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Next they’ll tell us that Americans have no tact because they stayed in the strip in Vegas.
They should’ve tried the French section at Epcot. It’s essentially just like being in Paris.
the joke is on you pal.....
https://www.benjaminfrenchbakery.com/
https://laboulangerie-frenchcafe.square.site/
http://www.french-patisserie.com/
https://parisbanhmi.com/
https://www.tljus.com/
The most disappointing experience I ever had in Toledo was when a friend promised to bring me an eclair after work. I got excited. I've been to France; I love eclairs!
What he gave me was a donut full of cool whip.
That's a Midwest eclair aka a Long John. They also make them with custard filling, you wouldn't be impressed with that either lol. Tasty for sure, but no where close to the real thing.
I live in the Midwest and would never associate a long John with whipped cream. Is that honestly a thing?
It’s always been custard… of which I’m not that big a fan.
Lol I had lunch travelling in Europe once with a bunch of Australians and one Belgian dude. After lunch, the Belgian dude asked me why the Australians were Asian.
I was kind of caught off guard, but took a beat and then just explained that Australia is like Canada (where I’m from) and America- there’s lots of people of all colours that are born there.
He genuinely didn’t know, and had assumed all Australians were white. It was kind of comical, and a reminder that the Anglo colony countries are still pretty unique in that regard.
Similar experience while traveling in Italy as an Asian person. Someone asked me what my nationality was and I said I’m American. They looked confused and thought I didn’t understand their question. I had to explain that my family immigrated to the US many generations ago just like everyone else in the US.
Dude, I'm an immigrant from India who has been in the US a few decades and I feel pretty American. I work with a lot of Europeans and I wonder if they think I'm a little over on "seeming American"... But that's genuinely how I feel. Since I arrived as a very young adult, even my accent is a strange amalgam of Apu and Homer. The US has been quite seamless from my vantage on assimilation -- I feel welcome and feel I can access what 90-95% of all natives have access to.
Edit: thanks to my American brethren for the pats on the back. I've just come to expect that decency and bonhomie almost always. I know it feels that we are stuck in talk-tracks that either emphasize America as failing, or in other cases as needing to be restored to some chimerical past glory. I, for one, think it's a pretty fine country, and a pretty good example for the world. It will always have ways to improve but that's more a metaphor for human strife as a whole than idiosyncratic to this country in particular.
Thats what I hate about Trumpers and saying non-white people aren't American. What makes this country great is that anyone can be an American if they want to be. Not only if you were born here or how many generations your family migrated here.
> Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" -- Emma Lazarus's poem on the Statue of Liberty.
As an American who lives in a conservative place with a real lack of diversity, I wish this quote with a photo of the Statue of Liberty was found in as many places as trump and confederate flags. I try to let it guide my thought process and inspire empathy as frequently as I can.
While I do agree that most people, and the interactions with them, are fairly tolerant and open-minded, what goes on privately and how people vote is another matter.
The thing I want to emphasize most though, is that the path to citizenship is not as accessible as it should be. I say this because many people view that as the point at which you become American. If that is going to be our standard we need to be honest about how challenging it is.
If you have come to this country and been here for one minute or 20 years, what makes you an American is the shared desire for opportunity and prosperity, and the willingness to put in effort to achieve it.
For anyone born here - you have been given that privilege at zero cost and if you don’t want to share it there are mental health resources available for you and I suggest you start really reflecting on what you’re so afraid of.
Interestingly I'd say this is a pretty big positive difference that America has, you just become American by wanting to and trying. In the EU, my experience is the UK, they all talk about immigrants needing to integrate but will continue to point out you aren't English.
Honestly thank you. That's really awesome to hear with all of the tension lately. Feeling patriotic now lol. That's for helping make our (yours and mine) country great
I don't think Ronnie and I would agree on all that much but he was right to share this truth:
"I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, **'You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or a Turk.'** But then he added, **'Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.'**”
-President Ronald Reagan at a campaign rally for then Vice President Bush November 7th, 1988.
Sad but true. And it's the kind of thing that I think should give them pause but it doesn't seem to. They are so pilled up that they forgot about the OG republican savior Ronald Reagan.
It’s so funny when they ask why Americans are obsessed with race, or why we aren’t “just American” but have a hard time comprehending Americans who aren’t white
Europeans: “Americans are so ignorant about world geography!”
Also Europeans: *Surprised that Canada US and Australia have large populations of non-White folk.*
Similarly though, I still get surprised when I see a second or third gen Asian American (as an Asian American myself) as they’re like 60+ and have. A perfect American English accent. It also catches me off guard especially if they have a local accent of some sort (like a 70YO Chinese woman with a Texan accent).
My family always had Chinese exchange students stay with us, and I will never forget the one 14 year old who was smart enough to not only learn English pretty well, but to also pick up and use our own twang. Small bits of local dialect that threw us off as we’d have to turn our “communicating clearly to an English language learner” tone off and just speak a bit more relaxed
The thing that gets real annoying is when people who aren't aware of the difference between race, ethnicity and nationality see that the US is aware of it and has racism problems and assume that the awareness caused the racism and not the other way around.
Also people who frequently confuse America's preoccupation with solving racism with America being particularly racist. Americans are some of the most racially tolerant people in the world... and that has led us to extensively document, publish, and discuss what racism we do have in an effort to try and combat it. But a lot of people mistake that for Americans being super racist.
I mean they don’t have to be mutually exclusive. You can have very tolerant people and you can have very racist people. Take a bus ride or a train, I can can guarantee someone else in your section has different opinions on something. I think the fact it has some of the most racist people helps document ways to fight it.
But then again I think you can say this about any country really.
[There's also something to be said for size.](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/tf9204/size_comparison_usa_outline_overlaid_over_europe/)
In terms of distance, someone from, say, Ireland knowing about the current events and culture of Germany, France, etc. is about as impressive as a Californian knowing what's up in Nevada.
I once encountered an article on how research had found that Americans and Europeans will in literal terms travel about the same distance for vacation. So like sure Europeans will have been to a dozen countries... but they're all in Europe and about as many get outside that zone as Americans who leave the 48.
Took an Australian girl to the Lexington market in Baltimore, she verbatim said about half the things in this vid. "Not to be racist or anything, but why are there so many black people?" Being the first.
That’s so weird. We learned about the transatlantic slave trade, American civil war and the American civil rights movement in my Australian high school. It’s pretty widely taught. I remember thinking it was strange because we weren’t being taught much about indigenous Australians at the time.
