I heard somewhere about how many Americans just know the concept of other countries in a kind of abstract way. They don't see them as real or fully realized, with their own autonomy, history, ideology and way of life. Only America is real. I'm starting to believe this is the case
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I've certainly gotten that vibe from Americans from time to time, like America is the only country they ever think about, but also they just sort of assume that everyone else is also thinking about America as much as they do.
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IMO you can really see this on full display with the Iran war. As a culture, we really can't seem to understand that we're being beaten. No adversary, and certainly not some [$Muslim_Slur] is conceptualized as being able to actual fight us off. The national conception of the entire MENA region is "goatherders with AK 47s and sandals". The idea that Iran is a large, ancient, well-educated, ideologically motivated, industrially advanced civilization with no desire to assimilate into the American way of life is as inconceivable to the American body politic as plate tectonics would be to an Iron Age peasant.
what no theory of mind does to a mf
100% true coming from an american my fellow americans are really uncritical and lack self awareness in the most basic sense
Oh yeah that is true
Westerners don't even think non-western people are real. They can't picture Chinese or Russian people being real human beings, they think they're all just brainwashed empty husks. My aunt once argued a photo of a Chinese woman was fake because she was smiling and "Chinese people don't do that."
Oh yeah, it's the case.
Because they think america is the most advanced culture and that other countries want to attain the american way both knowing and unknowingly. This is also why they got so mad at that asian american snow boarder that represented china in the winter olympics, they saw it as betrayal.
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This is 10000% true
Source: am yank
Most Americans don't even leave their hometowns much and live in insular community bubbles, let alone visit another country in their life.
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Nerds im receiving controversial new information that has changed my mind on xi jinping 
Wow, these AI hallucinations are getting worse.
WHAT?!?!?
unbelievable....
I could have sworn he was Albanian.
together, albanian and chinese make up 100% of xi jinping
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Wtf I thought he was from wisconsin 
Cheesehead Xi Jinping knocking back a bottle of New Glarus while ranting about the traitor Brett Favre would be an amazing bit.
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next you're going to accuse him of being a communist i don't believe it i don't believe it 
Have you seen this? 
Very suspicious if you ask me, he might really be a communist
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Why isn't Xi loyal to the US? I can explain.
"XI" sounds like "SHE." "SHE" is a PRONOUN. People who use PRONOUNS are TRANS. TRANS people are COMMUNISTS. And I think we all know what COUNTRY is COMMUNIST!
That's right! Xi Jinping is secretly working for... RUSSIA!
COMMIEFORNIA!The nerve of the guy; withdraw his American citizenship! If he hates America so much maybe he should move and become Chinese!
He's probably looking at this with the same face all non-Americans do when they see how Americans get about their national anthem, it's really unsettling.
I'm American and I'm against the national anthem (and the pledge.) it's all weird indoctrination.
My science teacher got so fucking pissy over me not standing up for that crap. Literally phoned up my mom to continue bitching about it.
I wish I just ignored her.
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That's a liquid nitrogen level take on our instance haha, feel free to stick around!
Reminds me of once when one of the Fox News ghouls accused the Canadian prime minister of being unamerican.
Lewd, really not my style but I just couldn't not say it.
I put my hand on my cock during the US National Anthem.
You should be proud of making sure you stand for the flag!
need a stand for the flag/kneel for the cross meme where it's a swiss flag speedo
Finally, a real patriot.
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I thought this was AMERICA. I thought we kissed our nearest buddy on the LIPS during the national anthem. Where's your BUDDY Mr. CHINA???
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Did he at least put a feather in his cap and call it macaroni?
If I didn't know any better I'd think this is a bit
Did Trump join in to sing "The East is Red"?
President DoNald Trump slept through it tho
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