Who knew, Texas is bigger than Luxembourg
Which is crazy since Luxemburg has its own language while Texas is speaking the same as Ireland which is already bigger than Luxemburg
As the old saying goes, “Europeans think 100 miles is a long way, Americans think 100 years is a long time.”
Europeans don’t know what 100 miles is.
That’s a common misconception. Europeans hate standard measurements, but they aren’t dumb. They can do conversions.
fair enough but we don’t really have a feel for how far a mile is without converting it to kilometres first
We don’t have to, because we don’t live in the 3 countries that use them.
It’s nice to have some quick mental conversions ready.
1 mile is roughly 1.6 km, so 100 miles is roughly 160 km
3 feet is roughly a meter
2 pounds are roughly 1 kg
1 gallon is roughly 4 liters
32 fahrenheit it 0 celcius, 100 fahrenheit is slightly over body temperature, 200 fahrenheit is almost enough to boil water… Any other value requires math to figure out…
Europeans thinking a 2h trip is a long ass trip. Then they come visit North America thinking they can visit from coast to coast by car in two weeks.
North Americans going to Europe thinking it’ll take 4 hours to go from one city to the next when they can actually cross three whole countries in that time frame.
The most culture shock I’ve ever experienced was being in southern France, craving some Italian, and realizing I can literally just go to Italy for dinner.
Hahahahaha right??? Ain’t that crazy?
Edit:
Same happened to me. Was in South West of France. Saw a board on the highway that said Barcelona was 3h away. Like what???
So we went to Barcelona for a weekend because why the fuck not.
2h is a long ass trip we’ve just been gaslit
If only we had a high speed rail system like in Japan…
No we don’t think 2 hours is a long ass trip. We think 2 hours is a long ass commute.
Am European. I drove from sfo to nyc in 4.5 days. Would I do that again? No.
I expected Texas to be a lot bigger, given the memes.
Fun fact: the largest cattle station in Australia is 8x larger than the largest cattle station in the US (which is in Texas).
“Texas needs to shut up before we split in half and make Texas the 3rd biggest state”
- Alaska probably
“That’s an impressively well-typed threat for a moose.”
- Texas probably
“Come up here and fight us then, we’ve seen how you handle snow.”
- Alaska probably
Alaska could be split into four equal states & Texas would be the fifth biggest.
So big yet 0 culture besides guns…
and bbq and rodeo and jesus and warm smiles and cold daggers
also all the cultural influence from Mexico, but that doesn’t count I guess
I think the cultural influences from Mexico should count. As far as food goes, Mexican food is some amazing stuff, but the American variations are different, yet amazing in their own rights. Tex-Mex, New Mexican, and Cali-Mex are some of my favorite spins on traditional Mexican food. Plus I think you’re already including Mexican influences with BBQ and rodeo.
yeah there’s a lot of baggage in saying there’s no culture. cuz that also ties into the whiteness discussion. whiteness is the de facto cultural vacuum, the hegemony that eats other cultures, the mainstream, the default. so portraying texas as a cultural vacuum is sort of erasing everything non-white about it.
Oh! I misinterpreted the tone of your last sentence. I getcha now! Cheers!
yeah i tread carefully, i guess cuz im used to running into chuds on geography reddit. gotta remember that i wont get inbox hate for saying “whiteness” on lemmy
Tons of culture, it’s just all living deep underground near the earths core, where it’s still warm.
One of my favourite webcomic artists/vtubers is from Texas!
It’s true!
This is mind blowing
Texas is less than a quarter of the size of Alaska.
Except the population size
Yeah, bigass country yet despite its supposed awesomeness barely anyone wants to live there.
I wouldn’t call 30 million barely anyone
Texas is utterly barren compared to the center of european population density that’s depicted here (ever heard of the blue banana?). I’d say that’s roughly 150 million people.
“that’s not where paris is.”
--any texan.
Now do Indonesia.
Overcompensate much?
