Almost all Americans from their mid 40s onwards have 7 particular problems when the go abroad. These issues are specific to people from the United States, no one else from any other country is as bad as this.
American Fear
1. The first problem Americans have is fear. It is their default emotion, their factory setting, they think it’s natural to be afraid all the time, it follows them around like their shadow and it is triggered by the slightest event. American fear manifests in five ways.
A) Americans are afraid of anything that is new or different to them.
Americans are not comfortable or are afraid around: different skin colours, different ethnicities, different religions, different names which are native in the country they are visiting, different accents, different words or terms for things, the Metric System and even new or different places; they look terrified walking around new cities and even small towns as it is new and different to them and they know they will get lost.
This intense fear of the unfamiliar is one of their many English hangovers; Australians, New Zealanders and the English themselves all have this discomfort – other peoples do not – although the other English colonials have gotten over the metric system and the English Canadians and English South Africans usually know different nationalities have different names.
Older White Americans are obsessed with race, by which they mean skin colour, as they can visibly see that someone else is different to them and they do not like it, although they deny this particularly if they are Democrats. So you’re not afraid of Black people but you are uncomfortable around a White Frenchman because he isn’t called Bill?
Americans, as English people who don’t live in England, refuse to speak foreign languages as they don’t think they should have to. The 1% of Americans who can are like Yanks who understand the Metric System or who don’t get lost in foreign countries; they delight in knowing the fact that they are an exception to the rule.
Less than a third of Americans have been abroad before; most have never had a passport because they think they are their jobs and cannot take a vacation until they retire, they also aren’t interested in other countries and they’d be afraid go somewhere new where the people are different.
B) Americans are afraid of being a victim before they go somewhere new.
Older Yanks closely watch the country where they have booked their vacation, in particular the week before they go, and at the slightest hint of trouble in that country they cancel their vacation – even if they have to lose all their money as a result. They will not go to any country which has had recent trouble because they are convinced that something bad will happen to them on holidays.
Americans would not travel to Ireland until the year 2000 – as they think believe false ridiculous stereotypes to be facts – thinking that Irish people are violent and that bombs went off in the South or Irish Republic. These bombs went off in Northern Ireland, a British problem, between 1968 and 1998 but Americans though it affected the entire island because all Americans are the same, so therefore all Irish people must be the same.
As people with an English mentality, they believe Irish people are ethnically or racially inclined to violence “the Celtic blood gives them the Irish temper”, so bombs must have gone off there; best not to go on vacation there we will only be killed in a bombing. Ireland is the 3rd most peaceful country in the world and has no guns and no death penalty. The United States has a problem with violence from school shootings to spurious wars it engages in, Ireland does not.
After the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris in January of 2015, 75% of Americans cancelled their vacations to all of France for that year and it took four years for the memory to fade allowing American tourism to return to normal levels for 2019.
When it did, those Americans that travelled were still afraid and asking French tour guides “is it safe here”. No one else from any other country in the world cancelled their holidays to France because no one else is terrified like that. In fact other Europeans bought the cancelled airline seats and hotel rooms at bargain basement prices leading to increased French tourism from normal countries.
C) Americans are afraid of being a victim while they are there.
Middle Aged Americans have convinced themselves that something bad will happen to them on their vacation.
They think the airline will lose their bags, the taxi driver will overcharge them (which they do regularly as most Americans just show up and will not use public transport out of fear of getting even more lost), they will get mugged, they will get lost walking around etc etc.
Older Americans are expecting something bad to happen, it sits in the back of their minds and the fear never fully leaves them. On the very rare occasions that something bad does happen – or they think something bad is happening – they overreact and let out a LEG; a LEG stands for Loud Exasperated Gasp. “There it is! I knew it! I knew something was gonna ruin my vacation!”
They make the same noise, at the same time, with the same pitch, the same intonation and the same syncopation; because they all think the same way – it is quite remarkable to observe. An orchestra could not achieve that kind of unison.
Many Americans are actually happy when something bad happens to them; they were expecting it, so it has turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy and they now know what is going on. Prior to this likely minor event, they had literally no idea what was going on as they refuse to pay attention to anything when they turn approximately 40 years of age.
Americans believe they will be scammed somehow and think they have literal targets on their backs because of their accents or their “American dress”. When a bad thing happens, they start bombarding the nearest authority figure with questions so they can ascertain how much danger they are in. They are now listening for the first time in their whole vacation but only because they’re terrified of potential suffering; English mindset – they don’t want to suffer but everyone else can. No one else is afraid like that or even at all.
