>>509532874 (OP)I find it fascinating that you believe that all Americans are the same and then get insulted when Americans believe that all Europeans are the same.
There is a great American supra-culture that all sub-cultures rely on similar to that of Austrians to European. America is infact largely made up of nine sub-cultures, and can probably be divided even more than that. California is so different from the rest of the United States because that state became a state in 1850, but before the creation of the Interstate highway system and personal automobiles took you two months at minimum to get there if you traveled from east of the mississippi. It was easier, safer, and faster to travel to California by chartering a ship from New Orleans, going past the Panama, and arriving at port in SF or LA. Hell, it only became feasible to settle California in large numbers with East Coast transplants after WWII and after the Automobile.
And this is just California. New York to Florida was an issue, as well as getting across the Miss in general before WWII. To think that such geographically isolated areas with such difficulty to get to would not develop their own thoughts, feelings, opinions, and outlooks on life and interpretation of dominant culture is unrealistic.
Honestly, what you probably believe "American Culture" is probably just Northeastern American culture, as that is the one that has a large grip on mass media. It is as if I would assume all Frenchman eat sausages and read Der Speigel and are austistic because the only media I consume is from Germany.