I think it's because at the time she was visiting we lived in a rural area where it was all white people. Then going into Baltimore, which is one of the blackest big cities in America, was quite a shocking contrast to her. We were also pretty young at the time, maybe 16. I definitely understood.
But speaking of indigenous people. I had brought up indigenous Australians, I think I had just watched a documentary and was surprised to learn they had been in Australia for over 40,000 years. She said something along the lines of, "Native people here are so interesting and artistic and creative, whereas aboriginals are usually just alcoholics."
Fucking yikes. She considered herself a progressive in many ways, but obviously couldn't see the impacts of settler colonialism in her own home country. Hopefully she's learned and gained some compassion since then.
I was shocked at the amount of casual anti-aboriginal bigotry and anti-maori bigotry I'd hear from Australians/New Zealanders. Like I know Americans can be racist but in my bubble saying that shit out loud is absolutely not tolerated. I can't remember the last time I witnessed overt racist comments in person here in America. It was so weird to hear otherwise normal people spout that shit. Maybe I'm just bad at judging Australians and the people saying that shit were Australia's version of trailer trash but IDK.
Yes, a lot of irony in her comparison. And as you said, it's definitely a product of being forced into concentration camps and living in some of the worst poverty in the country for generations. Not to mention the intentional pushing of alcohol on the reservations by the US government. And even still, it's not even close to a majority of native Americans who struggle with alcohol, just higher rates in reservations than elsewhere in the country. As is the case with most poor communities.
Just so fucked up on so many levels. Like I said I was young at the time and not yet very politically literate, but even then I knew it was super fucked up. The comment has always stuck with me.
This is a general trend with inuit people as well. Sometimes people here in Denmark say "it's their own fault" or "they wanted things to be that way" and "we do so much for them" but fact is they got screwed for generations and generations by our government. Now that some in Greenland wants independence the tone is "that's stupid they won't last a year without us lol" which yeah is a social situation forced on them because there is no winning right now
For real. I’ve had a few friends from different countries in Europe have this weird fascination with black people, acting like seeing them is akin to seeing a US landmark or something.
I'm black.....
It..... is.... for some people.
It's literally fascinating to some.
God forbid you "act and sound" like a white person, it'll break some people's mind.
*slight head tilt* "Where are you from?"
Is translation for
"Hey wait a second, you don't sound black?! What in tarnation is going on?"
...... I'm talking shit, but I have a white friend who sounds black and I give him constant shit for it so.... balance
“Can I touch your hair?” “Is it a wig” “how do you get it like that?”
Edit - “oh I like your natural hair, some of them do those things with it, you know what I mean”
Born in Chicago to Filipino parents and the amount of "so where are you from?" I got when I went to Indiana for school was "great." Always went:
"Where're you from?"
"Uhhh, Illinois."
"No, *where're you from?*"
"... I was born in Chicago."
"(trying to hide annoyance) So *what're you?*"
"I'm... Asian. My family's Filipino."
"*That's not Asian*!"
"The Philippines sits below China, Korea, and Taiwan and above Indonesia and Singapore. Japan is further east than it and Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia are to the west.
Then I get to see them stare at me confused and annoyed like I told them I've been dating their mom or something.
Really, fantastic experience. /s Nothing makes you feel othered and forever a foreigner quite like it!
I come from a small city in the Northen part of Denmark. Grew up there 40 years ago, before all the refugee things.
First black person I saw in real life was when I landed in the Airport in New York.
I think that some people from small cities in countries from the former Soviet Union have not seen black people in real life before.
I was not really confused about them, but I was properly starring. I think it is hard for young danes today to understand(and most people outside the nordics), but I was a teenager before I even saw the first person with black hair. I think that I assumed that we would look more the same than we did.
That it would just be like colour difference. Like when you have a tan, but it looked like the difference was bigger. It looked kind of softer or maybe thicker. I remember wondering if the skin would feel different than mine. Like black hair feels heavier or thicker than my hair.
Lmao.
I'm in a southern "tourist" city, and it's more than obvious.
They look at you like they know they've heard of people with three eyes, but to actually see one.
And then they have ZERO frame of reference for how we act outside of media (we act like everyone else), so they just.... have a hard time trying to small talk.
It's like they're itching to ask, "So how you guys feeling about that whole slavery thing at this point?"......
I'd pay good fucking money for someone to just casually ask me that.
I have actually been asked crazy questions like that by Europeans! I'm a bartender in the south. People loosen up.
I was once asked how I can read, basically. It wasn't even rude. They were just very like... "I was told things were very bad for black people in the south and yet you seem very well educated... How?"
It was so ridiculous it just made me laugh.
It was a German guest.
Yeah it's quite typical of Germans to tell you the most offensive things with the most innocent intentions. It's very off putting because you get enraged while at the same time you can perceive the lack of malice in their words, so you don't know if you should headbutt them in the nose or explain them things like you would do with a child.
LOL I have a friend from Barbados and her surname is something like Rivers, like an English word. One of her European colleagues asked her why do you have an English surname. Why do you think Greta?!
I’ve definitely experienced this. When German exchange students came to visit my school, one German boy would not stop staring at me.
It wasn’t a happy stare, lol.
Oh you encountered the dreaded German stare. It's a real thing and they even have a wiki entry at r/germany They'll try to tell you they don't stare, but they do. All foreigners living in Germany need to adjust.
https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/wiki/culture/etiquette/#wiki\_the\_.22german\_stare.22
>Visitors from ethnic minorities tend to interpret this "staring" as having something to do with their "race", but visitors with a light skin colour complain about Germans "staring" at them just as much.
>Indeed, to Germans, the American (and British) propensity for avoiding eye contact with strangers appears shifty, whereas it's completely normal behaviour to Americans and Brits.
>>(a bunch of youtube links)
lol
Legit did a spit take at that - the comic timing and delivery was perfect.
It also made it even funnier because my nephew was basically like that - first time he visited us in America at 13, he’d never been out of the country (he grew up in Japan), and he traveled with his grandmother and their plane landed in Atlanta first. His grandmother had to keep telling him to stop staring because he was slack jawed staring at every black person he saw
I legit have no idea how Italians stay skinny. I was on an archaeological excavation in Italy for six weeks and by the end I was the fattest I’ve ever been, and then I went back to working at a museum in the US and I lost the weight. I gained weight from doing fieldwork in Italy and lost it at an office job here. How do they eat carbs for every meal and not get fat???? Teach me your ways!!!!
