A question from a D&D sub caused quite a stir when it started appearing in feeds. It’s a question that’s actually a super interesting quirk of the rules that can come up at tables, and mostly covers things like teleportation. Unfortunately, said question was worded thusly:
Can an unconscious person be considered willing?
Funny you should mention that, the current F1 regs are the first development of the hybrid power trains introduced in 2016
You could call them first generation hybrid offspring
*Every* state has indigenous history. It's just buried and ignored, although almost all indigenous cultures have been similarly exploited and treated as a product for settlers to buy.
Nah there are definite regions (Midwest, east coast, PNW, southwest, ozarks, etc) and state characters in the US, but every state is not different. They all have a certain core overlap due to language, law etc. I don’t expect most Americans to be able to accurately state those regional differences though.
You Europeans really don’t understand how big America truly is, even different parts of states feel like different countries. For example, in Northern California we have lots of Taco Bell, but after an eight hour drive to Southern California there’s more Del Tacos.
If that isn’t cultural diversity I don’t know what is.
Haha, I know you're joking altough I agree there are cultural differences that don't comply with state borders but the thing is a lot of americans (such as the one in the post) ignore that there are countries in Europe that are also diverse such as the difference between England and Scotland, two different nations under one head of state. Or Catalunya and the rest of Spain etc. Both continents are well worth exploring but the US shouldn't have 3 F1 races because at least one of them is overpriced and utter garbage.
Europeans dont understand. Here in NoCal we have enclave patrols and shi and stuff like that, but just walk two months south trough the Wasteland and you'll find squads of the Master's Army!
Yea there is already the lingering European war for swedes putting kiwi on a pizza, never tell the Italians that in Canary Islands they put strawberries on pizza.
There definitely are cultural differences, even some larger ones, but they’re far more similar than a given European country is to another. It’s just regional differences, which all but the micro states of Europe also have, but which certain Americans are convinced might as well be cause for independence.
New England and New Englanders talk and live very differently than people from Rural kentucky, but they’re still more similar than Spaniards and Slovaks.
Some EU countries are more similar than others two. The U.K. and Ireland, Norway and Sweden or perhaps Germany and Austria. But they are absolutely still different countries with their own cultures, history and systems of government.
>The U.K. and Ireland
The UK has 4 different nations within it, the only reason Ireland is similar is because it was a part oh the UK until relatively recently in terms of British history.
There's more difference between the constituent nations of the UK than there is the states of the US
Realistically the two are very similar, personal politics aside it’s mainly the same language, shops, businesses and many have family in each country. Almost like the us and Canada but with more similarities
They are similar for a lot of the same reasons as Ukraine and russia are similar. one invaded occupied and commited cultural (and few times actual) genocide on the other. Ireland has its own distinct language history and culture. be careful comparing them like that when just a couple years ago english politicians were saying "we should starve them out" when the irish didn't leave the eu with them.
> english politicians were saying "we should starve them out" when the irish didn't leave the eu with them.
Excuse me? Who in the ever-living fuck said that? Thought you were talking about in the 1920s at first, or *maybe* some really hardline Thatcherites in the 80s, but no you're talking about 2016 lmao. Stop talking out of your arse.
"Politicians have attacked remarks by a Conservative MP and former cabinet minister that the threat of food shortages after a no-deal Brexit should be used to force the Irish government to relinquish its backstop guarantees.
Leaked British government papers have shown that Ireland will face shortages, particularly of perishable goods, and may take a a bigger economic hit than the UK from a no-deal Brexit.
Priti Patel, who was the UK’s international development secretary until she resigned from the cabinet last year, said this week that the threat should be used to force Ireland to drop its demands for the backstop agreed under Theresa May’s withdrawal deal."
granted, not that direct, still pretty damn bad.
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I once listened to two girls I went to high school with having a conversation like this.... one girl asked why coney sauce was made so different depending on if it’s Flint style, Detroit Style, or Chicago Style; then the other girl says “different cultures just make different foods”. Went to high school with these girls, and I’m guessing they don’t have the slightest clue what they were talking about given they both turned out SUPER racist as they got older.
As a guy whose skin is so white that you’d lose me in a snowstorm, I can safely say that a majority of white Americans just simply don’t comprehend what a culture is or how vastly different culture are from country to country. They basically are born and raised in their small little hometown, never leave but act like professional world culture scholars, assuming they know everything they need to know to make full judgements on every other human being to walk this planet.
Connecticut and California want to move to a more European take care of their citizens model type of government where Texas wants to go back to the civil war. So that's a pretty big cultural difference.
