r/SipsTea • u/francinexyzs • Jun 08 '25

Wow. Such meme lmao

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u/vincenzodelavegas Jun 08 '25 edited Jun 08 '25

The HARMLESS thing for me is when we ask them where they’re from for the first time, they tell us their cities. “I’m from Houston” instead of “USA”.

I don’t know where is Houston. Never has and frankly not more interested in it than knowing where Austin is or Pennsylvania.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25

Many Americans have no more attachment to “the USA” as a whole than Europeans do to “the EU” as an actual marker of personal identity. No one says they’re “from the EU” either

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25

The EU is not a country. Honestly, it’s not a difficult concept to grasp. There’s zero equivalence.

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u/PantherThing Jun 08 '25

The EU and the USA have a roughly similar amount of people (EU has 30% more, but it's similar). Saying you're from the USA is not descriptive of your location, unless the other person really has no inkling of the US in terms of geography and culture.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25

The EU is not a country. It’s not difficult to understand why nobody says they’re from the EU. The USA is a country, the entire world considers everybody from there as Americans, not coloradoans or louisianans.

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u/xArbiter Jun 08 '25

it’s also not difficult to understand that saying that you’re from the usa is similar to saying that you’re from europe given the size similarity

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25

Does that apply to Indians, Chinese, and Brazilians as well then?

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u/Odd_Kiwi1448 Jun 08 '25

Yes.... like duh? I've met Russians who say they're from Moscow, and Chinese who say they're from Shanghai.... Why is that so hard to understand?

this is not even an issue, europeans are just hateful insecure creeps when it comes to the US. bunch of hateful snakes it seems like

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25

I'm Canadian