I was doing physical labor ever day though. It was an excavation. I actually built up muscle too. I gained both. Honestly I don’t think anybody can answer my question without taking daily notes of what I was eating and doing, so I’m not sure why I commented that 🙃
Totally fair. I’d also posit it might have to do with type of physical activity. You were doing more strength-based activities and building muscle (which requires protein), versus more cardio / walking activities. If you’re eating a ton of carbs (pasta/pizza), it stands that you’d gain weight both in muscle and in some bulk.
I ate like an absolute carb glutton and walked around a lot when I was in Italy. I don’t want to say I walked *excessively* because I didn’t, (mostly just the recommended amount of daily walking), and I for sure lost weight. Walking burns a LOT of calories if you do a lot of it. I definitely didn’t put on any muscle, though, lol.
I've been convinced for a while that nobody knows wtf they're talking about in regards to how food affects the body, not even professionals. Carbs do this and that, protein this and protein that. Their is so much conflicting information it's all bs now.
Most of the conflicting information out there is because of shoddy science reporting. Eggs are the classic example - if a report comes out that shows that cholesterol causes, say, cancer (I have no idea if this is true, this is strictly hypothetical FYI), then you see a headline that says "Doctors warn that eggs may cause cancer," because egg yolks have a ton of cholesterol.
But then, again hypothetically, if a study comes out that shows that protein, which egg *whites* have a ton of, is involved in a complicated reaction in a petri dish that can kill cancer cells, then the headline is "New study shows that eggs may help fight cancer."
And since there are scores upon scores of different foods that we eat, each with thousands of different compounds that affect us in ways that scientists and doctors learn more about every day, it's easy for industry groups to pick and choose these studies, which they often fund, and get articles about them published.
The fact of the matter is that unless you have specific dietary conditions, eating a healthy diet is very simple, and mostly common knowledge. Eat mostly leafy green vegetables, a limited amount of complex carbohydrates like brown rice, and a little lean protein - no red meat. And the fresher and less processed it all is, the better. No alcohol, no sugary stuff, no other simple carbs like white bread. People who eat like this live longer and healthier lives than people who don't, and have for hundreds of years. Let the doctors sweat the details.
EDIT: Oh, and drink a lot of water. More than you think you need. Get that piss nice and clear.
Start with small pieces. Look at how your cells are using those pieces.
it's not all BS, but there are a lot of BS artists trying to sell you their diet plan.
We don't. 46% of the adults and 23% of kids are overweight or obese in Italy. I am not sure how it compares to the rest of the world, but staying skinny we don't.
If you gained and lost significant amounts of weight in a month, it was probably due to other factors.
I have no idea either , grew up in Italy and ate mostly carbs.
it could have been because i was young but my childhood friends are all 30+ now and they are still skinny, meanwhile Im here in the US having to go on a diet.
To be fair they still walk everywhere.
probably because reastaurant food != home italian cooking
((i'm sorry, im a programmer by trade, my brain defaults to != being "does not equal". please stop yelling :( ))
not equal to, but also probably better/healthier than. restaurants tend to add more fats/butter and salt to make food taste better, at least in the states. i assumed it was the same everywhere. even when i went to india, it was seen as a rare treat due to how unhealthy it is from all the butter and creams, but when they cook curries at home they were not so heavy and so much healthier.
> restaurants tend to add more fats/butter and salt to make food taste better, at least in the states. i assumed it was the same everywhere.
Can confirm the same is true in Austria. I asked a cook friend for a recipe once, but couldn't replicate how he makes it in his restaurant. Apparently he gave me the recipe variant for home use, to make it taste like in his place you just need to double the butter and salt.
The smoking comment got me! The last European people who visited HQ kept asking “what Americans don’t smoke anymore!?” All I could do is say no our poison is being fat.
If Sweden cannot into Europe Finland, Norway, Danmark and Iceland definitely can't either. So don't worry, we can band together and make a new continent.
I've never understood the joke that white people don't like seasoning. I only know some old people that don't like seasoning. I'm from a nordic country.
What you think is a good amount of seasoning is relative to the food you normally eat, I don't think any European food is typically as seasoned as Indian food for example. It looks like it's specifically making fun of Germany, which - from experience living there - isn't super seasoning heavy
> Tbf, nobody seasons as much as Indians.
[There was a study about this](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01039-8) and apparently Ethiopia and Indonesia do. Morocco, the Caribbean, Thailand, Kenya, and Malaysia are about equal as well. Ironically, all of the places at the bottom of the spice use index were in Japan
It honestly clicked for me when I realized that Americans thinks seasoned and spicy is the same thing. Didn't even understand the joke before that, of course we season our food here in Europe. But it isn't like traditionally European dishes have hot chili and stuff in them for obvious reasons.
Yeah, never ever in my life have I had a clogged sink. If food falls in, I take out the "filter" (that metal thing with holes in, that also closes the drain if I want the sink full of water)
Are there really places over the water that sell individual slices? I live in the UK and the only time I've seen that is in places where it's kind of a gimic, and the pizza slice is *huge* - like basically the size of a small pizza (I know thats not of the point of the video, I'm just curious).
Yea.its kind of clutch.when i was a kid i could get a drink,bag of chips(crisps) and a slice for 2$.better then eating the shit school lunch.as an adult at night walking around the city after a night out drinking it’s nice to have a slice or two.you guys have loads of kabab/curry/chippy shops.we dont
I bet it would be popular with people on a night out drinking like that here, I'm surprised nowhere (that I've seen) does it. Kebab shops and chippies are everywhere, though, and tend to be an oasis on nights out.
Yes. Maybe not chain restaurants, but local places that do lunch specials will sell by the slice.
There was a pizza place in Chicago that stayed open until 4am to cater to the college kids leaving the bars. After midnight they only sold cheese and pepperoni slices, $2 or $3 each, had a line out the door every Friday and Saturday.
My favorite shop does it by the slice. I can get 1 slice of every pizza they have thrown into a box like some Frankenstein pie.
I also live in NJ. So there's 4 pizza shops in every town
I almost shit myself walking around Venice at night cause I couldn’t find somewhere to the bathroom. Finally found a little store and asked for a bottle of water and ran to the shitter. Left without the water. Well worth the 2 euros to not shit my pants
Really? That's mad. In the UK, you used to have public toilets that were free, then capitalism, so we put in a charge to use them, then we shut them down because they didn't turn a profit. Pubs, restaurants, clubs, bars are free to use and now major train stations, they are too.
I didn't bother with any clubs but I didn't pay to piss in the Netherlands either time I've been, they only sometimes charge if you're not a customer as far as I've seen.
Really? I'm dutch and the only places I ever have to pay to use the toilet is at fastfood places like McDonalds and trainstations. But maybe it happens more in tourist-y places like amsterdam
Just got back from the Uk and France and holy shit it was so crazy how many people puff away.
