Is it the American way to complain about the US, or is it that other countries aren't worth complaining about?

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hear people complain about their countries all the time.

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• the_abecedarian@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  easier to complain about what you know. Americans do complain about other places when they’re not simply on vacation there

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  • frischkaesbagett@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Happy cake day! Glad to have you here.

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• GreenBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “I don’t think I’ve ever heard…” friend, you literally live in an information silo. Do you speak Spanish? Because you probably aren’t hearing anything about Spain if you don’t. Do you follow any British media? Because they’re not coming to an American forum to bitch about Britain. You probably don’t care enough to even notice if someone was talking about another country, so how would you hear anything?

  What’s uniquely American is making your internal drama everyone else’s problem.

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  • Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Heey, be a bit nicer on no stupid questions. All though it is a really funny american question why other people don’t hate their country :'). Everybody does in some way hahaha.

    But please refrain from sounding mean, lemmy doesn’t need to scare away users…

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Try a space that’s in their native language. Feddit.org is primarily a German-language instance and its users are complaining about Germany all the time.

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Germans don’t know how good they have it and should stop voting for politicians who are destroying the country.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pretty much, yeah.

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But don’t YOU dare come complain to us about Germany, how rude everyone is and the bureaucracy and the weather and how nobody bags your groceries at the shop. That’s way out of line and NOT cool and you’re wrong and a poopyhead.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There IS a difference between cultural differences and things that are objectively bad.

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• Jaegeras@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You don’t hear them because you’re not exploring enough. Sitting in one spot all of the time and just listening to the area of your environment, doesn’t mean nobody has a problem with their country of origin.

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• Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What language do you think Japanese or Spanish people complain about their country in? How often do you visit places where these languages are spoken?

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You are obviously a white cis male American, just like everyone else on the internet is, don’t you know?

    /s

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  • Oka@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Idk, Mexican?

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• CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Most people, Americans included, prefer to speak well of their country to foreigners and complain to countrymen. My hypothesis is that Americans perceive online spaces as uniquely American spaces where we complain to our ingroup, and folks of other nationalities tend to think of online spaces as “international waters” and are more guarded as a result.

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  • forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Interesting theory. Personally, I’m from the US and fuck this place, I won’t hype it up to anyone. But that’s anecdotal, of course…

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Every person I have ever met from has issues with their home countries.

  One of my best friends was from Pakistan and when I asked him about why he left, he used to bitch that “the three things my country doesn’t have are…

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  I work with a guy basically ran away from Sierra Leona in the late 90s with nothing but the clothes he had on. Then spent 3 months as a slave on a fishing boat until winding up in a refugee camp and then working his way to America.

  This past weekend I had a conversation with a women in NYC who had to flee her home country of Peru in the early 90s because a group called Shining Path were killing everyone around her.

  She spent years workin in cruise ships and the hotel/resort industrybefore seeing a classified add that told people to apply for the citizenship lottery in the US. She did and she won, she got to NYC in 98 with 600 bucks in her pocket.

  So yeah we all have issues with our home countries, some significant and some trivial and contrived.

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• StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  old.reddit.com/r/india

  Have fun. 

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• Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Come to England, we complain all the damn time

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• SpeedRunner@europe.pub ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, it’s an international thing to complain about the US nowadays.

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• disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Spanish people complain about Spain all the time. Very low wages. Japanese people not as much.

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  • Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why would the japanese complain about the low wages of Spain?

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      SMH Japanese never heard of working class solidarity

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• early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Every country has problems. America is so big that its problems become everyone else’s problems too. If America sneezes the world catches a cold.

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• Strider@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Everyone had complaints about their own country. It might not be all conveniently on one platform or online at all. Or it might even be forbidden or negatively impact your social score.

  Anyhow. Still it’s highly important to see on which level the complaints are. Currently comparing the US with the EU for example, I’m sorry, but the US is in some deep shit. Yes, over here we also have some (some even related) issues but your pre-trump situation was not all that hot to begin with, as a citizen) and went downhill fast now. It’s highly likely the US will turn into some once-important but then irrelevant country.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Everyone is whining about the USA.

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• OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People always complain about their countries in some form or other. Maybe Americans are just the loudest lol?

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• BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People outside of a few countries don’t speak or read English all that much and hence would not be on primarily English speaking communities like lemmy, they have their own locally popular websites

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