Americans are pessimists who pretend to be optimists; they walk around fake smiling all the time but they are terrified of almost everything and experience fear every couple of minutes whilst in foreign countries.
D) Saying the wrong thing, making themselves look stupid and insulting a local.
The fourth fear Americans have is saying the wrong thing to someone from a different country, making themselves look stupid or insulting that foreigner by mistake. Fearing this, most older Americans are genuinely afraid to ask a question whilst abroad.
Taking the risk, they announce that they have a question, “can I ask a question” whilst fake smiling and feeling guilty at the same time, hoping the local doesn’t point out their lack of knowledge about the rest of the world.
They sometimes say “I have a stupid question”; which the other Americans in the tour group immediately laugh at, because all Americans think the same way so they all have the same sense of humour. They know how they are perceived abroad and they also feel stupid because they don’t know anything about the rest of the world.
All British colonials who think English – be they Canadians, South Africans, Australians, New Zealanders, or the English themselves – know practically nothing about the world and ask stupid questions. The other English colonials think they know something about the rest of the world; they don’t. Americans, in fairness to them, are the only ones who apologise; even far right nativist WASP Republican Bill will apologise after he has lost his temper and shouted a bit.
An American’s favourite word in the English language is the word “what”; they say this word more than any other. To most people around the world this means pardon or I beg your pardon. To American this means “please repeat what you have said, I am terrified of saying the wrong thing to someone from a different country making myself look stupid or insulting you by mistake, please repeat what you have said so I can assess your comment for the danger of that”.
An American’s favourite phrase is “I’m sorry” which they say more than any other phrase. To anyone else this means “I regret what I have said or done and I hope you can forgive me”. To Americans “I’m sorry” means “I have just said something stupid and insulted you, please end this conversation”.
If the United States Congress put a federal tax of one cent on saying the words “what” and “I’m sorry” most Americans would be bankrupt within two years but their government could pay off their national debt.
E) Provoking a local in to withdrawing service.
The fifth and penultimate fear Americans have is being so terrified, or rude, so condescending or arrogant, so obsessed with stereotypes to a foreigner that they will incense them in to losing patience and withdrawing service.
Tour guides might walk off a tour, drivers might refuse to drive them anymore, waiters and bartenders might refuse to serve them food or drinks. This rarely happens, but Yanks fear it, concerned their bad habits will show and now the “the whole day is ruined” and then “the whole vacation is ruined”.
When workers in foreign countries demand to be treated as equals, far right Republicans speak on behalf of the entire group and respond “we paid for this tour/meal/drink” and therefore have the right to be obnoxious. Such rudeness is rare from Americans but it does happen. The other Americans in the group remain quiet, look afraid and will not contradict nor argue with far right Republican Bob or Betty who has just stated that paying for a service confers on Americans the right to be obnoxious to the guide, driver, waiter or bartender.
All Americans think you are your job so when they pay someone to provide a service, they temporarily own that person and s/he is not entitled to be treated fairly. Even when a Yank is in a foreign country, they are still psychologically inside the United States, so it is ok to mistreat people in America, so it must be like that in foreign countries.
Americans have no legally codified workers’ rights; they think you must work every day of your life until you’re 65, then you can finally enjoy the remaining years of your life, take a vacation and get lost in foreign countries with maps.
When American fear number 5 happens, Americans cannot get over it and refuse to see the episode as a temporary spat, which can be apologised for and compensated with money. They could genuinely apologise, pay the tour guide, waiter or bartender a massive tip and be granted forgiveness; everyone makes mistakes.
Democrats, who rant constantly about how much they care about others, remain silent in such scenarios out of American fear and because they don’t actually care about anyone else besides themselves. If they truly cared they would apologise on behalf of their selfish countrymen and offer compensation but they will only apologise if the local explains that such unwarranted rudeness is totally unacceptable in Europe and has resulted in the tour, meal or bar visit being cancelled.
Americans are culturally and psychological English and when English people lose and it is inescapably their own fault, they refuse to accept responsibility, blame everyone else and then simply pretend the whole thing didn’t happen, “we are never talking about this again”. Any reminder of the fact they have been obnoxious will make them feel bad about themselves so therefore they couldn’t possibly be superior to others.
Americans also cannot stand being seen to be stupid or selfish by Europeans – their ancestors – so they pretend the meal, night out, week or entire vacation did not happen or else they will be reminded of their own stupidity and selfishness and are therefore not good people.
American Ignorance
2. The second problem older Americans have is ignorance. This is for three reasons.
A) The future United States was initially colonised by English people who are not interested in other cultures. America never disposed of that mentality; their Independence from Britain is merely political and economic not psychological nor cultural.
