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You're being very Eurocentric about who America is which is another classic smug and quasi-racist thing to do. You're ignoring that we have populations, heavier in some areas than others, of Native Americans, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and other East/South-East Asian nations. Then there's South Asian, Pacific Island, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and North African, sub-Saharan African, and last but not least, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. We have all those plus your so-called "several same" European countries, which is horseshit unless you're talking about the first 100 years before America was even created. Then we have the rest of Europe. The entire planet lives in America, literally every nation is represented here. Some more than others, of course. And there are dialects between states and counties as well as accents especially if you want to include ethnic dialects then we have countless amounts.
Ignorant. Smug.
So does Europe, which I gather you've never visited.
No, you really don't. The majority of the American population is of white, Anglo-Saxon / German/Dutch descent.
That's a fact.
You have barely a few hundred years of history.
I need only go 100 km inland in my country, and the genetic diversity between me and an average person will be greater than that of an average white New Yorker vs an average Floridan.
But you wouldn't know shit about that, because you are ignorant.
Do yourself a favour and actually go abroad some day, my friend. Learn a language. How many do you know? Because I knew three before the age of 10.
AAVE, that's barely a dialect, if you look at the difference of language between std American English and AAVE. The distinction is so huge in the Nordic countries, with Scandinavian languages and Finnish, that there's an actual concept called "book language". Look it up, see what it means. If you're not... ignorant of it. ;)
Say what you want and cry how much you want, the US is not nearly as distinct as Europe. Sorry.