I need cultural depiction help

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In my series Elemental Flesh Armored Legends, each of the 6 legends come from different fictional countries, inspired by real life. Those countries are:

  1. Mazarkin (USA) (Wind Legend)
  2. Lescharvon (Australia) (Lightning Legend)
  3. Sajin (Britain/France) (Water Legend)
  4. Meishen (Philippines/Indonesia)
  5. Yunerbila (Middle East)
  6. Raisoto (China/Japan/North Korea)

I know you could say I could research. But I’m lazy and I have to consider cultural factors influenced by religion. In EFAL, religious conflict wouldn’t happen because there’s gods in that world objectively proved true. Most gods don’t really have an in-depth religious tradition system, such as holidays or arbitrary rules. I also have to consider the alternate history of the EFAL world and possible fantasy changes.

Take note I don’t want any fantasy changes that revolve around their element since these countries were made long before the next generation of EFALs arrived. It’s also impossible to predict where the next generation of legends are.

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kill them off immediately :100:

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Okay… what exactly do you want us to do…?

Like, tell you what we think each of these cultures are? I mean, I can say the USA is ‘consumer-focused’, Japan has a ‘pitifully bad office culture’, or that France is weird, but that doesn’t really tell you much.

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yeas so what time period I am expert

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21st century for all

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bro do you not already know this??

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i am shit at geography

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well im thinking like subtle details i could add for the feel

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also note the USA has multiple cultures

pacific northwest is very different from deep south, when you have a country on the same size scale as the european union thats to be expected though

(im asking what part of the us their from)

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im not sure tbh all i was thinking abouy is general american

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there is no general american though :sob:

that’s like lumping Poland and Spain together cuz they are both european

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fuck it i’ll say a random state: new york

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ok

yeah I got barely anything on new york,

(I heard in Albany they call hamburgers steamed hams-)

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stereotypical american might not work, but they do love their guns right?

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loving guns is specifically a deep south thing

also for some reason the northwestern Midwest (America is hard ok) they have a lot of guns as well, but make less of a fuss about it

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welp i fucking failed geography

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the human mind cannot comprehend the sheer enormity of a culture based entirely off of absorbing other cultures

just note wisconsin really likes cheese, like to a concerning degree

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fuck it i’ll use chatgpt for concerns like this

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hmmm yes using a language model trained off the internet to dispel fallacies created and perpetuated by the internet

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Alright, well for the US, I can say its most significant impact of culture is simply the way it was formed: the entire nation is taken land claimed during the 1600s. No other nation spare Australia was formed like such (if you even consider Australia a nation and not just wilderness).

The country was founded on ideas brought over from Europe and other countries. Its primary defining ideal of liberty was created in defiance to the British. To this day, the US holds that ideal, to the point where the citizens value it (or their perception of liberty) above the common safety of others. This could be seen in Covid, where many refused to comply with government suggestions for containing the virus.

Removing the religious aspect of the US would be a significant change. It’s one of the most religious first-world nations in the world. This has lead many to believe the country is or should be a ‘Christian Nation’. Many (falsely) state that it was intended to be a religious nation, and that its success was divine in nature. (I used to go to a religious college. This is not an exaggeration as to what the professors push.)