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> it becomes very hard to have a common culture

Counter point: culture has been compressed, not widened, in the last 60 years.

Accents have gone away, we listen to the same music, food has homogenized. By almost any measure, culture across the US has become a monoculture compared to any time in its history.

I don't think your point is necessarily wrong, but how do you square the above?

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Accents have gone away?

The University of Georgia did a study and came to the conclusion that the Southern accent is fading. Less formally, a word game website did a survey that found the standard New York accent is fadingas well.

The Georgia study largely attributed it to migration and people moving more than they used to, with a focus on growing metro areas in the south. Though apparently some younger generations are trying to shed their accents to sound more professional, and the internet is creating a sort of average American accent.

Though nobody is worried they'll disappear entirely at the moment that I can find.

> https://news.uga.edu/classic-georgia-accent-fading-fast/

Fascinating! Thanks!

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