Americans just like Australians, New Zealanders and the English themselves know practically nothing about the rest of the world; they aren’t interested in other cultures and don’t want to learn other languages. The other English colonials like most Canadians and South Africans think they know something – they don’t really – and they regard Americans as the ignorant black sheep of the family.
The Spanish, Portuguese and French colonials in the Americas know lots about the rest of the world as do Europeans, Africans and Asians. Teenagers in Communist China, where information is legally restricted and where Google is illegal, know more about the rest of the world than the average Yank in their sixties.
Many Americans think other cultures are inferior and should change and become English so everyone is the same and nice and familiar, although they won’t admit it publicly as it is a silly attitude and proves they aren’t really their own country and are just weird English people who don’t live in England.
B) The American education system has told the now older Americans absolutely nothing about the rest of the world; younger Americans in their teens, 20s and 30s seem to know a lot more as the private education system has changed over the years and they have the internet to google things.
C) American television and the American news media have told their populace absolutely nothing about the rest of the world, only propaganda for the Democrat Party 95% of the time and 5% of the time for the Republicans. If a Yank is a Democrat they deny that their news agencies are propaganda and Republicans deny that Fox news is propaganda whilst they accuse the other side being biased; proving both affiliations are incapable of objectivity.
As a result of these three factors – being English, a bad education system and a terrible news media – Americans are the least well informed people on the planet.
Most Americans don’t know how many countries there are, what continents they are in, what languages they speak, their weather systems, monies they use, alphabets, political systems, capital cities, don’t understand the metric system nor do they have any other general knowledge about the world. They only know exaggerated English stereotypes about other peoples which they genuinely believe to be facts.
Anybody that ignorant from anywhere else would have to be deliberately not paying attention in school, not watching the news, not reading newspapers, nor reading books etc.
Hence the stereotype of the stupid American; someone who simply doesn’t know how the rest of the world works but arrogantly assumes it will be exactly like America in every way. Why do they get on planes for hours to go to foreign countries if those foreign lands are going to be exactly like America?
If foreign countries are the same as America – which they aren’t – why not just stay in their own country? When Americans go to Europe all they want is a familiar English first name and a stereotypical accent, when they don’t encounter this they balk at it.
When Americans find out that everyone else in the world thinks they are stupid as a result of this mentality, they get angry with the rest of the world instead of getting angry with their own culture, education system and media and resolving to change; Anglo-Saxon arrogance.
Cultural Insularity
3. The third problem Americans have, yet another English hangover, is cultural insularity. Whatever way life is in the States (English colony) that’s the way the world will be, and if the rest of the world is different, it is the rest of the world which is wrong. Even though the rest of the world is older than the United States and there are more people living outside it than in it.
America is “the greatest country in the world”, even though the Americans saying this don’t know how many countries there are, didn’t have passports for most of their lives and have usually never been abroad before. The rest of the world should change to be like America (England). Nobody else thinks like this, not even younger English people think like this anymore – although the mentality comes from that country.
Names are a huge issue; when Americans hear a non-English common first name at a minimum they cannot remember it, best case scenario. Worst case scenario they pass a comment they shouldn’t like “I’ve never heard that name before” or “that’s one of the these new made up names” or “have you thought about changing your name?”
Ninety Percent of the world has non-English forenames, including 450 million Europeans whose ancestry Americans claim. All Americans are called Mike, Dave, John or Bill, Sarah, Jane, Susan or Karen; first names common to England. What became the United States was colonised primarily by working class English people who balked at the German, Irish, Polish, Italian, Norwegian etc. “ethnic” forenames of the newcomers.
Anyone not English had to change or at least Anglicise their forenames, as a result Americans have the same 20 first names, they have no idea what their names mean (all names have meaning, one of the reasons they are chosen by parents), they don’t even know that names have meanings or where they come from be it Hebrew, Celtic, Slavic, Nordic, Roman or Greek literature etc.
Most Americans will balk at a name which is perfectly common and thousands of years old in the country they are visiting, insult the local and remind that local that Americans are in essence unintelligent English people who don’t live in England.
Their great-grandfather, who is actually from the country whose ancestry they claim, would not have had an issue with the name they can’t remember or just insulted. The English, Australians and New Zealanders are like this too; Canadians have French people in their country and the South Africans have the Dutch and Zulus so they are slightly better educated and usually know different nationalities have different names.
Apart from names, Americans cannot get over that many countries are not air conditioned, particularly in Southern Europe, where they are used to the heat; that’s why they are browner. Americans think Italians, Greeks and Spanish people have “the Black blood in them and that’s why they are brown”; go put white bread in a toaster and see what happens.
