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The fact that America's neighbors are not culturally diverse clearly reduces our tolerance of those who are. Look at Canada; I mean, just look at them. They are primarily white and English-speaking. Taking it the next step forward, the French part of their culture, which is substantial, keeps to itself mostly and we don't mix with them much (because we are culturally intolerant.) So, our one neighbor with some ability to impact our cultural awareness, is not softening us up.

Then, examine Mexico. Christians, many English-speakers, striving to be more like Americans everyday. Great neighbors, food we enjoy, religion we understand and agree with-Mexicans are just like Americans, except they haven't been white-washed (but, many are trying it on for themselves.

Europeans are notoriously more culturally tolerant than Americans and that is because they are exposed to more cultural variety. Spend just a few minutes looking at a map of Europe and try to recognize the variety of different languages represented by each country's neighbors. Looking further east, there are more varieties of religion and ethnicity altogether. America is geographically isolated in that the United States is one big conglomerate of culture, amassed together as one. Further, Canadians (while representing the culture of the French, here) do not interact with people from the U.S. very much. Americans' greatest interaction with culture is that of Latin America. We do rub elbows with Mexico and they are not that different from us-they are Christian and speak English for the most part.

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