Basically just something people say that indicates a position indirectly, like how seperatists from a given region might always say they’re from [region] and not [country] or how trump supporters call AI “SI” now.

  • Soggy@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    In many cases the “original” deviated even more. It’s not like culture has been static in Europe for four hundred years.

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      15 hours ago

      ? I’m talking about a scale of only a few generations and the USA hasn’t been around for four hundred years.

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        14 hours ago

        I’m talking about the timeline of European colonization of the Americas, which is the point of immigrant cultural divergence. And I’m actually off by over a hundred years, as the oldest continuously-settled Euro city in the West is Santo Domingo since 1496.

        But even a shorter timeline an awful lot changed in Europe through the 1900s. A lot of “traditional” cuisine came after WWII.