ceded their sovereignty to the European Union, which is an oligarchy (dictatorship by committee). This committee attempts to quash religious freedom (it really isn't possible to do so).
The United States of America is truly unique of the cultures that came out of Europe. It was organized as a federated republic, with no titles of nobility, visions of ending slavery (which it finally did), leaving power in local control and giving the federal layer very limited power, and began the long road to treat everyone equally under the law (yet to be achieved, despite the 14th amendment).
That had never been done before, not even with the republic of Rome (which didn't last very long, due to it's weak structure and unwillingness to eliminate chattel slavery). At the time of the founding of the United States, Europe was ruled by various kings, and chattel slavery was common. By the time the War of Secession occurred, chattel slavery was being abandoned by most nations already (it still exists today in a few, however). Slavery in some form (other than chattel) currently exists in some 170 nations (mostly in the form of forced marriages, forced prisoner labor, or debt enslavement). Chattel slavery still exists in about a dozen nations today.
You’re confusing culture with society. Every society is both unique and has similarities to other societies, and they may all exist in the same culture, as Western European countries and others, including the U.S. coexist. But to cut this short, the Western culture, or developed Western countries, description isn’t one I invented. It is common knowledge, if not to you and your dumb friends.
Last edited by martin; 03-29-2023 at 06:13 PM.
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