American Patriotism feels weird, we kind of have the reverse sentiment in Brazil (that everything here is worse).
On a side note, when I was a kid if I saw a movie character talking about how awesome America is I thought we south-americans were included on it, kind of awkward to learn it wasn’t
Good old cultural cringe :\
I don’t understand the gun culture. I don’t get why it’s appealing, why shootings are often featured in Hollywood movies, or why shooting and collecting guns is a hobby. I’ve watched some informational YT videos of hobbyists talking about their rifles but it’s always been so mildly amusing at most.
I’m totally with you. But to add to that there’s something that I quite don’t understand why it’s popular both in America and in Latin America (dunno about other regions). Drug dealers, Mafia, violent criminals, narcos, capos, etc in media, be it documentary-style or fiction. Even in shows where they are meant as the bad guy protagonist lots of people tend to idolize them
The titles in my feed the last few days have been hilarious.
Drink tea with hot milk, like wtf? The milk sweetness destroy all that good light bitter flavor of tea.
If it’s milk being added to tea that surprises you, it is a regular drink in south and south-east asia, not unique to the west. The latter especially has this drink called “teh tarik” that uses condensed milk and is awesome but diabetes-inducingly sweet.
I live in Vietnam and we majority haven’t drink anything like that, just tea with hot water. Tea and milk is a minority mostly brought in by Westerner
Milk in tea is only universal for English/Irish breakfast tea(idk how popular they are outside wester Europe but in England/Ireland if someon says tea they mean breakfast tea and will specify otherwise)for something like chai or eal grey 1/3~(anicdotally) of people who drink it wouldn’t have mik, and the milk isn’t hot it’s normally fridge-cold to room-temp the tea bag is steeped in just water, the point is to sweeten the rea and cool it down
You’re posting from an Indonesian server, so this is a particularly hilarious take.
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You’re right! It doesn’t! And it’s still funny!
American. I normally drink my tea black, but milk is nice with earl grey on occasion.
And typically, the milk isn’t hot. You pour it in already steeped tea, like you would if you drank coffee with cream.
That said, I do occasionally steep my earl grey entirely in steamed milk and add a little vanilla and it’s just a nice treat. But I’m not looking for a bitter flavor at that point either.
Honestly, I thought putting milk & sugar in your tea was bonkers until I tried it from my British friends. It works with traditional English teas, but not really with American/orange pekoe teas.
There are some English teas that are so bitter that they need sugar in order to be palatable.
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A sense of entitlement and moral superiority.
All your wealth and development is the direct result of over exploitation of the global south.
You shouldn’t feel pride in your history. You should feel deep, DEEEEP shame. Every waking second of your lives.
I don’t agree with “every waking second” of their lives (it’s just paralyzing to live like that, wouldn’t be productive to help solve the current situation) and maybe other details of your wording but I do agree with the general gist. Once you start critically reading history and looking at the present it’s hard not to do that math.
At the very least I would love if I hadn’t to periodically suffer some online European conservative (particularly common seem to be the Spaniard and British ones) gloating about their perceived superiority, wealth, civility, etc. Or parroting their learned Official Histories.
Yeah I was pretty mad when I wrote that. Being an immigrant to the more central provinces of the Imperial Core makes you realize the dissonance and hypocrisy much more vividly…
Ofc I don’t think it makes sense for anyone to live paralysed by guilt. Maybe some of the wealthier heirs of colonialism, but like 99.99% of people deserve a chance to learn and understand and change. Guilt can be a tool for that. But it also can be a detriment.
Time to roast literally everyone.
Canadians: milk in bags? Really? I’d rather drink raw maple syrup than do this.
Muricans: the imperial measurement system is just too confusing for everyone but them (and the Liberians and Burmese as well). Also, their patriotism is just plain weird.
Spaniards: fast talking. Quiero apprender Español, but it’s just so difficult to practice when you’re basically the conversation equivalent of Eminem. Also, they like speaking with a lisp. I don’t know if I can say the same for Latin Americans, but their Spanish is even weirder.
French: the strikes. That alone makes me mad.
Dutch: they. Love. Orange. Also, if you try to speak their language, and you make one small mistake, they immediately switch to speaking English. Bro, I never asked for this. Also, the breakfast is garbage.
