| > The US is a very new country, compared to those in Europe and Asia. The only preexisting culture was the Native Americans, and you (should) know what happened to them... Forming a new country does not mean abandoning the parent culture. American society is still feeling the influence of the British empire. > The US is geographically very large and open. Even within the nation of immigrants, there was a huge amount of migration to populate "the west". This is certainly true, but I'd also venture that a lot of these western pioneers had more solid 'friends' that they could depend than a solid portion of Americans today. > The US has a very weak central government, by design of the Constitution, and it never had a state church. There's no centralizing cultural force. This is to America's advantage. In fact, a strong central government is often at odds with community mindedness, which is what we find in most left-wing enclaves (this is my opinion). In his book Democracy in America, de Tocqueville, writes: "Americans of all ages, all stations of life and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand types-religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute." "Finally, if they want to proclaim a truth or propagate some feeling ...they form an association. In every case, at the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government ... in the United States you are sure to find an association." [1] https://www.crf-usa.org/election-central/de-tocqueville-amer... |