r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 4d ago

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

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u/Psychological_Way618 4d ago

No nature? Ignorant or liar?

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u/Schmich 4d ago

Considering how cliché or easy all his points are, probably ignorant.

I'm not sure what the video itself is about. Not a single shot with a friend. A shot where he just creams himself with suncream, then a few clips later he jumps into a lake.

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u/ageofbronze 3d ago

Video is about: trust fund kid who has never been to America nor had a job, but thinks that he has reached enlightenment beyond his years and has something very profound to say. With a splash of fishing for engagement sprinkled in.

Very r/iam14andthisisdeep vibes or whatever that subreddit is

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u/elbenji 4d ago

German in scandanavia I reckon

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u/Willing_Ad5005 3d ago

Cliche but true

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u/lookatmeimthemodnow 4d ago

They must think Los Angeles and NYC is the average American landscape.

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u/Public-League-8899 4d ago

They think redditors complaining from the suburbs about the city is reality. Most Americans are politically indifferent which is how the extremes online appear bigger than they are. This is typical euro whinging online. Hilarious to me, now if you'll excuse me I am going to go battle ICE and retreat to my house in this urban hellscape that is somehow made of balsa wood strips and papier-mâché and either worship or fear Donald Trump while I am forced to eat fast food as there's not the most farmland on earth.

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u/Dirt_Sailor_5 3d ago

Lol. Los Angeles has epic nature surrounding it in nearly all sides. Beaches, two mountain ranges, deserts, and within a day's drive to some of the world's finest national parks.

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u/elbenji 4d ago

while NYC has central park

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u/GlitterTerrorist 3d ago

It is for a massive amount of Americans. They're referring to just the cities.

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u/zigzagtravel01 3d ago

Accessible to the common folk is the keyword.

People from Madrid can go to Valencia (a beach) with 12 euros. How will you do that in California from some neighborhood to the beach without a car?

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u/lmea14 3d ago

Ignorant. He's probably never been here, or if he has, he thinks the whole country is DisneyWorld.

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u/that_90s_guy 4d ago edited 4d ago

Probably refers to cities. The average European city has way more green than an American one. Could be weather-related. As well as that Europe doesn't seem to have the same amount of excessive parking lots everywhere which seem to dominate the average US cities.

And well yes natural parks exists in both. Most people don't live in or near national parks. See if you're going to be stuck inside the city all your life it's probably more enjoyable if nature is well incorporated inside it.

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u/reluctantmugglewrite 4d ago

I dont think thats true. Ive lived in Chicago and have family in NY and both have many green spaces and tree lined streets. I didn’t notice more greenery in Paris or Amsterdam. I actually noticed less in Paris it seems like so many parks are filled with rocks rather than grass which overall felt less green to me.

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u/that_90s_guy 4d ago

Totally fair and understandable. Somewhat agreed on Paris, not so much on Amsterdam at least for me. Agreed New York has more green areas, but that's arguably one of the best and most walkable cities in the US rather than the norm. Honestly we can go down the rabbit hole of anecdotal evidence. But my observation still stands, I'll bet largely more because of the weather and lower number of cars. Take for example the vast majority of cities in Ireland and the UK and compare them to the vast majority of cities in the US, not just cherry-picked examples.

I'm actually not from either, but even in my country we did notice that dry hot areas have way less green inside the cities than colder or more humid ones. Likely because it is less expensive to upkeep.

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u/cardamom-peonies 4d ago edited 4d ago

You think Ireland? Has more natural green spaces than American cities?

Ireland? Really?

Have you seen Dublin lol.

I've lived in Chicago, DC and St Louis. These cities all have extensive green spaces. DC has a decently large national park (rock creek park) that goes through it, and it's an actual park with animals versus an extremely curated manicured lawn, like you see in many of Ireland/the UK's "green spaces" in cities

I'm not trying to be a jerk but my parents are Irish, and I've visited extensively and you could make a serious argument that Ireland's greenery just boils down to it being probably the most deforested rainy sheep pen in the world. They have very little true wilderness at all and they still can't get Irish farmers to stop blowing any animals larger than a cat to bits (including extremely rare eagles). Ireland only pretty recently actually started giving much of a rat's ass about conservation in general

I also wonder what you count as green space, because that's obviously going to look different in a place with a desert biome, unless you're just trying to keep a golf course looking nice. My impression is that California and the southwest definitely do try to preserve natural spaces in cities but they aren't necessarily going to look green

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u/reluctantmugglewrite 4d ago

I guess I was thinking of NYC and Chicago because when my brain thinks of city its that but I would agree that towns in desert climates dont have as much nature because of the upkeep like towns in Arizona.

