American Living In Germany Lists All The Reasons Why He Wouldn’t Go Back, And It’s Painfully Accurate

The guy touched on it in his piece. Many Americans haven't traveled at all, most haven't lived abroad; they have nothing to compare it to, and believe the lies and half-truths they've been told since birth. Even reasonable people get their noses out of joint if you criticize the place. They've been told for so long they're the best that they can't handle evidence to the contrary.

Not for you to understand and comprehend. Why does it bother you that someone can be so proud of something beyond your comprehension. No one needs your pitty sorrow when your the one who can't understand. Most of us just like to live our lives without people sticking their opinions in it and think they know what's best or how we should be or think. Other are small minded and don't see beyond the negative of someone else's point of view.

Indoctrinated propaganda about their own country, it's pummeled into you from all directions the day you're born. They're also taught that socialism and communism are the same things, many Americans i've met actually think we run all of western europe under communism. When I arrived and questioned the whole "greatest country in the world" when I saw all the serious problems here, the response from Americans was that I was hating on their country and I got a lot of abuse. When I questioned why America doesn't move into free education like back in my home country, the response was "If you can't afford education, you don't DESERVE education" (I nearly punched the fuc*ing guy). The whole mentality taught here is a toxic "be an ostrich, stick your head in the sand, and just keep repeating This Is The Greatest Country In The World until you die". I feel if we could wake those Americans up out of that mentality, we could motivate all the citizens to forcing change. It's time.

It's the greatest country in the world that they know anything about. Many Americans are knowledgeable about the world but the Fox News and no news have little knowledge that there are countries outside the US with civilization

Just after Trump was elected, someone put up a petition on change.org for Minnesota to secede and join Canada. I'm from Minnesota. I signed, along with about 10,000 people. It wasn't serious of course, but it was a nice daydream. Not that Canada is perfect, but seems better than here. About the only two good things I see about the US now is 1) National parks, and 2) How we integrate refugees into society instead of locking them up in camps. In my metro area (St. Paul, Minnesota), we have a long history of taking in refugees from all over the world. Minnesota has the most refugees per capita of any state. (18 percent of children in Minnesota is either a child of an immigrant or were themselves born.I grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of Vietnamese, Laotian, and Hmong refugees and no place truly feels like home until I'm back in that area and see their faces. (I'm of Norwegian descent myself.) Now we have a huge population of Somalis and Ethiopians. Minnesota is the great melting pot.

Same.

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Go live in elsewhere

No. We're not. Nationalism is not the same as patriotism. We have a significant problem with nationalists right now, as do many nations around the world, even in Europe/EU. They are not the majority in the US. After 40 years of rigging the system, the RightWing simply makes sure we can't shut them the f**k up by voting them out, or cutting off paychecks from their Corporate Masters. If you think it's depressing where you are? I've lived my life seeing these (obscenities) whittle away everything potentially progressive or good, by using scare tactics about "The Other!". Unlike patriotism, nationalism is inherently xenophobic, exclusionary, and reactionary, and ergo cannot be patriotic, as I was taught patriotism, by my parents, who both served in the US military. The real trick the devil has pulled here is convincing even Americans that we're "all like this"...

I'm learning German and hope to get to C-level fluency to enhance my chances of a job abroad.