r/shitamericanssay

Sep 13, 2021 8:48 AM

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#4 only fascist countries do that

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As an American, if I could read I’d be very upset with this

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

The Americans I've met are all lovely people

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Same, I worked in Wisconsin for a few years and it was a fantastic place with fantastic people. (I'm from the UK)

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I don’t know if America has the most dumbasses or not, but we certainly have the loudest dumbasses.

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Waukesha County reversed their position, and kids are thankfully getting free lunch. Sadly it was only by a 5-4 vote. Just awful and sad.

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

A country of contradictions where the ceiling for human accomplishments is so high but the floor is somehow so low

5 years ago | Likes 108 Dislikes 1

As an American, THIS.

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

#7 I'd be curious to see how much of the hatred for the U.S. comes directly from the U.S. Many of us hate what it's turned into...

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

I have met (and worked with) some absolutely great, smart and open-minded Americans. Unfortunately also some from the other end of the /

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

/2 Gauss-curve, and those would fit the memes in this post. Not people that would enrich your life by meeting them....

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

As an American myself, I'm ashamed to say that Americans exemplify the Dunning-Kruger effect. So stupid we can never appreciate it.

5 years ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 2

Stupidity as an art form

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#11 I agree, but I assume for very different reasons. I think it's stupid that that is even necessary.

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Yeah, few things incense me like the pledge of allegiance, and the fact that there was a parent mad that you could opt out of it will have

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Me reeling for a few hours, truth be told.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A few years ago, I had to explain to a teacher that he could not make my child participate in the pledge.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

The wisconsin school district re voted and reversed that decision. Now the vote was 5 to 4...but ya know, progress

5 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

I can not express how much every country is not jealous of American gun laws.

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

What gun laws?

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They’re pretty proud of a military that still can’t even win a war despite apparently near-infinite funding.

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 3

As an American who hates America, I have full faith in our military ability to win an *actual* war. One where we are either defending

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Ourselves or attempting to conquer someone else. But this revolving door of "conflicts" will never go anywhere

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

The thing about this is that the easiest way to neutralise trillions of dollars of US capital is simple: don’t get into an ‘actual’ war.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The US is basically not playing the game properly and demanding everyone ignore all the other victory conditions. Everyone else says ‘No.’

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

China is especially good at this and the US is shit at countering it.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

? We don't need no education ?

5 years ago | Likes 1364 Dislikes 3

All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

?But we need that thought control!? Body Armor, in our classrooms? Preachers, leave them kids alone?

5 years ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 0

A song by a British band, but apt, lol

5 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 1

Yeah Waters would later say he wrote it about english boarding schools where students were often beaten. "We need education. But not that"

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Yeah, that whole album is clearly not about needing less education lol. But we Americans love to bastardize art to fit our ideals.

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Surely we're not at that time in life when this is not known internationally? Yes I called you Shirley.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

I didn't not do that.

5 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

The worst part about it is that so many of us have taken this statement as point of pride, and will happily demonstrate it to you.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The spirit of that lyric was not about people being willfully ignorant, JSYK

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ironically that was playing on my shop floor just a minute ago

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Eeehhh, doesn't really land.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 11

964 vs 2 disagree with you as of now. I stand by my comment.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Oooooh, impressive. You must be so proud.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 7

Marginally. Enough to not give a fuck about your criticism.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

And yet you still seem so hurt based just on your responses. It didn't land, it's not a personal attack, so why don't you just calm down.

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That guy 100% said it as joke

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

Sorry, this is imgur, leave your sense of humor, satire and sarcasm at the door.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Hilarious

5 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

their stupidity is a life violation

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Well, you can't fix stupid. ?‍♀️

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Well, you can. But the patient rarely survives.

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Holy cow we really did vote against food as a human right. Can't tell if we were the only ones. We also voted against condemning death >

5 years ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 0

We probably didn't have a direct hand in it, nor could we have known. I don't know if they televise UN sessions.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

> penalties for blasphemy, adultery, and homosexuality.

5 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

Why even vote against that shit? It’s not like you suddenly take responsibility for it

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

It is about footing for the rich. If they vote no? It gives companies like Nestle more ground too be awful even locally. Same for politics.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

do you actually do the pledge of allegiance every day in school? and why

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Sure did, and that's how it was in the 4 states I went to public school in. It's to brainwash children. After a Supreme Court case, it was

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Rules that it was a violation of free speech to force everyone to do it (and the fact that it had to go to the Supreme Court to work out

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Such a clear violation of free speech is telling), but if you don't participate, the teacher will publicly shame you and you will be bullied

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

By pretty much everyone (not just thugs - many "well behaved" students too) as not participating marks you as a lowlife.

