Well, it is as different as night and day. Cultural difference the whole thing which it really is like going to 5 different countries. I know I have been to Mexico, Germany, Poland, America, Africa, Native American nations all without leaving Texas. I am sure there is a few cultures I missed but entire towns are built up around that culture. Now I live in TN and all we have here are hillbillies.

 

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And what, pray tale, is wrong with hillbilly's?

 

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Absolutely on the eco systems, I think it's amazing the geographical diversity in just one country, but culturally, the "Global Melting Pot" is a world wide phenomenon. It may be more obvious in the US because people went there from all over the world, but it is also very apparent in smaller countries like Norway and the UK.

I live a few miles North of a city called Manchester, when I go there I drive through many different neighbourhoods and the difference in race and culture is extremely obvious. Jewish, black, Muslim, Polish, Chinese, just to name a few. This is the same in all UK cities, and to a lesser degree in smaller towns. When I go to my preferred supermarket in Blackburn, there are more Muslims walking up and down the aisles than there are native Brits. We are just as multi cultural as you are with similar problems concerning immigration and language barriers. The class divide also adds to the problem with there being very little sympathy or understanding from any side.

Add to that, in the UK we also have four different countries with 4 different cultures and languages (with very little tolerance for each other) before you even add immigration.

In Norway, the people even look completely different based on what part of the country they are from. In the south you have your classic tall blondes that Scandinavia is famed for, but in the north, the native people are short with dark hair and eyes.

America represent what is happening the world over, on a grand scale, we are just the same (weather aside) only in miniature

 

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I was seriously waiting for that bro.

To answer you nothing but I would like to have a few things I grew up with and took for granted now I can't even find them anywhere within a 200 hillbilly, errr mile, range.

 

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Very true but because you are much smaller the problems with diversity are way more evident. Hence, the issues your nation is having.

I think the only other nation to beat us in the weather (eco systems) department would be Russia or should I say the old Soviet Union where it had 11 time zones because of how large it was. Not even China has as many as we do and that is fun.

For instance in Texas we had two seasons and that was it. Hot and Hotter with an occasional dose of cool thrown in just so you would not become too accustomed to the heat. We had green and dead for the changing of the seasons too. So, one day the leaves are green then you go to sleep and wake up to find everything brown and dead looking. That was South Texas' style of eco system. Here we have a slight change and have 3-4 seasons but up in Connecticut (Original Colonies area) they have 4 distinct seasons with fall foliage to die for (camera shots galore).

Look at Washington state with one of the worlds VERY few temperate rain forest.

Yeah, nature is wonderful and for a really diverse place to take a camera I would have to say the US would be it. You can literally walk 20 feet into a whole other world.

 

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That is a BIG reason I want to move to the US. We do have the full gamut of seasons here, but the weather is so unpredictable. You just don't know from one day to the next what you're going to wake up to. I've seen winter days when I've been able to sit outside without a coat and summer days with snow falling. What I'm looking forward to is being warm all year around (not yet sure how well I'll cope with a Florida summer, it will take some serious getting used too. Fall/Autumn in Florida was my idea of perfect, warm, pleasantly humid, I'm not a fan of dry heat, with occasional rain, just lovely) but with only a short drive or flight to get a taste of something completely different.

 

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You just need a better class of Hillbilly

 

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wait wait! Hold on one second..


I think we all are missing the most important point in this thread...


What's this about tall blond women from Norway? And have any pics to make your point?

 

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I don't believe I specified women...

 

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No need to Shalis, we're men, we read what we want :>

 

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