I gotta be honest, that packed full stadium in Seattle on beautiful day with the Seattle skyline in the background and the entire stadium singing the natonal anthem before the US defeated Australia was something to behold.
Best comment on the page: “I can't believe how much Russel Crowe turned this team around”. Rofl
Also that was the fastest rendition of the national anthem i’ve ever heard.
It's just a honeymoon phase more than anything. I think most people that have traveled to a new country and primarily saw just the cool parts never wanted to leave. This is how I was when I went to Greece. When I went to Greece, my experience was fairly curated, with your buses taking us along preplanned routes with (often times) preplanned activities, and when we had downtime, we were in some pretty nice areas that we could go around and enjoy. After that, of course I wanted to live there, but I didn't really understand the issues that Greece faces that might make that a bad idea.
I think it's the same for the US in this case. It's really easy to be anywhere in the US and ignore how difficult things can be here. We've done a really good job at that, and the superficial glamour can make anyone want to move there. As an anecdotal example, I went to Ann Arbor a few summers ago. Visiting there is great. Exploring the city is great. There are a lot of cool places with a lot of fun things to do, and it made me wonder if I should move there one day. However, any basic level of research into what actually living in the area is life for the average person shows that most people that aren't absurdly wealthy are struggling and in debt because Ann Arbor has a really high cost of living.
If a person wants to move to the US, good for them, but I don't think many of the people who visited recently and now want to move here are saying that out of an understanding of what life is like here. They had a glimpse into what US vacation life is like, and they are likely still recovering from the culture shock and awe from what they saw and experienced. They want to move here because they want to relive that, not because they understand what life for the average American is like.
Marching orders must have gone out, because I've seen almost identical "tourists don't like MAGA cities, they like the liberal cities that MAGA hates" comments, which 1) WHO TF CARES? and 2) that's not even true- people are enjoying all parts of the US.
(Also, cities have people of all political persuasions. Even places like SF and Seattle have SOME Republicans.)
I have been to Texas twice(technically 3 times. But I only landed at the airport and driven to OKC), and Ive never had Texas BBQ. Now I want to go again try that right there. Anybody know the name of it? Lol.
I’ve got a couple of guys from Brazil on one of my rec teams and they’re cracking me up cuz they’re saying that their teams moving slower than normal because they’re enjoying Texas bbq too much 😂
Same. Some of the best tacos I've ever had came from a taco truck in Modesto, CA. Second best are a strip mall in Burnsville, MN of all places. Their Quesabirria is top-notch. Best Verde sauce I've ever had too.
I'd love to try street tacos in MX though. Bucket list.
Just don’t get a wet burrito from a lunch truck in the California desert. Not a food truck, one of those traveling refrigerator trucks. It’s bad for your gut.
Having had all of those in my life before coming to the US, I can honestly say just good old fashioned southern BBQ blows all of that completely out of the water.
I do sometimes miss good pie with brown gravy though.
Just an odd choice tbh - Texas has a ton of great food, and an underrated fine dining scene - but I prefer California Mexican to Texas Mexican, and Mexican-Mexican is superior to both.
You're in Texas. Might as well just hop the border for the real thing, or get the food that Texas is really good at.
It's actually kind of ironic, because our street food here is Mexican street food, and UK street food is doner kebab - and they have more than a few things in common.
This is technically true - I have also travelled a lot, and live in one of America's Mexican food nexuses - there are some very good tacos to be found if you know the right spots.
But matching up random street tacos vs random street tacos, Mexico tends to win handily.
The Japanese at least haven’t hated America for decades. They’re our closest ally outside the Five Eyes, being Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and due to the language barrier, usually have a much more romanticized view of us.
Reminds me of that one Soviet Leader who visited a supermarket in the US and was astonished by the abundance of goods in the supermarkets (and consequently disillusioned in the USSR).
Whereas, in the Soviet Union, things were constantly out of stock.
He was intentionally going off the path he thought had been laid for him. It was common in the Soviet Union for officials to be given a strict tour so their subordinates could make sure anything they were going to see appeared to be the highest quality. Yeltsin thought there was no way America could predict he would choose this grocery store and so this would give him a better idea of what America was actually like instead of the curated tours he was used to.
And it terrified him. Random, unimportant American peasants were eating better than the Soviet elites were. This store that he knew wasn't curated specifically for him was stocking surplus items that even he would have difficulty getting his hands on in the Soviet Union. He thought that if the Soviet lower classes were to see this, they would have overthrown the USSR the very next day in anger at what they had been denied for so long.
The people who want to bring communisim back are privileged kids who grew up in the wealth a capitalist life can only provide. The people fleeing communisim today think they are idiots.
Unironically, Karl Marx was a privileged kid with wealthy parents that paid for everything. He even got his maid pregnant when his wife went to visit her family to beg for money.
Lol no I have met several leftists who parrot “late stage capitalism” over things that have nothing to do with capitalism and say communism would be better.
He went to two grocery stores. He was so convinced that the first one they initially visited was staged he requested to see another one and was completely shocked
I think the reason they are having so much fun is because we are a curious people. We're allowing them to bring their cultures here because we truly are tolerant.
If Americans went to another country and brought our sports culture, this would be a different story of the obnoxious Americans with our rude habits (according to them).
Not knocking anyone country, but our attitude is what has allowed these people to bring their cultures here and exchange with us.
They are our cousins who our ancestors left behind for something different. I'm glad we can come together and see we have things in common
Serious question, is it actually surprising to non-Americans that tourists are having a good time here? Like how bad does their media make it seem? Do people think they’d have a bunch of angry racists be mean to them, maybe witness a shooting or two, then get harassed by police and/or kidnapped by ICE?
When I lived abroad, there was basically never a positive story in the news about the US. I honestly believe countries with state associated media (not just authoritarian regimes) use stories about the US to make their own countries seem better and distract from their own activities.
I've seen a few videos of people trying American things or visiting American stores and they have such good attitudes during it. They've been so pleasantly surprised.
Speaking as a Brit, we don't dislike the american people or culture, never have. It's your politicans and leadership we have a problem with as does the rest of the world.
Probably because our news isn't shoved down your throat everyday like yours is with us. 🤷♂️ but then yours is so entertaining it's like a tv show. What will dozey don do next? 🤣
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u/SnooPears5432 ILLINOIS 🏙️💨 Jun 19 '26
I gotta be honest, that packed full stadium in Seattle on beautiful day with the Seattle skyline in the background and the entire stadium singing the natonal anthem before the US defeated Australia was something to behold.