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It's part of the "America is the best" brainwashing they impose upon us from youth.

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

I only did it in elementary school and I honestly have no clue why we pledge allegiance. I assume is indoctrination.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

We have turned nationalism into a cult. Everything we fought against in WWII, we have adopted and embraced.

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Not everything no.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not all schools do this. I'm old & did not do this after we left Texas. My kids did not do it.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#7 Now I'm really interested in the 0.1% of people who have beef with Greenland...

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Usually it is counted as Denmark, but I can't see what color Denmark is in the map

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Probably from tourists who went there expecting it to be green. Spoiler alert: its not.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Them vikings still getting that win so many years later, good for them

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This is just yet another proof. The general american is dumb as fuck.

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You should see our Colonel Americans

5 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

If you intend on dissing the late, great, Col. Sanders and his Kentucky Fried Chicken you best prepare for a Kentucky Fried Ass-Whoopin'

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

Col. Sanders chicken was good. What his legacy has turned into is... not.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Col. Sanders Dating Simulator begs to differ

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

There are dumb people everywhere. This is just proof that they exist in America. You can make a similar post about any country.Except Canada

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

There are dumb people everywhere. It's just that usually the dumb people are not in majority.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 5

And a subreddit made to bash American intelligence is proof that stupid people are a majority in USA?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

No, my 25 years on the internet and international travels is enough to prove to me that they are. This picture is just showing it.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

There's an irony in you "proving" a country's population is mostly stupid by using a Reddit forum and past experience as basis of the proof.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

And I guess r/incel proved that women are evil?

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Cherry picking is not a proof. An American might think it's enough though.

5 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 20

An American would you think you are talking about actually picking cherries.

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 9

Don't boo him, he's right. I'm sure you can find as stupid and with as much misplaced national pride in any other country in the world

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Nah, there are dumbasses everywhere, American ones are just louder and more self righteous. Doesn't mean all or most Americans are dumb.

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Only 50%

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The sheer number of Americans vs e.g. that of Danes or Finns makes American stupidity more visible on the Internet. I'd expect humans to >

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more or less the same in general, regardless of nationality.

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Are you serious? The US educational system on an average is a joke. They teach creationism as facts.

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A small minority of schools in heavily religious areas do, most do not. Also, the US University system is exceptional.

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Yet for some reason, wherever I go in the internet, I keep spotting finns. They're everywhere.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Possible explanations: They both stick to your memory and share your hours of activity.

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education tailored to make you look the best in all you've done, news only talking about what's inside the us, and a society that bring

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self centrism to the point of virtue means the average american don't know shit about what's outside his state if he doesn't actively search

5 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

In the late 90s it was common that Americans asked me things like "do you have TV in Germany?"

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I told kids in highschool during my exchange year that we didn't have electricity at home. And they ate it up.

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happened to me in the 00's by a very condescending woman who managed to explain to me what it was.

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

How nice of her! I used to reply "no, we put them all in our BMWs".

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I'm Italian and an American asked me if we had pizza in Italy

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Ouch. An Italian I met in the US had been there too long. When I asked him where in Italy he's from he said "Rome, you heard of it?". Um. Ya

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#3 always annoys me when see this talking point. CERN invented the WWW, but the US invented the internet (darpanet).

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Ha. So you think everyone on Reddit should assume they're in the USA??

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Fun fact: that's not even remotely what I said

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No. Someone said that the "internet" was developed in the US someone counters saying that "WWW" was invented in CERN. Those are not the same

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"you're on the internet which is American, therefore..." Was the argument. As if everyone on the internet has to act as though they're in US

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... And I was responding to what the second person in the meme said not defending what the "internet is for Americans" idiot said

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The counter about WWW is still far off point.

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The internet was developed first, and the WWW is useless without the internet. Europeans, this isn't the flex you think it is

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And yet the Internet doesn't entirely fucking belong to the US, no matter who developed what

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Fun fact: that's not even remotely what I said

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I was going to say the same thing. It's not American chest pounding to say that the internet was invented in America. It's just fact.

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It's amusing to me that the "stupid Americans" post has a European who doesn't know the difference between the internet and the WWW

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We are viewed as petulant dummies in most other countries. It lowers the bar for us well-meaning folk. All I have to do is try to be polite.

5 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 2

luckily the most horrible americans don't really know that there are other countries!

