• Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    If you believe Americans think about the opinions of people from countries they’ll never visit, then you haven’t met many Americans.

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      Any American who does think about it knows full well that our reputation abroad is deservedly in the shitter. I hate us, too.

    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 days ago

      My mother believes there’s no difference between the Danish and the Dutch, because both have “viking blood.”

      Americans literally don’t understand what lies outside their borders.

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      7 days ago

      To further your point: I didn’t know Luxembourg was a country until a couple of years ago.

      I always thought it was a big city in Denmark. I know people who thought Denmark was in Colorado though, so I’m at least doing better than them.

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        I always thought it was a big city in Denmark.

        They aren’t even close. If you said Germany or Belgium or the Netherlands, I’d say , fair enough.

        I know people who thought Denmark was in Colorado though, so I’m at least doing better than them.

        Jesus wept

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        Did you guys don’t learn about countries and shit in School? Here it’s 6th grade thing.

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        6 days ago

        Lol first laugh for the day thanks!

        Why Denmark though 😅?!

        And 👍🏼 to you for sharing.

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      As an American citizen, I agree. I literally do not care what anyone else thinks about the reputation of America or Americans in general. Sure, it’s mildly annoying when people from other countries stereotype me as loud/ obnoxious, unruly, violent, etc. But it’s a very short-lived expectation they have, at least in my case, and only ever amounts to a tiny, minor inconvenience, if anything at all.

      I don’t let the reputation of others define me, mostly because I don’t care about it.

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    6 days ago

    Classic cultural misunderstanding. The kindergarteners get shot by adults, because they’re moronic, superficial cowards just imitating what they’ve seen others do.

    Like people who put their birth year in their username.