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30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That we are all the screaming, loudmouth, karen tourists that visit other countries and yell "why don't you speak english." Believe me we hate those people too.

Irondaddy_29 , Ümit Yıldırım Report

Final score:

127points

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Colin Matthews 10 months ago

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…”

40points

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That we dip most things in ranch and we are all addicted to fentanyl which is a LIE. I can’t stand ranch and I dip EVERYTHING in fentanyl.

jollysaintthick , Whitney Report

Final score:

123points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 10 months ago

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

42points

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing How racist it is. I'm Egyptian and you can tell I'm Arab just by my appearance. There's way more racism in my homeland AND in surrounding region than the west in general tbh.

Apart from a comment here or there, mostly from some inebriated youths, I haven't had a racial experience. (I live in the south). All are friendly and sweet and also soooo polite. They seem to take a genuine interest in where I am from etc.

USA actually has discriminatory and anti racism laws. America is a fabulous country and I'm glad to be an American today.

No-Bake-947 , PNW Production Report

Final score:

119points

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BTDubs 10 months ago

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.

49points

nudist_reddit_mom , freestocks.org Report

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing Americans are fat because they’re lazy and can’t control themselves. In truth, the available food is garbage. You have to go out of your way to choose health, and even the things that claim to be healthy are mostly advertising loopholes. “Low fat” means “high sugar.”

Final score:

103points

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Rick 10 months ago

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.

22points

Patterson_hill_dream , Towfiqu barbhuiya Report

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing A lot of people in Eastern Europe think that Americans are all rich. Meanwhile, the Americans are trying to budget for toast and trim their own toenail infection to avoid going to the hospital.

Final score:

75points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 10 months ago

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

43points

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That it’s a meritocracy. Talent, skill, and hard work make a difference, but not as big a difference as wealth and connections especially when combined with a willingness to exploit

lovecommand , Andrea Piacquadio Report

Final score:

75points

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marcelo D. 10 months ago

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.

14points

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing Not from the US but have lived there. Mine would be that people are only surface nice but nothing beyond that and then become rude.

Very untrue - my family was met with a lot of genuine kindness from the beginning and a lot of people went above and beyond providing help and expected nothing in return. Just sweet, helpful and nice people in thr local community.

anon , Askar Abayev Report

Final score:

73points

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Becky Samuel 10 months ago

And yet whenever I mention that it's normal to take in a package for our neighbours, or even to get to know them in the UK, I'm met with downvotes and derision.

11points

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That we have no concept of the metric system.

Look, we know it exists. We learn about it in school. And it’s used exclusively in medical and scientific applications.

But it’s just not what we use in our day to day lives.

SonuvaGunderson , Pixabay Report

Final score:

69points

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Thenatural 10 months ago

Uk here....we measure ourselves in ft and inches,our weight in stones and lbs,distance in miles and yards but in building works I use metric

39points

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#10

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That American has no culture.

For starters, American food is so much more than hamburgers & fries. The South has particularly delicious food with jambalaya & gumbo from LA, shrimp & grits, key lime pie, & lowcountry boil from the lowcountry of GA & SC, barbecue from NC & TN, biscuits & gravy from Appalachia, & soul food from the deep south. American food is actually amazing.

The US is also home to music genres like jazz, country, & rock. We have unique dances like Appalachian flatfooting & American contra dance.

There is SO much more to the US than what the world sees in media!

Final score:

66points

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Bernd Herbert 10 months ago

If someone says anything like "xyz has no culture" you know that person has no clue whatsoever

4points

#11

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That we're all intellectually disabled, morbidly obese larda**es who binge reality TV all day while munching on butter sticks and guzzling alfredo sauce.

kiss-shot , Ketut Subiyanto Report

Final score:

60points

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Colin Matthews 10 months ago

Harsh! I don’t think anyone suggested ALL Americans are that way. Just 40% or so

13points

#12

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing This one seems silly but.. For some reason, people think we are the only country with those cheaply made public bathroom stall doors etc - the metal ones with the cracks that you can kind of see into, etc. I’ve used bathrooms that have these in three different countries just this year.

