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@anon say some more words about cultural gut feeling

It is something I have noticed

But find hard to communicate

Some westerners seem to be totally divorced from the intangibles of a unified whole culture (even a messy or shit one)

Telling people what they are missing is beyond me so I am curious about how you would express what you noticed

@anon AUSTIN = HIV

HAVING VISITED PARTS OF EUROPE WITH HIGH TRUST: EVERYTHING HAS A PLACE, AND SO YOU CAN TELL AT A GLANCE WHAT IS NORMAL

Such as @diversity_is_racism ?

Parts I mean

@fallot WESTERN EUROPE, BUT 30 YEARS AGO

ALSO VISITED EAST GERMANY

AND PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN EUROPE, NOTABLY YUGOSLAVIA

WHICH I LIKED

VERY DECENT PLACE

When I was about 17 my whole family visited London

As we were leaving my brother here due to him having a bad environment and circle of friends back home.

We stayed for 2 weeks

It was the first time I had ever come to the west despite being born in the UK

I had no memories of my time there

What I remember then at 17, I am now 32

Was how white London was

And how it had a certain ambience of its own

I returned to London in 2011. Again for 2 weeks.

Wildly different

Even in the nicer places, it was obvious white people were not as ubiquitous as they were even a few short years ago

My point is that this is a level of change that would have caused an unprecedented pushback most other places in the world

Here it seems to have occured without anyone noticing or caring

THE ABSENCE OF CULTURE IS EASILY PERCEIVED

I WENT FROM A MINORITY MAJORITY CITY TO OLD EUROPE

AND SAW WHAT WE HAD LOST

THERE IS MORE TRUST, SURE, BUT MOSTLY MORE ORDER, RHYTHM AND BALANCE

EVERYTHING IS JUST MORE RELAXED AND LESS HOSTILE

relaxed and less hostile is probably it

its not just trust, you're quite right

you can have a cohesive culture populated by subgroups, you have that anyway simply due to class

is the basic attitude open (not just polite, or not even polite) or cut-off?

by this bar some arab countries are not cohesive at all, while others are

Egypt would be fine, but not say Qatar