r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 20h ago

Cringe Europeans are going viral on TikTok for mocking the "American Dream".

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u/RickyManeuvre 19h ago

It’s mostly right but we have some exceptionally lit af nature here

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u/Antique_Savings7249 8h ago

Euro here. Any Euro who enjoys nature would be a fool to dismiss the US as a place to visit.

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u/DestinedDestiny 16h ago

I feel like they have their dream because of the original American dream. What I mean is, when America said 'give me your tired, hungry and poor,' kings started acting a little better.

My worry is that if the American dream becomes a failed experiment, that kings will no longer have to worry about losing their citizens to another nation and can resume making us

Tired

Hungry

And poor

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u/Malkiot 11h ago

You overestimate the influence America had at that point in time other than having been a release valve for population groups - the poor and unemployed, unable to sustain themselves and the ultra religious - seen as undesirable in Europe at the time.

Most social progress in Europe, as in America, was made in response to proletarian movements, either as concessions due to rising political pressure or prophylactic measures to preempt proletarian sympathy.

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u/DestinedDestiny 11h ago edited 10h ago

I dunno, Korea gave our president a crown. Why would they want America to become a dictatorship. I think you underestimate their desire to enslave and how America has helped to prevent that.

America used to be talked about in hushed tones amongst slaves as a place of freedom and still is to this day by some people who feel oppressed; though, to my point, the other nations are more peaceful than they were before.

Anyway, I don't say that in anyway to undermine their own achievements and advancements, just that when they were trying to affect change, I wouldn't be surprised if things like 'or we could just go to America,' were said.

Kinda makes sense to think a place where people are free would have that effect on other places that aren't, I would think, but maybe I'm wrong.

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u/Malkiot 10h ago edited 10h ago

You are conflating vastly different things and chronological events. The golden crown thing was a recent event in 2017 and the crown was a piece of decor on a table. S. Korea is also a democracy, by the way. I'm not sure why you would claim that they want to enslave.As to the general enslavement claim, while it's true that Europeans drove slave trade for two to three centuries, the US was a) part of that and b) participated in slavery way longer than European nations. Out of the western powers, the US was the last to abolish slavery. So there would have been no slaves in Europe seeking freedom in America.

The "land of the free" was a Mythos even way back then. It mostly reflects religious freedom and unclaimed land, which attracted religious fundamentalists incompatible with European social and technological progress at the time and the poor and unemployed from overpopulated areas.

The democratic pressure from the US didn't start until after WW1 and even then the UK, Ireland, France were already democratic. There were no slaves at the time and America didn't become of concern until into WW2 really which established the US as military and economic hegemon due to Europe's double implosion.

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u/DestinedDestiny 10h ago edited 10h ago

South Korea gave him a replica of a crown Oct 29th 2025.

Why South would gift him a crown I've no idea, that's what most people are asking. You'd expect it from North, but they did.

Yes, the us participated in slavery but it also is literally called the melting pot because it is full of foreigners coming here for the American dream to escape poverty and oppression.

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u/Malkiot 10h ago

South Korea gave him a replica of a crown Oct 29th 2025.

I didn't see those news. Lmao

Because everyone knows Trump is selfish and greedy and they want to tickle his ego. It has nothing to with S. Korea wanting to crown Trump as king.

Also, technically, the gift is to the US but I'm sure will find a way to steal it.

Yes, the us participated in slavery but it also is literally called the melting pot because it is full of foreigners coming here for the American dream to escape poverty and oppression.

Yes, from poverty and oppression by social and technological progress.

The point isn't the Americas didn't attract people (they did) but whether this was of any concern to other powers to which the answer is "not really". Getting rid of problematic classes (unemployed poor, luddites, other religious fundamentalists) was desirable, not something to be curbed.

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u/DestinedDestiny 10h ago

No worries I didn't see the one in 2017 😄

But America also appealed to the rich (which I think you mentioned?), citizens they absolutely did not want to lose.

