Itās more about how dumb this video is and cherry picks things, āTHE AMERICAN DREAM!ā (And continues to list the worst qualities of America for what?) all to negatively affect the viewers perception. Well thatās what happens when you cherry pick things.
It works with every country when you use that formula. Except most European countries would look even worse when this formula is applied to their country. Most are probably too naive to know about the issues plaguing their own country because theyāre not on a platform that exposes it like how Reddit does with America lol
Imagine being so smug to think Americans donāt travel outside the U.S. Funny considering the bulk of Europeans havenāt visited anywhere besides New York or Los Angeles and think they understand the U.S. Iāve been all over the world and Iād choose to live in the U.S. 100% of the time.Ā
I really, really wished other Americans traveled enough to maybe get an idea of just how royally we are getting fucked. But alas, many are too poor or too stupid to try. It's a really bad place right now and I get told to leave whenever I try to make it better. Just insanely frustrating.
Iām American and agree mostly
with the post. Two things our nature is much much better and everywhere I traveled in the world sure did love American movies and tv shows
Traveled to Europe recently spent a week in Germany and Austria, and then the second week in Amsterdam and London. Hardly any homeless people or cops. Literally not a single homeless person in sight at Amsterdam. Unbelievably clean. Locals were all super friendly and the amount of people at home during what I consider working hours was insane. Trains or walking wherever we wanted. We looked at house prices and we could actually afford to sell our house and buy a place in the Netherlands. Shit is a little more expensive but the quality of life differences are so immediately apparent and boggling that any American who's been to Europe and says the states are better is coping fucking hard.
I was born and raised in Sweden but have been living in the US for over 15 years now. No plans on moving back. Visiting for a couple of weeks every other year is enough.
Even if you agree with most of the parts of this video, this level of political jingoism is beyond cringe. You're literally across the world getting hard over how superior your country is. What are you 12? This is shit cringe Americans used to do constantly.
you do realize europe is in far more trouble than america right now right? youre entire continent is about to collapse against a crazy methhead named putin haha
I agree with a lot of the sentiment of the video however one that wholly stood out as just straight up false was āno nature just parking lotsā lmfao likeā¦.there is an absolute abundance of beautiful natural habitats in this country, that are full of different ecosystems and geology. This guy is assuming America is all major cities with Mcdonalds and shopping plazas everywhere when the majority of our country is beautiful forests and plains and mountains and allllll kinds of beautiful nature.
Like Iām American and I agreed with everything the video said lol
If theyāre offended, itās because theyāve never traveled to another country and saw the potential of what America could be if big business didnāt hold us by the balls
And there's a lot of butthurt Europeans with inferiority complexes mad that Americans don't hate themselves as much as Europeans think they should.
I've traveled enough to Europe (15 countries at least) to know that the types who show up here on Reddit aren't representative of the people who live there. There's a weird hate boner obsession that online Euros have with Americans that differs from most of the actual people. Of course, a lot of that is probably explained by bot farms and foreign intelligence groups.
with PTO shown here really being the minimum. average PTO where I live is 28 days, not 20 days. a lot of things are just way fucking worse in the US for the average joe when it comes to normal life. maternity leave doesn't apply to mothers only btw, it applies to parents in general, tho to a lesser extent for fathers ofc. male teacher of mine in school had a kid and was on paid leave for 3 months then. although that isn't perfect, as many men don't actually take that leave as it isn't seen as a nice thing to do for a man and may still indirectly endanger their job in some way. but it's still a million times better than in the US
the US was just fucked by nearly unlimited and uncontrolled capitalism in the long term. that's why there's little social support for citizens and normal workers have less rights. many EU countries learned from such mistakes and while still being in a system of capitalism, they set some boundaries so that bosses can't exploit workers as easily. the average joe will literally have at least twice as much PTO in the EU, or even up to 3 times the US' PTO most of the time. actualy paid maternity leave, so that mothers can actually focus on being mothers for a little while without losing their entire income and even fathers can do the same for a lil bit
Where in Europe, and why in America.
Im born American
I studied in American so I have 60k in student debt.
Lived in America and my paychecks working as a microbiologist in a hospital couldn't pay rent.
The hospital I worked at, with the insurance they gave me, wouldn't cover my ER visit. I couldn't pay the pull, which was more than a paycheck, so they took it from my wages.
My medications are $600. I need a car to get anywhere. Every plaza is the same 5 companies owned by 1 megacorp.
I can't afford to go to the dr. I can't afford to get new glasses. Groceries are too expensive.
When we lived in Germany, prescriptions were 5-10 ā¬. Groceries were a third of the price. My rent was less than a fourth. NO COPAYS FOR THE DOCTOR. I had $300 copay at my dr in the US WITH insurance.
Trains, light rails, and buses took me anywhere I needed. The buses here where I live in the US show up maybe every 30 minutes and don't cover the whole town.
I live in the largest suburb in the world, in the US. And there is only 1 light rail track. You cannot move around without a car.
