I wonder if there is some sort of metric for classifying how similar cultures are to one another. Are e.g. German Swiss more dissimilar to French Swiss, than are Florida rednecks dissimilar to Compton gangsters?
If you ever heard them talk about each other, you would definitely assume as much.
I’m not even talking about the languages, we have 20% immigrants in the population, and an even larger part has foreign roots.
We also don’t have weapons in every household, if we’re talking myths