(I think I would disagree, but good faith requires I actually try to understand what you meant before I take issue with it.)
This is not the case in Africa or Europe, where countries use different languages, scripts, legal codes, currencies, driving directions, etc...
EDIT: I'm referring the land masses included in the visualization and what they entail in practical terms.
The US can be seen as a single market, the same applies to China and India. Europe has the schengen area, the EU and the EEA. Africa needs similar initiatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/14/dining/field-...
Anyway, I'm enthralled by the idea of a lobster roll. I had clam chowder one time when we were in New England and it blew me away. I ate the pint and tried to go back and buy another, but my husband stopped me. I've had it a number of times since back here in the middle of the country and it doesn't even compare. Even in fancy restaurants, it's just not the same. I really want to try a lobster roll, but I have the feeling I'm not going to find one around here that does the sandwich justice.
I’m sure you’re aware you had New England clam chowder, And that there’s also Manhattan clam chowder. But few folks know there’s also a Hatteras clam chowder. It’s made with a broth and the taste of clams really comes through a lot better than with the cream or tomato based variants.
https://blog.carolinadesigns.com/outer-banks-food/hatteras-i...
(And now that I’ve worked my way to the Carolinas… if you’ve never had shrimp and grits, look it up. Yum.)
p.s. as good as lobster is, stone crab is even better.
I don't have a taste for grits. I finally came around to gravy on my rice, but I'm still iffy on grits.
I'm holding out hope that there's a decent lobster roll around here somewhere. You can get live lobsters here. There's no real reason you couldn't do a good lobster roll.
Really you just need the right roll, and you can make the butter version yourself.
It’s the roll that is hard to find.
I actually found US more federal in nature for doing business compared to India and to some extent Europe.
The tax laws are lot more state specific than India, California has very different rules for privacy(ccpa) or environmental regulations than other states. Europe largely following GDPR is good enough (with some exceptions for Germany), most environmental regulations seem broadly consistent across Europe.[1]
US did seem lot more regulatory diverse than India which is more culturally/linguistically diverse,it feels like US states have more significant autonomy than countries in Europe have over EU regulations!
[1] It may be that I have not done as much work with Europe as US so I have not yet come across nuances
In eg Germany you need three years of government approved training to work in one. And another two years of government approved training to run one.
(And I don't think those training certificates can be used for anything in other countries?)
Here is a link to a database of regulated professions in the EU: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/professional-qual...
A hairdresser in Czechia, with equivalent qualifications from other countries listed: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/regprof/index.cf...
On a fundamental level access to free market and European project has a goal of synchronizing the regulations across member countries.
US states are proudly unique, Texas doesnt even keep frequency sync to the national grid!
Even UK(Texas of Europe?) , generally need to follow similar rules if they want access to common market brexit or not.
Better luck next time DC and Puerto Rico.
Yes, but you don't need much international cooperation to get a single market or visa free travel: individual countries can unilaterally declare free trade and open their borders. (And economic theory is in favour of that, too.)
In the long run, imports and exports have to be balanced.
(Some countries export capital goods, like the US: when Chinese investors buy American startups or real estate that doesn't show up on your usual export statistics, but essentially it's still an American export.)
So if you are importing, you can't help but develop exporting industries.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by bargaining chip? What's there to bargain? You just declare unilateral free trade, and let other people decide on their own policy.
Yes, the midwest calmer and the south is friendlier, the east is more uptight and the west is more chillaxed, and the cuisine is different in different parts of the country, but these are pretty much details at the edges. Everyone speaks english, the low-end labor speaks spanish, african-americans are discriminated against, etc.
Then you don't know Spain.
Spain and Germany have hugely different history, completely different food, different weather, they speak two non-compatible languages sets (Romantic vs Germanic), they have different laws, different stores, different banks, anything.
Texas and California speak the same language, have similar makeup of people, are similarly wealthy, they have the exact same stores, your bank account is the same, everything.
Now I am not argueing there aren't differences between CA and TX. But those are similar to differences between Hamburg and Bavaria or between Catalonia and Madrid. German<>Spain is a whole different ballgame.
I believe those are what are literally called "fighting words"
A Basque playing the txalaparta would look like a guy who came from a UFO for an Andalusian guy playing Flamenco with a guitar.
Ditto with a Galician with an Atlantic culture (and Celtic customs) plus a obvious bind to Portugal because 500 years ago they were the same language against a Valencian living in the sunny Mediterranean towns.