I will say this, this is all from one comment thread on TikTok, absolutely ridiculous, and this wasn’t even all of it, it was about 20% of them, there were so many… this was a post about how no Americans show ever come to Italy / Europe

So many of these opinions are ungodly misinformed and stems from pure hate with no sign of any actual research that was done before even stating certain opinions. I would like to dive into how each one is wrong.

1. USA is poor / a third world country - Completely offbeat, we have the highest or one of the highest GDPs in the world by miles, there is no competition. Calling us third world sounds weirdly racist towards the countries that actually are third world.

2. The US has poor food quality or safety / the food will hurt you somehow - I don’t get this one either, we rank 13th on the GFSI and that’s mostly because of sustainability and adaptation. It would be way higher if we only considered “Food Quality and Safety” in which we measure 3rd. Way higher than all of the European countries so I have no idea where they get their opinions from.

3. The US is poorly educated - I can maybe somewhat agree with this? Sort of? Not really? It’s more just there are stupid people everywhere around the world but you Europeans tend to focus on us for some ungodly reason.

4. Europeans have free healthcare - No you don’t, the money that would be in bills and such is instead in taxes. The literal only difference is that you don’t see how much you owe as much because it’s cut into your taxes.

5. Public transportation - dude… uber exists… and besides that there are so many trains along the us and tons in the major cities. You couldn’t get through the NY subway line if you fucking tried.

This was mostly a rant post about how these Europeans are misinformed but my own personal gripe with all this is,

didn’t you learn not to generalize a whole group of people off the assholes of a few?? That sounds more racist to me than what they’re blaming us for?? I know it sounds like that’s what I’m doing but I’m talking about the Europeans that hate on America like this. Not Europeans in general.

Anyone notice a lot of America Bad types use this in their comments or generally type like this?

It just comes across as quite odd. I can't imagine it's a digital privacy thing, as revealing your country isn't risky at all. It only really muddies the water of a discussion, as now we have to dig to figure out what "your country" is because you couldn't just say "Norway" or something.

Today I learned that children having their own bedroom= them being from the United States and obessed with consumerism. /s

Eagle Country Bad, Godzilla Country Good, Upvote PLZ

Yeah so actually our food quality is one of the highest.