House parties are more common in America, so that may be a big reason. A party in that context isn't just about gathering people, it's bringing people into your own living space to be judged upon.

And of course, many US gatherings are also means to move up the social ladder. Meeting new connections, finding mates, or getting intel on an area. Very capitalistic oriented.

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hitarpetar 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> And of course, many US gatherings are also means to move up the social ladder. Meeting new connections, finding mates, or getting intel on an area. Very capitalistic oriented.

just like every other claim on this thread, that depends on who you spend time with, and you can find the same behavior in literally any country

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johnnyanmac 3 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, everything varies. We're talking about a country so I'm speaking about a country's general habits.

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hitarpetar 3 days ago | parent [-]

there are no "general habits" in a culturally heterogenous population of 340 million people

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johnnyanmac 3 days ago | parent [-]

You're not going to be a very good statistician or data scientist if you have that mentality. Facebook became a trillionaire over the ability aggregate seemingly unoqie data of billions and provide value to adverts with it.

Like any other engineering, it's not about perfection. Being able to peedict that even 10% of these 340m people do a certain thing a certain way is enough to capture and establish a trend. That's all I'm doing here.

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hitarpetar 2 days ago | parent [-]

ok. can you share your methods for the statistical analysis you performed on American culture then?

	▲	johnnyanmac 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Of course. When I'm done with my job search I'll be sure to resume work on my thesis on American party composition. Any sooner: my going rate for my findings is $3000 up front to resume and finalize my findings.

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nxor 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

So people under things other than capitalism don't behave that way. Right.

	▲	johnnyanmac 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Treat everything as a hustle to further oneself in life? Well, sure. Feudal courts in high class society also do this under nearly any other paradigm. So it's not just capitalism. Capitalism matters less than the hyper individualistic culture here. But one drives the other in this case (other things can drive individualism too).