• Kiosade@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I remember back in high school there was this Danish foreign exchange student one year, and she would not shut up about how this or that was better in Denmark.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The average Dane is firmly convinced that Denmark is the most perfect place on earth, a paradise that the rest of the world can only dream of. It follows that any reasonable person who's not already a Dane must have a desire to become one. If they don't, there must either be something wrong with them or they simply haven't heard enough about how good Denmark is.

          • SoyViking [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            The upper class in Denmark are just as big piss babies about paying their taxes as they are anywhere else. Ordinary Danes might like to say they're happy to pay taxes but in reality few of them would pass the opportunity to have their car fixed off the books or to buy beer in Germany to avoid the Danish alcohol tax.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Well in fairness if you came to America and saw what a depraved, decaying shithole it is after being raised on a diet of airbrushed American media you'd probably be appalled, too.

        I can't count how many stories I've heard of people visiting from civilized parts of the world and breaking down crying in the street when they see how American's treat homeless people.

    • Stuka@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      My theory is they don't like constantly seeing us in their news and entertainment when we rarely see anything at all from their country.

      • RushingSquirrel@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Thing is, there's not much American news outside of the US. I live in Canada and have far less news about America than I'd thought there should be given how we are neighbors and partners. Most of the news I used to hear about the USA is from Reddit. And when I visit France (which I do regularly, bring born there), there's almost nothing about the US there.

        Recently though, Trump was also over and it wasn't pretty. Also when going on Reddit, it's 80% about US News and content, but not necessarily the best news.

        Overall, what bothers me and others is how much patriotic a lot of the Americans seem to be and how great they seem to think they are, even when you hear how bad the society is in terms of healthcare, pension, divided politics, crimes, conspiracy theory, etc.

        But everytime I've been to the US, I've only met great and friendly people and have always appreciated it. You usually hear about the bad parts in the news.

    • BigBen103@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      We are only friends because the other big guys look way because out of the big guys the usa look the least scary.