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? You mean the bar with this sign isn’t in America? Nobody hates Americans like America. /s

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said with a hint of irony. It is a small comfort to know that all we have to is act nice and basically be congratulated for not being an ass

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Eh, I'm Dutch and we're memed to be drug addicts and sluts, few people actually believe the jokes. Travelling often you get used to it.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

as a german, sure we make jokes about dutch people and weed. but in the end its still a joke to me. more often than not i expect dutch 1/?

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

people to be quite nice and friendly.dutch people/tourists are definetly not the ones i'd expect to misbehave or be assholes in any way 2/2

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm Irish.. "Cries in alcoholic leprechaun"

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Dw, I know you're only alcoholic ❤️

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I ve met alot of americans. Most of them mention they are from the us in the first 3 sentences. As if thats sth to be proud of.

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Every person from another country I've ever met has told me where they are from

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I worked at a car rental location at a smallish airport. Constantly told "we are visiting from ""___""

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Isn't that what people do when they travel?

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No, I just have to speak and people know I’m from another country.

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I do when I'm asked

5 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

Where are you from?

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Yes. Where you're coming from does typically come up in conversation. "I am from [blank]" is one of the first things in language phrasebooks

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I only do if asked. I don't assume anyone cares where I'm from nor do I want to influence the discussion towards my own home countrty.

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Where are you from?

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Finland.

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I like the one stupid American downvote on this post

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4.83 half dozens now. Gg.

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Hey, this is an American website! /s ?

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It's two dozen now!

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It's early. Just wait.

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#1 is incredibly infuriating to me for some reason. the only place i've heard people talk about their supposed ancestry like that is the US.

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In such a diverse country, it's an interesting point of conversation to learn about one another's ancestry.

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hint: all major cities have big diversity. it's another bullshit american does "we are more diverse" as an excuse.

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I thought it was just because the US past and present still gets loads of immigrants?

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it's even worst when they use this bullshit as a mean to excuse a shitty behavior "sorry i got angry, it's my italian heritage" -> fuck you,

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you never set foot in italy, and only your great grandmother that you never met was italian.

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It's true, though... It's a hormone thing. Androgens/testosterone, etc. You don't use it to excuse shitty behavior but scientifically, it

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definitely has a genetic component--one that's actually linked to other health issues, too.

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I'd add that culturally, Italians (and Italian-Americans) are more open and less reserved, which of course is passed down by learning and

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As a black American. We tend to talk about our ancestry to find out where we originally came from, since we can't track on anything except/

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I think that's qualitatively different from white Americans nattering on about being 1/1024 Cherokee and 1/4 Irish.

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Regional genes. I guess I just wanted to know if this was also a bad topic to discuss when I go abroad.

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people usually don't give a fuck as to what your ancestry is (except racists), if you're born in a country, you're from this country

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This 'US only' worldview is created in schools. And it takes effort to expand one's horizon after that - and a LOT of people never do that

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So few Americans travel outside the US, so they get stuck in their ways

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The 'popular culture hegemony' of the US in films and music plus the fact that English is the 'world language' just fuels this even more.

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In all fairness, it is possible to see how someone might actually believe that the world circles around the US under these circumstances

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Can we just call the child by its name and use the word radicalisation? Seriously all that is why you guys have so many crazy nationalists

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Considering the intense efforts to remain US-centric and build national pride throughout school, it's a miracle any of us grow out of it.

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In my time in the US as a student in Highschool I was baffled by the fact that every class was so US focussed. History - US only;

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English - US writers only; Geography - US mostly; National anthem at every event, pledges, flags everywhere. Pure brainwashing.

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Everywhere has idiots. The USA just gives theirs megaphones, internet access and a superiority complex from a crap education system.

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This. Emphasis on the shit education system.

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Might be the system and history too

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Due to several systematic issues in their country, they unfortunately have more of them than most places too.

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We also have a lot of smart people here. We’re pretty good at private sector innovation and winning Nobel prizes.

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No. They have more idiots. I'm Canadian and interact with Americans a lot.Even the educated progressives have huge gaps in general knowledge

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They haven't read their constitution which includes the 9th Amendment which fucks off the idea "it's not a right if not in the constitution"

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We have a lot of people and, therefore, a lot of idiots; 330 million of us knuckleheads here in the US of A.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well put

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USA! USA! We have the best idiots! USA!

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We have the most idiots!

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Crap education system and paranoid nationalism. Singing the national anthem at school everyday for 12 years can't be healthy.