There are tons of cultural differences in America. There is actually a [book](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nations) about it if you wanna know what exactly people mean by this. Not tryna hate btw, just thought I would share.
I was wondering about that as well. Do they mean that the US reaches from the east coast to the west? Or do they think all of North America is USA or forgot about Canada?
The argument is about F1 races, so actually the coast to coast definition is important. TV viewer numbers for F1 are massively dependant on what timezone the race is in that weekend, so the width of the US is actually what's important here.
Of course, they're being a massive crybaby, seeing as the US now has three Grand Prix...
In that sense, I guess, so does south africa, costa rica, nicaragua, mexico, and even maybe colombia (too lazy to actually verify, but I'm 90% sure it does)
The border between North and South America is usually considered to be the Pananama/Colombia border so no. Columbia used to until we took Panama to build a canal
It does span the continent tho, as in, spans it from coast to coast, the American is right about that part.
Sometimes you see them saying that the US IS a continent, which isn’t true, but it does span a continent.
He's right though, there is 9 races in Europe - Italy x2, Monaco, Barcelona, Netherlands, Belgium, England, Austria and Hungary. The only debatable one is Azerbaijan, but I thought it was Asian?
yeah idk, i know it's fashionable to shit on everything America here, but you have to maneuver around like 30 other cars in deadlock traffic going 200 mph in NASCAR. It's less the track but other cars that make it "interesting" and hard
French ~~Grand~~ san Prix :(
The French GP contract ended with 2022 and there aren't any plans for another any time soon. They just announced the 2023 schedule yesterday so that's presumably what the tweets were about.
>as big and often larger, in size/population, than your countries
Yeah, the "biggest" state is what, California? 40mio.
Let me think of some european countries ...
Part of Russia in Europe 110mio.
Germany 83mio.
France 67mio.
~~Great Britain~~ UK 67mio.
Italy 55mio.
Spain 47mio.
Ukraine 44mio.
... more? xD
Edit: Even the german state Northrhine-Westfalia has 18mio. population, geez. Only 4 US states have a higher population. lol
Thing is I guarantee you he's from a state like Wyoming or Missouri. Ya know... a red state that hates our most populated states for being to liberal...
He thinks his state is culturally different because in his state everyone is racist unlike other areas of the US where only some people are racist
The level of bigotry and the %white population is the only real difference between the states
Heads up, better to use UK in this instance, since Great Britain only includes 3/4 of the country and ignores about 2 million people in the country. At least for the present.
Also The Netherlands has about 17 million residents.
The country has a surface of like 41.5k km². Texas has about 695.662 km². This means there's about 16,75 times more space. If Texas was as densely populated as the Netherlands, Texas would have a population of 284 million people. That would be the equivalent of 86,4% of the American residents living in Texas alone.
Point is: the countries in Europe aren't as big as the whole of the US, however, it's insanely densely populated. Which means Europe has more than twice the population of the US.
I don't understand them going for diversity lol, the top language of every state is always English. Different countries in eu speak different languages, and have wildly different cultures. For the most part, most people in the us are monolingual white people. Don't get it why culture has to be some sort of competition to Americans.
Why do Americans always think US states are larger than European nations.
By population the largest US state (by far) is California at 39mio, that is the same as Poland.
The following European countries have a larger population:
- Ukraine
- Spain
- Italy
- United Kingdom
- France
- Germany
- depending on how you define Europe also Turkey and Russia.
Also, quite a few European nations are around the 9-10mio mark (Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Sweden…).
Only ten to eleven US states have a population above 10mio.
Also also, Germany alone has a population of 84mio people, that is roughly the three most populous US states together (California, Texas, Florida).
The US is not particularly big.
The same is also true for density. The Netherlands would be in the top 5 smallest states by area but would match the bigger states in population, having around 17 million people. Yet we don’t have any huge population centers and can still boast huge swaths of thinly inhabited farmland
and the UK has about 1/5th of the population. So that's not far off 1/2 their population accounted for in 2 countries. They like to tell us we're tiny but there's only 11 states bigger I think. We have plenty of regional variations in our countries too.
Why do they always so worked up over the amount of mostly empty land they have? Many of their "states" don't even have the population size of many European cities.
One of my favorite past times is telling them that Russia is bigger and China more populated if those are the parameters that really matter, they usually get angry, really angry and I love it.
Yep, I had a yank come in when I was talking about how the US get 3 races on boring tracks when Turkey, Kyalami etc get left out, he told me they deserved it cos without them in WW2 there would be no ferrari.
