Not my fault the euros don’t know what a culture victory looks like.
I see this criticism a lot and I just wonder how many films from outside the US people have seen because this kind of thing happens in pretty much every country that makes films. The film will usually take place in and feature heroes from the country that made it. Like most Godzilla movies take place in Japan and the day is saved by Japanese people (or Godzilla himself depending on the movie).
Godzilla is a japanese monster, not an alien that that looks for somewhere to land.
It’s true for a lot of these minor complaints about America. Of course there are valid complaints about the US, but some of them are very petty and not a real representation.
“American food quality is bad” because you go to fancy restaurants on vacation, and/or when visiting the US don’t know where to find quality food because it’s in different places.
“but quality food is cheap” yeah when you have to pay half as much or less for labor it can be
“people are less fat because the food is healthier” no, people are less fat because they are addicted to cigarettes instead of soda. also walk more.
“america has no culture” … this should be obvious
“Americans are so loud” this very much depends on the country you’re comparing too, but at least where I’ve lived Germans, Dutch, and locals(Czechs) are the loudest
That’s one of the best aspects of District 9. Johannesburg. Right out of left field.
There’s a reason they chose Johannesburg, the movie is an allegory for apartheid.
That’s generally Reddit too. Everything is /r/usdefaultism
Yeah it’s pretty crazy how that American website is so full of Americans and that they have a mostly American-centric point of view.
Anyone ever notice that so many of the comments on Weibo talk about China so much?
I don’t know but it’s going to be the largest demographic by far, always has been
Anyone notice that when they visit a webpage predominantly used by Americans that is marketed towards Americans that it feels very American?
I’ve had Americans argue with me saying that what I was talking about doesn’t happen in America and that I don’t know what I’m talking about, when I made it abundantly clear that what I was talking about was irrelevant to the US as a whole.
Tbf, Europeans often do the same to us (or at least they did on Reddit) when we try to talk about how dystopian late-stage-capitalism has become in the US. So many Europeans can’t wrap their minds around: being fired for calling out sick, women being forced to return to work a week after giving birth because we don’t have paid parental leave, people going bankrupt for using an ambulance, companies firing people with zero warning,reason or severance, millions of Americans not having access to healthcare, having huge areas in your city too dangerous to walk through because you would have to sprint across 40m of concrete with cars speeding around you at 70kmph just to cross the road, our traffic fatality rate being 10x higher than most European countries, not having any functional public transit in most US towns and cities, etc…
What I really hate is when I want to buy something from a website that was linked from a US Youtuber and the only place that hints that they only ship to the US is that you can only select US states in the checkout.
Happened to me multiple times, its not that hard to list the places you ship to in your FAQ.
Rule America! America rules the waves! Yankees never, never, never will be slaves! Errr, umm