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there are two countries. USA, and Europe. and everyine who says anything about the USA, that isb ad, is a Europeman. you use Celsius? congratulations. youre from Europe (the country)(European). you dont .ike Eat Delicious Jimmy’s Regional Hamburger Chain? okay Europe guy. youre not Joe Biden president? well then youre Privileged to have EuropePresident (the president of Europe) (Boris Johnson? ithink) so shut up about our American politics you ()Europe) (the only other place in the world) would never undrestanding, rthat in America, we have regional subdivisions and local dialects(you dont have those in Europe)(the other coutnry there is)(iuts just one coutnry basically and america is like 50 countries in a trenchoat did you know that?). and so. Youre not allowed to be mean to me or hamburger every again :/

  • astropenguin5@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    To be fair people have been living in the area that is currently Belgium a hell of a lot longer than the US has existed

    And I actually looked up how big Belgium was compared to US states out of curiosity, and apparently it’s bigger than 7 states. Granted, they are all small east coast ones. Belgium is slightly (3k km^2) bigger than Massachusetts. It is only 0.3% the size of the entire US though, just goes to show the size disparity in US states.

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      23 hours ago

      Weren’t there native tribes living on the continent before the us was created?
      But yeah, the land here has been inhabited for a long time. There’s a major Paleolithic site near where I live.
      Seems Europe as a whole also has a distribution of small and large countries, even though the us has more of them and more land

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        16 hours ago

        True, there were, I think I was more thinking along the lines of like the current culture/society being there probably, because unfortunately very little of native culture is present in the modern day US