A place in which people have no (or no access to) social institutions of a genuine, historically developed culture, and are thus reduced to considering the mundane or vulgar as culturally significant.
That town is a cultural wasteland; people only congregate at places like McDonald's and Walmart and consider trashy car mods and bootleg drugs to be part of their collective identity.
Man, I wish there was something to do this weekend that isn't just meaningless consumerism. What a depressing cultural wasteland.
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A place that has no art scene, music scene, or any minorities.
New Jersey is the biggest cultural wasteland this side of the Canadian border.
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