as a person who doesn't watch South Park, I say leave pip alone guys, like why ya'll hating? He looks very swagger✌ 🤍
OMG THANK YOU DAMNIT
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Some probably do but not all of them. Thank you for finding Americans to be cool, I had always thought the whole world hated us.
I would love to be able to visit France one day. I find French history very interesting and from the pictures I have seen the countryside looks beautiful.
You just have to give them a good first impression for my cousin he told me that many Americans that talked to him were bored at some point so if you’re funny or just kind because it’s rare nowadays there’s great chances that they keep talking w you like they did w me
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As an old sister here who had American exes, and also visited Paris, I have met good people from both countries. I am really sorry to read this post.
I think social media (Tiktok, Reels) promoted too much steroetypes or impressions that happened individually. Love and peace for all users on this platform.
As an old sister here who had American exes, and also visited Paris, I have met good people from both countries. I am really sorry to read this post.
I think social media (Tiktok, Reels) promoted too much steroetypes or impressions that happened individually. Love and peace for all users on this platform.
No, that thing goes back to WW2 (France vs America).
If not even to colonial times in America.
I have visited both countries and there are nice people in both countries. French people are more reluctant to people who doesn`t speak french. Americans are more open to strangers.
No, that thing goes back to WW2 (France vs America).
If not even to colonial times in America.
I heard that France was blamed, for example, Paris surrandered very fast when Hitler arrived, because they lost a lot during WWI, forgive me that if there's anything more to it that I don't know. 🙏
But I mean more like how people on social media talks about social behaviors.. people kept making short videos based on sterotypes, about how Americans communicate or French people communicate to get more comments, or for the views. But it makes people choose sides, like that they are against each other or something. Ah, just like you said hours ago, people believe in social media too much without seeing the world by themselves.
Side-note: I have read stories about Simone de Beauvoir and her American lover Nelson Algren, and Boris Vian with his American ex-wife. I have also seen the movie À bout de souffle, by Jean Luc Godard. I think the people from both countries, especially literati, are just secretly in love with each other. Hahahaha.
I heard that France was blamed, for example, Paris surrandered very fast when Hitler arrived, because they lost a lot during WWI, forgive me that if there's anything more to it that I don't know. 🙏
But I mean more like how people on social media talks about social behaviors.. people kept making short videos based on sterotypes, about how Americans communicate or French people communicate to get more comments, or for the views. But it makes people choose sides, like that they are against each other or something. Ah, just like you said hours ago, people believe in social media too much without seeing the world by themselves.
Side-note: I have read stories about Simone de Beauvoir and her American lover Nelson Algren, and Boris Vian with his American ex-wife. I have also seen the movie À bout de souffle, by Jean Luc Godard. I think the people from both countries, especially literati, are just secretly in love with each other. Hahahaha.
French people hated the Americans when they came over after D-day and all the women wanted them.
It might have started there but it can also be from colonial times between France and England where it lies.
French and American cultures are vastly different.
"...Paris surrandered very fast when Hitler arrived..."
That is true. And the Wehrmacht surrendered very fast Paris when the Allies arrived.
Advantage is - Paris was almost undestroyed after the war and you can still see it how it was 500 years ago.
Most Americans have never been outside their country and have a limited media created stereotypical view of the world that is laughable to the rest of us.
They'll believe anything the media or government tells them 'cause they simply don't know any better.
Ummm.... What?
America is large place. Think of it as an island... a very large island, at that. Employers here are not legally obliged to offer vacation, though most offer at least a week's paid vacation each year.
Think about that. One week's vacation makes it hard to plan an overseas trip. When I was in the Army, I could take up 60 days per year, and for my current job, up to 30 days, so I'm luckier than most.
Flying out is also expensive. A trip to Paris from St. Louis, for example. Can be prohibitive for people here. It's different in Europe where I can fly to Berlin from Paris and be walking down the Champs in a couple hours.
As far as believing what the media says? A recent poll stated that trust in much of the legacy Media outlets here in the States is at an all time low. Trump's campaign was able to capitalize on that with the last election being as much referendum on our legacy media as it was the Democratic party.
As far Americans not wanting to talk to someone from France? My grandfather despised French people, as he felt they were ungrateful. I don't share that view. I think it might simply be the original posters age, or the fact that Americans they are writing to simply want pen-pals that are not from France.
"... have a limited media created stereotypical view of the world..."
Thats exactly what many germans think about US-citizen and what they are not aware of is, that their own view of americans is the same way a stereotypical view. Most of them don`t know a single US-citizen personally but they have a strong opinion about them.
