Cultural Outliers in Spaaaace!

[Astromancer]

Isolated groups can develope in extreme ways according to who founds the group. The early medieval Norse ate large amounts of fish. However the Norse Greenlanders seem to have eaten no fish at all! Both examination of trash middens and remains of the Greenlanders themselves show no evidence that the Greenlanders ever ate any seafood. Put aside the mystery of why it's a major cultural change however it occured. Closer to our time Quebec's population is based on only 5,000 immigrants from Western France. Whole books have been written, in French, about the cultural differences between France proper and Quebec.

The USA is an example of this. Look at the America of 1870 as compared to Britain at the same time. The differences are staggering. These differences persisted in spite of the constant comunication between Britain and America from 1607 onward.

The question for THS is simply, what outliers are being created in this setting and to what purposes? Given memetics the outliers are likely to be consciously choosen and molded. What kind of cultures are people trying to create?