The American predilection to think race or ethnicity causes individual characteristics and behaviour is remarkable and has been discredited in the 19th Century in most countries; it’s one of the precepts of racism.
Most Americans, including Democrats, are implicitly racist but you cannot call them that as they cannot stand being criticised and because they feel really guilty about and ashamed of slavery.
Gay marriage seemed to be controversial in the United States and the divorce rate is 50% as Americans secretly want to marry their air conditioners. They, along with Australians, Kiwis and the Israelis are addicted to it because they’re living in a climate that they are not really from.
While Americans might be physically in another country, they are still psychologically in the United States; they interpret every single thing they see or hear through the prism of America – they are American (English) to their souls and bones.
Older Americans almost universally have issues with their hips and legs, many places around the world have nowhere to sit down unless you are willing to pay for coffee or food. Otherwise most people, even European older people, like walking.
Other peoples drive on different sides of the road, spell and pronounce words and letters differently (or correctly), use different terms and expressions and 192 of the 195 countries in the world use the use the metric system, which most older Americans do not know how to convert to from Imperial measurements.
Even the English now use the Metric System for weights and temperature – they won’t accept it for distance – although the older ones would prefer to back to what they invented. Americans use British Imperial measurements because they are culturally and psychologically English.
Americans Love Stereotypes
4. The fourth problem Yanks have, another English problem, is believing stereotypes to be facts.
As the American education system and American television does not educate their populace about foreign countries (nor their own), the only information Americans have access to are the stereotypes portrayed on their television.
So they really do believe that all Irish people are violence inclined, religion and potato obsessed alcoholics with red hair who sound like leprechauns. Italians are piazza and pasta eating corrupt Mafiosi, Spanish people are lazy apparently, Germans are still Nazis and French people are bad at war (France dominated Europe for 1000 years and the States would not have been independent without the assistance of the French).
Americans ask the people in the countries they visit about these ridiculous and offensive stereotypes with serious faces and are surprised when the locals get offended or think Americans are genuinely stupid as a result.
Apart from being killed in a terrorist bombing, being mugged or getting on the wrong train or bus going in the wrong direction, one of Americans biggest fears is putting their foot in it in a foreign country, offending the locals and making themselves look stupid; American fear number four.
If Europeans respond with the negative stereotypes we know about the United States, most Republicans get angry, shout and make noises and Democrats look embarrassed and apologise. The global stereotype of Americans is that they are fat, stupid, racist idiots who only care about money and get lost everywhere they go. As Americans are psychologically English, you cannot say that to them because they cannot stand being criticised; they are allowed insult your country of course.
American women – as English women who don’t live in England – think they are superior to men and will make a distinctive noise should a man address them as an equal; “Eeeeeewwwwwww”. Only American women make this noise; women from other countries don’t know about eeeeewwwww and have their own noises instead. All American women know how to make this same noise because they all think the same way because all Americans are the same; they only vary occasionally in accent and political affiliation.
Regardless of their political affiliation the American had just incensed the European in to saying what we really think – American fear number four – and again “the whole day is ruined and the whole vacation is ruined!” Yes, but your arrogant ignorance provoked us in to ruining it for you.
Many people around the world, not just Americans, believe stereotypes – in particular English colonials – however Americans believe them more than anyone else and moreover want them to be true.
If the stereotypes shown on United States television are true then the Americans know something about the country they are visiting and the people around them. If the stereotypes are not true, or only partially so, then they know absolutely nothing and it goes back to point number one; fear of the unknown and different.
Americans would genuinely pay a stereotype tax to the rest of the world for the locals to pretend the nonsense on American television is accurate; that way they can psychologically relax while on vacation. They would also pay a tax for no one to call them stupid or racist; their two trigger words. The word stupid so bothers Americans that they refuse to pronounce it properly; they say stoopid instead of stewpid.
One of the reasons Americans believe stereotypes to be facts is because they are themselves all so stereotypical. Whatever way life is in America that’s the way foreign countries will be, so Americans are all generic stereotypes so therefore every other nationality will be too.
Inability to Process Information
5. The fifth issue older Yanks have is an entirely self-imposed problem which cannot be attributed to their English mindset; a refusal to remember things.
When an American turns approximately 40 to 45 years of age, s/he will no longer process information in any way shape or form. They deliberately refuse to listen to a word that is said to them; it is a chore and a responsibility and they simply don’t want to think. The more information you give them, the more they get worried as they know they will forget it because they know they don’t want to listen.
This manifests in two ways.