Ahh yes... I remember the Claas Relotius and Der Spiegel scandal. Very little that I read bothers me, but that article did. I could tell that he was playing on all the stereotypes that Europeans have about those of us who live in rural America. Mind you, I do know people here who are kind of like that, but even they are more complex than simple stereotypes.
Sigh... I give French friends a hard time about their 35 hour work week though... lol ...
Ahh yes... I remember the Claas Relotius and Der Spiegel scandal. Very little that I read bothers me, but that article did. I could tell that he was playing on all the stereotypes that Europeans have about those of us who live in rural America. Mind you, I do know people here who are kind of like that, but even they are more complex than simple stereotypes.
Sigh... I give French friends a hard time about their 35 hour work week though... lol ...
The media will always play on stereotypes to set people up against each other.
Or just for shock value and sales.
Most Americans have never been outside their country and have a limited media created stereotypical view of the world that is laughable to the rest of us.
They'll believe anything the media or government tells them 'cause they simply don't know any better.
I think it's more about the distance one has been away from the place of their birth than leaving one's country. I believe the percentage of people who have been outside of 5000 miles (8000 Km) from their birthplace is low. So they are part of the small media bubble that they've been exposed to. What was eye opening to me, when I lived in countries outside the US, across the Atlantic or across the Pacific, was how much the world followed the events of US government news. In both Europe and Asia, I saw the US president on the news more than I did living in the US. Most news and media around the world is pretty local or regional. Even in the US, the culture and personalities of people are different in different regions. You hear terms like New York hustle, Calfironia cool, Southern charm, Midwest warmth, etc.
When I was in the Army, I could take up 60 days per year, and for my current job, up to 30 days, so I'm luckier than most.
In my earlier years, when I was in the US military, I had 30 days vacation a year. But in the military, they count weekends as a vacation day. Say you get off work on Friday and start vacation and want to come back to work the 2nd Monday. That's 9 days of vacation with the military. Most other jobs, where you don't work weekends, that's 5 days of vacation time. I found that a bit deceitful about vacation while in the military. Being young at that time, vacation was just a desire to get back home where I grew up. Different from vacation as an older adult.
When you say you get 30 days now, is that 6 weeks a year, 240 hours? That's really good!
In my industry, lots of companies have gone to unlimited PTO (Paid Time Off). That sounds good on paper but people feel guilty about taking time off, so the opposite of getting more days has happened. Or there's more work than one can do in a day anyway and companies say, you can take time off as long as you get your work done. But if work is never able to get done, then you can't afford to take vacation. Then when you leave the company, you have no vacation days on the books which the company has to pay when you leave.
"... have a limited media created stereotypical view of the world..."
Thats exactly what many germans think about US-citizen and what they are not aware of is, that their own view of americans is the same way a stereotypical view. Most of them don`t know a single US-citizen personally but they have a strong opinion about them.
This really makes me wonder how much of the media in any country is directed by its government. Or if not by the government of that country, by a very few very rich who own the media? About the statement of people not knowing a single person from a different country, hopefully the Internet and sites like this help one person at a time to realize all humans around the world are similar.
This really makes me wonder how much of the media in any country is directed by its government. Or if not by the government of that country, by a very few very rich who own the media? About the statement of people not knowing a single person from a different country, hopefully the Internet and sites like this help one person at a time to realize all humans around the world are similar.
Media are usually connected to the governments in some way or another.
Editors are usually in the same lodges as politicians and influential people.
And most media has been gobbled up by a few people who control them with an iron fist.
I think in America it's Rupert Murdoch who runs the show. The Murdoch media empire.
Can't remember who it was in Europe, but I know Silvio Berlusconi (former prime minister of Italy) had a huge part in it over here.
It'd be naïve to think they're not in kahoots with government 'cause they tend to parrot their narratives all the time.
It is after all a propaganda tool.
Think about it: To have an article published an editor have to approve it. Why?
If you're gonna be on a debate on a TV show they wanna know your questions in advance so they can prepare for them.
You, the rivaling side if you like, don't get to know what you are gonna be asked 'cause they wanna catch you off guard and corner you.
Some things you're simply not allowed to ask. I got this first hand from people who work at a TV-station.
It'd also be naïve to think that the internet hasn't been centralized and monopolized by corporations where it's censored, monitored and used for mass perceptional management and manipulation to a greater extent than any newspaper or TV ever could.
It's funny how certain videos or articles that challenge or completely destroys the narrative just magically disappear from, not just the search engine results, but the from the web all together.
Sure it's just a coinkadink.