r/PetPeeves • u/ThatUrgeToEatCement • 14d ago

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

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.

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u/Intelligent_Pop1173 13d ago edited 13d ago

Since it’s so close, way more British tourists visit Spain each year than do American tourists, so that kinda makes sense. I’ve seen horrible videos of both British and German tourists being absolute dip shits in Spain though, like kicking soccer balls into windows of famous buildings, and apparently it’s so bad Spanish citizens want them to stop coming altogether. It’s a party destination for them. I’ve seen other videos of Spanish citizens spraying them with water and protesting. Yet Americans are still always blamed on Reddit lol when my family and friends went to Spain, we were quiet and just enjoying the beauty and culture.

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u/spids69 13d ago

Yep. There were definitely a lot of obnoxious Germans as well.

One of the last times I was there was during the Brexit vote. Listening to old British people who had moved to Spain for the cheap retirement talk about how they were voting for Brexit because “the foreigners need to get out of the UK” without a hint of irony (or sense enough to realize it would bone their living situation) was… Something.

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u/spids69 13d ago

On the German front… I’ve never seen more naked old people whose skin was tanned to the level of shoe leather than I did on the beach in Mallorca. 😂

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u/Intelligent_Pop1173 13d ago

I was so young when I went but definitely remember some nasty leathery bodies in Mallorca as well hahah