10 Things Americans get wrong about America

[Rayzah]

10 things Americans get wrong about America
This is directed at every clown that comes into a thread about travel or another country to repeat the same tired narrative that there is no way anywhere else in the world could compete with america on anyway..

. Few people are impressed by us

Unless you’re speaking with a real estate agent or a prostitute, chances are they’re not going to be excited that you’re American. It’s not some badge of honor we get to parade around. Yes, we had Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison, but unless you actually are Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison (which is unlikely), then most people around the world are simply not going to care.

Despite the occasional eye-rolling, and complete inability to understand why anyone would vote for George W. Bush (twice), people from other countries don’t hate us either. In fact — and I know this is a really sobering realization for us — most people in the world don’t really think about us or care about us

We know nothing about history..
For all of our talk about being global leaders and how everyone follows us, we don’t seem to know much about our supposed “followers.” They often have completely different takes on history than we do. Here were some brain-stumpers for me: the Vietnamese were more concerned with independence (not us), Hitler was primarily defeated by the Soviet Union (not us),

The rest of the world is not a slum-ridden shythole compared to us

Those guys who cant wait to say how Dangerous a place is or how high the STD rate is

We’re paranoid
I’ve probably been to 10 countries now that friends and family back home told me explicitly not to go because someone was going to kill me, kidnap me, stab me, rob me, rape me, sell me into sex trade, give me HIV, or whatever else. None of that has happened. I’ve never been robbed and I’ve walked through some of the shyttiest parts of Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
In fact, the experience has been the opposite. In countries like Russia, Colombia or Guatemala, people were so honest and open with me, it actually scared me. Some stranger in a bar would invite me to his house for a barbecue with his family, a random person on the street would offer to show me around and give me directions to a store I was trying to find. My American instincts were always that, “Wait, this guy is going to try to rob me or kill me,” but they never did. They were just insanely friendly.

We are very unhealthy

Unless you have cancer or something equally dire, the health care system in the US sucks. The World Health Organization ranked the US 37th in the world for health care, despite the fact that we spend the most per capita by a large margin.

Or for those who are interested in knowing a little more about how the rest of the world really feels about us

 

[rantanamo]

this could apply to 99% of the world

 

[cheek100]

We created hip hop tho

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

I'm sure the experience may be different for a brother.

 

[Rayzah]

I'm sure the experience may be different for a brother.

its better

 

[MidniteJay]

I'm renewing my passport soon so I can go traveling once I put in vacation time in a few months but I don't want to go by myself

 

[Rayzah]

We created hip hop tho

that may be one of the only things that is copied and liked by people overseas

 

[Rayzah]

I'm renewing my passport soon so I can go traveling once I put in vacation time in a few months but I don't want to go by myself

Do IT

 

[MidniteJay]

Do IT

I'm not a social breh like that. I imagine a trip alone would be a boring one.