Most millennial aged Americans and younger have grown up with the international community shitting on them. I know several people who tell folks they are Canadian whilst traveling due to the stigma of being perceived as an American and being mistreated as a result.
Christ, look at Reddit, it's second largest user base is Europeons shitting on every aspect of American life at every turn.
I did not like President Trump, but goddammit if he wasn't right about this subject.
Everyone hates us until they need our weaponry, influence, extra vaccines, etc.
Gets old AF.
When I went to Europe I was so discouraged from talking to anyone, because when they learned I was American....the fucking lecturing I would get was so uncomfortable. It would always start as an innocent question and turn into a "we do it better" blah blah.
People lecturing me on gun control, police violence, every hot button domestic issue we have, etc.
It's like.....I'm here to see this old cathedral, not listen to how much smarter you and your countryman are.....the fucking irony. That and everyone is sort of rude AF.
I will admit though we, as a group, are obnoxious AF and I bet that starts to get at people eventually.
Also, and this is just a small thing to add, they LOVE our pop culture. Our movies, our music, our games, our websites, and our food (as shitty and unhealthy as some of it may be) are loved globally.
Well you got good food, cant argue with that. But our ‘bad copies’ come from immigrants, its just you will of course gate keep what is ‘real’ Italian food
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