Definitely!! A simple one to point out is iced tea. In the south, if you ask for iced tea, it comes 'sweet'. Not just a spoon of sugar dumped in the glass, but brewed from sugar water. In the north you get tea that is unsweetened unless you ask, and then it is done with a spoonful of sweetener dumped into the glass as it is poured.

I would not say, from limited experience (New York, California, Atlanta, Las Vegas), that the cultural differences are as bug as across the whole of Europe. They are bigger than across the UK: there is as much diversity in English-speaking US as there is in UK/Ireland, and then you have the Hispanic, Native American and many other immigrant cultures as well. I would also conjecture that the distant bits of Hawaii and Alaska have significant differences. But I don't think the US stretches as far, culturally, as Greece to Finland.

"Cultural diversity is tricky to quantify, but a good indication is thought to be a count of the number of languages spoken in a region or in the world as a whole. By this measure, there are signs that we may be going through a period of precipitous decline in the world's cultural diversity. Research carried out in the 1990s by David Crystal (Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor) suggested that at that time, on average, one language was falling into disuse every two weeks. He calculated that if that rate of language death were to continue, then by the year 2100 more than 90% of the languages currently spoken in the world will have gone extinct." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_diversity From this point of view, I assume there are more different languages spoken on a daily basis in Europe by a greater number of people.. In the USA, there is an Italian "diaspora", but in Europe, there is Italy. That's much more people speaking Italian.

Yes, and no.. (Been to all 48 continental extensively) Socially there are strong cultural differences and many dialects (not as many as UK or Germany), but some are strongly different to the point of being difficult for people to communicate (like a Creole speaking to a Bostonion, same as a Welsh fellow speaking to a Birmingham'er[?]) Regional food differs a lot as does general interaction between strangers. On the other hand, there is a Pizza Hut in every city and a mini-strip mall in even the small towns housing the same stores in every city and town. If you removed all the people, it'd be the same frighteningly homogenous collection of superstores, identical 'strip' mini-malls, restaurant chains and road systems, vehicles and signs in every hill and dale, the only difference being the scenery.

I´ve been to 13 states of the USA and many of them are different from each other. New York and people in N.Y.C and New Jersey are very stressed but in Mississippi are everyone very easy and calm and friendly. But Europe.... much more difference to find. The U.K is another world comparing to the Netherlands. Iceland (where I live) is nothing like Spain. So I'd say the answer is easy :)

My experience with travel inside the U.S. is rather limited, but I do have some, and based on what I do know, my answer would have to be: 1- Not as much as you'd think given the size of the country. 2- What differences there are have more to do with political attitudes and how people perceive the issues they see in the news. Local cultures can't have much influence on day-to-day life when everyone shoppes at Wal-Mart and eats at McDonald's, so unless you go to an area of the U.S. that's still relatively rural and undeveloped, the cultural differences probably won't manifest in people's daily lives in any noticeable way. And 3- Ironically enough, the size of the U.S., along with the values of cultural tolerance and diversity its people as a whole tout so proudly, are largely to blame for culture in the U.S. being so homogenised. When everyone is encouraged to learn about and experience a variety of cultures, and the main way they learn about and experience those cultures is through profit-driven institutions like mass media, cultures lose their significance as important traditions and ways of life, and are degraded into little more than cheap, universally available gimmicks.

don't know too much about europe but the u.s.a. is the most diversivied country on earth.best of all,you have freedom to worship.

No.. U.S regional differences are all part of what we consider American. They are not enough to form their own national identities and eventually their own countries as what you have in Europe. Greatest of all a person can come to any part of the U.S and become an American and by the second generation.. truly American. Without his/her family having lived there for hundreds of years.