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I'll never understand this attitude that Europeans have towards Americans. I thought we were friends.
North Americans and Europeans are only friends when someone from a different continent is in the room.
I'm franco-american, living in france, and I regularly get people telling me they're sorry for insulting me for being american. It's so ingrained in the culture here to shit on americans it's something of a knee-jerk reaction. I get it, america's the hegemon, we're the big baddy, I just wish that didn't spill over into a kind of xenophobia that people are so comfortable with they regularly catch themselves being openly insulting to people they call their friends.
They can't talk to eagles 🦅 so they don't count that as a language
Just a friendly reminder that bald eagles just sound like noisier seagulls. :)
My theory is they don't like constantly seeing us in their news and entertainment when we rarely see anything at all from their country.
Thing is, there's not much American news outside of the US. I live in Canada and have far less news about America than I'd thought there should be given how we are neighbors and partners. Most of the news I used to hear about the USA is from Reddit. And when I visit France (which I do regularly, bring born there), there's almost nothing about the US there.
Recently though, Trump was also over and it wasn't pretty. Also when going on Reddit, it's 80% about US News and content, but not necessarily the best news.
Overall, what bothers me and others is how much patriotic a lot of the Americans seem to be and how great they seem to think they are, even when you hear how bad the society is in terms of healthcare, pension, divided politics, crimes, conspiracy theory, etc.
But everytime I've been to the US, I've only met great and friendly people and have always appreciated it. You usually hear about the bad parts in the news.
They believe themselves superior in every way, including racially. Look up the racist "le 56% face" Nazi memes to see what they think about that.
I think I won't thanks
Wow. I had no idea this was a thing.
Modern neo-nazis and white supremacists just don't really understand that the Nazis from WWII would reject and enslave a majority of them... mainly for having Jewish, Slavic, Roma, or other ethnic groups' blood.
Turns out post-WWI/WWII economic crises lead to a lot of migration and mixing of groups, who woulda thunk?
The "le 56% face" meme, on both sides of the coin, is just a precursor to the world's greatest Leopards ate My Face meme.
I remember back in high school there was this Danish foreign exchange student one year, and she would not shut up about how this or that was better in Denmark.
Those kind of people exist anywhere, that isn't tied to any nationality. Guess it stemms from insecurities and chasing some weird need to feel superior about something.
We are only friends because the other big guys look way because out of the big guys the usa look the least scary.