I’m an American and I am curious about what the ‘mainstream’ view of the USA is where you live. MSM seems to do a good job of keeping this from us here, other than when they want to push a narrative that so-and-so ‘hates our freedoms’.

  • Rafael_Luisi@lemmygrad.ml
    34·
    3 years ago

    Here on south america we are divided between bootlicking gusanos, people who dont give a shit about the US and people that hate it for a lot of resons.

  • KiwiProle@lemmygrad.ml
    31·
    3 years ago

    Mainstream media supports it, most people think it’s a hellhole, but don’t question the geopolitical line in support of USA. It’s a weird double think

  • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
    26·
    3 years ago

    Uneducated, arrogant, uncivilised, ruthless, idiots, disrespectful, barbaric, short-sighted, greedy.

    We even have a chant. Roughly translates to “Americans, murderers of the peoples”

  • Nimux@lemmygrad.ml
    22·
    3 years ago

    From where I’m from Americans don’t have a really good reputation. They’re often seen as those arrogant pricks who make noise all the time.

    Anyone that’s been on the English speaking internet has been faced with American defaultism and exeptionalism at some point. Which is probably the main cause behind this reputation.

    Apparently tourists are the worst, but I’ve never met one or know someone who met one, so I maybe it’s just a cliche.

    • Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      3 years ago

      As an American I can tell you that our tourists are probably the worst because if an American actually has the money to travel overseas, they’re probably a loud privileged asshole.

      Most Americans can’t even take an overseas vacation anywhere. We’re too busy paying for daily necessities that are too goddamn expensive.

    • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
      7·
      3 years ago

      I can see this as an America who gags imagining the type of Americans who can afford to take international vacations. I’m sure there’s exceptions as always but yeah…insufferable here as well.

  • Tankeke@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    3 years ago

    For the old generation, the greatest place in the world. For most young people, the source of all disasters.

  • NasgorTikusEnjoyer@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    3 years ago

    In Indonesia, it depends on where you live and your economic status. Middle class Jakartans (especially south Jakartans) are heavily westernized by consuming western media and tend to be liberals/progressives that support america. Although the vast majority of the poor rural and working class people tend to be either ultrapannationalists or islamists and hate america.

  • dinomug
    15·
    3 years ago

    As Mexico is a complex country in historical, demography and political terms I will generalize the main concept that we have to USA:

    A very awkward neighbor who gets in where no one calls him and always wants to be right.

    ps: And that almost all of its citizens are drug addicts.

  • StugStig@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    3 years ago

    Before the internet when everyone just watched TV and Hollywood movies, America was seen as some sort of utopic promised land that all Filipinos should strive to immigrate too.

    Some of us have woken up from that delusion. But… on the other hand there are Liberals that watch so much US MSM that they subconsciously think they’re Americans.

    • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      3 years ago

      TV and Hollywood movies

      Man, I hate American media. (And I’m from the US). Our movies, music, TV, everything are all complete shit. Being manipulative is the one thing they do well.

      • Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml
        2·
        3 years ago

        Every now and then something based comes through, but that’s a small minority in a sea of capitalist apologencia. Even the small minority of anti-capitalist works that are allowed to succeed is surprising.

  • lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml
    14·
    3 years ago

    In France people tend to see americans as dumb, that’s all. No one is very informed about how hellish the US is, at best they have a vague idea about their warmongering. Welcome to one of the biggest vassal state…

    • Lenins2ndCat@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      3 years ago

      Yep this. Loud and no manners or social sense. Also no respect for the fact other people around them don’t really want to interact with them, especially on public transport. Everyone has a story about some american they did not want to interact with on public transport.

      Also guns, pew pew. Guns guns guns.

      Try and talk to any of these american tourists about politics or the shit their country does and they’ll revert to “I’m a world citizen”.

        • Lenins2ndCat@lemmygrad.ml
          5·
          3 years ago

          Lmao I asked a guy what his take on Obama was on a train once when he wouldn’t shut up and he clearly looked at me, assessed his opinion would go down badly and said “oh I’m not into politics” in the most blatant open-lying I’ve ever seen.

          Americans are terrible liars. This one isn’t widely discussed but oh my fucking god they all seem to just openly lie a lot and they’re really bad at it.

      • KiG V2@lemmygrad.ml
        8·
        3 years ago

        Weird, because as an American I almost feel a weird subconscious pressure if I am not occupied with something to talk to half of the people near me in public. Like sometimes I just stare into negative space and I can tell people think I’m a psychopath. Like I don’t want to look at my phone but sometimes I’m just not in the mood to talk. Although sometimes you do have real, humanizing conversations with strangers forced into your personal space. I could totally see myself nervously talking to someone in a foreign country on a bus lol

        • ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml
          6·
          3 years ago

          Lol I’m an American too and I felt so awkward reading these comments. I was like “wait so if there’s like not many people around and it’s silent, I’m absolutely not supposed to small talk???😨” like I seriously didn’t know that was an American thing. I always thought that people that are completely silent and not moving are bored or something

          • Lenins2ndCat@lemmygrad.ml
            4·
            3 years ago

            In Britain the unspoken rule of public transportation is that you pretend everyone else does not exist. Those that break this unspoken rule are bad 'uns. The only thing worse is that shit with a speaker that thinks everyone wants to hear his music.

            • ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml
              1·
              3 years ago

              I’ll absolutely agree with speakers and music, that’s completely obnoxious and it’s quite self-centered. When I was briefly in Ireland, I talked to people on public transportation and a few(not all) seemed excited to talk to someone, but I also did hear from locals at a bar that I was chatting with that often times Irish people are good at feigning interest and being polite without giving anything of substance to the conversation or even giving a fuck about whatever the other person is going on about, so there’s a decent chance that they were just humoring me so they could be on their way. It was fun though, even if my American side shined through a little too much lol

  • reactorFigure@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    3 years ago

    Australia, it’s similar to the UK. Americans are libertarian corn-drunk idiots with no taste, but we’d rather have them in charge than China. Also we pay our military tithe to the US by way of buying tanks and F-35s, so our political class bends the knee.

    Personally, I like most American accents, so there’s that for you.

  • Della@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    3 years ago

    From what I can gather Norwegians see Americans as racist and stupid. When it comes to the American nation itself there is often surface critique of certain policies like healthcare and the 2nd amendment, but never any deeper critique than that. Most Norwegians seem to have a general positive view of America and credits them for “saving us” after WW2 with the Marshall plan.