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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could still be a real European perspective. I've found a lot of people who are only casually familiar with North America will be able to tell you the broad cultural strokes and then one or two bizarrely specific facts. Like, "Oh yeah, America is all New York, Texas, California, Florida, and who could forget the iconic Egyptian Theatre of Boise, Idaho."

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It could be yes, but generally people forget the upper peninsula exists instead of mistake it with the lower peninsula