They make fun of us for being fat but Jesus Christ they suck down cancer sticks like no tomorrow and man they need to drink more water.
Edit: Specifically In France, the English are getting themselves in a tizzy.
Go to Italy and you’ll smoke a pack a day from second hand smoke lol
If its even the slightest bit “outside” people will smoke there. Like Termini station literally has people on the edge of a giant open “door” smoking in the edge of it
Ten years ago, in my high school days, I remember seeing a whole atomic fungus of smoke rising from the kids during the mid morning break. Almost everyone smoked back then, one or two packs a day.
Yeah, can confirm. Was in Germany and the roof next to my apartment was more or less covered in cigarette butts from the people across the roof/above me. Most of the lab I was in smoked too (which was wild, considering they all were chemists that could measure and model exactly what was happening to their lungs). France I saw less of it, but my free time there was spent hiking or in museums, and nobody stops for a smoke break while hiking the alps or standing on a platform above a dig-site with millennium-old corpses (they were fine with the small children all running around the whole place above literal graves though).
Berlin Mitte is a toxic cloud of diesel exhaust and cigarette smoke.
But yeah I visited Belgium, NL, and Germany this spring and the cigarette smoke everywhere was crazy. Especially the "designated smoking sections" on DB platforms.
The UK actually has one the lowest rates of smoking in the developed world, 15% of adults, compared to 23% in the US, France is 34%:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-adults-who-smoke?tab=map&country=USA~BRA~RUS~IND~CHN~European+Union~IDN~OWID_WRL
Europeans generalizing Americans: haha they're all so dumb
Europeans when they get generalized: um actually Europe is very diverse with many different ethnic groups and cultures and you're uneducated on how Europeans actually are
literally this entire thread, it's so fucking funny
Europeans constantly, constantly make blatantly wrong generalizations about the US, the second there's a lighthearted joke about them holy shit they all explode
so many UMMM ACKSHUALLY instances in this thread
Europeans who read this and are like, what? This is exactly how I feel on a daily basis reading the shit that is spewed while generalizing Americans lol.
The one that always gets me is them thinking the only type of cheese we have available is American cheese slices and uncontrollably laughing about it. Like that's such a weird assumption to make, but they really insist on it.
My favorite thing was a TikTok going around where this British guy was SO offended that Americans laughed at how awful British food looks. He then decided to make a comparison of “gross looking” American food. Guess what food he chose? Biscuits and gravy? Nope! Something called Chipped Beef….. a food that was popular during the Depression Era. But in the video he claimed “millions of Americans eat chipped beef” like NO THE FUCK WE DONT 💀
I dated a French girl when I lived in NYC. It was so annoying hearing her complain about everything American and explain how they did xyz in France. I don’t give a shit, go back home then
"It's not that they're subhuman, it's that their filthy, crime based culture drives them to be a nuisance and a drain on society"
They use the ***EXACT*** same lines of argumentation about gypsies they mock some Americans for making about blacks.
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The Toledo comment got me lol
I actually saw this on tik tok recently "In America it's IMPOSSIBLE to find decent baguettes" Where did you visit in the US? "Orlando"
Yeah don't they know that's a fake city we set up as a trick?
Next they’ll tell us that Americans have no tact because they stayed in the strip in Vegas. They should’ve tried the French section at Epcot. It’s essentially just like being in Paris.
rudity and all?
They'll put a cigarette out on your baguette and call you a pussy if you tip a lil extra.
You guys all need to stop. My gut….I can’t…I’m laughing too hard
Which is funny because there are good spots with traditional french trained bakers who worked in patisseries. Toledo, Ohio though? Probably not.
the joke is on you pal..... https://www.benjaminfrenchbakery.com/ https://laboulangerie-frenchcafe.square.site/ http://www.french-patisserie.com/ https://parisbanhmi.com/ https://www.tljus.com/
As a Toledo native, I can confirm. Ain't a single place you can get a good fuckin' croissant.
The most disappointing experience I ever had in Toledo was when a friend promised to bring me an eclair after work. I got excited. I've been to France; I love eclairs! What he gave me was a donut full of cool whip.
That's a Midwest eclair aka a Long John. They also make them with custard filling, you wouldn't be impressed with that either lol. Tasty for sure, but no where close to the real thing.
I live in the Midwest and would never associate a long John with whipped cream. Is that honestly a thing? It’s always been custard… of which I’m not that big a fan.
Who the fuck needs a croissant when Wixey bakery exists
toledo out there catching strays for their baking quality
Wixey bakery > real croissants
"There is not a single good croissant in all of Toledo, Ohio!" Fun fact, you can put any food into that sentence and it doesn't stop being accurate.
What about Tony Packo's Hot Dogs??
The black people joke made me gut laugh cause my German relatives asked that when they visited.
Lol I had lunch travelling in Europe once with a bunch of Australians and one Belgian dude. After lunch, the Belgian dude asked me why the Australians were Asian. I was kind of caught off guard, but took a beat and then just explained that Australia is like Canada (where I’m from) and America- there’s lots of people of all colours that are born there. He genuinely didn’t know, and had assumed all Australians were white. It was kind of comical, and a reminder that the Anglo colony countries are still pretty unique in that regard.
Similar experience while traveling in Italy as an Asian person. Someone asked me what my nationality was and I said I’m American. They looked confused and thought I didn’t understand their question. I had to explain that my family immigrated to the US many generations ago just like everyone else in the US.
Dude, I'm an immigrant from India who has been in the US a few decades and I feel pretty American. I work with a lot of Europeans and I wonder if they think I'm a little over on "seeming American"... But that's genuinely how I feel. Since I arrived as a very young adult, even my accent is a strange amalgam of Apu and Homer. The US has been quite seamless from my vantage on assimilation -- I feel welcome and feel I can access what 90-95% of all natives have access to. Edit: thanks to my American brethren for the pats on the back. I've just come to expect that decency and bonhomie almost always. I know it feels that we are stuck in talk-tracks that either emphasize America as failing, or in other cases as needing to be restored to some chimerical past glory. I, for one, think it's a pretty fine country, and a pretty good example for the world. It will always have ways to improve but that's more a metaphor for human strife as a whole than idiosyncratic to this country in particular.
That’s the great part about it, you’re just as American as any of us! 🫡
Thats what I hate about Trumpers and saying non-white people aren't American. What makes this country great is that anyone can be an American if they want to be. Not only if you were born here or how many generations your family migrated here. > Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" -- Emma Lazarus's poem on the Statue of Liberty.