A) Americans have a very short attention spans, unwilling to remember restaurant recommendations, simple facts and the time to be back on the tour bus that they have already been told many, many, many times. The reason they do tours is because they want to be babysat and chaperoned and not to have to think at all. No one else in the world is like this; it’s a choice and it’s absolutely ridiculous.
B) Americans have an absolutely dreadful sense of direction and get lost everywhere…even with maps. They don’t know their way back to their hotel, they often can’t remember the name of their hotel or their room number, they take wrong turns, they get lost in small towns with low populations and five streets all of which are connected to each other after they have been given walking tours of these places. How are Americans better than everyone else?
Even if you give them an orientation walk and point out landmarks, the average American will say “I’m totally turned around right now”. They deliberately refuse to process any information even if it is in their own self interest.
Their excuse for this behaviour is that the town they are in is new, and is not on a grid system like America. Once again English cultural insularity; whatever way life is in America (England) that’s the way the rest of the world should be. Most of the United States is on a grid system because their founding fathers admired ancient Greece and Athens in particular. Americans get lost in Athens Greece and in other European cities on a grid system thus disproving that contention. They get lost because they refuse to remember where they are.
Younger Yanks in their teens, 20s and 30s do not get lost on their vacation as they choose to pay attention to where they are and they know how to use Google Maps as a backup, thus disproving the excuse the older Americans come up with.
Americans know that they refuse to remember things and get lost everywhere they go. This refusal to remember things makes their fear of victimhood even worse. As they don’t know anything about the rest of the world and they think the rest of the world is like America, they presume that everyone in the world gets lost in foreign countries.
No; the only people who get lost on holidays are people from India, older Aussies and Kiwis (same people) and Yanks over 40 years of age.
Americans are Sensitive
6. The sixth issue older Americans suffer from is sensitivity.
Americans cannot stand being criticised, being made fun of or even being culturally analysed. As English people who don’t live in England, they of course think they are better than everyone else so they can insult and make fun of other societies, but no one is allowed answer them back – the mentality of a middle school bully.
If they were truly German, Irish, Polish, Italian, Greek, Norwegian whatever – as they claim – they would have no problem being made fun of and would simply laugh it off.
Yanks care deeply about how they as a country and a people are perceived, particularly in the old countries of Europe where their ancestors are from. One of their stock questions in Europe is “what do people think of Americans here?”
They think, quite rightly, that most Europeans think the majority of Americans are stupid and racist; the two trigger words which drive them utterly insane – calling them fat doesn’t bother them. As most Americans are ignorant, culturally insular and obsessed with race; the valid perception that they are stupid and racist is a source of tremendous embarrassment and shame to them.
Most of the basis for this belief comes from the small but very vocal component of the nativist WASP; the American of English, German, Dutch or Scandinavian descent, some ice-cream flavour of Protestant, who believes himself to be superior to every other “ethnic” group and who travels abroad to Europe aggressively verbalising ridiculous stereotypes he absorbed from American television to the tour guides, waiters and bartenders he meets, whilst getting lost, wearing beige khakis and white Ralph Lauren polo shirt.
Most Yanks who aren’t WASP, be they Italian, Irish, Polish, Indian, African, Asian or whatever adopt this mentality too, turning their backs on their ancestral culture, unable to speak the languages of their great-grandparents, balking at or unable to remember the local names, and getting lost on vacation with maps and being unable to remember the way back to their hotel.
As a result of this anti-ethnic mentality Americans are in effect blank cultureless white people who live in a country they aren’t really from. They regularly travel to Europe – because they fear the skin colours of the peoples of Africa, Asia and South America – to see White People who have soul and an actual connection to the land they occupy. Americans are their skin colour; outside of that immutable characteristic, they have no authentic culture of their own other than being bizarre terrified English people with a pre-occupation with money.
Their obsession with ancestry.com, an attempt to have an identity, shows results in their ancestry they knew nothing about; “oh we didn’t talk about your ethnic great grandparents in this house”. This is an attempt not to be English – which they are – or not to just be blank cultureless white people who live in a country they aren’t really from.
Younger Americans in twenties and thirties don’t watch American television anymore, they watch YouTube and Netflix, so they aren’t as ignorant or afraid. They are embarrassed by their parents and grandparents generation’s lack of knowledge.
Democrats Think They are Better than Republicans
Many Americans associate this ignorant and arrogant attitude with the Republican Party, although people who vote Democrat have the same issues too; they are just usually not aggressive about it.
Many younger Americans in their twenties on holidays start ranting about Bush or Trump and the racism in the States so they can virtue signal to Europeans that they aren’t like their Republican Dad and are in fact a member of small elite group of “intelligent Americans”.
