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[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

the average american sees the rest of the world as subhuman

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I think liberals extend some courtesy to other ~~white~~ "Western" nations.

[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

no, they really don't
they will consider us human as compared to more marginalised people
but ultimately, we aren't american
and therefore lesser

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Agreed. We are "exotic" to them at best, a kind of "almost American" or "honorary American" but they just never quite bother to actually learn about us in any meaningful way. The sheer number of Americans I've had to teach basic facts about my country (like which city is the capital, or the size of the country) is mind boggling. They honestly don't seem to be interested in anything except in order to compare it to America.

I can't even imagine what it would be like for non-white people, Africans especially, trying to educate Americans on their nation.

[-] GivingEuropeASpook@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

you must have never met the liberals who act like Europe is devoid of "dumb racist hicks" who don't "vote against their own best interests". Some Americans consider Europeans more human than the Rust Belt, or the Deep South, or Texas.

[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i'm not american, so of course i haven't
i've experienced americans purely online
and most of you dont see anyone outside your borders as people shrug-outta-hecks

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think they were making a more nuanced point that American liberals tend to (incorrectly) romanticize Europeans for supposedly being less conservative (in a purely bourgeois political spectrum). I know you're just rightly calling out American chauvinism, but I don't think the person you're talking to is trying to defend that. American chauvinism takes on many different forms, some of which involve romanticizing European libs.

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