Please don’t nuke me

Least aggressive response.

Holy shit, its been a while since I read this.

I love the gorilla warfare bit 🦍

That's probably because the loudest and most overly defensive ones are the Americans you're most likely to encounter and remember in online arguments and on American news, so that colors the perception. Especially when you don't live amongst the more reasonable majority of Americans 🤷

I'm starting to get this feeling too. Most of the Americans I know, myself included, rip America a new one at any given opportunity.

Sometimes it’s a case of you can make fun of your own country but no one else is allowed to.

Nobody talks more shit about America than Americans.

I know seriously lmao. I mean I know it’s anecdotal, but I’m in the US and my friends and I constantly criticize the US. Most people I know tend to agree with most criticisms, myself included.

We might overuse that comeback, but at least we don't have school shootings.

• One of them is a stereotype based on ignorance and racism.
• The other one is children getting shot at schools.

Funny how both of these things come from the US.

As always, these things can't be generalised. Every country has people that talk about their own problems, and every country has "patriots" that will deny anything is happening. There are just a lot of Americans on the internet, so people notice those who relentlessly praise America more.

After all, few countries literally ingrain "[country] exceptionalism" into their population in their school system. Many Americans, while thinking they are pointing out problems, still say "but it's still better than almost any other country at X".

Instead of "thinking something is true about an other country" why don't you research the topic? Laws are easy to find.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_related_laws_in_Pakistan

While yes, there were some Sharia laws back in the 1980's, many recent laws in the last 20 years have been giving more rights to women.

And that is the problem with many of you Americans, you read something online once about an other country or hear it on one of your news stations, and you instantly believe it without ever checking if it is factual or not.

The same type of people exist in other countries of course, but the blatant ignorance of Americans about other countries is staggering.

THIS IS BULLSHIT!!! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT!!!

I'm American and I can confirm this is true

How do you know somebody's American without meeting them first?

You hear them.

Unless we're talking protesting or voting. Then they're asleep.

Yeah. as an American I shit on America more than anyone. I got no idea what Op is talking abot.

It's very much more of a

American criticises America: crickets

Non-American criticises America: hooooo boy here comes the nationalism

A culturally relevant joke at our expense that still has class? See guys, it IS possible. You, in fact, CAN make fun of America without going "lol your children get shot lol".

Damn that smarts.

I'd go to get that burn checked but my annual deductible is more than a used car cost before the profiteering here drove up the car prices so high.

I laughed... then cried. You're not wrong.

When do we do this? Seriously... Show me. I'll help you shit all over that miserable person.

"Hey, isn't nati the one that drone strikes weddings?" "No, that the US, that us." "But america is part of nato..." "Yes, but you can't just" "Why would nato do that?"

You aren't totally wrong, but

The Ukraine conflict isn't a RU - US proxy war in the traditional sense but it's worth noting that the overwhelming majority of foreign aid to Ukraine has come from the US, more than double the amount of aid given by the EU as a whole. It's not hard to assume that Ukraine would be in a much worse place without America's support.

reddit moment

Not even close. Also doesn't help that 'muricans have a very distorted view on how their country is perceived

I think other countries are a lot more open to self deprecation as part of their humour / culture. Not saying there aren't some examples of this in America, it just doesn't seem to be as prevalent as in British comedy for example.

Yeah I thought it was mostly other Americans saying these things

No disagreement from me comrade.

The real struggle from the start

as a southamerican I remind you that there are more than two sides.

We have other things you can criticize! Like the fact people will give you unsweetened tea with ice then say you can have some sugar packets!

Or when they extropolate from America the country being shit, to every individual American being shit for having the audacity to have been born here.

Most of us would also rather it wasn't like this, but our families, friends, and livelihoods are here, so generally speaking it's not practical to just up and leave. And our political system is to broken for us to really fix via voting

Trash on the country all you want, I'll join in with you - but don't blame the folks who are just trying to live the best we can in this fucked up country

This recently

• French people rude. Haha yeah.
• Greek people cheap. Okay you got us.
• Americans so fucking stupid. Hah wait. That's it? That's the joke?