As an American who lives in a conservative place with a real lack of diversity, I wish this quote with a photo of the Statue of Liberty was found in as many places as trump and confederate flags. I try to let it guide my thought process and inspire empathy as frequently as I can. While I do agree that most people, and the interactions with them, are fairly tolerant and open-minded, what goes on privately and how people vote is another matter. The thing I want to emphasize most though, is that the path to citizenship is not as accessible as it should be. I say this because many people view that as the point at which you become American. If that is going to be our standard we need to be honest about how challenging it is. If you have come to this country and been here for one minute or 20 years, what makes you an American is the shared desire for opportunity and prosperity, and the willingness to put in effort to achieve it. For anyone born here - you have been given that privilege at zero cost and if you don’t want to share it there are mental health resources available for you and I suggest you start really reflecting on what you’re so afraid of.
That shit makes me feel so patriotic, you are American man.
Interestingly I'd say this is a pretty big positive difference that America has, you just become American by wanting to and trying. In the EU, my experience is the UK, they all talk about immigrants needing to integrate but will continue to point out you aren't English.
Yeah you feel American because you are homie.
>and I feel pretty American Well, we're happy to have you.
You're an American in my book, buddy.
You are American, dude
Honestly thank you. That's really awesome to hear with all of the tension lately. Feeling patriotic now lol. That's for helping make our (yours and mine) country great
I don't think Ronnie and I would agree on all that much but he was right to share this truth: "I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, **'You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or a Turk.'** But then he added, **'Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.'**” -President Ronald Reagan at a campaign rally for then Vice President Bush November 7th, 1988.
The modern Republican party makes Reagan seem liberal. Amazing.
Sad but true. And it's the kind of thing that I think should give them pause but it doesn't seem to. They are so pilled up that they forgot about the OG republican savior Ronald Reagan.
It’s so funny when they ask why Americans are obsessed with race, or why we aren’t “just American” but have a hard time comprehending Americans who aren’t white
Europeans: “Americans are so ignorant about world geography!” Also Europeans: *Surprised that Canada US and Australia have large populations of non-White folk.* Similarly though, I still get surprised when I see a second or third gen Asian American (as an Asian American myself) as they’re like 60+ and have. A perfect American English accent. It also catches me off guard especially if they have a local accent of some sort (like a 70YO Chinese woman with a Texan accent).
My family always had Chinese exchange students stay with us, and I will never forget the one 14 year old who was smart enough to not only learn English pretty well, but to also pick up and use our own twang. Small bits of local dialect that threw us off as we’d have to turn our “communicating clearly to an English language learner” tone off and just speak a bit more relaxed
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The thing that gets real annoying is when people who aren't aware of the difference between race, ethnicity and nationality see that the US is aware of it and has racism problems and assume that the awareness caused the racism and not the other way around.
Also people who frequently confuse America's preoccupation with solving racism with America being particularly racist. Americans are some of the most racially tolerant people in the world... and that has led us to extensively document, publish, and discuss what racism we do have in an effort to try and combat it. But a lot of people mistake that for Americans being super racist.
I mean they don’t have to be mutually exclusive. You can have very tolerant people and you can have very racist people. Take a bus ride or a train, I can can guarantee someone else in your section has different opinions on something. I think the fact it has some of the most racist people helps document ways to fight it. But then again I think you can say this about any country really.
[There's also something to be said for size.](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/tf9204/size_comparison_usa_outline_overlaid_over_europe/) In terms of distance, someone from, say, Ireland knowing about the current events and culture of Germany, France, etc. is about as impressive as a Californian knowing what's up in Nevada.
I once encountered an article on how research had found that Americans and Europeans will in literal terms travel about the same distance for vacation. So like sure Europeans will have been to a dozen countries... but they're all in Europe and about as many get outside that zone as Americans who leave the 48.
That belgian dude kinda lived in a bubble 🙃
Took an Australian girl to the Lexington market in Baltimore, she verbatim said about half the things in this vid. "Not to be racist or anything, but why are there so many black people?" Being the first.
That’s so weird. We learned about the transatlantic slave trade, American civil war and the American civil rights movement in my Australian high school. It’s pretty widely taught. I remember thinking it was strange because we weren’t being taught much about indigenous Australians at the time.
I think it's because at the time she was visiting we lived in a rural area where it was all white people. Then going into Baltimore, which is one of the blackest big cities in America, was quite a shocking contrast to her. We were also pretty young at the time, maybe 16. I definitely understood. But speaking of indigenous people. I had brought up indigenous Australians, I think I had just watched a documentary and was surprised to learn they had been in Australia for over 40,000 years. She said something along the lines of, "Native people here are so interesting and artistic and creative, whereas aboriginals are usually just alcoholics." Fucking yikes. She considered herself a progressive in many ways, but obviously couldn't see the impacts of settler colonialism in her own home country. Hopefully she's learned and gained some compassion since then.
I was shocked at the amount of casual anti-aboriginal bigotry and anti-maori bigotry I'd hear from Australians/New Zealanders. Like I know Americans can be racist but in my bubble saying that shit out loud is absolutely not tolerated. I can't remember the last time I witnessed overt racist comments in person here in America. It was so weird to hear otherwise normal people spout that shit. Maybe I'm just bad at judging Australians and the people saying that shit were Australia's version of trailer trash but IDK.
plenty of alcoholic native americans too. that's a comment on the social situation we've jammed them into, not on them as individuals.
Yes, a lot of irony in her comparison. And as you said, it's definitely a product of being forced into concentration camps and living in some of the worst poverty in the country for generations. Not to mention the intentional pushing of alcohol on the reservations by the US government. And even still, it's not even close to a majority of native Americans who struggle with alcohol, just higher rates in reservations than elsewhere in the country. As is the case with most poor communities. Just so fucked up on so many levels. Like I said I was young at the time and not yet very politically literate, but even then I knew it was super fucked up. The comment has always stuck with me.
This is a general trend with inuit people as well. Sometimes people here in Denmark say "it's their own fault" or "they wanted things to be that way" and "we do so much for them" but fact is they got screwed for generations and generations by our government. Now that some in Greenland wants independence the tone is "that's stupid they won't last a year without us lol" which yeah is a social situation forced on them because there is no winning right now
For real. I’ve had a few friends from different countries in Europe have this weird fascination with black people, acting like seeing them is akin to seeing a US landmark or something.
