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Mandarin is about as pervasive in China as English is in Europe. The USA is definitely more linguistically homogeneous.



Depends on the area. You'll find speakers of lots of foreign languages all over in NYC or coastal California.

What might be unusual in the US though is that it's a big country in both population and geographic size, and yet the amount of regional variation in the primary tongue is quite limited. I think the UK and Germany have considerably more variation, even though they're smaller countries.




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