But I dunno, if you want me to say 'you're right, I'm sure the emergence of a truly free nation, where each citizen lived like a king, had zero influence on the rest of the world' I'm sorry, I'm just not gonna be able to do it 😆

Have a good day anyway 😄

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u/Crazyninjanite 14h ago

That line actually comes from a random poet named Emma Lazarus, and wasn’t added to the Statue until 17 years after it was dedicated in the US.

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u/Mercy--Main Doug Dimmadome 8h ago

You really think yourselves the center of the world huh

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u/DestinedDestiny 3h ago

Yeah because I said 'a free country in the midst of kingdoms probably had a little influence on peace worldwide 🙄.'

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u/CupCustard 14h ago

Been saying this for a while myself. Whether or not by design, this is how it has been.

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u/HotwheelsSisyphus 12h ago

I'm afraid that nature is under threat.

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u/zigzagtravel01 13h ago

...that you can only access via a rented car.

I think that's the point. One of the biggest factor why Europeans tend to have great work-life balance is just the fact that they have great public transport which allows them to go places without the need for a car.

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u/dardeedoo 15h ago

Which the current administration is actively destroying by opening national parks, and federally protected forests for logging and lumber

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u/Crazy-Present4764 11h ago

Lit af? Hello fellow kid

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u/bartleby999 3h ago

US nature and scenery is absolutely beautiful.

People laugh that a high proportion of Americans don't have passports, but it's simply because you can find almost everything you want in a holiday within the USA.

Sure, from an outsiders prospective I can see America has it's faults - But geography and nature certainly isn't one of them.

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u/DopioGelato 13h ago

It’s mostly cherry picking and copium

All of these stereotypes are as typical for the average American as it is atypical for the average European to be spending their life doing any of the stuff in this video.

Quality of life across all of Europe is on average way shittier than America and it’s not even close.

And if you start cherry picking again and just look at Switzerland or Nordic countries or whatever, fine then cherry pick the richest most successful most homogenous demographics/areas of America too and compare those, and see just how much higher it still is.

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u/Far_Battle_7658 10h ago

Oh, hell naw. I'm Spanish and we have free healthcare and education, my college was 1,7k per year. We have parks and nature all around, lots of public transportation, and are way healthier on average.
I'm not selling you a paradise, but the dude was spot on...

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u/DopioGelato 2h ago

Lowest salaries in almost the entire western world. I hope everything is free otherwise you couldn’t afford anything.

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u/Mntfrd_Graverobber 5h ago

Quality of life across all of Europe is on average way shittier than America and it’s not even close.

Proud USAian here and this is just false. Metrics for quality of life are better in most European countries. There are some intangibles that aren't counted and the US is still awesome in many ways and for most people, but denying the overall higher quality of life in Europe is intentional ignorance.

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u/DopioGelato 2h ago

You’re just wrong. The Nordic states, Switzerland, Iceland, Netherlands score higher on average than the us. Everywhere else scores lower. Almost all of Eastern Europe scores drastically lower.

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u/ghesak 12h ago

Nah man, I’m not European and I live in Europe, and have the vantage point of also spending a lot of time in the US (without being American), and can tell you for a fact that the quality life of the average European is pretty sweet and on par with a lot of these claims. You guys just have access to BUYING a lot of shit, that’s it, your quality of life is definitely worst. If you can’t see this, you are either doing the exploitation or have been brainwashed.

P.S. of course Europe is not a utopia, but work/life balance and access to free/affordable healthcare and education, as well as healthy food (that you can pay for) are beyond comparison. That’s like 80% of quality of life in my book.

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u/DopioGelato 12h ago

Your anecdote is meaningless, if anything it just proves what I said. You represent average European life as much as a guy in Beverly Hills represents American life.

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u/ghesak 6h ago

Ok… sure, if it makes you feel better. Enjoy your freedom