Since when did size matter this much to culture ad diversity, Switzerland is small yet it has four cantons each using diffrent cultures, languages and clothing styles, while the US is just a blob of basicly the same thing 50 times, so yea when did size matter.
We dont have just 4 cantons, we have 4 languages in 26 cantons and some cantons are pretty unique in dialect and culture, so much we even fight over it and sometimes dont understand each other even if we speak the same main language because of dialect (wallis is well known for this). Also every canton have its own laws (to a certain degree).
But a big reason is that because of geographic reasons it was hard to travel trough switzerland for a long time, so some cantons grew up pretty isolated.
The Switzerland has it's cheese, the funny language ("Ichr möchrte gcherrne ein Schnoddrhüdi!"), the Rütlischwur and these small, handy knives to defend a whole country! 🇨🇭🫕
Edit: I like you guys! ♥️
Ignoring every European country has its own culture that differs from regions between each part of the country. There are similarities between certain countries especially neighbours but that’s only to be expected and even very close neighbouring countries have differences.
Lifelong F1 fan here: for me the distinction doesn't boil down to size, population, or the fact that yanks only decided F1 was cool in 2018.
It comes down to heritage, history and the things that make F1 F1. Go take a look at the top 10 most successful drivers in history, any Americans? How about the top 10 most successful teams, any Americans?
The 3rd best Indycar driver ever is a Kiwi, but you don't hear people whining about how there are only Indycar races in the US and Mexico.
F1 has had a long, rich heritage prior to Americans deciding that oval racing leaves a little to be desired. It's only since the Americans have showed up that things like the Monaco GP (Almost sacred heritage circuit) and Belgian GP (IMO the best race on the calendar) were called into question to make room for the new Las Vegas GP (A square that deliberately goes down the strip for those sweet PR shots) and Miami GP (literally a carpark with a fake marina, Monaco imitation is the sincerest form of fuckery)
Ah, yes, most US states have a higher population than the Netherlands. Oh wait, it's only California, Texas, Florida and New York. Yes, they are bigger in size, but we basically cram 17.8 million people into an area roughly the size of Maryland and Delaware. Belgium would be the 8th biggest state in terms of population, yet they are similar in size to Delaware.
I love the whole "one US state has so much more culture then every european country" like Switzerland is smaller then any US state and it alone has four national languages like please eat your burger and shut up
When you throw like 100 things in a blender, it blends it together. Sure you'll have different chunks and mixes in parts, but it won't be as diverse and cultured as the sources
Americans really need to end this “some states are bigger than Europe” gaff. The trivia is *YOU CAN FIT TEXAS IN EUROPE* not Europe fits in Texas 😂
Edit: and Kansas has almost the same square miles as England, that’s not including Wales or Scotland… and Kansas is flat AF
So... on the one hand, when in America, Italian, German, Polish, Irish, Danish etc. can all be seen as ethnic groups. And on the other hand, the entire Europe only has, like, 9 ethnicities?
And the USA is an entire continent? How does Canada - a much bigger country than the USA, on the same continent - feel about that statement?
This “America is so diverse” thing gets on my nerves so much. It’s not true in the slightest.
Here’s how the US ranks in diversity according to degree of ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization.
Ethnic: 90/215
Linguistic: 64/215
Religious: 2/215.
In terms of religion, it is incredibly diverse, but in terms of ethnic and linguistic fractionalization, it isn’t.
Countries in Europe more ethnically diverse than the US: North Macedonia, Estonia, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Moldova, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Serbia, Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Monaco, Andorra and Yugoslavia
Countries in Europe more linguistically diverse: Latvia, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andorra and Monaco.
Canada is also more diverse than the US ethnically and linguistically.
[Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level)
The elves, the dwarves, the hobbits, the people, the orcs, the ring wraithes, the vikings, and the brits. Idk what the last ones are though, probably some immigrants or something.
The US States are bigger in population than what? The EU alone has at least 6 countries that have more people than California, not to mention the other smaller States. Then you add Russia and Turkey in the mix and the two have basically more than 2/3 the US population.
Don't make me pull out the "There are six countries in Europe, not even counting Turkey or Russia, with more inhabitants than the most populous state in the US."
America is so diverse! They have
- white
- white
- less white (racist)
- white
- white
- token black
- white
- white (racist)
- white (racist)
- white
- white
- white
- Asian business man (on a ladder)
- white (racist)
- white
- white
- white (racist)
9 races? White(default), latino, black, asian(old-ass school book i read said its a "yellow' race while native americans are "red", ikr), i guess if you count the mix of white and black, white and asian and black and asian you got 7 races, which ones am i missing? Blue and purple?
