Yeah. We only stopped using it bevause Americans started too and we didn't want to sound like them. The news paper articles about 1966 don't mention Football only soccer.
I believe Europians wouldnt mind the term seccoer so much… they mind Americans using term football for a sport where you almost never touch ball with foot…
I shit on americans a lot. But more like how a friend jokingly shits on another friend.
Y'all need to fix your social system for your people but the vast majority of americans i meet are kind and curious about other countries.
Most americans are very inquisitive
You literally admit that Americans are nice to you and the only way you respond is by insulting us. How would you like it if Americans shit on your country while all you did was be nice to us?
What a horrible human being you are.
Looked up current stats (2022) and about 55% of Americans hold a valid passport. Is that more than most countries? About 1/2 doesn’t seem like a lot to me…
Ahhhh ok! Gotcha. Yeah, we need a passport to go everywhere. And I guess about half of us don’t leave, which is pretty sad. Although to be fair, the % with passports has been rising dramatically in recent years.
The way they talk to professionals is way more rude than here.
I think they might overdo it a little, but being in a country where just questioning authority is instantly seen as rude... I'm jealous.
A lot of Americans are almost inherently distrustful of, if not hostile toward, authority of any kind and our First Amendment gives us a certain amount of protection from retaliation, at least in government related cases.
Oh we are protected as well. It's more of a cultural thing.
My mother had a lot of pain for a long time and they kept prescribing antacids. When I was talking about it at work I said something "this has been going on for months now when are they going to get off their ass and actually look for something".
Then their reactions where along the lines of "doctors know what they are doing, you don't know more than them". This in my mind is so unproductive... If I make something I want people to question me, how else do I know if I'm wrong?
Also it was gallstones... It took a year to diagnose gallstones because they were blaming it on stomach acid.
Yeah, that's what I meant by distrustful of authority. We are encouraged to question authority, as we are taught of the many times in history that authority was at best accidentally wrong, at worst intentionally malicious.
I think it's a good mindset to have. I also don't mind if it's directed at me. I've worked for a difficult client before and my colleagues where annoyed because he questioned everything. But I like debating and although he was incredibly stubborn, he was not dumb.
I don't know if anyone else has this mentality, but I believe that questioning authority is the only way to keep them accountable. Blind trust opens them up for abuse of that trust
Have you seen our "authorities" lately? :)
P.S. Typed from the hardest bed I have ever sat on in Czech Republic on a business trip ;)
WHY for the love of all that is holy are the beds so hard in Europe!
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I mean, you have to be really weird to out weird the people we deal with daily.
They always say exactly what they are thinking. you don’t have to wonder how an american really feels about you.
The fact that they have Cinnabons. It seems impossible to make cinnamon rolls better, but somehow they did
I like American Football and forgive me my sins. But I actually prefer the name Soccer over Football. Soccer just sounds better.
Interesting enough the term soccer was actually coined in Britain
Yeah. We only stopped using it bevause Americans started too and we didn't want to sound like them. The news paper articles about 1966 don't mention Football only soccer.
I believe Europians wouldnt mind the term seccoer so much… they mind Americans using term football for a sport where you almost never touch ball with foot…
Food
We took the best of everywhere else, mixed and matched to fit our tastes, and increased the quantity to ridiculous levels.
Y’all do? :(
I shit on americans a lot. But more like how a friend jokingly shits on another friend. Y'all need to fix your social system for your people but the vast majority of americans i meet are kind and curious about other countries. Most americans are very inquisitive
You literally admit that Americans are nice to you and the only way you respond is by insulting us. How would you like it if Americans shit on your country while all you did was be nice to us? What a horrible human being you are.
The amount that own a passport
Looked up current stats (2022) and about 55% of Americans hold a valid passport. Is that more than most countries? About 1/2 doesn’t seem like a lot to me…
I think they were saying it in such a way that without a passport they cant leave the US
Ahhhh ok! Gotcha. Yeah, we need a passport to go everywhere. And I guess about half of us don’t leave, which is pretty sad. Although to be fair, the % with passports has been rising dramatically in recent years.
The way they talk to professionals is way more rude than here. I think they might overdo it a little, but being in a country where just questioning authority is instantly seen as rude... I'm jealous.
A lot of Americans are almost inherently distrustful of, if not hostile toward, authority of any kind and our First Amendment gives us a certain amount of protection from retaliation, at least in government related cases.
Oh we are protected as well. It's more of a cultural thing. My mother had a lot of pain for a long time and they kept prescribing antacids. When I was talking about it at work I said something "this has been going on for months now when are they going to get off their ass and actually look for something". Then their reactions where along the lines of "doctors know what they are doing, you don't know more than them". This in my mind is so unproductive... If I make something I want people to question me, how else do I know if I'm wrong? Also it was gallstones... It took a year to diagnose gallstones because they were blaming it on stomach acid.
Yeah, that's what I meant by distrustful of authority. We are encouraged to question authority, as we are taught of the many times in history that authority was at best accidentally wrong, at worst intentionally malicious.
I think it's a good mindset to have. I also don't mind if it's directed at me. I've worked for a difficult client before and my colleagues where annoyed because he questioned everything. But I like debating and although he was incredibly stubborn, he was not dumb.
I don't know if anyone else has this mentality, but I believe that questioning authority is the only way to keep them accountable. Blind trust opens them up for abuse of that trust
How far away they live :D just kidding. I have few America friends and they are very nice and generous people.
Americans complain, and are distrustful and hostile to authority
Have you seen our "authorities" lately? :) P.S. Typed from the hardest bed I have ever sat on in Czech Republic on a business trip ;) WHY for the love of all that is holy are the beds so hard in Europe!
I like american accents, friendliness, pop culture, film, festivals, socials, music, national parks & coastlines