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People who generalize as if the US is one government instead of one big inept government and then 50+ governments that have districts and counties and cities are aggravatingly ignorant and smug. (self.unpopularopinion)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by TheControlled to c/unpopularopinion

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"The US should do X and they suck because they don't!" Each state has it's own laws on education. Some places suck, some do not. It's not a monolith.

"The US has shitty beer lol" We have some of the best beer in the world but it's local/state/region only and never exported unlike fancy Euro beer.

The US for better or worse is a, hmmm 🤔 a unity of government states under a federation called America. It's very hard to get federal laws and bills passed, especially for education. The states want the power to chooses for themselves what they do, and the federal government hangs above them, sometimes intervening.

We are a huge country that has a relatively unique circumstance of government, population, and young brutal history. I'm a Californian and I live in the Bay Area which almost literally a different country than most of America, especially the South and Midwest.

I'm so sick of people, especially smug Europeans, talking like they know Americans and America but they don't really know shit about us except the movies and going to NYC and Miami.

Yes I am having a bad day.

To be honest I love Europe and have friends there that I miss dearly! I've been many times. But dumbassery is dumbassery.

EDIT: You people are an exhausting swarm of pecking ravens and I've spent all the "toxic" energy I want arguing with half you because you just hear what you want to hear and fit the stereotype I loathe I think you only commented out of trained reflex and a few of you are just unsophisticated haters. Whatever, fuck you, and all that jazz.

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[–] TheControlled -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're being very Eurocentric about who America is which is another classic smug and quasi-racist thing to do. You're ignoring that we have populations, heavier in some areas than others, of Native Americans, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and other East/South-East Asian nations. Then there's South Asian, Pacific Island, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and North African, sub-Saharan African, and last but not least, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. We have all those plus your so-called "several same" European countries, which is horseshit unless you're talking about the first 100 years before America was even created. Then we have the rest of Europe. The entire planet lives in America, literally every nation is represented here. Some more than others, of course. And there are dialects between states and counties as well as accents especially if you want to include ethnic dialects then we have countless amounts.

Ignorant. Smug.

[–] Dasus 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So does Europe, which I gather you've never visited.

"several same" European countries"

No, you really don't. The majority of the American population is of white, Anglo-Saxon / German/Dutch descent.

That's a fact.

You have barely a few hundred years of history.

I need only go 100 km inland in my country, and the genetic diversity between me and an average person will be greater than that of an average white New Yorker vs an average Floridan.

But you wouldn't know shit about that, because you are ignorant.

Do yourself a favour and actually go abroad some day, my friend. Learn a language. How many do you know? Because I knew three before the age of 10.

AAVE, that's barely a dialect, if you look at the difference of language between std American English and AAVE. The distinction is so huge in the Nordic countries, with Scandinavian languages and Finnish, that there's an actual concept called "book language". Look it up, see what it means. If you're not... ignorant of it. ;)

Say what you want and cry how much you want, the US is not nearly as distinct as Europe. Sorry.