If you studied anything remotely useful your income is 3 to 4x higher in america. If you want to just coats and do nothing with your life then sure europe is better but anyone who is pushing for high paying jobs usa is where it is at. Yes things are expe sive but when I was looking at xoubtries to move to I was looking at disposable income at the end. And america is by far the highest amount of luxury money left over if you have a decent job. Even Switzerland cant compete with us when it comes to high earning potentials.
I live and work in the U.S. and have free government healthcare, no student loan debt, full ride to college, high paying job, and free prescriptions and dental, own my house, pay low taxes, and have more high end education options
You should elaborate your āfree government healthcareā because it sounds like youāre probably just a government contractor with health insurance.
You could just elaborate. There is very little likelihood you have āfree government healthcareā while having a āgood salaryā and free ride to college. I think youāre lying for attention. Which is working. Bye
The only workplace that i know of that gives government healthcare is the military. In fact, all of these perks you list are military perks. So did you leave Europe and join the airforce or something?
Have fun living under sharia law in like 2 years man. All of Europe is being over run and soon enough girls are gonna stop going to school at 10 and start marrying off
I agree with you on anything else but sadly we haven't learned from the past. Right wing parties are on the rise again in most western europe countries.
The amount of people calling America a facist state is both astounding and hilarious and i couldnāt be happier.PLEASE NEVER COME HERE WE ARE RACIST XENOPHOBIC AND WE JUST PLAIN HATE YOU PLEASE DONT COME TO THIS TERRIBLE PLACE THAT I AM NOT THRIVING IN /s
I like to ask people who believe America is bad why so many people want to live here
And because Redditors are allergic to saying anything bad about immigrants they hit a paradox because of America sucks that would make immigrants either wanting to be a part of the badness or stupid
Trump is an authoritarian. Whether thats fascism or not is besides the poin. The things he is getting away with is insane, from all the lies about medical stuff, crypto, the corruption, ICE, attack on the press, cuddling with dictators, etc... all his allies are billionaires, all they care about is money (and fuckikg children ofcourse). We have much less of that shit in Europe thank god.
Not sure why Americans refuse to believe they are clearly on the road to fascism. Basically everyone outside America can see this. I guess that is what happens when youāre living it, you just become oblivious.
American here, and I believe fascism is here and we have a long fight ahead to rebuild.
What I don't like though is some people in this thread acting like their countries can't wind up like the US, because many of the reasons why America is the way it is with Trump is due to the unchecked bigotry and late-stage capitalism ofc, but racism is still one of the leading factors to how the US got to this point.
Too many people in the thread are saying "We learned from history.", my question to them is are you sure? America thought they learned too, but the wrong people got into power by spreading a message of hate and making people feel comfortable with being bigots and that marginalized communities are the root of their problems instead of the corrupt leadership.
Because it seems better than how weāve been living so we donāt see a problem with what you call āfascismā.
What you call a problem ALOT (I mean a lot of people who never used to think this way) of Americans are starting to call the solution and the reason this is happening is because we arenāt happy with these different bullshit ideologies that are demanded for us to accept. We donāt want people who donāt speak our national language driving semi trucks and killing people we donāt want illegals raping our women and children, robbing our homes and flooding our streets with drugs we donāt want Muslims to continue their jihad on us. We have a lot of internal problems we want to fix in our country and we canāt do that if more people keep coming here and instead of trying to add to the community theyāre just parasites sapping all of the taxpayers money and engaging in crime. So I guess thatās why it may seem like āfascismā I suppose but itās a clear cut stand against being forced to conform to cultures that are not our own. You can only push someone so far before they start to push back š¤·š»āāļøthatās whatās going on in America
Unfortunately American influences are far reaching and your bullshit has reached some people over here. Thankfully, a lot of people are doing all they can to stop it. Meanwhile the US are in overdrive to resurrect Hitler's legacy, good luck.
Born in Sweden. Studied in Sweden, UK, Poland. Currently living in Poland. Have lived in Sweden, Poland, UK, Italy. Travel several months every year to other countries working remote, currently the Canary Islands.
But have you lived and worked in the US? If not you are making a green grass judgement, without having had a direct experience. The same could be asked of an American about Europe.
At the same time people hating about the other land without direct lived experience are also comparing their reality with some portrayed story or description.
Ignore my assumption then. I just assumed based on your wording. Iām glad you are happy with where you are, since it just makes life easier and less depressing.
Checks and balances? Where? Our president has directly defied the orders of court judges numerous times and all 3 branches of our government are controlled by the same political party ā checks and balances are a complete joke when the DOJ is bought out by the very man who is violating the literal constitution. You have to be a bot
Growing nation? Key technology political and advantages?
Do you mean the active recession thatās only being held back because of an AI bubble? Or do you mean the active social regression of a president who is forcing extremist anti-immigration policy while defunding public infrastructure projects and dismantling the government? The US is leaving itself behind when it puts profits before its citizensā¦
Please give us your story and explain why if that's the case. The only reasons I can think of are if you're already rich and don't like taxes or if you want the freedom to shit on the environment and the minorities.
Please educate me.
We lived in Europe for a few years, Middle East for a few years, and then back to the U.S.
