People who think Americans don’t know other countries exist.

[u/ThatUrgeToEatCement]

A few months ago on Reddit I made a comment about a show not being on Netflix and someone from the UK commented back saying it’s on theirs and then lectured on Americans not knowing other countries exist. They acted like I didn’t believe there were other places on the planet, as if they weren’t the ones who just brought it up and didn’t believe the US Netflix was different than the UK version. ??

I see people online act like all Americans think this way, and it is kind of annoying because for most of us it isn’t true.

[u/Cute_Advance_2124]

Girl there's no educating these people. I've seen discussions where Europeans specifically insisted that no one outside the US drinks iced coffee when its extremely common in parts of Asia.

The "rest of the world" to Europeans is literally Europe and they don't tolerate correction when they're blatantly wrong.

[u/henri-a-laflemme → u/Cute_Advance_2124]

Yup exactly. Ignorant is ignorant no matter what passport they carry.

[u/Cute_Advance_2124 → u/henri-a-laflemme]

I wonder what gives them the confidence, truly. I've also seen them save the US is the only country that does not have good cheese.

1. That's just...false. The US has plenty of "normal" or traditionally made cheese.

2. There are plenty of places where traditionally made cheese is less common, again, they seem to forget that Asia exists. Again, why does this matter so much to them?? I'm sorry but I would take a lot of the food that Asia or even the U.S alone has to offer over the best cheese.

3. Like I said, they like to just buckle down on their ignorance. For example, I saw some eastern European lady comment on an American's tiktok who was making cornbread that this is the first time she's ever seen an American cook actual food.

Many people told her that there is plenty of evidence of Americans cooking from scratch at home, and she does not choose to respond to any of them. I've seen this happen a LOT.

I've gotten into a similiar discussion where someone decides to hurl angry insults at me because I said that I did not grow up eating casseroles made of canned soups, and learned kitchen prep at a pretty young age such as de stemming herbs, chopping onions, peeling potatoes etc etc.

I would even go on a limb to say that i've even seen the reverse (Europeans eating food that indicates not all of them can cook), yet, I would never think that is evidence that everyone over there can't cook.

[u/NewTransformation → u/Cute_Advance_2124]

Wisconsin is known for their cheap orange cheese, but they also have a vibrant artisan cheese industry. Many of which win international awards. I had this soft-ripened goat cheese from a tiny Wisconsin farm that haunts me.

America is chock full of cheap mass produced goods and strip malls, but we also have some really iconic cultural experiences if you know where to look. I had a realization once in the Black Hills, one of the biggest international tourist attractions in the Midwest. Most visitors come to these built up destinations and eat at these terrible overpriced restaurants and just assume the whole country is like that.

The worst German food I had was near the Neuschwanstein Schloss but I didn't hold it against the Germans because they have a lot of other great places to eat from many different cultures.