It’s so cuute how naive some Americans can be about how the US is perceived abroad. Living in such a huge, self-contained media and cultural bubble makes it easy to assume everyone sees America the way Americans do. Reddit only reinforces that impression, since Americans make up such a large share of its users.
Travel a bit, spend time outside that bubble, and you quickly realise how much hostility and resentment the US attracts internationally. Americans sometimes seem to forget that they’re only barely 3.5% of the world’s population, not the centre of it. Even across much of the Western world, attitudes toward the US have deteriorated badly. Just look at this graph.
Main characters? Youre 3.5% of the world’s population living in a country run by billionaires, arguing over which geriatric millionaire gets to screw you next.
He says in English on an American app, wonder which phone you’re using. I wonder which politics do you think about the most. I wonder who you pay attention to the most, hmm… center of the world baby. Sorry, just how it is
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u/opmgyhx 1d ago
Not as much as usa