DebrecenMolnar , Ebert_the_Swede Report

Final score:

56points

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Bisha Moten 10 months ago

Not sure why so many people run with this one, when they don't seem to realize that everything about them is done that way for a reason. The cracks/gaps? Gotta be there or the doors won't swing or latch right. The gap at the bottom? ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) requirement. To facilitate quick entry in the event of a medical emergency.

10points

#13

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing Not so much a lie as a misconception. I've seen a few English bloggers remark about how hard it is to get vegetables in US grocery stores, and remarking that the only things available are pre-made salads and the like.

My guess is that they walked into a Texaco expecting it to be like Tesco, and we're understandably disappointed. 7-11, Walgreens, and CVS aren't grocery stores either. Look for an Aldi, Publix, Winn-Dixie, Sweetbay, or a Walmart Neighborhood Market. If you don't care about money, you can check out Sprouts or Whole Foods.

Kenkron , Greta Hoffman Report

Final score:

54points

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Robert Trebor 10 months ago

I travel all over the USA and visit supermarkets to buy things for my lunches and dinners, and regardless of the time of year or the place, there is always a huge variety of fresh vegetables available.

9points

#14

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing One of the stranger myths I see repeated about America by foreigners is about food. Usually it's something like "American [beer/cheese/chocolate/bread/etc.] is all crappy and terrible." No, you just picked the cheapest version from a chain grocery store and then acted like it's the only one we have. It's like if I went to the UK and s**ttalked British food because all I ate was sausage rolls from Greggs.

AdmiralAkbar1 , hermaion Report

Final score:

50points

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NapQueen 10 months ago

Sausage rolls from Greggs are in a league of their own, mmmmm!

28points

Mumbles_Stiltskin , Charles Parker Report

#15

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing I got so tired of hearing from foreign exchange students that America has no culture. Like b***h, you’ve visited one f*****g state, you can’t just decide the whole country is absent of culture.

Final score:

49points

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SirWriteALot 10 months ago

Most places in the US don't have that "ancient" feel. Take pretty much any town in Europe and you'll find ancient buildings, narrow alleys or even prehistoric artefacts. I think that's where a lot of that "no culture" thing comes from. That said: it's pretty stupid to tell someone you're visiting that their country sucks (because that's what you're doing)

17points

#16

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That we are all rich or doing good in life. This is false. A staggering amount of people live paycheck to paycheck. Most Americans can not afford a 1,000$ emergency expense and there are people in this country who starve to death or die due to lack of medical care.

unflappedyedi , Alexandra Maria Report

Final score:

49points

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Michael Largey 10 months ago (edited)

The people who enjoy prosperity do so precisely because of those who suffer from want. And vice versa. It's a system.

5points

#17

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing There are a lot more important ones, but I constantly hear that we all wear shoes in the house. No one I know hangs around the house in shoes.

Birdy304 , Drew Coffman Report

Final score:

48points

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DadManBlues 10 months ago

I think this misconception has been created by the movies, where no one ever takes their shoes off when they enter an apartment, they never go to the toilet, and they never say goodbye to the other person at the end of a phone call.

31points

#18

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing I do think it’s funny when these 95% white European nations that are really hard to move to and gain citizenship as opposed to the US, call us racist.

Barner_Burner , Life Matters Report

Final score:

48points

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Iampenny 10 months ago

As a non-German living in Germany, I think not handing out citizenship easily and racism are two completely different things, and cannot (should not) be compared to each other

59points

#19

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing "America has no history". Blatantly untrue and offensive, to say the least.

Opposite_Ad_2815 , May Guo Report

Final score:

48points

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Ace 10 months ago (edited)

Nobody denies that the US has history, no idea where you got that idea from. It's just relatively recent history compared with that of lots of other parts of the world, is all. ETA: I cannot believe that so many people are apparently unable to read. Hint: "US History".

