30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing

I think it was George carlin who said something like "It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it".

The American "Dream" is just a BS fairy tale that the capitalists feed us workers to keep us divided and from raising up together to create democracy in the workplace!!!

If you are homeless in America the chances of survival or getting out of homelessness is very slim if you are not completely physically able to do any possible job.

Great indication of the current mentality - I need to become a billionaire. One huge difference between the current generation and past was that the emphasis was on different sources of happiness. People didn't need to be fabulously wealthy to have a good, happy life. Today the mentality is increasingly depression and despair because "I don't have what that person has". Social media is a big part of the issue. In America, it is not difficult to live a healthy, happy, safe life. Most of the issues that prohibit this stem from poor personal choices (often drug use or poor choice in life partner) or life trauma (loss of spouse, mental or physical illness, etc.). We need to wake and see that a major factor in societies decline is rampant hedonism.

That sounds like a grossly inflated version of "the American dream". In the 60s it was more about you can be safe and happy. What we might call middle class. And about how you could have just about any job you wanted. (legally, doesn't mean you will get that job). It was in comparison to countries that did/do not have these freedoms. Now, INB4 - I get it - just trying to own a home is not realistic for many these days. But the basic concept of the American dream used to be true for many immigrants compared to the countries they came from. And still 'sort of' true today though obviously with major qualifiers. In the USA I'm kind of poor but I still have it much better than some folks I have visited in other countries. The 'any job" part of it is actually more true now than it was in the 60s. Black president, women flying fighter jets / commanding ships and so on.

Oh god no it’s a world wide problem. Just look at all the UK package tourists in Spain “oi Pedro bleedin egg and chips…”

I live in Europe. The Americans we get here are usually either upper middle class educated high-end tourists, or harmless retired seniors. Sometimes families on a trip to celebrate the parents' anniversary or something. On the other hand, other Europeans... Jesus Christ. Stupid drunk Brits. Drunk Belgian, French, Dutch, German, etc. students who just come for the booze and destroy everything in their paths. They're a nightmare. So yeah anyone who ever complains about American tourists has never seen a group of drunk Brits on bachelor/bachelorette party pub crawl.

The rest of the world is lucky. You get to deal with that Karen for one week because that's all the vacation time their job gives them. That Karen behaves the same way the other 51 weeks of the year back home to everyone they meet. I'm a pacifist but at least once a day I meet someone I wish I could just duct tape their mouth because they honestly believe their opinions are facts.

I mean, in Japan I used to pretend I'm American so people wouldn't think I'm Russian (which I am, and my compatriots are known to have done seriously disgusting things abroad)

Guys, you are freaking loud for the european sound-level. You are louder, than italians are!

I'm American and I only like nacho cheese or BBQ sauce for a dip. Raw veggies I eat naked (them, not me).

hi , can i get a number 2 w ranch n extra fenta... ok you know where im going w this lol

Although US has the most morbidly obese and most drug addicts per capita and in toto among the ‘developed’ countries

I love ranch.. but I don't smother my food in it. I'll put a little bit on my salad 😁

I don't even like ranch in salads

There's a difference between public racism and being racist in your home and voting for racist policies. You don't have to call every dark skinned person the n word, or every Arab a terrorist to be a racist. You just have to think it and vote for it.

There are a lot of racist idiots. There are also a lot of people who can't distinguish the acts of a few from the acts of the many. The idiots, being idiotic, squeak louder, and so get the grease.

And we are glad to have you here.

Unfortunately the US became more outward in its racism after Dump took office 😑 May the gods save us if he is allowed to run again

Thank you for speeking up.

Corporate America food standards are extremely low. I hardly go out to eat anymore. I can afford to, just don't want to put all those chemicals and fillers in my body. Not to mention risking bacterial infections from under prepared food.

Plus it's so expensive. It's absolutely true that healthy meals cost more than fattening ones. Sure I can buy a bag of apples for 5 or 6 bucks but that won't sustain you. It's not a meal. I can buy 10 cans of pasta and sauce for the cost of 3 bell peppers. I could eat out every day and it still be less expensive than my grocery bill. When your rent is 2500K a month, you're stretching your food budget so you're going to choose fattier meals that feed more people and fill you up because they're cheaper. So, no, it's not always as black and white. Yes, some people really do overeat and are lazy but it's a very broad generalization. A lot of people grew up eating like this. They've practically been forced to become drug addicts and now everyone doesn't like how they look so they give them sh!t. And the same people won't even acknowledge the problem or that there is one, because 'you're just lazy'.

Eating healthy in the USA is expensive.

Any healthy food seems to cost double also.

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My sister has a friend from italy. She ate pasta every day because it was actually healthier than the pasta here in America.

Americans who can afford to visit Europe, East, West, whatever, ARE RICH. The rest of us are poor AF.

The only thing preventing us moving to the USA, which we love, is the cost of healthcare, as its free in Australia.

That maybe was true 30-40 years ago. People in Eastern Europe are not stupid en masse ...

Ahem....I'm budgeting for Ramen noodles.

Not just in eastern Europe. The rest of the world sees Americans who treat globetrotting the same way most people take a bus downtown, & especially on social media we see lots of Americans who seem to view therapy as just an everyday/weekly mundane event like taking the bins out, even though it costs a couple of hundred dollars a time - for most people in the world, more especially in a country with no decent state healthcare system, that's rich-person behaviour. That's where the cliches come from.

That is a meritocracy. The lie of meritocracy is that is you work hard and earn it, you will be better, but the meritocracy concept is a lie that doesn’t account the difference in circumstances people star with. It doesn’t account that a rich kid will go to better schools and had to only study while a poor kid will go to crappy schools, and will either have to work or help around the house taking time from studies, that malnutrition has effects ln studying children, etc. The other lie of meritocracy is claiming “he failed a hundred times and just kept trying, and then bill gates made microsoft”, except only a rich kid can fail a million times and keep trying. Regular people need to work to eat and get a home. Regular kids don’t have parents that gives them hundread of thousands in loans and have contacts The lie of meritocracy is claiming that if you make it, it is solely on your hard work and not on a lot of external factors to the person, like the money and connections they had.

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True, if your special talent is choosing the right parents.

This is ironic, yeah, we're like a meritocracy, but forget the reward part. (Edit: I meant to include the last part, but I seemed to have hit the comment button too soon, which I guess I can blame this damn mousepad for.)