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Meanwhile it seems like the American consciousness think of the Vietnam War as almost a national scar akin to 9/11.

That’s because it was the first widely televised war we had ever seen plus it was right in the middle of the Civil rights movement. So a war we lost during a major era of change that influenced American attitudes about warfare and civil rights. It left internal scars

Really shows you the differences in mindset. Americans hold on to the past like it’s a lifeline while most other places we kinda just deal with shit and move on.

Well the majority of ppl who remember the Vietnam War are still alive. Considering veterans from Vietnam have health complications from agent orange no one is forgetting anytime soon. Western Europe hasn’t had a major war in almost 80 years

If ww2 had happened to America the same way it happened to Europe, they would have made it they whole identity and pissed and moaned about it still. We would never hear the end of it.

This is just a long winded attempt to complain about Americans. Europeans are exactly the same as Americans. You both carry a smug sense of superiority. The only difference is Americans are louder about it. Just look at attitudes about the war in Ukraine or whenever there’s a terrorist attack in western Europe compared to anywhere in the global south. Both act like they’re the center of the world. Plus its kinda hard to gloat about 2 World Wars that you started in the first place. Only reason it was a world war in the first place is because Europeans felt so superior that they went around colonizing everyone because they were better than everyone else and forced them to get involved

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outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

i bet Vietnamese actual veterans woukd be more bitter

From what I’ve heard; no. Remember: a lot of these guys fought the french, a lot of the officers and old hands had fought the japanese. This was not their first go around with imperialist shit heads.

Americans genuinely cannot cope with losing. Especially to communists who didn’t all have shoes.

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Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Grouping Europe (or America) together as one can be corrupt in some situations, but I don’t believe it is accurate to mention the entire of Europe when talking about colonisation. There is a big part of the continent of Europe that never had anything to do with colonisation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colonies

You are right that Europeans and American’s are very similar in some areas, for one that might have to do with the fore mentioned colonisation of America. Heck America has been doing a digital take over of the world, which Europeans are just (or a couple years ago) realising it is in our best interest ot create our own alternatives.

But there are tons of differences as well, for one, that America is a country and Europe is a continent. Which isn’t even all united. The EU only has 27 states and a couple that want to be, while Europe has 51 countries. That is not that important when talking about culture, to be fair. You can see a lot of cultural differences when looking into company culture, work ethics, how people pay, sharing meals/receipts or things like sports, but also on the sense of the military and how nationalistic people are. All of the above are also different between different European countries, some might have similar things regarding sports or things that are centrally arranged like payment methods/platforms, but others are vastly different between countries. The Fresh are generally a very nationalistic people, while the Dutch are more or less the opposite.

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- supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Heck America has been doing a digital take over of the world, which Europeans are just (or a couple years ago) realising it is in our best interest ot create our own alternatives
  
  I would be remiss as someone who wants to love computers to not for the record state that most people in the US are just realizing or haven’t realized it yet.
  
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