15points

#20

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That we are all as divided as the media (or social media) would have us to believe. Most people are actually good people. You see the extremes online and in the news. There is an exhausted majority who isn’t filled with extremist hate.

RedFoxWhiteFox , fauxels Report

Final score:

42points

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Helena 10 months ago

Really? Cause I'm a liberal living in a red state. The conversations around me are hate filled and ugly. I can't wait to move.

39points

DmitriDaCablGuy , Milan Pieteraerents Report

#21

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing Mistake number 1: referring to America as a monolith. Virtually all of these comments are both true and false to varying degrees depending on the part of the country you’re in. The US is a f*****g massive country, and a lot of folks, especially Europeans don’t seem to get just how truly gargantuan it is. Their countries are more comparable to individual states than the US as a whole.

Final score:

37points

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BrownTabby 10 months ago

I’m assuming you extend the same courtesy when talking about China, Russia and India?

10points

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#22

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing I live overseas and one of my Chinese friends always asks me about gun violence and how scary America must be.

I found out recently she's from Xinjiang, aka the place where Uighurs are being sent to concentration camps.

Whaaley , Tim Mossholder Report

Final score:

37points

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BrownTabby 10 months ago

So basically she’s the Chinese equivalent of an American who has a lot to say about third world countries but not the atrocities in their own country?

7points

#23

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing Rural America is not all BS, guns and racism. Mostly we're all just getting by like everyone else, trying to be good people and want everyone to be nice.

Meet_the_Meat , specphotops Report

Final score:

33points

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BrownTabby 10 months ago

My right wing neighborhood is nicey nice to The Right People too. It’s just when brown people do ~uppity~ things like running for mayor that they start drawing swastikas.

13points

#24

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing Americans being ignorant about foreign languages and monolingual. It’s a true stereotype, but not about Americans. It’s true to native English speakers- as UK & Australia have similar rates of monolingualism.

There are also many states in the United States where that just simply isn’t as true as they think it is, like LA county, southern Arizona, Texas, southern Florida etc.

Rimurooooo , David Dibert Report

Final score:

32points

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The Darkest Timeline 10 months ago

If English weren’t the lingua franca in many places, English speakers would be far more multilingual

6points

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#25

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That we are fat and lazy.

I’m not fat…

FacelessFellow , Adrian Swancar Report

Final score:

30points

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Aimee Walker 10 months ago

I'm lazy...

9points

#26

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing I’m not necessarily sick of hearing it, but when I went to Europe I had TWO separate people ask me why American men like fat girls so much. I said, “What do you mean?” They said, “I see pictures of American women and they’re all fat. So, your men must like that?”

I was so caught off guard I just laughed.

mrsmadtux , MART PRODUCTION Report

Final score:

29points

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Kristina Pelėda 10 months ago

Oh yeah, because only reason why women exist is to be appreciated by man 🥴

40points

#27

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing How terrible it is - as told by people who’ve never been there or have never been anywhere else.

Blkshp2 , Nout Gons Report

Final score:

29points

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BrownTabby 10 months ago

Americans who are so poor that they’ve “never been anywhere else” are in the best position to criticise the US.

15points

#28

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That we're all dumb. I had several men in England come up to me and tell me that, and surprisingly, later expect me to go home with them.

SuLiaodai , New Line Cinema Report

Final score:

26points

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NapQueen 10 months ago

We don't think that about the Americans, you just came across some awful men it would seem....

8points

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#29

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That Americans aren't "well traveled" for having never been out of the country.

B***h, it is 2,791 miles from NYC to LA. It is 286 miles from London to Paris. It would take less than ,10 miles to travel from Portugal to Finland than crossing the entire Continental US. You can travel so far in the US without crossing the border, entering into multiple biomes/climates.

