Post 9geP5JirChaLlnFCFs by LWFlouisa@leftlibertarian.club
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(DIR) Post #9geNo8nkSHej1OmHq4 by LWFlouisa@leftlibertarian.club
2019-03-11T02:28:59.424502Z
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In fact, Tennessee culture is very different from Texas culture:It's a bit like trying to compare France, with Spain. It doesn't work. #culture
(DIR) Post #9geNo95pN47LvTEj1E by clacke@libranet.de
2019-03-11T04:35:47Z
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I think France and Spain are quite easy (and relevant!) to compare. If their cultures were very similar, it would be harder or at least more boring. Please compare Tennessee to Texas! I'm an ignorant European who thinks the US is just Hollywood, New York City, New England, Miami Beach, Texas and flyover country.
(DIR) Post #9geNxRYS6HGPn33ibY by clacke@libranet.de
2019-03-11T04:37:31Z
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Here, let me compare France and Spain!Similarities: Love of wine, love of food, close-knit family, masculine culture, incomprehensible language, former part of the Roman Empire, lots of green countryside, lots of agriculture but also some big cities, former colonial powers that spread their main languages across the world and have a complex relationship to their former colonies, EU members that use the Euro, two-chamber parliamentary system, occasionally shared royal houses, Catholic, cursed by having a big international language so generally worse at English than other Europeans.Differences: got occupied by a foreign fascist government for years vs had an indigenous one for decades; presidential republic vs constitutional monarchy; single-person constituency lower house vs party-list PR lower house; complex electoral college upper house vs single-person constituency upper house; strong centralized government and rather centralized language vs strong regional autonomy and multiple prominent languages; mostly invaded Africa vs mostly invaded the Americas; founding member of the ECSC vs joined the EEC decades later; celtic-germanic-romance history vs romance-visigoth-moor history; conquered England vs didn't; conquered Europe vs didn't; had a Revolution that did fantastic and horrible things and changed history again vs just sat there being a pretty stable monarchy, eventually re-exporting their royal house to the other country; had a huge chunk of Africa as actual annexed part of their home country vs didn't; just went to the Americas when everyone was doing it vs funded the first genocidal expedition and many more; makes the wine everybody thinks is the best wine vs makes the best wine.
(DIR) Post #9geP5JirChaLlnFCFs by LWFlouisa@leftlibertarian.club
2019-03-11T04:40:20.881149Z
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@clacke A bit like how knee pads don't prevent injury, only its severity.
(DIR) Post #9geP5Jy6I1mKX4NN0y by clacke@libranet.de
2019-03-11T04:50:04Z
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@LWFlouisaI think the regional autonomy in Spain seems like a counter-reaction to the Franco years, I think the old monarcy was pretty centralized, but I'm sadly deficient in Spanish history. Either way, they had the cultural and linguistic diversity before.The Nazi party grew from a chaotically loosely held together country (but they did it using the strongest constituent state as a lever), whereas Italian Fascism grew from a more monolithic state, as did the totalitarian Soviet Union. I don't know if decentralism does anything. Fascists gonna fascist. It can come from an already strongly centralized regime being taken over, or it can come from a counter-reaction to perceived chaos.
(DIR) Post #9geQPa0EU3oa0Yb5Oa by LWFlouisa@leftlibertarian.club
2019-03-11T04:53:26.099813Z
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@clacke That may be why I can't quite understand complete communitarianism or individualism.And what seems apparent, it seems like there is a kind of totalitarianism that can happen, even in network of small communities.Catholic church having influence across different countries, for example. Even if the countries are independant, they follow a toxic framework.