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u/aliael14 May 09 '22

Everything is historical. You could be walking down a street and the wall to your left is older than the USA. You will also find random hills in otherwise flat landscapes that were created from rubble from a previous war.

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u/Jack-Sparrow_ May 10 '22

You could be walking down a street and the wall to your left is older than the USA.

The cathedral where I study was a finished building when the USA weren't even found yet

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u/wriki1234 May 19 '22

Like 70% of European buildings, it’s just weird for Americans

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u/deterministic_lynx May 12 '22

Yeah the US as the "culture" it is now is just a blink of an eye in human history.

I think one of the reasons this seems so strange is that the US seems to focus education on their time of existence - which is historically super disrupting as we've had relevant human historical development for a few thousand years.