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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
3 PAGES AND NOT ONE MENTION OF THE KIDS IN THE HALL? that is unacceptable! |
Game, set, match - Dr. DAS.
Dammit. :mad: |
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| Beat Blog |
| quote: | Originally posted by Alex
Are you really that thick?
I've been all over Europe and let me tell you, they'll take your money if you're an American but the hospitality might just end there depending where you go.
In Amsterdam I was on a train and these two guys coming home from work heard my accent and started giving us for being "stupid americans" then they rambled on about how much they hated McDonald's and the US Marines. It took us the entire train ride to convince them we were Canadians (we finally dug out our passports and showed them the huge ing leaf on the front). |
lol, a thread that finally addresses my (not so hidden) TA agenda...
Americans, don't think that the rest of the world hates you because of your foreign policy, because that's only part of it.
As several people have already mentioned...Americans are loud, crude, obnoxious, arrogant, insular and downright belligerent in many cases, though that doesn't mean you're not nice people or unworthy of friendship.
It's hard to understand if you grew up in the US, because you see your own behaviour as normal (which it is in your own country), however the rest of the world knows better.
This:
| quote: | Originally posted by colonelcrisp
It even went so far as i witnessed some fat american skank bitching out a sales clerk in a cheese shop in ortona italy because the cheese that she purchased the day before didnt taste like the cheese she was used to in the states |
Is a good example. Yes, not all of you are like that, but a lot also are. This is just the tip of the iceberg, but most of the problems people have with you relate to your insularity and inbred arrogance, meaning you try and relate everything back to yourselves, half the time because you're so "institutionalised" (wrong word) in your own country that you simply don't know how to relate to other cultures.
Another big one is the constant, constant referencing of nearly every issue back to politics and religion.
Every time I've been on holidays overseas, you can visibly see the other people in the area cringe when they hear Americans approaching, which is usually from about 5 miles away, yelling at the top of their lungs. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beat Blog
lol, a thread that finally addresses my hidden (not so hidden) TA agenda...
Americans, don't think that the rest of the world hates you because of your foreign policy, because that's only part of it.
As several people have already mentioned...Americans are loud, crude, obnoxious, arrogant, insular and downright belligerent in many cases, though that doesn't mean you're not nice people or unworthy of friendship.
It's hard to understand if you grew up in the US, because you see your own behaviour as normal (which it is in your own country), however the rest of the world knows better.
This:
Is a good example. Yes, not all of you are like that, but a lot also are. This is just the tip of the iceberg, but most of the problems people have with you relate to your insularity and inbred arrogance, meaning you try and relate everything back to yourselves, half the time because you're so "institutionalised" (wrong word) in your own country that you simply don't know how to relate to other cultures.
Every time I've been on holidays overseas, you can visibly see the other people in the area cringe when they hear Americans approaching, which is usually from about 5 miles away, yelling at the top of their lungs. |
I agree with most of this. Do understand, though, that there are many of us (albeit a small number in comparison) who are, in fact, not like what you mentioned. |
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| Clovis |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beat Blog
Every time I've been on holidays overseas, you can visibly see the other people in the area cringe when they hear Americans approaching, which is usually from about 5 miles away, yelling at the top of their lungs. |
Yeah, and you didn't notice the other 400 americans who walked by because they're just like you.
I noticed some loud Australian exchange students at my school in France but I didn't apply that one episode to 250 million other people I've never met.
The stupidity in this stereotype game is astronomical. |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beat Blog
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Good ing grief. 
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
I agree with most of this. Do understand, though, that there are many of us (albeit a small number in comparison) who are, in fact, not like what you mentioned. |
You're smarter than that, Jake. Don't buy into this "America is the worlds Deadmau5 so it's OK for us to just agree with those who spout hateful bull because it will make me look better to the rest of the world" nonsense.
That's part of the ing problem we have here - those of us who just throw our hands up and say, "You know what, you guys are right - America" and jump ship. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis
Yeah, and you didn't notice the other 400 americans who walked by because they're just like you.
I noticed some loud Australian exchange students at my school in France but I didn't apply that one episode to 250 million other people I've never met.
The stupidity in this stereotype game is astronomical. |
This is true, as well. There were Australians and people from the UK who were a few tents down from us on either side at Coachella. They were all incredibly loud, stupid and just downright dumb and inconsiderate. I'm not going to lie, I agree with Beat Blog that a sizable portion of Americans are exactly as he described, but it's pretty much the same elsewhere. |
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| verndogs |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
This is true, as well. There were Australians and people from the UK who were a few tents down from us on either side at Coachella. They were all incredibly loud, stupid and just downright dumb and inconsiderate. I'm not going to lie, I agree with Beat Blog that a sizable portion of Americans are exactly as he described, but it's pretty much the same elsewhere. |
It's really about America's foreign policy more than anything else. |
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| enydo |
| Every country has its dregs of society. |
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| pierre_escargot |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beat Blog
Yes, not all of you are like that, but a lot also are. This is just the tip of the iceberg, but most of the problems people have with you relate to your insularity and inbred arrogance, meaning you try and relate everything back to yourselves, half the time because you're so "institutionalised" (wrong word) in your own country that you simply don't know how to relate to other cultures.
Another big one is the constant, constant referencing of nearly every issue back to politics and religion.
Every time I've been on holidays overseas, you can visibly see the other people in the area cringe when they hear Americans approaching, which is usually from about 5 miles away, yelling at the top of their lungs. |
Well I'm sure your only speaking from your experience of what you've seen and heard about Americans, but mine has generally been a pleasant one and haven't really got anything much to say about them.
America has it's arseholes, just as the UK, Australia, Canadians do as well so to sterotype and pigeon-hole americans into being "that" type of person is unfair.
The example of used though is something I personally hate as well. If I go to another country with different values, morals, culture to my own, I try to embrace it for what it is and not bite against it just because it's not the same or similar to what I'm used to. I'd call that being narrow-minded. |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
This is true, as well. There were Australians and people from the UK who were a few tents down from us on either side at Coachella. They were all incredibly loud, stupid and just downright dumb and inconsiderate. I'm not going to lie, I agree with Beat Blog that a sizable portion of Americans are exactly as he described, but it's pretty much the same elsewhere. |
It's called humanity, and it doesn't care about what nationality you are. |
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| Clovis |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
This is true, as well. There were Australians and people from the UK who were a few tents down from us on either side at Coachella. They were all incredibly loud, stupid and just downright dumb and inconsiderate. I'm not going to lie, I agree with Beat Blog that a sizable portion of Americans are exactly as he described, but it's pretty much the same elsewhere. |
If theres one thing I learned from travelling most of Europe and living in France:
There are stupid people everywhere. Loud obnoxious, fat, dumb, ignorant, racist, rude...etc. In every country and every city the world over. And the sooner people understand that, and move past stereotypes and start dealing with others on a case by case basis, the better, for all of us. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by verndogs
It's really about America's foreign policy more than anything else. |
Oh for s sake, don't even get me started. |
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