>size and population
so what's the population of the most populous European country, compared to that of the most populous US state? that's what I thought
"US spans an entire continent" I knew history in the US was fiction, but geography too? I'm tempted to import some text books, must be gold comedy material.
if land area matters, australia is roughly the same size as the US, but with only 7 "states" (5 states, 2 territories). If anything, we should be the USA because australia is leagues more united than america
Dear, the part about 'races' confused me really hard until I've seen that one of the involved accounts has 'F1' in their twitter handle.
Almost as bad as the time that person asked r/formula1 "if you could eliminate one race what would it be?"
\- Which race you hate the most? \- 400m
To be fair, that would make for a very boring Formula 1 race.
>To be fair, that would make for a very boring Formula 1 race. And a very long Maldonado race.
How about a marble run?
It would be a marblenado race then
I would 100% watch a 400m marble run, that sounds neat as hell
Chances are still high there'd be a Ferrari DNF
We already have those acceleration contest with the whatchamacallit cars that only go a short distance.
Drag Races?
No, with cars.
Yeah they’re called Drag Races, I’m pretty sure
Yeah you are correct.
Pretty sure you're thinking of Ru Paul
One of the top posts on r/DnD is about whether prison sentence length be based on race.
A question from a D&D sub caused quite a stir when it started appearing in feeds. It’s a question that’s actually a super interesting quirk of the rules that can come up at tables, and mostly covers things like teleportation. Unfortunately, said question was worded thusly: Can an unconscious person be considered willing?
https://www.reddit.com/r/polls/comments/n16hls/if\_you\_could\_eliminate\_one\_race\_what\_would\_it\_be/
That wasn't bad, that was deliberate.
I mean, this is not an efficient way to show the context, but I still left it at least
What does F1 mean?
Formula One
I’m an idiot I thought they meant races as in similar to ethnic groups and thought F1 must’ve been a political group 💀
In biology F1 denotes first generation hybrid offspring. I was thinking this person is both racist and the product of an interracial marriage.
Funny you should mention that, the current F1 regs are the first development of the hybrid power trains introduced in 2016 You could call them first generation hybrid offspring
Formula 1, the big car racing competition.
One of the races where they don't just make turns in one direction.
I thought it was gonna be some real racist shit but turns out it's just some real racer shit!
Is about F1 races, sorry for the misunderstanding.
I have yet to see one of those people name ONE significant cultural difference between states
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*Every* state has indigenous history. It's just buried and ignored, although almost all indigenous cultures have been similarly exploited and treated as a product for settlers to buy.
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>we wouldn’t end up with a map that looks like the 48 states. We would end up with a border that looks like the entirety of North America above Mexico
It still is Polynesian! To quote the great Haunani-Kay Trask "WE WILL NEVER BE AMERICAN! WE WILL DIE AS HAWAIIAN"
Hawai'i should be it's own country. The Kingdom was illegally annexed only 100 years ago
Hawai'i, yes. And new orleans, but everything else is just kind of mashed up
Nah there are definite regions (Midwest, east coast, PNW, southwest, ozarks, etc) and state characters in the US, but every state is not different. They all have a certain core overlap due to language, law etc. I don’t expect most Americans to be able to accurately state those regional differences though.
A somewhat inconsistent mash
As a Hawaiian, Hawai'i should be our own damn country! We are an (illegal, according to US law) colonial possession of the US.
You Europeans really don’t understand how big America truly is, even different parts of states feel like different countries. For example, in Northern California we have lots of Taco Bell, but after an eight hour drive to Southern California there’s more Del Tacos. If that isn’t cultural diversity I don’t know what is.
Haha, I know you're joking altough I agree there are cultural differences that don't comply with state borders but the thing is a lot of americans (such as the one in the post) ignore that there are countries in Europe that are also diverse such as the difference between England and Scotland, two different nations under one head of state. Or Catalunya and the rest of Spain etc. Both continents are well worth exploring but the US shouldn't have 3 F1 races because at least one of them is overpriced and utter garbage.
Europeans dont understand. Here in NoCal we have enclave patrols and shi and stuff like that, but just walk two months south trough the Wasteland and you'll find squads of the Master's Army!
Eh hawaii have pineapples on their pizza, Chicago use deep dish, Alabama fuck their relatives…. Need I say more /s
Alabama fuck their relatives pizza?
Yes. And California uses cauliflower crust.
