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Americans, what do people from other countries get wrong about the U.S?
Americans, what do people from other countries get wrong about the U.S?
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the eagles aren’t actually bald, there are feathers all over
Most Americans are moderate, kind, normal people. The internet just collects the shitty people and displays them.
There are almost no cowboys in Texas, most of them went to west Hollywood
America is HUGE, and the variation in climate, scenery, culture, policy, etc. makes America more like the UK than like a single country.
How should I know? Everyone I know is also American.
We’re not all oblivious to other parts of the world, and in fact, a lot of us actually love other cultures and parts of the world. I wouldn’t be learning Spanish if I didn’t want to learn about Mexican culture!
You don’t actually see that many guns.
We actually invented the fortune cookie not china.
We basically are 50 loosely united countries pretending to be a country.
We’re not all white males. Americans are HUGELY varied. Many of us are immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Most Americans do NOT own guns
We’re not a bunch of racist gun-toting Christian extremists like the media just loves to portray.
People think we have 29 of the top 100 research universities. We only have 28. 🙂
We don’t bring guns to school every day only on Mondays
How violent it is. Certain areas are, but that’s not like the average day for most Americans.
Most people have probably never seen a gun out in the wild besides on a cop.
When you read the labels on food in the supermarket, food is even more unhealthy than expected
Imagine the news, now imagine the opposite of that and that is America.
I would love to answer this right now, but I just got back from getting my mail, so of course I was shot 14 times in my own driveway by some children who picked up assault rifles down the street at the gun vending machine. I have to go take out a 2nd mortgage on my house to afford the $19 billion emergency room visit.
That we know nothing about European football, its the only sport I follow and I’ve found when I’m in Europe and start talking footy I almost always know more than they do but for some reason there’s this conception that Americans have never even heard of football (soccer over here).
The US is geographically massive. Think of how culturally diverse Europe is. The US is geographically larger, and while it’s not the same level of diversity, it’s not that far off. We have linguistic pockets, accents, local traditions and cultures, liberal bastions and conservative strongholds, etc, etc. It’s a huge country. Even states are not homogenous. NYC is not at all the same as Buffalo. Detroit is completely different than the Upper Peninsula. Miami is very different from Jacksonville. So on, and so forth. Even Americans have no idea how different other parts of the country are.
That Americans can’t get health insurance. 92% of Americans have health insurance.
You need to view the US like Europe, and every state as it’s own country.
im not american but, foreigners need to know that the us is racist and corrupt like a third world country!!
Not much.