It's interesting how language is not only culturally important but also becomes a bit of a cultural prison or cultures in silos.

I remember years ago in H.S in the middle teens taking several years of Spanish with all the gender identities and the plurals, tenses in phrases, etc. I'd guess that language cultivates or reinforces behaviors possibly trapping cultural progression in some cases or nation states.

Anyway the value of learning languages made me aware that whole different cultures exist say compared to the US's rather plastic short historically confusing hodge podge non-culture? So maybe English helped bringing on that attitude. I mean, would we be the same nation historically and geographically with a written language e.g. Chinese and spoken Mandarin?

Probably not, but the key then being, how different?

Having supposed all that, basically the US is pretty much transplanted Europeans, all of them. I refer to our local state of Wisconsin as far far far western Europe. :-) (but states like Wis. truly has representational cultures from every corner of Europe, all of it).