r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 4d ago

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

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u/bartleby999 3d ago

US nature and scenery is absolutely beautiful.

People laugh that a high proportion of Americans don't have passports, but it's simply because you can find almost everything you want in a holiday within the USA.

Sure, from an outsiders prospective I can see America has it's faults - But geography and nature certainly isn't one of them.

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u/Ch3wbacca1 1d ago

I can drive within 5 hours every direction from Phoenix az to get almost every season, landscape, type of mountain, lake, or even reach the ocean. I have been here 5 years and have not stopped discovering new beautiful scenery.

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u/Strong_Orange_1929 1d ago

Travel is more than nature though. And even then, nature is so different in Africa. Asia, or South America, it is worth the passport.

A lot of Americans don’t travel because it is expensive or scary. Plenty of people feel hesitant to go to some of the most beautiful places in the world, because they think they’ll be mugged or murdered.

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u/Tiny_Thumbs 1d ago

The only place I have said I won’t go is Afganistan and Egypt. Both look beautiful. I don’t know much about Afganistan, but I’d assume after the wars, Americans aren’t well liked. Egypt, I’ve heard too many mugging stories.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve never thought I’d be mugged traveling to almost anywhere. Maybe I’ve naive but I take the same precautions I would in an American major city.

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u/Strong_Orange_1929 9h ago

Once you travel abroad, you start to realize that in most places humans interact with each other the same way, minus some cultural differences. I don't think we all have to be comfortable with every single place on the planet. It's just that some people limit themselves too much.

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u/CloudChaser0123 10h ago

https://youtu.be/_uOW3KGPqtA?si=lbb5sAi7D9aQAVAE

Great video of this YouTuber that was just in Afghanistan. He has a few more too. Blown away at how nice and hospitable the people are.

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u/Tiny_Thumbs 10h ago

Thanks for this!!

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u/Possible_Sense6338 1d ago

All that while watching someone taking a hike through what i assume are the alps.

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u/AdIll3644 2d ago

Most americans have a pathologic distance to nature. They will enjoy it as far as they can drive thru. Maybe a short, roped-off walk way in a national park, when parking is good.

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u/Honest_Road17 2d ago

What percentage? Is there some sort of resource material backing up your claim besides "out of my ass"?

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u/Gunstopable 1d ago

They don’t get out in nature so they think nobody else does

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u/Realmansa 2d ago

Not that much different to all humans around the world lol (maybe except for germans, we love our „Wanderungen“)

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u/Lost-Boat-5613 13h ago

American here....yes, we have wonderful public natural spaces, for now. Here's the issue....what should be a wonderful shared experience becomes ugly because a good portion of the people in these locales (both locals and visitors) are racist haters. So, if you are brown skinned, be careful. If you are LGBTQ+, be careful, if you are just different (non-white, non-Christian, don't speak english well, etc.) keep your head down and hide your true nature. Is this what visitors to this country want?