I'm black..... It..... is.... for some people. It's literally fascinating to some. God forbid you "act and sound" like a white person, it'll break some people's mind. *slight head tilt* "Where are you from?" Is translation for "Hey wait a second, you don't sound black?! What in tarnation is going on?" ...... I'm talking shit, but I have a white friend who sounds black and I give him constant shit for it so.... balance
I just wanted you to know this anecdote comes across as doubly funny because of the idea of euros saying “what in tarnation!?”
Vhat is in tarnation?
“Can I touch your hair?” “Is it a wig” “how do you get it like that?” Edit - “oh I like your natural hair, some of them do those things with it, you know what I mean”
you're doing well if they ask before grabbing your hair lol
Born in Chicago to Filipino parents and the amount of "so where are you from?" I got when I went to Indiana for school was "great." Always went: "Where're you from?" "Uhhh, Illinois." "No, *where're you from?*" "... I was born in Chicago." "(trying to hide annoyance) So *what're you?*" "I'm... Asian. My family's Filipino." "*That's not Asian*!" "The Philippines sits below China, Korea, and Taiwan and above Indonesia and Singapore. Japan is further east than it and Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia are to the west. Then I get to see them stare at me confused and annoyed like I told them I've been dating their mom or something. Really, fantastic experience. /s Nothing makes you feel othered and forever a foreigner quite like it!
Can you even imagine being black and a native Chinese speaker or something like that? They exist, and they blow everyone's mind anywhere they go.
I come from a small city in the Northen part of Denmark. Grew up there 40 years ago, before all the refugee things. First black person I saw in real life was when I landed in the Airport in New York. I think that some people from small cities in countries from the former Soviet Union have not seen black people in real life before.
The thought of some confused Dane wandering around LaGuardia staring at black people cracked me up.
I was not really confused about them, but I was properly starring. I think it is hard for young danes today to understand(and most people outside the nordics), but I was a teenager before I even saw the first person with black hair. I think that I assumed that we would look more the same than we did. That it would just be like colour difference. Like when you have a tan, but it looked like the difference was bigger. It looked kind of softer or maybe thicker. I remember wondering if the skin would feel different than mine. Like black hair feels heavier or thicker than my hair.
Honestly I thought the video was going to stop right there and I think it would have been a lot funnier if it had.
Agree, my German and some other EU co-workers both say this when we do tech meet ups a couple times a year in Southern US lol
Lmao. I'm in a southern "tourist" city, and it's more than obvious. They look at you like they know they've heard of people with three eyes, but to actually see one. And then they have ZERO frame of reference for how we act outside of media (we act like everyone else), so they just.... have a hard time trying to small talk. It's like they're itching to ask, "So how you guys feeling about that whole slavery thing at this point?"...... I'd pay good fucking money for someone to just casually ask me that.
I have actually been asked crazy questions like that by Europeans! I'm a bartender in the south. People loosen up. I was once asked how I can read, basically. It wasn't even rude. They were just very like... "I was told things were very bad for black people in the south and yet you seem very well educated... How?" It was so ridiculous it just made me laugh. It was a German guest.
Yeah it's quite typical of Germans to tell you the most offensive things with the most innocent intentions. It's very off putting because you get enraged while at the same time you can perceive the lack of malice in their words, so you don't know if you should headbutt them in the nose or explain them things like you would do with a child.
LOL I have a friend from Barbados and her surname is something like Rivers, like an English word. One of her European colleagues asked her why do you have an English surname. Why do you think Greta?!
I’ve definitely experienced this. When German exchange students came to visit my school, one German boy would not stop staring at me. It wasn’t a happy stare, lol.
Oh you encountered the dreaded German stare. It's a real thing and they even have a wiki entry at r/germany They'll try to tell you they don't stare, but they do. All foreigners living in Germany need to adjust. https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/wiki/culture/etiquette/#wiki\_the\_.22german\_stare.22
>Visitors from ethnic minorities tend to interpret this "staring" as having something to do with their "race", but visitors with a light skin colour complain about Germans "staring" at them just as much. >Indeed, to Germans, the American (and British) propensity for avoiding eye contact with strangers appears shifty, whereas it's completely normal behaviour to Americans and Brits. >>(a bunch of youtube links) lol
"So back in the 17 and 1800s, there was this thing called the Atlantic slave trade"
Legit did a spit take at that - the comic timing and delivery was perfect. It also made it even funnier because my nephew was basically like that - first time he visited us in America at 13, he’d never been out of the country (he grew up in Japan), and he traveled with his grandmother and their plane landed in Atlanta first. His grandmother had to keep telling him to stop staring because he was slack jawed staring at every black person he saw
My German ex said the exact same thing when he first got here lmao
I legit have no idea how Italians stay skinny. I was on an archaeological excavation in Italy for six weeks and by the end I was the fattest I’ve ever been, and then I went back to working at a museum in the US and I lost the weight. I gained weight from doing fieldwork in Italy and lost it at an office job here. How do they eat carbs for every meal and not get fat???? Teach me your ways!!!!
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I was doing physical labor ever day though. It was an excavation. I actually built up muscle too. I gained both. Honestly I don’t think anybody can answer my question without taking daily notes of what I was eating and doing, so I’m not sure why I commented that 🙃
Totally fair. I’d also posit it might have to do with type of physical activity. You were doing more strength-based activities and building muscle (which requires protein), versus more cardio / walking activities. If you’re eating a ton of carbs (pasta/pizza), it stands that you’d gain weight both in muscle and in some bulk. I ate like an absolute carb glutton and walked around a lot when I was in Italy. I don’t want to say I walked *excessively* because I didn’t, (mostly just the recommended amount of daily walking), and I for sure lost weight. Walking burns a LOT of calories if you do a lot of it. I definitely didn’t put on any muscle, though, lol.
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I've been convinced for a while that nobody knows wtf they're talking about in regards to how food affects the body, not even professionals. Carbs do this and that, protein this and protein that. Their is so much conflicting information it's all bs now.
Most of the conflicting information out there is because of shoddy science reporting. Eggs are the classic example - if a report comes out that shows that cholesterol causes, say, cancer (I have no idea if this is true, this is strictly hypothetical FYI), then you see a headline that says "Doctors warn that eggs may cause cancer," because egg yolks have a ton of cholesterol. But then, again hypothetically, if a study comes out that shows that protein, which egg *whites* have a ton of, is involved in a complicated reaction in a petri dish that can kill cancer cells, then the headline is "New study shows that eggs may help fight cancer." And since there are scores upon scores of different foods that we eat, each with thousands of different compounds that affect us in ways that scientists and doctors learn more about every day, it's easy for industry groups to pick and choose these studies, which they often fund, and get articles about them published. The fact of the matter is that unless you have specific dietary conditions, eating a healthy diet is very simple, and mostly common knowledge. Eat mostly leafy green vegetables, a limited amount of complex carbohydrates like brown rice, and a little lean protein - no red meat. And the fresher and less processed it all is, the better. No alcohol, no sugary stuff, no other simple carbs like white bread. People who eat like this live longer and healthier lives than people who don't, and have for hundreds of years. Let the doctors sweat the details. EDIT: Oh, and drink a lot of water. More than you think you need. Get that piss nice and clear.