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They had announcements and never put them on in high school. Elementary school though… still not healthy.

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We say the pledge of allegiance every day at school, the national anthem is far too difficult for the average person to perform. Says

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Something about our country where the national anthem can't even be something citizens can sing on their own

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The paranoid nationalism isn't exclusively American anymore. it's spreading rapidly smh. Easy way to win votes I guess.

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Australia does it weekly now, slowly creeping closer to the US

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Where in the fuck do we do that

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That's completely wrong, we don't sing the national anthem we chant a pledge to the flag

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I think they meant pledge of allegiance. Like to the flag.

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in ireland we had school prayer every day. made most of us athiests :-)

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American politicians are eagerly trying to make this happen.

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will have exactly the opposite effect they think it will have

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Does it make it worse or better that it was t the national anthem, it was a pledge of allegiance to the flag designed specifically for kids?

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Not to mention most Americans don't know about when OTHER countries provide aid to the US during disasters.

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This happens more in elementary school. After that, you mostly just hear it at sporting events.

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Idk if you're just going along with the joke or not, but the moron in the post confused "singing the national anthem" each day at school→

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→with "reciting the pledge of allegiance." It's equally as disturbing, but significantly less musical and time consuming.

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But way more nationalistic. Reciting a pledge every single day for 12 years? It's nuts.

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I have no actual numbers, but I think it’s the minority that does this. We did this in elementary (k-5) I think once a week.

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Agreed. I stopped participating and simply remained silently seated beginning in my 5th or 6th year after realizing the US is rather shit

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Well said.

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I'm always surprised how obsessed americans are with their heritage when they mostly go by 'USA, USA, best country in the world'.

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But only when it can be used for your own benefit!

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It's because their real heritage is slavery and genocide.

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It’s the 3rd generation that gets obsessed with that. The 1st is ghettoized, 2nd escapes “the neighborhood”, 3rd pretends they never left

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My Mom’s gen all got obsessed with Ireland even tho their parents had no interest and their grandparents never wanted to go back.

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Every American has at least 1 immigration story in their family, so Heritage is just part of the culture. Every country has exceptionalists.

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Yeah, but most Europeans are hugely mixed heritage so it doesn't make sense.

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I'm a human mutt.

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So, I'll give you a real answer. First, not everyone is; second, bear in mind the immigrants who flooded into the US are often only a

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generation or two removed from their home country. When you have a group that only speaks German, Italian, etc. entering a country they tend

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to stick to themselves, making Little Italy, Chinatown etc. As families they celebrate their traditions, food, and culture, placing real

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value on where they came from, honoring their grandparents and so on. People who don't realize this get really pissy, throwing out the "but

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Though, to be fair, you'd have to be pretty thick and self-centered to get pissy about others simply celebrating their heritage.

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you aren't REALLY Irish/Italian/whatever" without realizing that it's a strong family bond and a way of celebrating where your family *came*

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I always love 'I don't have an accent' arguments. I travelled a lot for work and had it in every single country I visited.

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I'm Canadian and I get the out/about diatribe a lot. The way I say it sounds identical to the non-regional TV-talk, to my ears. ?

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Eye-gougingly dumb argument I've had on many, many, many futile occasions.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

You may not have an accent locally but yeah you do.

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I have one in my native language and about 12 in english.

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Same, I think.

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Want to make an American stop and think? Point out the way Bostonians, New Yorkers, Philadelphians and Baltimoreans all talk differently.

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I assure you that people from these areas, at least, are very aware.

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I have two accents: my regular vague philly area which is not that bad, and hard Delco which comes out when I drink ??

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People are dumb. Regions all over the US have them.

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Literally the entirety of the US, and the world, has them. Everyone has an accent. Every single person.

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I was just saying regions since some overlap with neighbors.

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Americans don't have an ancient in the same way people from Boston are not American I guess?

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My family on my mom's side says, being from Ohio, they have no accent. They also say "ruff' for 'roof' and 'far' for 'fire'.

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I love people trying to guess where I'm from based on mine :) Truth is I grew up on all sorts of movies from around the world, and (1/2)

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my accent is a smoothie of all most popular English accents. Not sure if that's good, but it's a good conversation starter :) (2/2)

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I work hard to conceal my Minnesota accent. But I still sound like Generic Midwestern American-English.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ope!

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When in Australia we were IDed as Californian by our accents. It was amusing.

