• Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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    14 days 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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      14 days 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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      14 days 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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        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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        13 days ago

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

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        13 days ago

        Lol first laugh for the day thanks!

        Why Denmark though 😅?!

        And 👍🏼 to you for sharing.

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      13 days ago

      My mother believes there’s no difference between the Danish and the Dutch, because both have “viking blood.”

      Americans literally don’t understand what lies outside their borders.

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      13 days 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.