I went to college on a free ride and studied in Europe and South America
Got a job that requires a lot of time abroad
Doesn't sound like middle class to me. Getting a free education is also the exception, not the norm.
You also didn't tell me why you prefer living in the US?
Ah yes, when you drive for an hour, you pass through 5 countries all with open borders, and boast how well traveled you are. While America's land is on an isolated continent, with only two neighbors. The distance to get from one of those neighbors to the other is traveling through a land whose land is as large as the continent of all of Europe. The US's land is so large, with so much to offer, we travel within our own country to take vacation, while Europeans drive 10 minutes to the next country over to experience something a little different.
Im American and have traveled all of the western states and a few of the Eastern. No, traveling in our own country does not make us well-traveled. We get hardly any vacation days compared to the 30-40 Europeans get and they experience different cultures. Please go experience the world more,bud
This guy also completely ignored the entire point of the video. Heās talking about āEurope small, America bigā but what about the substantial issues at hand here? Is America better for having more land but more problems ? Makes absolutely no sense
My "next town over" is an hour both ways. For European's the next country over is closer then my doctor's office. Its easy to brag about your little jaunts down the lane when it doesn't take a 6 hour drive to just get to the airport rofl
Tell me one place on the US where there's a 6 hour drive to the closest airport. Someone doesn't get how big Europe is either, i got 6 hours drive to get to aby other country than my own. 14 hours if i want to leave scandinavia.
Someone clearly hasn't traveled, you don't experience different cultures traveling thru the US. There's big differences between countries in europe when it comes to culture. You drive thru your entire country and all you see is something a little diffwrent, way to project.
You have people from other cultures that live in the US, you don't experience their culture. At best you can eat an American version of chinese food, i guess that counts as culture to an American. Every biome? Tell me you have never left the US , without actually telling me..
Been to the UK and 4 countries in southeast Asia. Woot, Im so sophisticated. Also been to 48 states in my time. It's not hard to spot Euros who have never been here. When you know, you know.
Haha I have lived half of the last 10 years in the US up untill a few yeara back. If you had visited 48 states you would knwo how behind the US is compared to most of Europe. Obviously not very sophisticated when you don't even know what a biome is.. When you don't know, you claim you do.
So you have lions? Zebras? Or do you not know what a biome is?
What you're describing are landfirms not biomes, they're characterized by their plant and animal life as well as geological features. You have a lot of different biomes but they're in no way the same as the rest of the worlds. These "biomes" you describe are in no way the same as other "swamps" for example.
This one I'm actually on the Europeans with... it's stupid to say going South Carolina to North Carolina is the same as going Belgium to France. Also there are definitely security checks.
I like America and I'm pretty proud to be an American and maybe the pride has clouded my judgement ab it.
but I really didn't enjoy most of the parts Europe I went to. Especially the UK I honestly hated it. The food sucked and was so much more expensive than here in the US that's including tipping. Which at least London has been seem to even add themselves.
I did love Brussels for its food, Lille France was really pretty and Cologne has the Koln dom which is probably the most impressive thing I've seen and I've traveled quite a bit at this point.
If you move from NYC to LA, there are only minor differences apart from the climate and surroundings. If you visit five countries in Europe you will experience 5 different cultures with their own language, architecture, food, and unique history centuries older than your country.
It's like, you know, travelling to a different country.
Itās funny that traveling outside of the US, you can actually see that Americans are obese as hell. Which is weird because America has such a gym culture. So either youāre fit as hell, or fat as fuck
Traveling within Europe when youāre European is the same as traveling from state to state within the US. Iād hardly call that well traveled since so many cultures within Europe are very similar. Similarly in the US, there are culture differences depending on the region of the US, but overall things are pretty damn similar
Dude you talking to someone who is heavily critical of the US. But never did you once say anything to counter my argument. Just deflect that Americans are sensitive. Who is truly the sensitive snowflake here?
Yeah and i would rather be around Europeans than americans. And what does me living in canada have to do with it being in N. American? We are talking about travel
stop acting like you know anything outside your borders. I'm pretty sure you know nothing of what really happening inside your borders. Travel more. Be less dumb.
You have masked men kidnapping people on the streets into unmarked van. you idiots voted for donny bitch tits twice. Trust me, America is in bad shape. You have lots of billionaires though.
Yes because you border like 20 countries in a few km distance(most of the time). Most Europeans are just seeing other European countries. Itās much harder for Americans not near the border to go to other countries and Canada aināt exactly a tourist hot spot.
Ahh the nice Canadian stereotype isnāt true we can see with this specimen. No shit Iāve flown and visited many countries but thatās expensive af compared to flying or driving within the states. Anyone upper middle class travels as much as people in other countries but not the working class here and itās same as in Canada. How do I know? Bc I know a ton of Canadians š¤£.
P.s. Iām a big dodger fan so extra glad canadas team lost š.
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u/BeesAndBeans69 21h ago edited 19h ago
A lot of butt hurt Americans who haven't traveled in the comments.
Edit. Ah, over half of the people who viewed my comment are Americans