Ryan: I have never heard a gunshot outside of a shooting range.
Most Europeans: I have never heard a gunshot outside of movies/tv-series, etc. 🤣

Watching Americans is like watching a friend struggle in an abusive relationship but constantly telling you about how amazing their BF is for doing (less than) the bare minimum

Amongst a ton of other things, people getting shot calling an uber instead of the ambulance because calling an ambulance would ruin them is dystopian af

Dude, I moved to America from Iceland and I kept getting rude comments about my country. A LOT of people seemed to assume that I was trying to land an American guy to get myself a green card, when in reality Iceland ranks significantly higher than the US for quality of life when you factor in wealth inequality, education, healthcare... literally everything except the weather.

"Imagine moving to America and there were negative comments about your country"

" their eating the dogs!"

The lady describing US as third world country with a lot of money is spot on😅

Edit for fixing typo

I’m in my 50’s. As a teenager, US shows and movies told me the US was an amazing place to live, the kids all lived in amazing houses, they were able to drive to school, had house parties, their own landline in their bedrooms etc. Then in 1984 I went on holiday to Florida, I experienced so many firsts  - first McDonald’s, first drive through, first time having pancakes and maple syrup for breakfast, first shopping mall, first theme park etc. That just added to my idea of the US being a great place to live. I even watched the Challenger space shuttle land.

But then I grew up and later had internet access to information other than what was portrayed on the TV. I learned about gun issues, healthcare issues, education issues, employment law issues. Political issues that made me realise that living in the US was not all it is cracked up to be
I don’t hate the US, but I don’t like people from the US who refuse to look at the bigger picture and accept that they do not live in the best country in the world. But most of all, I am saddened that the average person in the US does not have the same opportunities to enjoy life to its fullest that I do.

With a Nordic perspective, I would say what I dislike the most about Americans is the fact that they don't take ownership of the state and what the state does. The state gets its power from the population and ultimately serves to give the population something in exchange for giving up some liberties and paying taxes;  it's a tool for security, stability, opportunity, etc. The state is moving towards an authoritarian regime while the American population doesn't even know what gerrymandering, filibustering, or voter fraud even is or why it is important to fight it. The American state currently does and will do a lot of meddling in other places and accelerating of climate destruction without the American populace feeling any responsibility for what they have let a previously healthy democracy collapse into.

“Do they not have TikTok in Belgium?” They do, but they just have self-respect.  😂

It's really interesting that as an American your first thought when comparing French food vs American is "fancy vs "not fancy" and not healthy vs unhealthy. Which it should be. Priorities are the real difference here.

I'm an American expat who has been living in Europe for the past 8 years. Most Europeans see Americans as loud, spoiled, entitled people, who whine and complain when they can't have things their way; they come to Europe and expect everything to be just like it is in the US from food, to culture, to laws, to LANGUAGE. Quite frankly, as someone who lives in a city FULL of American tourists six months of the year, Europeans are spot on.

You guys talk about how this make you feel bad about how europeans dislike americans, but is the way that people from USA threat latinos....

I don't think Europeans hates Americans, it's more like we make fun of them because "all" Americans think they're the center of the world.

Actually, Taco Bell is an American chain that FAILED in Mexico, lol

i'm a Born American living in the UK, also lived in france, germany and italy, and my experience for the most part has always been totally positive. now living as an outsider of the US, i see the US as disgusting and i would never choose to return, it literally has nothing appealing. i left aged 24, i am now 37 and i see nothing more than a glorified third world self righteous nation that i do not wish to ever be a part of again. No country is perfect and the UK has it's fair share of many issues right now, but life here in the UK is just overall much better for many reasons.

The self importance is such a big factor. Like I was just at a shop in laos and an American girl was bragging about how they bought all the mosquito repelant the tiny store had. The rest of the world sees that as selfish to do mind make it sound like something to be proud of. I'm sure they were nice people (in this group) but when that is the public impression that many Americans portray it leaves a sour taste.

For me it's the "only looking out for myself " attitude from Americans.

Fun fact about Czech Republic where I live. 0.5 people die every year because of shooting and 99% of them are hunters who accidentally shoot each other…

Last week i took visiting family to see the kings guard,  an American was told off, and promptly ask to see the manager,  to complain.  The police officer armed to the teeth, tried to explain that they were genuine soldiers,  doing guard duty, she said I'm American!!!! . She was jeered and laughed at. Entitled or what.

I'm french and I didn't "hate" americans since very recently, like everyone I know. We are your oldest allies, our politic history are very linked, our constitutions were written by the same guys and on the same idea of liberty and for all the 70', 80', 90' an 2000' we ate your food watched your movies and listen to your music. Then your started to say we are rude in our own country while not saying hello and not caring about anyone in the public space, then we heard you don't like us because we missed one of your stupid wars, then that we were bad crazy socialist event if we made your ennemies our ennemies and your allies our allies. So please, don't say we hate you that easily, it's almost insulting.