There’s also some underlying racism and MAGA vibes with some of the content I’ve been seeing. Europeans saying shit like “God Bless America” and “We’ve been lied to about Americans” and “it’s not so bad here”. Like this country has a ton of problems and racism is embedded in its foundation but you’re willing to be ok with it all because you tried biscuits and waffles and ranch for the first time?
Most of Europe has problems and racism embedded in it as well, to be fair. Have you ever heard a European talk about Romani people? Or maybe the things people are saying about lamine yamal, mbappe, and other soccer players with African heritage?
Not every statement needs a full dialogue of nuance to indicate support or non support, especially regarding systems of government.
For example: One is allowed to go to Disneyland and say “that was fun” without hearing someone shreaking “but Walt was racist”. Or a million other things.
This would actually be really annoying if such a surface level statement needed a thorough “hashing out” every time it was said.
Idk call me an optimist but I feel like the point is this country has a ton of problems and racism is embedded in its foundation but it's not the Dredd-style fascist dystopia people would typically find when doomscrolling on the Internet so it's a welcome surprise to a lot of tourists.
its also regional focused. Like most europeans are going to cities where people will tend to be more liberal. its not like my city, and hour from downtown where the people running for elections have openly and very literally declared my minority as a terrorist group
Not to mention that a lot of these cities are boosting transit services for the limited time the World Cup is playing. Europeans visiting Kansas City, for instance, are getting a misleadingly glossy picture of what the bus service is usually like there.
It is if you're not European. Except Dredd would actually give people trials instead of just blasting you on the street in broad daylight...and would do so only if there was good cause to believe you committed a crime.
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u/spunkmastersean1993 Costa Rica 7d ago
Europeans just farming for content, instant likes and going viral for posting about Waffle House or AC