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Europeans don’t seem to understand how large the USA is), uninformed opinions they absorbed from sensationalized media sources, etc. We’re aware but who nobody actually cares when 95% of cities all look like the same garbage car designed extreme sprawl hellhole. And yes I know that’s an exaggeration, but you from south england to wales or Manchester then upto to Edinburgh youd see more variation than most of USA in culture and city While I have encountered this elsewhere, this tends to be a mostly European experience for me. As an ethnic south Asian who goes to Asia a bunch, I can can tell you. Americans are genuinely loved in very few places and even those that aren’t outright telling you suck, are just people more polite and jumble than the Europeans but still feel the exact way. Except Americans are even more fucking animals and creeps in Asia. You aren’t alone in that, British tourists can be awful, french people should be exterminated and the Chinese tourists is just a villager from hunan with too much factory money and not even sense

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rockstarmode@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

french people should be exterminated

Whoa

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- Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  So you want world peace or not?
  
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

but you from south england to wales or Manchester then upto to Edinburgh youd see more variation than most of USA in culture and city

Yeah no, this is just wrong, and again completely ignoring the, “people don’t seem to understand how large the US is.”

I am aware that most of our large cities were designed around automobiles, but there’s (literally) countless smaller cities and towns that vary wildly in appearance, tradition, population, etc. 99% of which you will never even hear about as a European.

For example, do a quick Google search to see how many boroughs are in New Jersey alone. Then look at how small NJ is compared to the rest of the nation.

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- Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  you can drive pretty much anywhere in the state of NJ, and be unable to swing a cat without hitting a world class pizza place, great Chinese food, amazing sushi, Mexican, Thai, etc. etc. Like quite literally the best pizza in the world.
  
  The food you will find in a literal hole in the ground in Paterson fucking NJ is better than most of what you can find from South England to Edinburgh.
  
  Is that it? Food, that isn’t even your food. Food of the immigrants your nation absolutely despises yet all your culture and reasons to come are for the immigrants like the African community, native American, amazing diverse food that wouldn’t exist without the immigrants.
  
  I can’t deny, you definitely have more variation, but also the fastest and most obese nation on earth, so I’m good, id rather eat in Edinburgh where my healthcare is actually free. And every city looks different and unique, our roads and highways respect the nature and history of the nation and even do UK, isn’t that great, it’s a hell of a lot better than America (apart from the cold and rain(
  
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I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

One of my best friends was a dude from Philadelphia who was a republican who became friends with the mortal enemy of the republican party

He became friends with the concept of education?

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- Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  No, a born Muslim. He had never been with friends with one. Dude was acted like old style republican. He worked really hard while in uni in America to pay off all his student debts while still studying so that when he did his masters in Scotland, his finances were clear. Didn’t like trump but hated Hillary. But didn’t vote for trump nor Biden
  
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