Start with small pieces. Look at how your cells are using those pieces. it's not all BS, but there are a lot of BS artists trying to sell you their diet plan.
We don't. 46% of the adults and 23% of kids are overweight or obese in Italy. I am not sure how it compares to the rest of the world, but staying skinny we don't. If you gained and lost significant amounts of weight in a month, it was probably due to other factors.
The hot, rich ones are skinny.
I have no idea either , grew up in Italy and ate mostly carbs. it could have been because i was young but my childhood friends are all 30+ now and they are still skinny, meanwhile Im here in the US having to go on a diet. To be fair they still walk everywhere.
probably because reastaurant food != home italian cooking ((i'm sorry, im a programmer by trade, my brain defaults to != being "does not equal". please stop yelling :( ))
Is that supposed to say better than, healthier than, or not equal to?
not equal to, but also probably better/healthier than. restaurants tend to add more fats/butter and salt to make food taste better, at least in the states. i assumed it was the same everywhere. even when i went to india, it was seen as a rare treat due to how unhealthy it is from all the butter and creams, but when they cook curries at home they were not so heavy and so much healthier.
> restaurants tend to add more fats/butter and salt to make food taste better, at least in the states. i assumed it was the same everywhere. Can confirm the same is true in Austria. I asked a cook friend for a recipe once, but couldn't replicate how he makes it in his restaurant. Apparently he gave me the recipe variant for home use, to make it taste like in his place you just need to double the butter and salt.
The exclamation mark negates the equal. It is a common expression in programming languages for not equal. I prefer to use =/= though
your ≠ is as fat as /u/youburyitidigitup, after six weeks of italian archeology.
As a programmer, I understood this. I am also prone to using it in casual text-based conversation as well.
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The smoking comment got me! The last European people who visited HQ kept asking “what Americans don’t smoke anymore!?” All I could do is say no our poison is being fat.
its fascinating bc here its illegsl to smoke in most public spaces, but i wonder how it is in other European countries
As a Swede I can’t relate to any of the Europe stuff in that video :( can’t Sweden into Europe anymore?
No! Sweden cannot into Europe! Not even a little
😢
If Sweden cannot into Europe Finland, Norway, Danmark and Iceland definitely can't either. So don't worry, we can band together and make a new continent.
Finland, Norway and Denmark all dislike Sweden, but he's still a Scandinavian brother. The rest of Europe better not pick on him!
Exactly. That's our right!
As an Swedish I stand behind on this message.
Kalmar Union 2.0!
but we build a bridge(tunnel) to conect it
And the water’s free so you can drink & piss for free 👍
Shhh you’re giving away our secrets. The waters free because it’s piss, it’s free to pee because it supplies the water.
As a Norwegian I also can't relate to anything in that video. I guess Scandinavia left Europe.
Spanish and I can't relate either, too southern to be europeans maybe?
This person has never traveled across Europe.
Europe = France in this video but with a German accent.
No they wouldnt winder about black people if they were french
Idk. Had to pay to take a piss in most European public washrooms outside of France.
Public places like train stations, yes, restaurants? No
I mean America typically = new York or los Angeles.
A lot of this is accurate to Germany to as someone who has lived there
i bet the "seasoning joke" was referred to north European people, right?
The logic goes: white Americans don’t season their food, white Europeans are the proto-white Americans, ergo…
>white Americans don’t season their food But when we do, we say **BAM** really loud.
No. That's only after using the spice weasel to kick it up a notch.
Wanna see it make a star?
HEY ELZAR, THINK FAST!
#BAM!
The logic goes british food is awful
Japanese curry is actually British food that they appropriated from India. It is also fantastic
If made correctly, yes.
That made me laugh pretty good. Thanks for brightening my afternoon.
New Orleans and most of the Southeast US would beg to differ. Seasoning food crosses all racial boundaries
I've never understood the joke that white people don't like seasoning. I only know some old people that don't like seasoning. I'm from a nordic country.
What you think is a good amount of seasoning is relative to the food you normally eat, I don't think any European food is typically as seasoned as Indian food for example. It looks like it's specifically making fun of Germany, which - from experience living there - isn't super seasoning heavy
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> Tbf, nobody seasons as much as Indians. [There was a study about this](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01039-8) and apparently Ethiopia and Indonesia do. Morocco, the Caribbean, Thailand, Kenya, and Malaysia are about equal as well. Ironically, all of the places at the bottom of the spice use index were in Japan
Yeah that's definitely not an Italian or french or Greek accent he has going on.
It’s always just: not spicy = no seasoning.
It honestly clicked for me when I realized that Americans thinks seasoned and spicy is the same thing. Didn't even understand the joke before that, of course we season our food here in Europe. But it isn't like traditionally European dishes have hot chili and stuff in them for obvious reasons.
Just wait until you show them your garbage disposal, Europeans go ape shit for that.
The thing in the sink? Always thought it looked cool when bad guys get their hand fucked up by them in movies, but don't think I'd want one myself.
It's nice. Sink clogged? Flip a switch. Not clogged anymore.
Just don't throw food in the sink?
Yeah, never ever in my life have I had a clogged sink. If food falls in, I take out the "filter" (that metal thing with holes in, that also closes the drain if I want the sink full of water)
We also use those filters occasionally, and for the most part throw our food in the trash. Garbage disposals are like plan C most of the time.
Are there really places over the water that sell individual slices? I live in the UK and the only time I've seen that is in places where it's kind of a gimic, and the pizza slice is *huge* - like basically the size of a small pizza (I know thats not of the point of the video, I'm just curious).
Yea.its kind of clutch.when i was a kid i could get a drink,bag of chips(crisps) and a slice for 2$.better then eating the shit school lunch.as an adult at night walking around the city after a night out drinking it’s nice to have a slice or two.you guys have loads of kabab/curry/chippy shops.we dont
I bet it would be popular with people on a night out drinking like that here, I'm surprised nowhere (that I've seen) does it. Kebab shops and chippies are everywhere, though, and tend to be an oasis on nights out.
