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Alright, how about: 87% of residents of Finland are ethnically Finnish and speak Finnish and have Finnish heritage.

Conversely, the most common USA racial group is non-Hispanic white (which groups many common languages/cultures, the most frequent of which are German/English/Polish/French). This group which is composed of all those different cultures comprises 60% of the US population.

> Compare this with USA where there is 1 language.

Nearly a quarter of American households speak a language besides English at home.

It's fine to say "there are things we can learn even though we are not as culturally homogeneous". It's fine to argue "cultural homogeneity isn't as big a deal for these things". But it's simply inconsistent with reality to claim that the USA is less ethnically and culturally diverse than Finland.



Finland probably also has a higher average [metric related to learning]... because of the direction the US is going in.




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