This I don't understand. Where is this coming from and who honestly would be okay with being called a big dumb dildo and laugh along like it's such a well known fact about their country? We're a lot of things, act like we own the world and everyone owes us money and gratitude, eat like shit while letting everyone know how to be healthy, use little creamer cups instead of cream. We're not idiots.

There are only two types of people I hate. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.

First of all: How dare You!?

They have absolutely no sense of humor. Or was it the Swedes?

It's definitely the Swedes.

Denmark is the one next to France right? I forget

Same. In most of the interactions I have had with Americans here (including myself), they have been generally pretty aware of the faults of the United States and willing to admit to them.

Ask any "America is so racist" European about their thoughts on the Roma people

I'm not sure what are you talking about. I'm Spanish and the first people to criticize Spain is Spanish people. Probably you've never even heard of all the problems our country has. Unemployment, corruption, house okupation, lots of small crime, mafia related crime for all the drugs trying to enter Europe, lots of immigration as Spain is one of the doors to Europe... I can go on. For all of these there's a lot of debate and not much being done so far...

I (a US citizen) literally didn't get a job in Germany because one member on the team objected because I didn't speak German yet. The company is "English first" and I worked in the US division previously. So yeah, Europeans are certainly as capable of being racist. And they didn't even try to hide it!

I met a Midwest chick on a plane who said she didn't believe other countries existed.

I'm still not sure if she was dumb, crazy, or a pathological liar.

Bruh take a look at the downvotes on this post compared to other posts.

Those are the people I’m talkin bout.

Then why dont you leave it?

So I work with a lot of people from a variety of countries. Some of those countries have really bad governments. When we joke about each other's countries, it's about the governments. I remember this guy who used to work with me from the Philippines. It was near the beginning of lockdowns and just after Duterte was elected. He made fun of the shit Trump was saying and doing, and I got to joke that they had their own Trump(maybe worse) coming. Australian co-workers laugh along when we joke about their shit politicians.

What we don't do is joke about the people or the culture. That's shitty. All those people are just as much victims of their own circumstances as we all are of our own. But we're adults who work with each other every day and it's easy to remember that we're all real people. The internet however...

I haven't noticed Americans getting upset when people criticize shitty government policies or decisions. At least not from people who aren't boot-lickers from jump. The problem is when people make fun of American stereotypes. Americans are fat and loud and whatever. Like, if all you heard was people talking about Canadians being stuck up about needing things written in French or topped with poutine, it would probably get old, right? "Go cry at your Tim Horton's and take your polar bear for a walk." (okay, so I had to google Canadian stereotypes and it's a short list.)

I don't like America's gun culture either. And I hate when it comes up there's always someone who comes in and preaches the gospel of the 2nd amendment. It also doesn't feel great when people make that generalization about me. This thread is full of people saying Americans are dumb and racist. That's just shitty behavior that no one bats an eye at because it's normal to make those jokes. If I started making comments about like, French people smelling bad or (insert some other offensive thing. I don't keep track of bad stereotypes and I'm done googling it) then that would also be bad and it's a thing I think we should start calling out across the board.

A good analogy to this is the emperor of America. He was just some homeless crazy dude in San Francisco in the 1860s. He attempted to price gouge the Chinese during their rice famine but shortly found himself under water on his rice contracts. This left him homeless and bitter so he named himself emperor of the United States. He somehow started printing his own money and some places feeling bad for him took it.

That's how the world sees America. Oh, the crazy folk are just down on their luck. They'll likely either die or end the world in a few years but at least they're making record profits.

Yeah, we're damn fine!

So is America one or two continents? Our US schools call them North America and South America despite being connected as a single land mass.

The other fun one to spring on we United States of America citizens if that the full and proper name of Mexico is "The United Mexican States". Having Mexico have a name and a similar idea of states forming a union, but not bring the USA doing it really bugs people here.

We’ll just one-up the crazy: ‘Murica is the ONLY continent.

🤔 I once called a pothole a 'Colombian speedbump' and my local relatives could not appreciate it. QED

Laughing about yourself (or your own country) is sadly not a skill everyone possesses. People who can are the best :D

Or democratically elect a left-leaning government, or give away land to your own poor citizens to develop instead of to a company.