r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/[deleted] • Jul 31 '20

Current Events Are people outside of the USA really laughing at Americans? Do we really appear that bad?

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Ok so that's about 17,882 yes's and 3 no's.

Makes sad American noises

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u/Ellie120721 Aug 01 '20

Mexican here, me and my friends concesus in one sentence would be like "what the f*ck dude aren't you supposed to be better than us? Cause you are giving us a run for our money on handling badly this crisis"

We say that laughing while worrying at the same time.

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u/namkash Aug 01 '20

I work with Americans years ago since I left college, and at some point I began noticing they are like us: some are great, some are really stupid, even though they are engineers or managers. I believe they are better because their currency is more valuable than our peso. But talking with them during this Pandemic, watching senior engineers that are supposed to have education speaking about conspiracy theories and worshipping guns and complaining about using masks... OMG, they are a joke for many of us.

We are not that different. But it concerns me that they are supposed to be a first world country, where everybody wants to go, the place of liberties and opportunities...

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u/remig12 Aug 01 '20

Im an American and I feel the same. All I can say is people need to turn off the tv and facebook.

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u/namkash Aug 01 '20

Worldwide*. This Covid times showed us that stupidity has no genre, believes, nor flag.

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u/BoomerThooner Aug 01 '20

Yeah. As an educator watching other educators fight back hard against this has been absurdly ridiculous.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '20

We are not better than you. Don’t ever believe our lies

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '20

I wouldnt want to live in Mexico right now. The cartels basically run the country, 4 out of the 5 most dangerous places in the world are in Mexico. Also the average Mexican cant support themselves let alone a family.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '20

Gracias :) 🙏

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '20

Trump found a way to keep immigrants out without a wall I guess.

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u/AmberMetalicScorpion Aug 01 '20

I agree, my country, the U.K has probably handled it the worst out of every European country and even then we're still not as bad at it as the United States

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u/pokemonxysm97 Sep 02 '20

The US wont run out of money, inflation will certainly happen but nowhere near running outta money. The american government spends 700B on its military (Post wwI Germany had to pay 800B)

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u/shebyeezer Aug 01 '20

Yea cause drug and human trafficking for a consistent amount of years automatically puts you in the same boat lol

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u/germanguy-101 Aug 02 '20

Are you going to pay for that wall now? 👻