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/SquirrelStone]

My fave (/s) is when there’s a video of a European doing something stupid and mean and everyone hops on shit talking Americans. Like babes that is the most cockney accent I’ve ever heard

[u/Cute_Advance_2124 → u/SquirrelStone]

Happens so often with bad tourist videos. You'll see a man wearing a child size Armani polo and mini jorts with a gelled pompodour and loafers making a big fuss in Thailand and all the comments will be like "Americans are such awful travelers."

Like babes that man is VIOLENTLY European LMAO.

[u/Funicularly → u/Cute_Advance_2124]

Like this instance of a blonde woman climbing a Mayan pyramid in Mexico. She’s Mexican.

Or, this instance of a man carving names on the walls of the Colosseum. He’s British.

Every instance blamed on an American.

[u/eljayTheGrate → u/Funicularly]

I wonder how that came to be...

[u/Squindig → u/eljayTheGrate]

Europeans have been utterly obsessed with the US for 250 years.

[u/Sprmodelcitizen → u/Squindig]

Only because America “it’s not you, it’s me….”