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The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not (Ep. 469 Replay)

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Understanding American Culture Through COVID and the Muppets

This chapter examines the contrasting impacts of COVID-19 on loose versus tight cultures, revealing higher case and death rates in looser societies like the U.S. It also underscores America's strengths in vaccine development while using a Muppets analogy to shed light on cultural risk-taking behaviors.

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