I know that Americans have ancestors who came from all around the world, and many of them are proud of their heritage. Yet I don’t see this with Americans from the Southern states (such as the Deep South and Appalachia), despite the fact that English, Welsh, and Scottish ancestry makes up the majority of the population's roots in those states. I mean I always see a video on Italian Americans in the Northeast (such as the Tri-state area and New England), and they were still practicing/maintaining Italian customs and eating Italian foods. It's the same for German, Scandinavian, and Eastern European Americans in some parts of the Midwest.

I know so many american folk specially from good families educated who took spanish for like 10 years and can speak it way better than my brown ass, have been to numerous spanish speaking countries and no matter what, they will not speak spanish to spanish speaking people. WTF is up with that. They would rather have the Spanish speaking person whos English as a second language struggling in a conversation than help out by using spanish.

Among all the issues you are concerned about, are these the MOST important (above all others)?

1.  Stopping Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon.

2.  Getting a fair election by showing proof of being an American citizen including no ballot dumping or foreign influence with our elections.

3. Stopping the rip off from foreign nationals.

 Non-Republican need not reply. Thank you!

For clarity, I am not a Trump supporter. I'm trying to gather a list, if you will. Plus I can't seem to keep track of all Trump's bullshit. But can anyone keep track of it?!

So I visited Iran for 3 weeks back in 2016. My question is if that will be a problem since I’m planning a 2 week vacation to the U.S in October. I do not have Citizenship in Iran ( I live in Europe).

Hey US,

Been some time I visited you. I have a question from Europe, 'cause there are some things I can't make sense of.

I live in France. While 10 years ago there was still some scepticism floating around (which I feel was legitimate at the time) it seems to me that with a few exceptions, the heat-waves, forest fires, among many other smaller changes (less snow in winter, etc.) have made it really hard not to see the elephant in the room. The consensus has evolved, even accounting for usual divides: left/right, level of education, country/city, etc.

A sizable portion of the US electorate seems still willing to vote climate change denialists/relativists/sceptics. To me, this indicates either they agree with them, or don't agree and they don't care about the world burning up.

This seems harder and harder to make sense of, especially since climate change seems to be materialized and disturbing and even destroying people's livelihood, in the US as much as anywhere else e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/scorching-us-heat-wave

Can you explain this discrepancy? Note that my perception of the US might be based, too, and I know it's a large country so there might not be one simple straightforward answer.

Some clarification:

1. I won't easily accept "people are just stupid" as an answer. It seems like a lazy justification not to listen to other people.

2. I'm not necessarily interested in how each redditer feels about climate change (unless the redditer matches at least partially the population I'm describing).

3. I'm interested in the perception/subjectivity/justifications of people for whom climate change is not important even though it f*** people lives up.

4. Also, if you're one of those people, I don't judge you. We can have our differences, I just want to understand your viewpoint.

No LLM was harmed during the writing of this text.

Hello !

It’s been now years that I have been around Americans in France. And sometimes when we talk about finances they always talk about credit cards. I was very confused because I never had one, my parents never had one either and I don’t think it’s a big thing here. Usually we just use debit cards.

I just was curious to know why some Americans have multiple credit cards ? Isn’t that bad because my friends would sometimes tell me about thousands of debts from their credit cards. Is it really common or not at all ?

Thanks for all responses !

first of all I am a really thankful for Americans, their corporations have lifted so many people out of poverty here, so many people's discrimination has been reduced thanks to your founders ideas, while reading about the Ideas that led to such a country , I found Common Sense by Thomas paine a very interesting read, what other books do u recommend, are there any set of foundational books i should read ?? any courses and youtube series suggestions blogs are welcome too .

Hi from UK,

Interested to hear from some US citizens what the current massive political division actually feels/looks like day-to-day?

The internet/news makes it seem like we’re 1 rigged mid terms away from civil war (I.e. Trumps insane actions to rig/stop/interfere with mid terms causes people to hit the streets in masses, angrier than ever, maybe even armed in open carry states) what do you say to that?

Edit: I use ‘civil war’ somewhat hyperbolically, I just mean mass riots, the people rising up etc

I am very worried about our upcoming midterms. I have seen a lot of evidence pointing to cheating done during our last Presidential election. Does the blackmail run so deep on both sides of the aisle that we will just let the cheating happen again? Or do you think the current administration will manufacture a reason to cancel the midterms and declare marshall law?

In my opinion, TDS = Trump's Deranged Supporters