Weird how it never struck me until seeing those Canada tweets I just RTed just how strikingly centralized the American cultural imagination is. Even within the majority White+Christian, “All-American” seems to pick out a single archetype (small town football star?) not a spread
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Depends on where you are. The Northwest United States has very different demographics than the Southeast for example.
The amount of different ethnicities and different combinations of people is staggering in the PNW. But you could argue because it's so close to Canada...
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The imagined American identity suffers from the same problem that leaves most Americans physically unable to pronounce beyond 3 syllables.