Just bc Americans may not leave the US doesn't mean they aren't well traveled, and that's excluding Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Guam.

thatsharkchick , Enric Cruz López Report

Final score:

26points

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Strontium Dog 10 months ago

To me "well travelled" means having been to different countries and experienced different cultures, languages, cuisines etc. "Well travelled" doesn't mean "covered a lot of miles". I can do that just going around the block a couple thousand times

28points

#30

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing The US is one of the most racially and culturally tolerant nation. Don't get me wrong, we have plenty of issues, but we call it out, we're trying to change it. Almost every other nation in the world is a homogenous culture/genetic group dealing with immigration as if it's a novel concept that humans move, when humans have been moving for thousands of years. Further countries that have diverse native populations, there's the issue of erasing those cultural differences. China had like a dozen distinctrregional cultures like a century ago, and they're being homogenized. The US is not the only nation to genocide indigenous peoples.

WiryCatchphrase , fauxels Report

Final score:

24points

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Austin L 10 months ago

As an American I can tell you that the people are generally friendly and tolerant. Our major problem is that many institutions enforce this more covert version of bigotry and discrimination though "gatekeeping" practices. We have a cultural saying for politics here when someone lets something along these lines slip: "You said the quiet part out-loud."

5points

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#31

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That we are any more stupid than the people of any country. Stupidity doesn’t discriminate, America just has the camera pointed at them 24/7. (Edit: I’m not trying to imply we are smart)

qandocabca , Louis Bauer Report

Final score:

13points

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Cecilie Hammershøy 10 months ago

I wouldn't say stupid but uneducated. And I know it doesn't mean all Americans but a big part of your school system sucks.

10points

#32

Something that surprises me a lot is that there are people who really believe the U.S. has absolutely no gun restrictions or regulations. We actually have a lot, but like many things, it's a very complicated issue that there is no simple or easy solution for. No, we can't just order a gun off the internet and have it delivered straight to our homes with no method of verification or background checks. No, we can't buy fully automatic guns right off the shelves. No, you can't legally purchase or own a gun if you're a convicted felon (or convicted of misdemeanor Domestic Abuse). There's also very little risk you'll go anywhere that you'll encounter gun violence of any kind.

That being said, there are things that absolutely could be done better that would help with the issues we do have. Like everything else, it's more complicated than the stereotypical discussion. Guns in America is the equivalent of the jokes about *everything* in Australia trying to kill you.

CelticGaelic Report

Final score:

12points

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Tucker Cahooter 10 months ago

But everything in Australia *is* trying to kill you. You might think our bunny rabbits are cute and cuddly but they actually model themselves on the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog

22points

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#33

Every American is brash, loud, and dumb.

I also often hear from people in second/third world countries that Americans have such a great life and should be grateful because they never experienced "True hardship". Difference is, many of us and our ancestors fought for the "great life" that you claim we have. I'm still fighting and struggling; s**t is only getting more hard and more expensive. Sure I'm not living on less than a dollar a day, but comparing my issues to yours are not helping anyone.

something_once Report

Final score:

11points

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 10 months ago

Being brash loud and dumb is a perfect description of so many Brits on holiday in Spain. You can also add blind drunk.

14points

Fluffy-Hotel-5184 , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

#34

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing that we are all Yankees. really tired of explaining the civil war to people.

Final score:

10points

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Manny 10 months ago

Unfortunately, that's even for US Citizens who don't even know their history.

8points

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#35

That it's crazy dangerous, just like every other country don't go to the crappy areas other than that it's very safe.

Final score:

8points

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Ace 10 months ago

No, not "just like every other country".

6points

Alpha_Snail 10 months ago

Yes, all countries have lower quality areas with much more crime, some countries have more, we have a lot based on sheer volume

1point

Somebodys grandmother 10 months ago

No. Every other countries don't have dangerous areas. . We don't have areas where we tell people to not go to in denmark....

6points

Michael Largey 10 months ago (edited)

Well, while in Denmark I'd stay away from Castle Elsinore if you've got a brother who has designs on your wife and throne. And don't let that old geezer Polonius trap you in a corner. What a talker that guy is! (Fencing duel advice - check the sword tips.)