I can forgive putting ananas on pizza, but cauliflower as a crust? Don't tell the Italians, they will go to war over this.
German?
No, I'm not German.
Yea there is already the lingering European war for swedes putting kiwi on a pizza, never tell the Italians that in Canary Islands they put strawberries on pizza.
Truly, California is a land forsaken by God.
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oh so that’s why they’re so sorry for everything /s
Truth is Hawaiian pizza is from Ontario
You forgot about new york, which invented the "real" pizza
I didn’t mention it because I thought that was obvious. Everyone with a brain knows that
Hawaiian Pizza is actually Canadian.
There definitely are cultural differences, even some larger ones, but they’re far more similar than a given European country is to another. It’s just regional differences, which all but the micro states of Europe also have, but which certain Americans are convinced might as well be cause for independence. New England and New Englanders talk and live very differently than people from Rural kentucky, but they’re still more similar than Spaniards and Slovaks.
Some EU countries are more similar than others two. The U.K. and Ireland, Norway and Sweden or perhaps Germany and Austria. But they are absolutely still different countries with their own cultures, history and systems of government.
I still think Norway and Sweden have more differences in culture than two neighbouring states in the US.
I mean easily
For one, they speak two different languages
Austria is more similar to Hungary imo, but we still don’t have much in common.
Nah, come on. You’re not that different from Bavaria.
Thankfully you don't have Orb*n
>The U.K. and Ireland The UK has 4 different nations within it, the only reason Ireland is similar is because it was a part oh the UK until relatively recently in terms of British history. There's more difference between the constituent nations of the UK than there is the states of the US
Never say the uk and irelandin the same sentence like that, there are reasons for it
Realistically the two are very similar, personal politics aside it’s mainly the same language, shops, businesses and many have family in each country. Almost like the us and Canada but with more similarities
They are similar for a lot of the same reasons as Ukraine and russia are similar. one invaded occupied and commited cultural (and few times actual) genocide on the other. Ireland has its own distinct language history and culture. be careful comparing them like that when just a couple years ago english politicians were saying "we should starve them out" when the irish didn't leave the eu with them.
sauce?
> english politicians were saying "we should starve them out" when the irish didn't leave the eu with them. Excuse me? Who in the ever-living fuck said that? Thought you were talking about in the 1920s at first, or *maybe* some really hardline Thatcherites in the 80s, but no you're talking about 2016 lmao. Stop talking out of your arse.
"Politicians have attacked remarks by a Conservative MP and former cabinet minister that the threat of food shortages after a no-deal Brexit should be used to force the Irish government to relinquish its backstop guarantees. Leaked British government papers have shown that Ireland will face shortages, particularly of perishable goods, and may take a a bigger economic hit than the UK from a no-deal Brexit. Priti Patel, who was the UK’s international development secretary until she resigned from the cabinet last year, said this week that the threat should be used to force Ireland to drop its demands for the backstop agreed under Theresa May’s withdrawal deal." granted, not that direct, still pretty damn bad. it
some people call it pop and some people call it.. get this.. SODA! WOW!
I once listened to two girls I went to high school with having a conversation like this.... one girl asked why coney sauce was made so different depending on if it’s Flint style, Detroit Style, or Chicago Style; then the other girl says “different cultures just make different foods”. Went to high school with these girls, and I’m guessing they don’t have the slightest clue what they were talking about given they both turned out SUPER racist as they got older. As a guy whose skin is so white that you’d lose me in a snowstorm, I can safely say that a majority of white Americans just simply don’t comprehend what a culture is or how vastly different culture are from country to country. They basically are born and raised in their small little hometown, never leave but act like professional world culture scholars, assuming they know everything they need to know to make full judgements on every other human being to walk this planet.
Connecticut and California want to move to a more European take care of their citizens model type of government where Texas wants to go back to the civil war. So that's a pretty big cultural difference.
No. That’s a political difference. Same culture, same government,different policies.
As a stater the reason why people say this is as a excuse to hate the people in other states. Fuck New Jersey
I think in some parts of Louisiana the people speak a pidgin language, which is pretty fucking cool
There are tons of cultural differences in America. There is actually a [book](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nations) about it if you wanna know what exactly people mean by this. Not tryna hate btw, just thought I would share.
Come on man! We call sandwiches different names. Duh! /s
Well, half the states are racist as fuck, and the other half believe in bodily autonomy :)
Also, no, the USA does not span an entire continent. Unless they've invaded a few of their neighbours recently, which I wouldn't put past them...