Democrats, just like the European left, are utterly obsessed with politics and bring it up all the time, randomly and without any lead in. As Europe is generally more to the left than the States – it has reasonable worker’s rights – American Democrats think everyone in Europe is a socialist. They love an opportunity to bad mouth their Republican neighbours to Europeans, not realising half the people in Europe are centre-right and secretly sympathise with Donald Trump.
Yank Democrats would like to believe that everyone else’s disdain for their countrymen is caused exclusively by Republican domestic or foreign policy “they hate us because of Bush/Iraq War/Trump/insert next Republican President here”. American lefties think “A Democrat gets elected, nothing changes whatsoever but hey Europeans like Democrats more than Republicans so we won’t be called stupid or racist for a few years”.
No, the only differences between a Republican and Democrat on vacation is: most Republicans are arrogant about believing America is the greatest country in the world, Democrats are far more arrogant about politics.
When Americans are rightly criticised, far-right Republican men get angry and shout “America is the greatest country in the world” or “We paid for this tour/meal/beer goddammit”. Republican women dance and make the American women noise “eeeeewwwwwww”.
Far left Democrat women just start sneering sexist comments at the nearest man. Centre-left Democrats regardless of gender go quiet, look guilty and apologise even if they have personally done nothing wrong.
If one American can apologise on behalf of a group of Americans or America itself – because they all think the same way – then that means all Americans are the same.
For a country which prides itself on individualism, Americans are all practically identical in culture, accents, names, dress and mentality. They are only individualists when it comes to money; they will not spend their money on anyone or anything else unless it is through choice.
Americans dress the same way. They have the same 10 first names for men and the same 10 forename for women. They have same accent in 75% of cases. They say the same things; using the same words “what”, “I’m sorry”, “eeeewwww” and raising the same topics for conversation.
They ask the same questions in a tour scenario and about life in general and they phrase both sets of questions word for word verbatim; there’s no variation in the word order. They make the same noises in general and in unison when they are afraid. They pull the same facial expressions as the same time in groups. They apologise on each other behalves and they speak on each other behalves constantly. No other nationality of people is that similar to each other. It’s utterly bizarre.
Yanks are obsessed with fear, money, race, politics, stereotypes, air-conditioning, not listening, getting lost, what Europeans think of them and venmo (a money app like revolut).
Americans know they are all the same; when they meet each other they have no idea what State the person they are talking to is from as the majority have the exact same accent. When Yanks are told they are told they are all the same, they never object to the statement because it is bluntly true; not even Republican Bob or Betty will argue it. They of course take offence, as they are psychologically English and cannot stand being criticised. If they’re all the same then it means they are not a real people nor a real country. Americans are sadly blank cultureless white people who only care about money; they have no soul.
Americans think you are your job
7. The seventh concept that Americans keep manifesting is, you are your job and I have the right to mistreat you should I want to.
The majority of colonists to the future United States were English working class people who set up the default or natural culture of that country; they are not German, Irish, Polish, Italian, Norwegian or any other identity they claim.
As a result of this their favourite word is “what”, they mispronounce the letter H as “aitch” and they think you are your job. You should work every hour that God sends; breaks, lunches, weekends, holidays these are irrelevant and should only be contemplated after everything is done or preferably when you’re retired.
Americans do not have codified legal vacation time; the “two weeks” is not in their laws, it’s just convention – some of their newer trendy IT companies give three weeks.
In Europe it is 4 weeks by EU law and some places like Denmark, Luxembourg and Ireland in effect give 6 weeks off (when you include Christmas holidays) on top of weekends. In the UK and Ireland they get Bank Holidays meaning every 4th weekend is a three day weekend; every 4th Monday is a paid day off. Americans, including Republicans, love the European work/life balance when they hear about it but not even American Democrats will pass it in their laws, because they don’t actually care about anyone else besides themselves.
Americans think that your sense of self-worth comes from your job. They believe in a hierarchy of jobs, as many people do, so a doctor is worth more than a teacher and a tour guide is worth less than a barista is barely above a homeless person, ostensibly.
Americans are the only people in the world who think tour guiding isn’t a real job and – being stupid – they actually say that directly to tour guides faces and expect a polite response. “So what’s your real job”, “so what’s your other job”, “is this a side-gig”, “Is this job seasonal? What do you in the winter? You don’t need to work? This job can’t possibly pay you enough to live on”.
The only reason tour guiding isn’t a real job is because the vast majority of people who take tours in Europe are older Americans and they refuse to listen to a single word that is said to them by the tour guides that they hire, thus rubbishing the whole point of hiring a tour guide. Tour guides who work with Americans aren’t tour guides, we’re glorified babysitters who keep them busy for a few hours and then show them the way back to their hotel whose name some of them cannot remember.