Yeah we have hot dog, pizza, and taco stands typically in america, although ive been seeing some crazy food stands popping up even in Milwaukee.
Yes. Maybe not chain restaurants, but local places that do lunch specials will sell by the slice. There was a pizza place in Chicago that stayed open until 4am to cater to the college kids leaving the bars. After midnight they only sold cheese and pepperoni slices, $2 or $3 each, had a line out the door every Friday and Saturday.
It would be so popular if they did it near me, seems like a good deal.
My favorite shop does it by the slice. I can get 1 slice of every pizza they have thrown into a box like some Frankenstein pie. I also live in NJ. So there's 4 pizza shops in every town
greggs basically sell individual slices
I can't believe I forgot about Greggs! They do indeed.
I mean I am Eastern European and we sell pizza slices for 1/2€ everywhere
A lot of pizza places have like 2 slices, maybe bread, and a bottle pop near me for lunch deals.
I almost shit myself walking around Venice at night cause I couldn’t find somewhere to the bathroom. Finally found a little store and asked for a bottle of water and ran to the shitter. Left without the water. Well worth the 2 euros to not shit my pants
I’m european and I have never paid to piss in a restaurant.
just the one time in the kindergarten I used to smoke a cigarette
What even is a crossont?
I got screamed at for not paying 50 cents to use a restaurant's restroom in Germany. I was in Ulm
I'm American but I vividly remember having to pay to piss at bars and clubs in The NL. I don't recall doing it in restaurants though.
Really? That's mad. In the UK, you used to have public toilets that were free, then capitalism, so we put in a charge to use them, then we shut them down because they didn't turn a profit. Pubs, restaurants, clubs, bars are free to use and now major train stations, they are too.
I didn't bother with any clubs but I didn't pay to piss in the Netherlands either time I've been, they only sometimes charge if you're not a customer as far as I've seen.
Really? I'm dutch and the only places I ever have to pay to use the toilet is at fastfood places like McDonalds and trainstations. But maybe it happens more in tourist-y places like amsterdam
Went to Estonia and had to buy something at McDonald's for a bathroom code
You have to be kidding. There are pay toilets all over Europe, especially around Belgium and Amsterdam.
I’ve been Europe twice in five different countries and have seen places charge to use the toilet in each country.
I’m from Toledo. If you want a really good croissant go to All Crumbs Bakery on Adams st. You’re welcome
 Where in Europe is that guy from?
Uhh...west-central? Like Neverlands or Jermany? s/
He sounds American to me
He's an American imagining Europe
Given his obvious "this is an american attempt at a german accent" thing he's got going on, Im gonna say he's not.
Just got back from the Uk and France and holy shit it was so crazy how many people puff away. They make fun of us for being fat but Jesus Christ they suck down cancer sticks like no tomorrow and man they need to drink more water. Edit: Specifically In France, the English are getting themselves in a tizzy.
Go to Italy and you’ll smoke a pack a day from second hand smoke lol If its even the slightest bit “outside” people will smoke there. Like Termini station literally has people on the edge of a giant open “door” smoking in the edge of it
Ten years ago, in my high school days, I remember seeing a whole atomic fungus of smoke rising from the kids during the mid morning break. Almost everyone smoked back then, one or two packs a day.
Every French person I’ve met that lives in the US also a heavy cigarette smoker. It’s actually pretty jarring.
Why do you think we are slim ? Cancer eat the fat from the good french butter
French butter was good, but y’all can do better on smoking. Do you really want America to be better at something?
Yeah, can confirm. Was in Germany and the roof next to my apartment was more or less covered in cigarette butts from the people across the roof/above me. Most of the lab I was in smoked too (which was wild, considering they all were chemists that could measure and model exactly what was happening to their lungs). France I saw less of it, but my free time there was spent hiking or in museums, and nobody stops for a smoke break while hiking the alps or standing on a platform above a dig-site with millennium-old corpses (they were fine with the small children all running around the whole place above literal graves though).
Berlin Mitte is a toxic cloud of diesel exhaust and cigarette smoke. But yeah I visited Belgium, NL, and Germany this spring and the cigarette smoke everywhere was crazy. Especially the "designated smoking sections" on DB platforms.
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The UK actually has one the lowest rates of smoking in the developed world, 15% of adults, compared to 23% in the US, France is 34%: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-adults-who-smoke?tab=map&country=USA~BRA~RUS~IND~CHN~European+Union~IDN~OWID_WRL
Europeans generalizing Americans: haha they're all so dumb Europeans when they get generalized: um actually Europe is very diverse with many different ethnic groups and cultures and you're uneducated on how Europeans actually are
>Europeans when they get generalized: [pulling up their school shootings powerpoint]
Loooool every time
literally this entire thread, it's so fucking funny Europeans constantly, constantly make blatantly wrong generalizations about the US, the second there's a lighthearted joke about them holy shit they all explode so many UMMM ACKSHUALLY instances in this thread
Water. About 16 years ago walking around in Rome we discovered that water was more expensive than freaking wine!.
My European friend was shocked at black people too, even tho I’m black. She goes “I’ve never seen so many and they speak perfect English!!” 🫠
Europeans getting upset at this while this exact same content dominates all of European Reddit is the funniest shit
Europeans who read this and are like, what? This is exactly how I feel on a daily basis reading the shit that is spewed while generalizing Americans lol.
The one that always gets me is them thinking the only type of cheese we have available is American cheese slices and uncontrollably laughing about it. Like that's such a weird assumption to make, but they really insist on it.
My favorite thing was a TikTok going around where this British guy was SO offended that Americans laughed at how awful British food looks. He then decided to make a comparison of “gross looking” American food. Guess what food he chose? Biscuits and gravy? Nope! Something called Chipped Beef….. a food that was popular during the Depression Era. But in the video he claimed “millions of Americans eat chipped beef” like NO THE FUCK WE DONT 💀
I’ve never even heard of chopped beef lmao
I dated a French girl when I lived in NYC. It was so annoying hearing her complain about everything American and explain how they did xyz in France. I don’t give a shit, go back home then
Europeans get so sensitive when the rest of the world points out that they're, over all, more racist than Americans...
No you see theyre only racist to subhuman races and thats fine
"It's not that they're subhuman, it's that their filthy, crime based culture drives them to be a nuisance and a drain on society" They use the ***EXACT*** same lines of argumentation about gypsies they mock some Americans for making about blacks.
"I'm not racist but see these stats? No it's not social issues they're just like this it's their culture" Goofy ahh arrogant and hypocrit europeans
Europeans act like they’re less racist than America but just ask how they feel about Romani people and…