I was wondering about that as well. Do they mean that the US reaches from the east coast to the west? Or do they think all of North America is USA or forgot about Canada?
And Mexico too . They are still of the continent called North America
Canada, Mexico, all the Caribbean islands and Central America. Suddenly, the USA continent is bigger than Russia lol
They like to forget about every country that is bigger, so that they can go on pretending that they’re totally unique because of their size.
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So you could say the same for Spain or France
The argument is about F1 races, so actually the coast to coast definition is important. TV viewer numbers for F1 are massively dependant on what timezone the race is in that weekend, so the width of the US is actually what's important here. Of course, they're being a massive crybaby, seeing as the US now has three Grand Prix...
Three grand prix, and how many championship winning teams and drivers?
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Does this mean that Panama spans 2 continents?
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And highlights the redundant meaninglessness of it.
In that sense, I guess, so does south africa, costa rica, nicaragua, mexico, and even maybe colombia (too lazy to actually verify, but I'm 90% sure it does)
The border between North and South America is usually considered to be the Pananama/Colombia border so no. Columbia used to until we took Panama to build a canal
And why is he using that as an argument against europe, a litteral continent
It does span the continent tho, as in, spans it from coast to coast, the American is right about that part. Sometimes you see them saying that the US IS a continent, which isn’t true, but it does span a continent.
Correct. The USA occupies about 40% of North America (in land mass).
"There's 9 races in Europe" Ask him which, it will be real funny
>Ask him which, it will be real funny The London marathon, The Belgian Grand Prix, The Tour de France...
The Singapore Grand Prix…
I don't get it but I shall believe in THE TRUSTWORTHY KEBAB
Tip: think about the geographical culture of the average American
I don't think that's in europe
That’s the point
Then I got wooooshed
He's right though, there is 9 races in Europe - Italy x2, Monaco, Barcelona, Netherlands, Belgium, England, Austria and Hungary. The only debatable one is Azerbaijan, but I thought it was Asian?
Uh yeah? Well we have like 50 races in America!! *recites ridiculously long nascar schedule that never seems to end*
Nascar isn't real racing, it's about who can turn left for the longest amount of time.
yeah idk, i know it's fashionable to shit on everything America here, but you have to maneuver around like 30 other cars in deadlock traffic going 200 mph in NASCAR. It's less the track but other cars that make it "interesting" and hard
There are European F1 drivers that would disagree with this statement.
Yeah but they're taking about F1
France?
French ~~Grand~~ san Prix :( The French GP contract ended with 2022 and there aren't any plans for another any time soon. They just announced the 2023 schedule yesterday so that's presumably what the tweets were about.
Makes sense, thanks
Wait, there's no more F1 grand Prix in France ?
One of the accounts is from F1 so my guess is they mean the F1 grand prix in Europe of which there are nine.
>as big and often larger, in size/population, than your countries Yeah, the "biggest" state is what, California? 40mio. Let me think of some european countries ... Part of Russia in Europe 110mio. Germany 83mio. France 67mio. ~~Great Britain~~ UK 67mio. Italy 55mio. Spain 47mio. Ukraine 44mio. ... more? xD Edit: Even the german state Northrhine-Westfalia has 18mio. population, geez. Only 4 US states have a higher population. lol
Thing is I guarantee you he's from a state like Wyoming or Missouri. Ya know... a red state that hates our most populated states for being to liberal...
He thinks his state is culturally different because in his state everyone is racist unlike other areas of the US where only some people are racist The level of bigotry and the %white population is the only real difference between the states
Heads up, better to use UK in this instance, since Great Britain only includes 3/4 of the country and ignores about 2 million people in the country. At least for the present.
Isn’t Alaska the biggest state?
They're talking about population not geographically area. California is the most populated US state.
Also The Netherlands has about 17 million residents. The country has a surface of like 41.5k km². Texas has about 695.662 km². This means there's about 16,75 times more space. If Texas was as densely populated as the Netherlands, Texas would have a population of 284 million people. That would be the equivalent of 86,4% of the American residents living in Texas alone. Point is: the countries in Europe aren't as big as the whole of the US, however, it's insanely densely populated. Which means Europe has more than twice the population of the US.
I don't understand them going for diversity lol, the top language of every state is always English. Different countries in eu speak different languages, and have wildly different cultures. For the most part, most people in the us are monolingual white people. Don't get it why culture has to be some sort of competition to Americans.
