Yup. I think a way better cultural description of the Americas would be 10~20 partially overlapping regions, disregarding country borders and the likes. There’s a catch though — some of those regions would necessarily, disregard the borders between Teutonic and Latin America.
And, like, language is a good “rule of thumb” for culture. It’s just that in the Americas you got a lot of exceptions, throwing that rule of thumb into the mud — the presence of forcedly assimilated native peoples, recent immigration, border changes + governments promoting genocide/patriotism/culturecide, so goes on.
Yup. I think a way better cultural description of the Americas would be 10~20 partially overlapping regions, disregarding country borders and the likes. There’s a catch though — some of those regions would necessarily, disregard the borders between Teutonic and Latin America.
And, like, language is a good “rule of thumb” for culture. It’s just that in the Americas you got a lot of exceptions, throwing that rule of thumb into the mud — the presence of forcedly assimilated native peoples, recent immigration, border changes + governments promoting genocide/patriotism/culturecide, so goes on.