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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Growing up in the South is learning to be mean by way of looking nice.

That’s a really good way to put it that I’ve never heard before.

It took me a while to figure out. Like I knew Southerners can be mean and judgy, but I didn't think about how until I traveled to other places and saw how much more straightforward people are. It's nice when kindness is kindness and there's no underlying meaning.

I can never tell when people are doing this, and it’s really confusing to me. I wish more people would just say things outright!

It's a subtly, yeah. There's a lot of reading between the lines along, which is annoying if you're not used to it.