When Americans pay someone to do something, they think they temporarily own that person and have the right to mistreat them. So Americans, consumed by their American fear, will not uncommonly speak down to and occasionally shout at tour guides, waiters, bartenders over nothing when they feel things are out of their control, which is generally all the time.
When tour guides, waiters, bartenders respond to the rude American, the American becomes incensed; “I’m paying for this tour/this meal/this drink…” and ergo has the right to be an asshole and to not be answered back to.
Only the United States could have had a civil war over slavery; the concept that a person is owned by their employer and that an individual is their job and not entitled to be well treated. At the same time that Americans were killing each other over whether or not one person could own another person, European countries were reducing the working week to 5 days with Weekends off.
Americans abolished slavery, meaning everyone is now paid, but the central concept remain intrinsically part of the Yank mentality; you are you’re job, I’m paying you, so I own you and have the right to mistreat you if I feel like it.
Republicans – ironically the party that abolished slavery – are overwhelmingly likely to think this way, although not all do. Democrats think this way too, they just pretend they don’t; Democrats pretend to care about the little guy but they just want life their way and like to think that they are virtuous people; they never do anything to help anyone. The second a Democrat gets a government job their desire to help other people – if it ever existed – vanishes. At least the Republicans are honest about being selfish and expecting you to fend for yourself.
Some Australians, Kiwis and the English themselves also think this way but not as severely.
Why do Americans go on vacation
Since older Americans spend almost all of their time abroad afraid, getting lost, and deliberately not listening to a word that is said to them, the obvious question is why they even go on holidays?
When this question is put to Americans, one of their women will make the American women noise Eeeeeeewwwww and say “because we wanna see new things”. We the American people who all think the same way, all use the same words and speak on each others behalf’s all the time, because we all know how each other thinks, want to see new things. But they don’t.
90% of older Americans just show up in a foreign country knowing absolutely nothing about the place they are visiting except false ridiculous stereotypes as they refuse to do any research; they cannot stand processing information.
As a result of this mentality, almost all Americans who go abroad book tours of the places they visit, meaning Americans are about 99% of the organised European tour industry.
Older Yanks are afraid of foreign countries but are less afraid on a tour than they are by themselves; there’s a structure, a format, a familiarity, they have economic recourse if something goes wrong, they’re owed something as they have paid money – a methodology of control.
Secondly as they refuse to process information, they don’t want to do any research of their own and just show up, the research is done by the tour guide who will give them the information that they will refuse to listen to. You could literally make stuff up with Americans as they know nothing about the rest of the world and will believe anything they are told; just look at what passes for news in their country.
Thirdly, as they refuse to remember the way back to their hotels, the tour guide or driver will have to tell them the way back in exchange for the money they have paid.
Fourthly they get to take up time and have an answer for any real person from a normal country they meet who asks them what they have seen. If they were travelling around by themselves they’d have no idea where they are, they would get lost and would miss things locals know about.
The real reason Americans go on vacation is because people from real countries do. Most normal people want to see foreign countries and different lands and different cultures. Americans don’t. When they go abroad the want the foreign country on American/English terms; everyone they speak to and everything they see must have a familiar English name and they must see the stereotypes they saw on the tv.
The only thing necessary to be a tour guide dealing with Americans is white skin (they fear non white peoples), a familiar or preferably English forename, a stereotypical accent, a sense of humour to defuse their fear and telling them a stream of the exaggerated stereotypes they believe in so they can relax and think they know something about where they are.
Most People Think Americans Are Stupid
Long before I became a tour guide I heard “Americans are stupid” just like one hears “the French are rude” and “older English women are condescending and arrogant”. The reality of American stupidity is far worse than anything I could have ever imagined.
From all of this it may sound as those of us in the rest of the world hate Americans? No, we do not hate you but we do have disdain for you and it is very well deserved.
Because most Americans are mannerly, positive, generous and appreciative, the negative behaviours listed above really stand out.
It’s a dramatic juxtaposition between tremendous kindness (tipping) and positivity one the one hand coupled with abject fear, ignorance, cultural insularity, inaccurate stereotype believing, bad sense of direction, superiority and sensitivity on the other.
Americans tip and say thank you and that saves you from your negative aspects. If you didn’t tip and weren’t so positive, you would get a very different reception.
If you are American and have happened upon this article and you do the things outlined above, you should excessively tip the locals anywhere you go to compensate them for having to put up with you.