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Hollywood defined the "standard" reference, so anything different from that is an accent. Californians are the only ones "without" accent.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 13

And every language/culture has their own Hollywood. How egocentric this statement is :(

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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I’m from south east London but me mam is Geordie and I lived in Newcastle for 4 years so I can really shock people going between accents

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In Scotland the accent varies literally from one pub to another

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

It's definitely more pronounced in the UK. I live in the US and most city-dwelling people have a similar accent, even in the South.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'm Dutch, always lived in the Netherlands, but I hang out online a lot and use English often. Folks once told me I have an American accent.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Dutch not so much, but Germans usually do. Most cloggies could pass as British is they didn't ,"sh" the s. Schtop it.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Yea i know some Dutch people who are the same and i reckon they picked the accent up because of subtitled tv/movies rather than dubbed.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I -did- learn English almost entirely from subtitled movies and cartoons, before taking a single English lesson in school. Could be true.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I’m seeing something similar in my daughter. I’m scottish but shes picking up usa accent and words from youtube, a lot of kids here have

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Apparently, generic American TV accent is called Mainstream American English.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yes, and regional accents exist, so a lot of Americans don't think they have an accent because they don't have a "regional" one.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As a Canadian, I'm hyper-aware of my accent when I travel because I don't want to be mistaken for an American.

5 years ago | Likes 190 Dislikes 0

I’m from Michigan and fake a Canadian accent when I travel.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I'm from Windsor! We love you Michiganders. Go for it, I'm totally fine with good folks disguising as Canadians if need be.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Haha yeah the people aware enough to fake an accent are not the people making the US look bad abroad.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Generally everyone loves Americans as long as they’re respectful, but that goes for every nationality. We know the Americans we read about

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Thanks...sometimes I feel like the world fucking hates American tourists and I'm going to have to imitate a British accent.(Oh shit..brexit)

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

online are not representing everyone. Americans are generally friendly and open, something that Europeans generally love.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Absolutely! I have had experience with Europeans mistreating me because they think I'm American but I know that's a small minority.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'm Aussie & got mistaken for British by a Canadian in Japan! He thought we all had Steve Iwrin accents!

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I tell ya, buddy, there are some dumb Canadians out there too. They just fly under the radar, haha.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Whenever I travel outside the company, I tell people I from a little bit south of Vancouver BC. The distance doesn't come up

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lmao are we talking Washington or WAY south? I'd say you guys are closer culturally to BC than most of the US.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

About 230km :)

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A European told me once that they're wary of people saying they're from Toronto or Vancouver because those are the cities Americans use

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've said that I don't have an accent before, not thinking globally, just in America. Can't pinpoint it to a location.

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Unless you wanna count generic TV as an accent.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

That accent would be a non-south-heavy midwestern accent. It's probably why a bunch of americans think they have no accent.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Everyone has an accent. It’s impossible not to. It’s just that some accents may be more common or visible.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I know I have an accent just a really boring one

5 years ago | Likes 69 Dislikes 1

My accent is pronouncing words correctly.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 6

We’re the. Buttered ham sammich of accents. Especially mid westerners. Willing to bet this is mostly from the south.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 5

That was also a common comment, but I can assure you that someone somewhere thinks it's ridiculous and hilarious whatever it is.

5 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Home counties british

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As a bloke from Essex, I can tell you, you don't even need to leave the country for someone to find your accent hilarious.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Never think badly of the song your language. Let it sing loud and true, without shame.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Mine is somewhere around RP. At least most people can usually understand what I am saying.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The beauty is that some where they think it’s sexy. Even a boring American accent.

5 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Somewhere over the rainbow

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Correct. Every accent is hilarious somewhere, sexy somewhere and incomprehensible somewhere. Sometimes those somewheres are the same place.

5 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Have you ever heard Esperanto in a rich baritone?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Have I seen Incubus (1966), you mean? No.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I remember thinking it. I was about 8 though. "Aussies dont have accents, except for Queenslanders " lol

5 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

I love trying to place Aussie accents. I can pick out Victorians but that's about it.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean, Queenslanders do stand out.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So do western aussies. Lots of poms and its amazing the variety you can hear. My dads a pom and after 40yrs still has a slight accent

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm, I'm an idiot, what is a pom?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh for sure! Honestly, strong regional accents aren't unique *anywhere*. And I relate to your dad, I'm an AmericanImport xD Stuck in this--

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

UncannyValley between Aussie and American accent/grammar/lexicon and it seems to throw people for a loop! Even been asked if I'm Irish xD

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

(it doesn't help that I'm around a few Aussie variants AND poms, AND pick up bits of accents easily, so...it's a bit of a disaster)

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