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San Francisco and Los Angeles are in what US state? Dallas? Miami?
San Francisco and Los Angeles are in different states :) Just ask anyone...
Only San Franciscans think that. The folks in the rest of Northern CA know better.
The real dividing line in CA runs north/south. SF and LA are on the same side of that line.
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> I think Germany is the only country that has developed regional Wikipedias (at least Bavaria, Palatinate and Northern Germany). Different varieties of English could do that, but English tends to center on an American/Commonwealth divide with only the two prestige dialects everyone else sees as the only 'valid' ones.
They _could_. But in Germany, those things are reality, which shows that those groups take these matters seriously. My point wasn't that US culture is not diverse, it was that german culture is very diverse _as well_.
NASCAR and NFL/College football fans also take such things seriously.
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Please provide a citation. http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/uspsbrca... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-31/in-mammogram-debate...
Your link doesn't say that the screenings aren't cost-effective. It says that if you are in a certain age group these are the recommended amount you should do Annual screenings were too aggressive, not ineffective.
Note that this recommendation is solely on medical grounds - that is, the medical cost/benefit ratio suggests routine screenings for women < 49 is pointless. They don't even take into account the financial cost.
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They _could_. But in Germany, those things are reality, which shows that those groups take these matters seriously. My point wasn't that US culture is not diverse, it was that german culture is very diverse _as well_.
Also that Germany didn't exist as a unified country until 1871.
Arizona, which is on the continent, didn't become a state until 1912.
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Apparently all cell phones in the US are analog too.
That's probably a misunderstanding based on most US carriers using CDMA rather than GSM (like most of the rest of the world).