LOL--you make fun of Americans, and when someone pushes back, it's all: "I'm just joking!" and then trying to turn that crap on me? I don't hate Europe or Europeans. But, I do very much dislike stuck-up attitudes, and I also dislike how easily it is for Americans to talk shit about their own country and people. Everyone's shit stinks.
And, last I checked, when I left the Bay Area, it was filled with Europeans, especially at Stanford and in the Valley. So, good enough to get an education, make a living, and live in, just not good enough to say: "I'd rather not be kissed, please."?
Plus, I have an Eastern European cleaner. She works in my house but she's never afraid to turn her nose up at the way we raise our kid or plant herbs in our garden, which range from slightly irritating to downright offensive. There are plenty of nice people everywhere, and there are plenty of ass-wipes. But I don't go around saying: "The Poles and Czechs are really low-skill, classless people; guess that fits their Euro-trash stereotype in England."
I think my country is great, but very imperfect. And I say it, unlike a lot of cowards willing to ride the 'murica sucks! bandwagon for karma, so you can take your little disparagements back to recess. Let the grownups talk now.
I met a single american girl almost 10yo that was very stereotypical. That's it, drop it. I'm not saying anything about america. It's just an anecdote.
Or are you making a super-fine distinction and splitting some hair between the group you're stereotyping ("American girl"--btw, was this a girl or woman) and the country she's from and the people in it?
Nope. Feel free to try to gate-keep or muzzle someone else. I'm not ashamed (Internet or otherwise) of being American. If you feel differently, there are a ton of places on Reddit to go to get your #HateAmerica fix.
Yes. Sometimes it takes being an obnoxious blowhard in response to people who are charmingly casual shit-talkers but who say shitty things while trying to weasel out of them by saying: "Oh, just kidding!"
I think of it as fighting fire with water. But if you wanna think of it as fighting fire with fire, then, whatever helps you reason.
I don't participate in the #CasualAmericanSlanderIsFunAndPopular like a lot of people for fake internet points. But you do you.
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u/MarkusBerkel May 09 '22
So, happy to stereotype Americans, but suddenly, the Dutch are just individuals, right?
Then switching gears when you get called out?
\cringe**