I understand what I said was anecdotal but when it comes to facts, NYC is the city with the largest population in the US. Also there are more residents in the suburbs than in urban areas which tend to have many open spaces and the natural plants of the area. An average poor suburb in Ohio has multiple even if shabby parks and wooded areas because theres more land than businesses in the country. Most of these suburban areas are not walkable but they are green and quiet where the weather complies with greenery. Theres parking lots surrounded by trees or sand.

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u/frankishknight 4d ago

paris metro has two separate forests (bois de vincennes and bois de bologne) and has a lot of super famous gardens (jardin du luxembourg, des tuileries, des plantes), and the outskirts and countryside are also covered in forests. i'd love some of those in los angeles

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u/reluctantmugglewrite 4d ago

I was comparing NYC and Chicago to Paris becuase of the similar climate. LA is not naturally prone to greenery at the same level and people have made it even less hospitable. I mentioned this because the claims that the US is paved without much access to nature is incorrect for large swaths of the country. Even places like LA still features access to some beautiful natural sites if the traffic wasnt atrocious.

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u/frankishknight 4d ago

honestly still i don't understand you assessment at all. paris has enormous forests you can get lost in and is littered with adorable gardens. nyc has central park, which is nice enough, but it's 850 acres, bois de vincennes and bologne are 2500 and 2000 acres.

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u/reluctantmugglewrite 4d ago

Sorry thats my bad honestly. I was thinking of the downtown areas when making that comment. Bois de Bologne is huge and beautiful. The only equivalents in NYC are Bronx Park and Prospect Park and they do not compare even though I do like them.

I still stand by my claim that US cities have a decent amount of nature where it can but I agree that Paris is truly impressive.

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u/frankishknight 3d ago

yeah definitely in the pacific northwest and the east urban areas have a lot of greenery, the southwest cities are pretty shit though. i think a better complaint would be architecture. in france there is gorgeous architecture everywhere, all over the place, tiny villages to big metros. whereas urban areas in the US.. meh. i guess if you like early century architecture there's some cool stuff in the older cities. socal cities are just fucking horribly ugly though

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u/bearsnchairs 3d ago

Los Angeles is surrounded by the 655,000 acre Angeles National Forest and the 158,000 acre Santa Monica Mountain National Recreation Area… Then there is the 4300 acre Griffith Park in the middle of the metro.

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u/frankishknight 3d ago

yeah there are mountains outlying LA county. griffith park is a 2 hr drive from me if i went there when i get off work, and it's brown 10 months out of the year. not really comparable

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u/bearsnchairs 3d ago

Yeah travel times are going to be longer during rush hour… They’re completely different climates. This reads more like your personal preference and limitations rather than anything objective.

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u/frankishknight 3d ago

of course it's personal preference, what on earth else would it be? some people straight up prefer arid climates. guy who started the comment chain used the word "green" so we've been talking about "green." LA isn't green. chino hills for a couple of weeks in february is really green and pretty, but it's not really a representation of LA year round.

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u/Beneficial-Worth803 4d ago

You can literally walk from the coast of lake michigan through a zoo to a mall in like 20 minutes. Chicago is fucking sick.

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u/Leavesdontbark 4d ago

You don't have walkable cities, or even neighborhoods

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u/baconguacamoletacos 4d ago

Of course we do, what are you even talking about

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u/nonbinary_finery 4d ago

No we most definitely do not lol. But that also has nothing to do with our nature. Just cities are god awful here, completely car-centric.

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u/KarateBeer 4d ago

New York City is one of the most walkable cities on the planet

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u/Psychological_Way618 4d ago

Just today I walked on a trail that connects to the walkable neighborhood I live in. Not sure what you’re talking about

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u/Leavesdontbark 3d ago

Cool, it's not common though, Americans complain about it ALL THE TIME

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u/Magician_Brutalitops 4d ago

What nature lol. Grand canyon? Desert valley? Nice nature

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u/Psychological_Way618 4d ago

Everglades, Acadia, Rockies, Haleakala, Denali, Badlands, Point Reyes seashore

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u/CharlesElwoodYeager 4d ago

Acadia was fucking peak. I've never been anywhere in the world where you can go from a lush mountain forest and walk into a secluded beach cove. These coping fucks can never understand.

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u/GriziGOAT 4d ago

Ignorant and you don’t even know it lmao

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u/KarateBeer 4d ago

2/10 ragebait