10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America

[Mowgli]

Thats my demonic country

 

[rapbeats]

whether I've traveled or not is not the issue. the article is arrogant and just assuming the reader is stupid.

actually that is the issue. if you havent travelled. then you really have nothing to respond to the article with. because... YOU... DONT..> KNOW.

hey i havent travelled like that myself. so even when i saw some parts i was looking like then i had to step back and remember. how man countries have i visited and didnt lay up in a 5 star hotel only.

your best bet is to shut up and take in the info. wait til you make moves to different parts of the world. then speak on it.

 

[DANKTHRONE]

Have to agree with Domingo Haliburton even if you travelled that doesn't give you a baseline besides your own personal experience which is probably worthless because there is literally no way to make a good inference from anecdotes to meaningful statements about an entire population :mannyshrug:

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

actually that is the issue. if you havent travelled. then you really have nothing to respond to the article with. because... YOU... DONT..> KNOW.

hey i havent travelled like that myself. so even when i saw some parts i was looking like then i had to step back and remember. how man countries have i visited and didnt lay up in a 5 star hotel only.

your best bet is to shut up and take in the info. wait til you make moves to different parts of the world. then speak on it.

I've only been to what we consider western countries.

My point was the guy just assumes he's writing to the "stupid american" and couldn't be anymore condescending about it. That was my problem with the article.

 

[KingpinOG]

To say that the rest of the world doesn't care about American culture is laughable.

 

[Maschine_Man]

To say that the rest of the world doesn't care about American culture is laughable.

Is that what he said though?

You can watch american movies, or listen to american music and not really care about america.


I mean you really think ppl are sitting back thinking about Brits when they listen to the Beatles, the Stones or even Adele?


You think ppl are wondering what its like in oklahoma city if they are watching a basketball game?


just because something is a part of a certain culture doesn't mean they have them on their mind.














I think too many americans get offended when they hear that not everyone in the world doesn't actually gives a fukk about them like that

c'mon

 

[///Vega+++]

Thats my demonic country

lmao

 

[Serious]

I actually agree with a few things from the article.

#3 We Know Nothing About The Rest Of The World: self explanatory

4. We Are Poor At Expressing Gratitude And Affection: Very true

In dating, when I find a woman attractive, I almost always walk right up to her and tell her that a) I wanted to meet her, and b) she’s beautiful. In America, women usually get incredibly nervous and confused when I do this. They’ll make jokes to defuse the situation or sometimes ask me if I’m part of a TV show or something playing a prank. Even when they’re interested and go on dates with me, they get a bit disoriented when I’m so blunt with my interest. Whereas, in almost every other culture approaching women this way is met with a confident smile and a “Thank you.”

5. The Quality of Life: Very true

In my Guide to Wealth, I defined being wealthy as, “Having the freedom to maximize one’s life experiences.” In those terms, despite the average American having more material wealth than citizens of most other countries (more cars, bigger houses, nicer televisions), their overall quality of life suffers in my opinion. American people on average work more hours with less vacation, spend more time commuting every day, and are saddled with over $10,000 of debt. That’s a lot of time spent working and buying crap and little time or disposable income for relationships, activities or new experiences.

6. The Rest Of The World Is Not A Slum-Ridden shythole Compared To Us: I think I've stated this before, the average "middle class" family in China has about 50k, at home in savings. Compare that to the American, middle class, who have . Not to mention, the "American Middle Class, makes significantly more. Don't get it twisted in either, throughout the world there are a lot of nice places, especially in Africa . The trend tends to be, rich people, on the coast(beaches) and poor people on the inlands.

Unless a society is ruled by communism, there will probably be distinguished social classes in place(rich,middle class, poor).

Our health care sucks . We have dumb ass citizens who are actually against universal healthcare which would probably benefit, 99% of the opposer.

feel free to watch this for more info:
Sick Around The World | FRONTLINE | PBS

7. We’re Paranoid: self-explanatory, fox news / cnn / rush Limbaugh / the tax man

8. We’re Status-Obsessed And Seek Attention: Twitter / Facebook

9. We Are Very Unhealthy: We're an obese nation, We pride ourself on horrible food. Food is available 24/7. (self-explanatory) not everyone here looks like me.....

Overall I can't take your opinion seriously, if you've never traveled outside of the U.S. or western developed countries.
@Malta @88m3

 

[Mowgli]

I actually agree with a few things from the article.

#3 We Know Nothing About The Rest Of The World: self explanatory

4. We Are Poor At Expressing Gratitude And Affection: Very true




5. The Quality of Life: Very true



6. The Rest Of The World Is Not A Slum-Ridden shythole Compared To Us: I think I've stated this before, the average "middle class" family in China has about 50k, at home in savings. Compare that to the American, middle class, who have . Not to mention, the "American Middle Class, makes significantly more. Don't get it twisted in either, throughout the world there are a lot of nice places, especially in Africa . The trend tends to be, rich people, on the cost and poor people on the inlands.

Unless a society is ruled by communism, they will probably be always be distinguished social classes(rich,middle class, poor).

Oh yeah and our health care sucks . We have dumb ass citizens who are actually against universal healthcare which would probably benefit, 99% of the Americans.

feel free to watch this for more info:
Sick Around The World | FRONTLINE | PBS

7. We’re Paranoid: self-explanatory, fox news / cnn / rush Limbaugh

8. We’re Status-Obsessed And Seek Attention: Twitter / Facebook

9. We Are Very Unhealthy: We're an obese nation, We pride ourself on horrible food. Food is available 24/7. (self-explanatory) not everyone here looks like me.....

Overall I can't take your opinion seriously, if you've never traveled outside of the U.S. or western developed countries.
@Malta @88m3

They're for universal health care. They just need a white man in a white administration to tell them its ok.

 

[88m3]

I was out drinking on houstan till 5am with one of my friends from Vienna. I'm in rough shape today.
The article is an awful generalization with more stretch than loosing 92 bricks and falling back.
People are more intelligent and traveled than I care to admit in the US.

 

[Outlaw]

And?

c00n or Euro Trash, take your pick

 

[chuckifubuck]

honestly, you could say most of this shyt about every single fukking country.

every country is self centered, every country think they're the dumbest/most ignorant/whatever, every country has warped perceptions of their own history, etc. Its not specific to the US

 

[Roaden Polynice]

c00n or Euro Trash, take your pick

c00ney Euro Trash?

 

[Savior]

Most of the stuff is true...only false one is that no one cares about the US. Yea they don't go through the day worrying about what Americans are doing but everyone has an opinion on the US or Americans whether good or bad. And big American news make world news also...for example everyone knows who the American president is at any given time. The rest of the points are accurate tho but he ain't really saying anything we didnt already know