1point

Thenatural 10 months ago

In the UK we don't have the need for active shooter drills in our schools...

5points

Ace 10 months ago

Britain is nearly as bad as the US in most other respects though, certainly plenty of "unsafe" areas in most towns and knife crime is a very real problem among school-age children.

7points

MaximumKarmaSaint 10 months ago

In the U.S we don't have a form have attack called "London Greeting".

1point

Rostit. . 10 months ago

No but you outlaw dogs lol

0points

Margaret Shannon 10 months ago

Touch wood when you say that!

0points

Robert Trebor 10 months ago

But you have areas in cities where the police don't police.

0points

Adrian 10 months ago

Yep, because of all the guns here. The idiots who think the 2nd amendment is sacred.

-2points

Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 10 months ago

That advice applies everywhere. In Britain, it's very unlikely that you will get shot, but you never know who's carrying a knife and is more than willing to use it.

1point

Ace 10 months ago

No, not everywhere. Denmark's already been mentioned, I offer you Switzerland.

1point

BlueEyesWhiteDragon 10 months ago

"Don't go to the crappy areas." Do you mean the many, many places where people live if their families have been historically discriminated against, red-lined or forced out of the 'uncrappy' areas because richer people oppose building affordable housing? That's how you fix the problem of dangerous crime?

0points

Anya Beboop 10 months ago

The problem is the violence happens in areas that aren't crappy too so it's a bit unpredictable. We just cover up that stuff a lot.

0points

Cassidy 10 months ago

Lol, it's not safe anywhere here.

-1point

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#36

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing Oh, the list goes on, Americans are stupid, Americans are racist, Americans don't know anything about the world. I once had a German foreign exchange student tell me we were just a bunch of cowboys who liked to shoot things up and wallpaper our culture over whatever was left who knew nothing about the world and most of us thought Australia was the only country in Oceania. I named 10 off the top of my head and asked him to do the same for South America. Dude started with Florida

Final score:

7points

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Helena 10 months ago

Not entirely correct, not entirely incorrect. There is a swathe of us that like to shoot things up and believe we are the best thing to ever happen to the world, while simultaneously thinking the world is flat. Just not all of us.

9points

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#37

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That we don't know geography. A British friend of mine was somehow shocked that I can name and point to every country in Europe (capital cities as well) on a map, as well as every country in Southwest Asia except Kuwait. "But you're American." What gave it away, the good dental hygiene?????

mooseinnawoods , Polina Zimmerman Report

Final score:

3points

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NapQueen 10 months ago

So now you're stereotyping us Brits about our dental hygiene....

25points

#38

American beer is watered down.

Addressing the alcohol content, the average American beer has roughly the same alcohol content as a European beer. This is such a ridiculous myth and takes 2 minutes of Googling to disprove.

As far as tasting watered down, WTF do they expect when Europe is getting our cheapest, most mass produced c**p? People don't buy Miller Light because it tastes good. They buy it because it's cheap. I'd rather just not drink beer than drink those beers.

Similarly, the best selling beer in Europe is Heineken, which tastes awful. There are a billion good breweries in the US. You can't just judge us on the mass produced stuff that makes it overseas. Just like I know I can't judge Europe on Heineken. One of the best beers I've had was a Dutch beer in Aruba.

I once asked a bartender in Dublin if anybody ever orders the Coors Light he had on tap, as I noticed all the pubs had Coors Light. He said he usually can't keep it in stock as he pulled the handle and nothing came out.

This whole rant probably applies to food and candy, as well.

CaptainAwesome06 Report

Final score:

3points

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Michael Largey 10 months ago

Old riddle - Why is Coors Light like sex on a raft?

4points

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#39

30 Lies About America That People Are Honestly Sick Of Hearing That we have bad health care. We have bad health insurance options for some people.

