(2/3) There's been people on current Finland's soil at least since the latest ice age (there might have been before that, but couple kilometers thick ice sheet has a tendency to ruble things up). That means around 11 000 years ago. Over time, those people became what we now call Sámi, Karelians and Finns. Also, until bit over 100 years ago, there was no country called Finland. Before that, peoole living here were either under Swedish, Russian or Soviet rule. I won't pretend I'm expert on this matter, so I can't say how things turned out to be how they are now, but you should already see how the setting isn't the same as in USA.
And this is just example of one issue on one small country on the north edge of Europe. I'm pretty sure there are countless examples all over the damn planet.
(3/3) I was meaning to make this longer with more examples, but now I've ran out of spoons. The point is, while it's easy to think what you see around you is all there is, there's rest of the planet out there. Even something as "simple" as transportation or community might work drastically different elsewhere, and we'd spare ourselves from lot's of miscommunications and arguments if people just sometimes reminded themselves, that things might be different elsewhere.