If you are an American and you do not do possess the habits outlined above, you have nothing to feel bad about. Getting angry with the writer of this piece is a waste of your time, correct the ignorant of your own country or have an aptitude test at your airports so they can’t leave.
Again there are good and bad people in every country and every country has its issues but no one else does these things to the same extent.
Australians Are Almost as Bad as Americans
Australians for example have most of the negative aspects that Americans have (ignorance, arrogance, stereotype believing) but they do not tip nor say thank you.
So most Europeans who work in the service industry be they tour guides, waiters or bartenders do not like Australians and New Zealanders, same people, and many tour guides refuse to bring them on tour.
Australians are not aware of how much they are disliked and, being English colonials who think they are better than others, get very offended when they are considered to be selfish, “struth, in Straya, people get paid well, it’s not fault if the waiter doesn’t get paid well”; English cultural insularity.
When you go on holiday to another country, you are not in your own country anymore and must respect their culture as their guest. Also if that is going to be your attitude then I’ll never tip an Aussie bartender again.
Kiwis are 95% identical to Australians; they are brother and sister or maybe even identical twins and they know they are too, they just object to the comparison because they’re psychologically English and cannot stand being criticised.
The most famous person in world from New Zealand is the actor Russel Crowe. People from New Zealand think he is from Australia because it is the same accent and they are the same people. Even the English South Africans sound Australian.
Canadians are just slightly better educated Americans who understand the Metric system and don’t like to tip. After Australians and New Zealanders, who are the same people, Canadians are the least generous nationality in the world.
English People Deny America is a British Colony
Eighty percent of American problems are English problems because Americans are 80% culturally and psychologically English. These issues were inherited from the English people who set up America and whose bad habits were adopted by the immigrants who came in and had to become English/American in culture so they could get jobs and stop being discriminated against for being “ethnic”.
Ironically, despite this attempt to be only English and having bad English habits like only speaking English, disliking names uncommon to England, knowing nothing about the world, believing stereotypes and thinking they are better than everyone else, saying “what” all the time and mispronouncing the letter H as “aitch” etc. etc., many English people outright deny that America is one of their colonies.
They don’t deny that Canada or Australia are British colonies. This is not because they lost a war to the Yanks and the USA is now independent.
When presented with all the evidence that the USA is a former British colony and Americans are 80% culturally and psychologically English, English people eventually respond “fine we did put them there, but it’s not our fault how they turned out”.
English people think Americans are stupid and if England is the mother country – which it is – then that means English people are stupid too, which they are.
As far as English people are concerned, Americans are their illegitimate children from a relationship they wish they never had.
The only reason anyone talks to an American over 45 years of age is to get their money. It is not possible to have a conversation with them; they are afraid, they don’t know anything about the world, they won’t listen, they cannot stand foreign names, they think stereotypes are facts, they have no idea where they are or what is going on.
You can talk to Americans younger than 45 but that’s just usually to have sex with them as they are good looking and slutty.
Summary
Americans:
- Are afraid of the world, and no one else is
- Know nothing about the world due to English mentality, bad education system and terrible media
- Think whatever way life is in the States, that’s the way the world will and should be
- Genuinely believe inaccurate stereotypes about other peoples to be facts
- Refuse to listen or remember anything and get lost everywhere with maps
- Cannot stand being criticised, but think it’s fine to criticise other people
- Democrats constantly rant about politics and think they are better than Republicans
- Are addicted to air conditioning
- Believe a person’s ethnicity or race controls their individual behaviour
- Think a person is their job and they have the right to mistreat someone if they are paying them.
- Are considered the worst of the British Colonials
- Are disowned by English people who deny America is one of their colonies
- Are deeply concerned about how they are perceived by others, insist on being told what Europeans think about them and when they are told the truth get upset and are completely unwilling to change
Conclusion
So if I had advice for Americans travelling abroad I would say three things.
- One, choose to stop being afraid; calm down nothing bad is going to happen to you and if it does it could happen to anyone. Research your vacation, don’t just show up.
- Two, get over people’s names in other countries and never pass a negative remark to someone about their name particularly if you don’t know what your own name means or where it comes from.
- Thirdly, never verbalise a stereotype about the country you are visiting, you may get those people telling you some stereotypes they believe about Americans and you may not enjoy hearing it.
If Americans dropped their fear, ignorance, cultural insularity, stereotype believing, inability to process information, getting lost, Anglo-Saxon superiority complex and thinking they’ve the right to be rude to the people they employ, no one would ever say a bad word about you again. You really are usually nice people and usually very generous. Again, it could be worse, you could be a middle aged English woman or even French.