ForsakenRacism , Thirdman Report

Final score:

-6points

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Colin Matthews 10 months ago

Um hard to agree here. The number 1 cause of bankruptcy in America is healthcare debt

35points

#40

That it costs everyone like $50k to have a baby.

There was this woman on Instagram who broke down her costs after insurance and it was $6k from conception to discharging from the hospital. Half the comments were Europeans losing their s**t that it costed anything, and the other half were people who didn’t believe her (very real) numbers because they assumed all births cost more than that here. I get it that our healthcare system needs some work and some people have complications and / or s****y insurance, but *average* insurance will cover an *average* birth for $6k easily.

This goes for injuries too. For every “I went bankrupt over a broken foot” there are a dozen “it was a few thousand but I got a decent payment plan with the hospital” stories. You just never hear about those. And when you try to tell them everyone just flips out because they think you’re saying our system is perfect. It’s not perfect. It’s just not as s****y as Reddit would have to believe.

Blessed_tenrecs Report

Final score:

-7points

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Thenatural 10 months ago

Yeah...free healthcare is such a complicated beast the only 49 of the world's top 50 economies have managed to make it work

15points

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Multa Nocte 10 months ago

Another article that pulls out the anti-Americans. Writing from France it honestly looks like jealousy or insecurity. I come here to read fun articles, see some funny things, and look at cute animal pix. Between the anti-American feelings of so many readers and possibly BP itself, this is getting too predictable.

17points

LokisLilButterknife 10 months ago (edited)

BoredPanda has become such a nasty and negative place anymore. From their rampant censorship to creating divides against readers to drive traffic to their site, I'm suprised if this site is going to last any longer. I keep on holding out thinking that they wil get better, but sadly they just seem to be continually ignoring their readers and fostering hate and xenophobia. It's actually pretty darn disturbing. I just saw another reader comment that their comments were deleted when they provided a suggestion on an listicle and pointed out something that needed to be corrected.

12points

Roan The Demon Kitty 10 months ago (edited)

I've seen blatant racism and genocide-supportive behaviour these past few months on BP. It's disgusting that BP has become this kind of place. There's pretty much no moderation on comments, and if a person does get banned they just come back with another name. (looking at that Joe___ guy who's had about 3 different accounts in the past week...) Between the community turning toxic, and the constant advertisements and unoriginal reddit reposts, I sometimes consider why I'm here on BP at all anymore. When I first joined BP, it mainly focused on arts, interviews with artists, wholesome stories (that weren't just lifted from reddit), cool photography, crafts, etc. Now its just reddit 2.0.

1point

Tyranamar Seuss 10 months ago

Seriously. I really am starting to think it's secretly run by China or Russia. The anti-Americanism is so thick. Why?

2points

Weasel Wise 10 months ago

Ignorance and insecurity.

1point

MaximumKarmaSaint 10 months ago

At least it's gotten better, the Anti-Americans have less of a place here, because it's not a list about how America is bad, it's a list specifically targeting and shutting down the things the Anti-Americans use against us.

0points

Ubedhheij 10 months ago

Hey quick question I live in the US and why does a lot of people elsewhere not focus on other stereotypes about other countries and only on the US?

9points

LokisLilButterknife 10 months ago

Because BoredPanda likes to create divides against their readers in order to drive traffic to their site. They know that listicles like this are going to get their U.S. readers riled up and that the comment section is going to be filled to the gills with comments. It's a pretty pittiful and sad tactic to increase site traffic. I have family in the United Kingdom, U.S. and Denmark and their are sadly problems in all countries. There is no denying that the United States is experiencing a very disturbing rise in nationalism and fascism, however, BoredPanda never addresses its American readers who are pushing back against the hatred in their country. It never mentions the American readers who are fighting for positive change like standing up for LGBTQIA+ rights and women's rights.

10points

Caroline Sinclair 10 months ago

Every country has bad people and the occasional bad leader, but the American ones affect the rest of the world more than most.