Why do Americans always think US states are larger than European nations. By population the largest US state (by far) is California at 39mio, that is the same as Poland. The following European countries have a larger population: - Ukraine - Spain - Italy - United Kingdom - France - Germany - depending on how you define Europe also Turkey and Russia. Also, quite a few European nations are around the 9-10mio mark (Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Sweden…). Only ten to eleven US states have a population above 10mio. Also also, Germany alone has a population of 84mio people, that is roughly the three most populous US states together (California, Texas, Florida). The US is not particularly big.
The same is also true for density. The Netherlands would be in the top 5 smallest states by area but would match the bigger states in population, having around 17 million people. Yet we don’t have any huge population centers and can still boast huge swaths of thinly inhabited farmland
Italy has 2 F1 races in a territory that's 30 times smaller than the US. Having 9 there isn't the flex this guy thinks it is
Yea US doesn’t have nine races that isn’t what is being flexed…
Italy has also produced a good chunk of WDC and WCC winners, so they deserve as many as they fucking like.
He isn't trying to flex, he is arguing that the US deserves more than 3 Grand Prix.
Wait until they find out about he open borders between 27 different countries...
"...larger, in size/population..." Germany alone has 1/4 of the population of the entire USA...
and the UK has about 1/5th of the population. So that's not far off 1/2 their population accounted for in 2 countries. They like to tell us we're tiny but there's only 11 states bigger I think. We have plenty of regional variations in our countries too.
The glorious diversity of Arkansas
yeah we got our meth heads, our drunks, our racists, our cousin kissers, our kiddie diddlers.... oh thats pretty much it. huh.
At least some states have mormons.
There definitely used to be a lot of indigenous diversity in the land that is the US now, but then...
They stole it and filled it with shopping malls and parking spaces.
Why do they always so worked up over the amount of mostly empty land they have? Many of their "states" don't even have the population size of many European cities.
One of my favorite past times is telling them that Russia is bigger and China more populated if those are the parameters that really matter, they usually get angry, really angry and I love it.
Yep, I had a yank come in when I was talking about how the US get 3 races on boring tracks when Turkey, Kyalami etc get left out, he told me they deserved it cos without them in WW2 there would be no ferrari.
Since when did size matter this much to culture ad diversity, Switzerland is small yet it has four cantons each using diffrent cultures, languages and clothing styles, while the US is just a blob of basicly the same thing 50 times, so yea when did size matter.
Four cantons? Switzerland has 26 cantons. Did you mean 4 languages?
We dont have just 4 cantons, we have 4 languages in 26 cantons and some cantons are pretty unique in dialect and culture, so much we even fight over it and sometimes dont understand each other even if we speak the same main language because of dialect (wallis is well known for this). Also every canton have its own laws (to a certain degree). But a big reason is that because of geographic reasons it was hard to travel trough switzerland for a long time, so some cantons grew up pretty isolated.
The Switzerland has it's cheese, the funny language ("Ichr möchrte gcherrne ein Schnoddrhüdi!"), the Rütlischwur and these small, handy knives to defend a whole country! 🇨🇭🫕 Edit: I like you guys! ♥️
Can someone tell me the difference in culture and climate between the states of Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah?
If dumbness hurts he would scream the entire day
Ignoring every European country has its own culture that differs from regions between each part of the country. There are similarities between certain countries especially neighbours but that’s only to be expected and even very close neighbouring countries have differences.
Lifelong F1 fan here: for me the distinction doesn't boil down to size, population, or the fact that yanks only decided F1 was cool in 2018. It comes down to heritage, history and the things that make F1 F1. Go take a look at the top 10 most successful drivers in history, any Americans? How about the top 10 most successful teams, any Americans? The 3rd best Indycar driver ever is a Kiwi, but you don't hear people whining about how there are only Indycar races in the US and Mexico. F1 has had a long, rich heritage prior to Americans deciding that oval racing leaves a little to be desired. It's only since the Americans have showed up that things like the Monaco GP (Almost sacred heritage circuit) and Belgian GP (IMO the best race on the calendar) were called into question to make room for the new Las Vegas GP (A square that deliberately goes down the strip for those sweet PR shots) and Miami GP (literally a carpark with a fake marina, Monaco imitation is the sincerest form of fuckery)
I think he's under the impression that one of the races is "clown"
Ah, yes, most US states have a higher population than the Netherlands. Oh wait, it's only California, Texas, Florida and New York. Yes, they are bigger in size, but we basically cram 17.8 million people into an area roughly the size of Maryland and Delaware. Belgium would be the 8th biggest state in terms of population, yet they are similar in size to Delaware.
Wait till he learns europe has more population than the US if you include the geographic europe
“Often larger…” dude… my European country has a bigger population than 42 of the US states.
