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Americans, what is something that Europeans have/do that makes no sense to you? (programming.dev)

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[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

How much they personally hate/dislike us.

They've seen too many movies and make unfair assumptions about us and then judge us? Idk.

How racist they are but have no idea they are.

They ridicule the US for our own brand of terrible racism but seem to be clueless that they and their government have their own vicious and oppressive racism.

How stuck in tradition they are.

I feel like I don't see a lot of progress in construction, culinary arts, or caste systems (to name a few).

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago

I have to kind of disagree with the last point. We have no caste systems, culinary arts are pretty non important, and usually if people want something new they will go to a specialized restaurant. How did the USA change their culinary arts in the past 30 years?

Construction, it did change, and it is constantly changing. We used to use just bricks, now we use porous concrete, and wooden is becoming interesting aswell. We are not building skyscrapers because they are ugly.

Or am I wrong? I am from Czechia.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

I've literally never once met any single person that "hated" Americans, and everyone who's ever met an American says they're lovely, just like us

The best theory we can come up with is that Americans are taught from a young age that their country is the best, and no-one should be allowed to say otherwise. Hence, even the slightest criticism is seen as hate.

Europeans, however, are raised on the belief that self-deprecation is a fuckin art

[-] njinx@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not so much here, but you couldn't go more than a couple minutes on reddit without reading some comment on how America is a third world shithole.

[-] Turun@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

English speaking reddit, yes.

If you visit /r/de for example, you'll find that everyone is complaining about Germany being a shit hole country. It's simply unfortunate, if you don't speak a second language, you never get good insight into how people view their own country.

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