6points

Christopher H 10 months ago

I feel like all the people in the comments need to read the title of this again. It's not a list of things that Americans think are great about here; it's misconceptions about the US. Do we have guns...yes, does everyone have a gun...no, do we feel unsafe here...no but there are unsafe areas. But you have active shooter drills at school? Sure but it never made me feel unsafe because we did the drill. Just like I don't feel unsafe when I'm watching the safety presentation on a plane.

5points

Thenatural 10 months ago

But wouldn't you rather live in a country where active shooter drills were unnecessary? You sound a bit desensitised to it tbh...

0points

maswartz 10 months ago

I wonder how many of these lies BP have said multiple times.

4points

Randy Sanders 10 months ago

If you don't like me cause I'm an American, I don't care. If you don't like me because I'm an a**hole, OK. I still don't care much. To let it bother me requires that I give you power over me, and I simply refuse.

4points

Julie S 10 months ago

I think because America is so big you will always get extremes. If only 10% of Americans are obese that can still work out to be more people than live in some European countries. So of course you get the trope that "All Americans are obese" or "All Americans are stupid". It's just that there are so damn many of them!

3points

Carl Roberts 10 months ago

In before the dozens of anti-American comments...from American Bored Panda members.

3points

LokisLilButterknife 10 months ago

Hey Carl, non-American here. I've been on this site since it started about eight years ago, and I find the amount of American bashing on BoredPanda pretty darn disturbing and tiring. They have a really nasty trend of writing listicles bashing U.S. readers and the United States every week. It may have been silly at first, but now it's just turned into this rather creepy form of xenophia. Furthermore, it creates a divide against readers. BoredPanda treats all people from the United States as a monolith, when they are not. The United States has an incredible amount of problems, but BoredPanda fails to acknowledge the people in the United States that are standing up for positive change and pushing back against the rise of nationalism. BoredPanda fails to recognise that countries are not monliths! Stereotypes are cruel in any shape or form, and it's pretty damn pittiful that BoredPanda keeps on perpetuating them.

9points

The Darkest Timeline 10 months ago

Unlike some people, I don’t take it too personally when there are comments that are negative towards Americans. We’re the dominant power in the world; that’s always going to put a target on your back. And, quite frankly, power should be held to account; it’s okay to hold up a mirror to the strong and ask them to reflect on what they do with that power. Most of it is just ignorant stuff or stereotypes and, hey, this is the internet so there’s a lot of that in case you hadn’t noticed. Ultimately, I either ignore it or find a way to politely educate the person(s) making the comment if I think it is error. Bottom line, though, is that it just isn’t worth getting worked up over and has no effect on my life; if a few anonymous folks want to take a swing, have at it because it won’t change a thing.

0points

Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 10 months ago

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Multa Nocte 10 months ago

17points

LokisLilButterknife 10 months ago (edited)

12points

Roan The Demon Kitty 10 months ago (edited)

1point

Tyranamar Seuss 10 months ago

Seriously. I really am starting to think it's secretly run by China or Russia. The anti-Americanism is so thick. Why?

2points

Weasel Wise 10 months ago

Ignorance and insecurity.

1point

MaximumKarmaSaint 10 months ago

0points

Ubedhheij 10 months ago

Hey quick question I live in the US and why does a lot of people elsewhere not focus on other stereotypes about other countries and only on the US?

9points

LokisLilButterknife 10 months ago

10points

Caroline Sinclair 10 months ago

Every country has bad people and the occasional bad leader, but the American ones affect the rest of the world more than most.

6points

Christopher H 10 months ago

5points

Thenatural 10 months ago

But wouldn't you rather live in a country where active shooter drills were unnecessary? You sound a bit desensitised to it tbh...

0points

maswartz 10 months ago

I wonder how many of these lies BP have said multiple times.

4points

Randy Sanders 10 months ago

4points

Julie S 10 months ago

3points

Carl Roberts 10 months ago

In before the dozens of anti-American comments...from American Bored Panda members.

3points

LokisLilButterknife 10 months ago

9points