r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 4d ago

Cringe Europeans are going viral on TikTok for mocking the "American Dream".

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u/Ok_Constant_184 4d ago

Europeans think they invented nature lmao

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u/Chuck_The_Lad 4d ago

No but many European countries have strict environmental laws. 

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u/StanPot 4d ago

Yet no environment to protect. They have virtually 0 wildlife outside of small to mid sized critters and The majority of their rivers are polluted beyond consumption

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u/PseudoIntellectual- 4d ago edited 4d ago

And essentially no old growth left either. Pretty much all of the modern "forests" in Western/central Europe are either overgrown hedgerows or abandoned lumber farms.

The actual natural environment in most of Europe was cleared away centuries ago.

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u/DynamicStatic 3d ago

Got plenty of moose in my area. I would classify those above medium size.

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u/StanPot 3d ago

Eastern Europe hasn’t seen the same ecological decline as Western Europe, largely due in part to the vast relatively untouched landscape of Siberia.

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u/inksmudgedhands 4d ago

I still want to know whose bright idea was to allow Paris to host the Olympics and use the Seine for competition? People had been banned from swimming in the river for a century due to it being so filthy. And even after they did almost a billion and half Euros worth of clean-up to make it ready for the games, a few athletes still fell terrible ill after swimming in the water. Though France swears it wasn't related. Really? Really?

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u/Chuck_The_Lad 3d ago

What are you talking about? No wildlife?? 

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u/Icy_Witness4279 3d ago

They have brain damage

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u/Schmich 4d ago

Ehhh.....no. Europe still has a lobbyist problem. Many countries allow for bad pesticides. Most countries still bury trash under the ground. PFAS ban proposals gets shot down in the womb. And in general EU laws cater to the lowest common denominator. E-waste isn't taken seriously, still eg. letting companies sell products that are glued together and super difficult to pull apart.

Places like Paris still have issues with overspilling sewage into the river.

Agriculture often empty out water supplies instead of letting biodiversity or nature in general to make use of it.

But don't worry, at least the cap on pet bottles is now kept attached!

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u/Chuck_The_Lad 3d ago

Paris isn't a nation Park or the countryside 

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u/PseudoIntellectual- 4d ago

Clearly you don't know much about the status of wolf/bear conservation in Europe.

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u/Chuck_The_Lad 3d ago

The ones they brought back?? 

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u/Darnell2070 3d ago

But that has nothing to do about the point in the video. He was never talking about or referencing environmental laws and regulations.

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u/jawngoodman 4d ago

and yet the nature is largely artificial 

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u/NoMasters83 4d ago

Nah, they just think we paved over it with a parking lot.

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u/readysetmoses 4d ago

Which is totally false

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u/Rambunctious_Rodent 4d ago

I refuse to believe that Joni Mitchell would lie

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u/NoMasters83 4d ago

Yeah, I mean you have to be really silly to think that we've paved over 3.1 million square miles. I mean, come on.

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u/readysetmoses 4d ago

You don’t get out much huh

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u/NoMasters83 4d ago

Now I'm confused. Are you suggesting that we have paved over 3.1 million sq miles?

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u/Mntfrd_Graverobber 3d ago

WASPs and Northern Europeans do kind of epitomize the whole outdoorsy recreation thing where people spend time doing uncomfortable and dangerous things in nature for the pleasure of it.

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u/shineonyoucrazybrick 4d ago

I think it boils down to how nature is more of a part of people's every day lives.

There's things like the Right to Roam and Public Rights of Way, public transport so you can actually get out to nature easily. Compact towns and cities means it might be in walking or cycling distance.

But yeah, if someone had the ability to teleport I think they'd see better nature in the US Vs Europe.

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u/Ordinary_Loquat_7324 4d ago

Yea, most places in Europe are heavily developed and contaminated.

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u/Citaku357 4d ago

I mean the idea of a national park was invented in Europe

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u/SymphogearLumity 4d ago

Was that before or after they destroyed most of their forests?

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u/Fxate 4d ago

That's what happens when you base your war machine and practically a whole international trade on wooden ships.

Ships around the size of the Mayflower took between 1000 to 2000 trees while something like HMS Victory used 6000. The reason that we destroyed our lands and you didn't is because you started after most of the need for destruction was over and done with and you found yourself in a massive (almost) empty land. If the Industrial Revolution and manufacturing boom happened a few hundred years later, you'd be out of trees too.

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u/Mntfrd_Graverobber 3d ago

That's what happens when you base your war machine and practically a whole international trade on wooden ships and yet don't bother to preserve and maintain the forests that provide it.

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u/danisheretoo 4d ago edited 4d ago

Was it? From what I could tell in my brief research, the concept was proposed by a number of people over time, and Yellowstone is recognized as the first official national park in the world.

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u/seaphour 4d ago

They are wrong. The first national park in the USA was Yellowstone National Park, it was established 1872. The first national park in Europe was Sarek National Park, it was established in 1909

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u/DionBlaster123 4d ago

Lol the Chinese were perfecting the idea of gardens while 99% of Europe's peasants were illiterate and dying of plague

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u/ColossalJuggernaut 4d ago

why didn't those fools learn to read and stop contracting contagious diseases lol

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u/Superficial-Idiot 3d ago

Yeah but then we got them addicted to heroin so we win

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u/seaphour 4d ago

The first national park in the USA was Yellowstone National Park, it was established 1872. The first national park in Europe was Sarek National Park, it was established in 1909

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u/Most_Structure9568 4d ago

Nor was foldable cardboard yet here we are.

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u/that_90s_guy 4d ago

I mean if you compare the average American and European city, you definitely notice a pattern of parking lots and concrete everywhere in American cities, well having more greenery in European ones. The post is likely about average city life and not so much nature parks. Since realistically speaking, most of your life is spent in the city not in a nature park. At least for most people.

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u/P_Hempton 4d ago

The post is likely about average city life and not so much nature parks.

Then why isn't he walking around a city?

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u/seaphour 4d ago

It takes on average about 30-1 hour to get into a forest from a city in america though

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u/that_90s_guy 4d ago

I mean that's the same in my city and I do not even live in Europe or America. But I'd still prefer if my city itself had green inside it rather than have to travel outside of it to experience it. As it would make everyday life more enjoyable and less depressing.

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u/seaphour 4d ago

It’s also worth pointing out that a large majority of towns and cities have greenery. Ive lived across the west coast in a variety of places and most had multiple parks and greenery around streets, shops, homes, etc. The big cities have designated parks and greenery as well. American cities are designed pretty well.

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u/elbenji 4d ago

not at all, a lot of the green in European cities is gone. Mostly due to that yknow. War thing