Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?

jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• LesbiansMadeMeGay@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You assume that just because you and your country is so ignorant to the rest of the world that we too are ignorant to you.

  We experience your country and its citizens everywhere, all the time, constantly. You come to our cities without even learning how to pronounce their name. You get confused when we don’t know your local terms for food, drinks, podunk towns, etc. Your discourse consumes the internet, colonialistically driving all analysis through a purely “American” lens. At this point you’re so used to this digital status quo that I am regularly assumed to be American by default, even on local discussion boards. My news feed is filled with articles about your despotic leader and increasingly radicalized population, as they speculate whether this spur of the moment decision will crash our economy or totally collapse the world order. And then I’m told by you (not literally you) that “this is not who we are”, despite the fact that a majority of your voting population asked for this. Asked for persecution of your most vulnerable populations and cheered on as it was enacted.

  I understand that the negative associations do not apply to all Americans. For one, obviously near half of the voting population did not vote for your current largest liability and are also horrified by his actions. My point is that you’re failing to recognise how omnipresent your culture and politics have been on the global stage for decades, along with your literal presence in our conversations. A lot of these “stereotypes” are formed from personal experience, and you’re failing to recognise that.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My point is that you’re failing to recognise how omnipresent your culture and politics have been on the global stage for decades, along with your literal presence in our conversations.

    Well said.

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  • folkrav@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You managed to describe a feeling I’ve had for a while but never managed to articulate correctly. Thanks.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ah, there’s that arrogance.

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  • jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    ^case in point

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m an American citizen, buddy.

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      • jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Okay buddy. Stockholm syndrome isn’t a bragging point

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• slackassassin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because everyone hates xenophobia until it makes them feel superior.

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