I’ve had Americans argue with me saying that what I was talking about doesn’t happen in America and that I don’t know what I’m talking about, when I made it abundantly clear that what I was talking about was irrelevant to the US as a whole.
Tbf, Europeans often do the same to us (or at least they did on Reddit) when we try to talk about how dystopian late-stage-capitalism has become in the US. So many Europeans can’t wrap their minds around: being fired for calling out sick, women being forced to return to work a week after giving birth because we don’t have paid parental leave, people going bankrupt for using an ambulance, companies firing people with zero warning,reason or severance, millions of Americans not having access to healthcare, having huge areas in your city too dangerous to walk through because you would have to sprint across 40m of concrete with cars speeding around you at 70kmph just to cross the road, our traffic fatality rate being 10x higher than most European countries, not having any functional public transit in most US towns and cities, etc…
Anyone notice that when they visit a webpage predominantly used by Americans that is marketed towards Americans that it feels very American?
I’ve had Americans argue with me saying that what I was talking about doesn’t happen in America and that I don’t know what I’m talking about, when I made it abundantly clear that what I was talking about was irrelevant to the US as a whole.
Like talking European politics in a Starbucks in Ohio you’re going to run into that, it’s because of where you are and your surroundings.
Tbf, Europeans often do the same to us (or at least they did on Reddit) when we try to talk about how dystopian late-stage-capitalism has become in the US. So many Europeans can’t wrap their minds around: being fired for calling out sick, women being forced to return to work a week after giving birth because we don’t have paid parental leave, people going bankrupt for using an ambulance, companies firing people with zero warning,reason or severance, millions of Americans not having access to healthcare, having huge areas in your city too dangerous to walk through because you would have to sprint across 40m of concrete with cars speeding around you at 70kmph just to cross the road, our traffic fatality rate being 10x higher than most European countries, not having any functional public transit in most US towns and cities, etc…
of course we can’t wrap our minds around it, America is insane in every aspect