[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

[GerardM]

Hoi,
When Americans speak English, it may be different but it is English. When
the Italians speak, they do not necessarily speak Italian. Italian was
created at the unification of Italy, the culture, the cooking is different
along similar lines, the history goes back centuries and it is a living
history. I know that there are big differences culturally in the USA and
that is something to be cherished.

My point is that it does not make sense to have all the overhead of all the
different chapters when there is no legal or fiscal need.

Thanks,
     GerardM

On 7/11/07, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 11, 2007, at 4:54 PM, GerardM wrote:
>
> > The United States is a vast country, culturally it is much more
> > homogeneous
> > than Italy is.
>
> Homogeneous? I completely disagree. Southerners in the US have
> different culture than Texans, who have different culture and
> heritage from Virginians, who have different from bostonians,
> different from new yorkers, different from general northeasterners,
> different from midwest, etc.... that's not even getting into north
> california vs. so-cal vs. sanfrancisco vs. LA, vs. arizona etc.....
>
> More practically towards chapters, schools in New York act completely
> differently than schools in Florida or Texas, and both are different
> than those in Utah. Chapters would need to take widely different
> approaches to working with schools in those areas. Similarly,
> internet and broadband penetration is significantly variant amongst
> different parts of the country, affecting ease of chapter operations.
>
>
> Am I not understanding the meaning of the world? I thought
> homogeneous means "more similar, more like one people", and
> heterogeneous means more like "a mixup of peoples, not very
> assimilated". (http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?
> date=19980305) Certainly homogeneous would not describe the US.
>
> -Dan
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