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• Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you believe Americans think about the opinions of people from countries they’ll never visit, then you haven’t met many Americans.

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    As an American citizen, I agree. I literally do not care what anyone else thinks about the reputation of America or Americans in general. Sure, it’s mildly annoying when people from other countries stereotype me as loud/ obnoxious, unruly, violent, etc. But it’s a very short-lived expectation they have, at least in my case, and only ever amounts to a tiny, minor inconvenience, if anything at all.

    I don’t let the reputation of others define me, mostly because I don’t care about it.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How can they even think about countries they don’t even know about?

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    • Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      🤣 Spot on.

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  • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Any American who does think about it knows full well that our reputation abroad is deservedly in the shitter. I hate us, too.

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To further your point: I didn’t know Luxembourg was a country until a couple of years ago.

    I always thought it was a big city in Denmark. I know people who thought Denmark was in Colorado though, so I’m at least doing better than them.

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    • hmmm@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Did you guys don’t learn about countries and shit in School? Here it’s 6th grade thing.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I always thought it was a big city in Denmark.

      They aren’t even close. If you said Germany or Belgium or the Netherlands, I’d say , fair enough.

      I know people who thought Denmark was in Colorado though, so I’m at least doing better than them.

      Jesus wept

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    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      TIL on your first point, i thought the exact same thing until just now.

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• anonymous_in_atl@ani.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Americans in real life: Claim to be tough on authoritarians, but the moment authoritarians move in, they fall in line and give the boot the good sloppy.

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