Social differences even between coasts are massive

stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 89 points –

Buddy of mine and I were chatting on Discord and we ended up having a conversation about this topic.

Namely imagine you just put two people in a room. One from New Jersey and one from LA and observe

Wild how different cultures can be even inside a country.

What do y’all think? Is it due to the size of the US (geographically)?

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Completely agree. I grew up in the Dallas area and spent 3 years in Colorado Springs. The "coffee culture" of the area was shocking to me. I had a roommate sit me down and tell me I needed to stop wearing camo pants because it looked ridiculous, while it was fairly common back home. There's so many little things that are different that you don't realize until you're in it.

I'm with your friend there, wearing camo is weird, unless you're trying to hide in some snow/shrubbery/desert.

Camo clothing is associated with hunting and slaughtering wild animals for sport, and bootlicking military cosplay. it doesn't fly well outside the South.

Yep. Colorado Springs is the start of the American west culture. Texas is the end of the south.

If camo pants are good enough for ole Stone Cold, they are good enough for you. Be yourself.

That was my take as well!

Yeah screw the haters. Wear full on camo and they won’t even be able to see you anyway.