I’ve no idea if the term mexican wave is considered insensitive these days, it derives from sports fans and something they do in stadiums.
Id originally made this clip to share here as I thought it was funny, but I’ve since realised all the giant bugs are doing this when they spawn in, never moving, constantly cycling through this animation. Across all my saves on PS5 (Permadeath, normal legacy and during expedition).
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We just call it a wave over here… Did that originate in Mexico?
I protest. Americans are credited with so few good things at least let us have The Wave 
Probably so named because the 1986 Mexico football world cup popularised it on global TV. American sports tend to be quite parochial - the rest of the world doesn’t generally play baseball or American football. Everybody plays football/soccer.
It’s not actually so. The US just always tries to stick to itself and avoid international competition… 
I remember being quite surprised many years ago to learn that most Americans don’t have a passport. When I thought about it, I realised that in a country that big, and that geographically and culturally diverse, they don’t really need one. They could spend lifetimes just touring their own country.
I suspect the same is true for their sports. They’re big enough that they don’t need other countries involved.
You have a point. North America is diverse in geography. You can travel from one state to another and feel like you actually went someplace far away.
Swamps in Louisiana, desert in Arizona, rocky and snowy mountains in Colorodo, rivers, lakes, canyons and waterfalls, caves, you name it and it is pretty much here.
There are 50 states and each has their own teams for baseball, basketball and football. And within those states there are the many college and high school teams. If international teams were added, there would not be enough time in a season to get to them all.
The weather is also quite diverse, from steamy and muggy jungle-like tropical weather to winters up north so cold, I wonder why anyone lives there.
The government may be a mess but the land is fantastic.
Geographically, absolutely. Culturally? For a central european, calling the US culturally diverse is like calling a grayscale image colorful…
Well, there is a large English speaking, nominally Christian population. Then there’s an almost equally large Hispanic populstion. In the South, there’s a considerable French descended population. There’s been a Chinese population for hundreds of years. There’s a large Irish and irish-descended population, and a consideraable Polish presence. Around New York there’s a huge Jewish population.
In Texas and New Mexico there are Mexican and Amerind descended people, and of course there are the Nattive Amerricans. Then there are the African Americans (not all of whom are descended from slaves), and the descendants of slaves (not all of whom were Africans).
Then we have the various religious groups - many of whom moved to America to escape European persecution. There are Prrotestants, Presbyterians, German Lutherans, Mormons, Jehova’s Witnesses, Plymouth Bretheren, Amish, Roman Catholics, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims,
And, you know, I could go on. I could fill pages. America is very culturally diverse.
So much so, it can be difficult to understand the dialects. Yous guys in New Jersey have difficulty laissez les bons temps rouler in Louisiana.
I can drive 3 hours in any direction and noone understands my language anymore, and if I pick the right direction, I don’t understand theirs anymore, either (and in case of another direction, I speak it very badly)
Your description contains a lot of “descended”, and that’s kind of one of my points. Yes, there are cultural differences, obviously, but for a large part, people have been enculturated to a certain degree. There is a common ground, a certain “americanness” (Or at least that’s the impression I get. Maybe it’s not actually a reality. That is entirely possible, I’ll admit). As ephemeral as it may be, it’s still a lot stronger than “a certain europeanness”, which mostly just boils down to “our ancestors probably killed each other not too far in the past”.
We may not have the same ethnic groups (and certainly not the same distribution among them), but essentially I can match each religion you listed (ok, not the Amish… despite them being founded by a swiss…) and easily the number of ethnicities… just on the territory of switzerland, which isn’t large enough to cover a signifficant portion of the smallest US state.
The US isn’t exactly homogenous. But if we define the US as diverse, then I honestly don’t know what we should call europe. And after europe you can go to central africa, where things go up by another notch (yes, most people there are in fact black. No, that does not make them the same ethnicity. These regions manage to make even europe seem like it has a manageable amount of languages).
I get @jedidia s point too. There are many immigrants here but for the most part they have assimilated. We have many dialects of English influenced by the languages of origination. We have a wide variety of food also influenced by country of origin. This is why America has been known as a ‘meltingpot’.
The culture these people have brought with them has become somewhat integrated into everyday life in varying degrees. America is kinda like a sampler plate at a restaurant. A little taste of this and a taste of that but nowhere can you go and be really immersed in another culture except for a few niche places like Chinatown.
There’s like a hint of co Longford on his Oh sounds, certainly sounds more British isles than the kinda French sounding Cajun I’m used to hearing.
And while we’re on the melting pot of accents and dialects from European ancestry,
I absolutely love that Appalachian music happened 
There’s a big fancy Diaspora museum in Dublin and one of the rooms on music is about how our forms of dance and reels and jigs evolved once isolated in the states.
At the time it was built it was the world’s first fully digital museum, former CEO of Coke founded it. He was raised in South Africa but from Ireland so it was a pet project of his after retiring with his coca cola money.
A big projection of him is the first thing to greet visitors upon embarking on the tour.
Edit @sheralmyst
You’re the 16th comment… I couldn’t bring myself to make another one after it, felt fitting.
Since this thread has taken us on a world tour, let’s bring it back home.
You do have to learn varied U.S. “languages,” though.
When we say that the wise men came from afar, Texans think of a big blaze! 
Yeah when that rubber tarred wagon caught on far last night, it had the far fighters hoppin. And if I don’t change the awl in my truck that thing gonna catch on far.