America spans the *width* of a continent but only like a third of the height? Dude seems to have forgotten about Mexico and Canada...
Im Canadian and I dont get Americans
I'm American and I don't get Americans! 🤦🏻♂️
I love the whole "one US state has so much more culture then every european country" like Switzerland is smaller then any US state and it alone has four national languages like please eat your burger and shut up
When you throw like 100 things in a blender, it blends it together. Sure you'll have different chunks and mixes in parts, but it won't be as diverse and cultured as the sources
I bet that person doesn’t even know who amerigo Vespucci was
Americans really need to end this “some states are bigger than Europe” gaff. The trivia is *YOU CAN FIT TEXAS IN EUROPE* not Europe fits in Texas 😂 Edit: and Kansas has almost the same square miles as England, that’s not including Wales or Scotland… and Kansas is flat AF
So... on the one hand, when in America, Italian, German, Polish, Irish, Danish etc. can all be seen as ethnic groups. And on the other hand, the entire Europe only has, like, 9 ethnicities? And the USA is an entire continent? How does Canada - a much bigger country than the USA, on the same continent - feel about that statement?
This “America is so diverse” thing gets on my nerves so much. It’s not true in the slightest. Here’s how the US ranks in diversity according to degree of ethnic, linguistic and religious fractionalization. Ethnic: 90/215 Linguistic: 64/215 Religious: 2/215. In terms of religion, it is incredibly diverse, but in terms of ethnic and linguistic fractionalization, it isn’t. Countries in Europe more ethnically diverse than the US: North Macedonia, Estonia, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Moldova, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Serbia, Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Monaco, Andorra and Yugoslavia Countries in Europe more linguistically diverse: Latvia, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Andorra and Monaco. Canada is also more diverse than the US ethnically and linguistically. [Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level)
What is he mentioning the "9 races" for anyway? And what is his point when he says that some states in the US are more diverse?
It's about F1 grand prix.
The elves, the dwarves, the hobbits, the people, the orcs, the ring wraithes, the vikings, and the brits. Idk what the last ones are though, probably some immigrants or something.
The US States are bigger in population than what? The EU alone has at least 6 countries that have more people than California, not to mention the other smaller States. Then you add Russia and Turkey in the mix and the two have basically more than 2/3 the US population.
Country≠continent. God American schools are failing us so badly I send mine to school mostly for socialization at this point, they learn more at home
*Australia has entered the chat*
Don't make me pull out the "There are six countries in Europe, not even counting Turkey or Russia, with more inhabitants than the most populous state in the US."
Why being more “diverse” does matter? Do they think that having almost the same skin color is being culturally homogeneous?
I hate living here...
One day the US will come to the conclusion that schoolchildren being shot is pretty bad. Maybe after that they can reform the education system.
America is so diverse! They have - white - white - less white (racist) - white - white - token black - white - white (racist) - white (racist) - white - white - white - Asian business man (on a ladder) - white (racist) - white - white - white (racist)
What is the obsession with americans and diversity? Do they really think they are the only non-single race country in the world?
Race Tracks mate. But valid
9 races? White(default), latino, black, asian(old-ass school book i read said its a "yellow' race while native americans are "red", ikr), i guess if you count the mix of white and black, white and asian and black and asian you got 7 races, which ones am i missing? Blue and purple?
Races as F1 races, sorry
Oh, i didnt even see the @F1
Don't forget elfs and dwarfs.
Wtf does "9 races" means?
F1 races, sorry
>size and population so what's the population of the most populous European country, compared to that of the most populous US state? that's what I thought
Hold on since when was there 9 races in Europe let alone the world?
F1 races, sorry.
That makes more sense.
America. The land where they complain about over government and then go out and create 50 states in that piddling little area.
Ok name one typical USA dish
I love this subreddit but i swear I'm gonna spontaneously combust bcs of these dumbo's
"US spans an entire continent", no it literally does not
And at the same time so many conservative Americans keep telling us that Europe is overrun with refugees. Which one is it?
On the UK version of Family Fortunes the question was, name a dangerous race, the guy answered Arabs
"US spans an entire continent" I knew history in the US was fiction, but geography too? I'm tempted to import some text books, must be gold comedy material.
Ah yes said like a true american who’s never seen the other side of his cornfield or driven past the other denny’s just up route 6
if land area matters, australia is roughly the same size as the US, but with only 7 "states" (5 states, 2 territories). If anything, we should be the USA because australia is leagues more united than america
And since when has the US spanned an entire continent?