Italians: is speaking with your hands considered weird to you? You might as well teach everyone sign language instead of Italian. Not even the Sanmarinese do this.
Austrians: Vienna has some ridiculously different to remember coats of arms. Why do you even need this?
Germans: it’s very boring in here. I apparently have no taste in you guys. And my cousin is half German as well.
Belarusians: they still can’t get rid of Lukashenko.
Danes: they’re speaking Swedish with an apple in their mouth. Try saying “Rødøvre”.
Finns: following this year’s Eurovision, I noticed that they’re suddenly obsessed with neon green. I mean, their entry in the contest was really good, but it’s not like it’s worth idolizing.
Russians: it’s their Holodets that’s bad. And maybe their extreme nationalism, but I blame their government for this.
Swedes: they’re responsible for Ikea, PewDiePie, Minecraft, Spotify (also known as rubbish), wacky television presenters, a flag that looks cool as hell, what more can I say? Only Spotify coming from here annoys me. Because it’s terrible (if you use Spotify, I don’t hate you, and you’re free to keep using it, I just hate it). Also, I kinda like Loreen.
Swiss: everything is expensive here. Also, Zürich, Geneva and Luganno all speak different languages. Weird. But I guess their chocolate is good?
Belgians: they hate the French, they hate the Dutch, and they’re so mixed in culture and ethnicity that they’re actually my favorite country. It’s just their tendency to also hate each other that I kinda hate.
Luxembourgers: the fact that they’re called that. It sounds like food.
Greeks: corruption
Turks: that Erdogan guy
Hungarians: their impossible language. Also, they made a toy that I still can’t solve.
Estonians: the fact that nobody can make a flag as good as theirs, I’m basically jealous. And maybe their language as well.
Ukrainians: probably nothing.
Serbs: how do you write a language with two different scripts? Isn’t that confusing for you guys?
Moldovans: they’re not Romanians.
Czechs: their country name.
Portuguese: they’re probably too good at English. How is that even possible? Brazil speaks the same native language as Portugal, and they couldn’t even do this. I’m actually jelly again.
Liechtensteiners: their country is basically a 1 million star hotel.
Lithuanians: are they all called Monika? I hope not.
Andorrans: get a proper government, mate.
Slovaks and Slovenes: I still don’t know the difference between Slovenčina and Slovenščina.
Cypriots: guys, look. It’s the bilingual island that relies on the UN to prevent warfare.
Maltese: they’re basically the European clones of Arabs, except for the fact that they’re way better.
Irish: you guys literally neglect your own national language. And the language you do speak for the most part… is spoken with an impossible to understand accent.
British: they hate each other, their food is garbage, their weather is pretty bad, they left the EU, I still can’t understand you guys. The roadmen especially are just… ugh.
Romanians: they’re not Moldovans.
Montenegrins: who even are those guys?
Polish: they speak gibberish.
Latvians: what are those? I only know Lettonians.
Bosniaks AND Herzegovines (idk what to call them): I can’t tell the difference between the two. Also, there are Serbs that are trying to cut their country in half.
Macedonians: yes, the people from Greek Macedonia are included. What am I supposed to say about these guys?
Monegasques: no tax? I’m jealous once again.
Croats: my mom bought a tractor.
Sanmarinese: they’re surprisingly able to keep their current gov for SO LONG. But their football team doesn’t know what they’re doing.
Icelanders: you liars, there’s too little ice in here.
Georgians: gvprtskvni
Norwegians: two different writing standards? Why do you guys need two of them? Also, their language is so adaptable that you can speak your own way, and lie about being from a different part of Norway.
Armenians: their computers will most likely get viruses.
Azeris: thanks for destroying a bunch of homes back in 2012.
Vaticaners: absolutely nothing.
Australians: these guys abbreviate every single word in the English language to the point of insanity sometimes. Also, why is the word "c**t* usef so frequently here?
Albanians: they’re drunk Turks. And that’s in a good way.
Israelis: you guys are okay with letting your gov destroy the hell out of Palestine? I’m seriously tired of all this fighting. Just make peace with them already.
Moroccans: I’m one of them btw. I love how we pretend that we’re patriotic, yet we complain about literally everything in the country. Because we are indeed really bad. You’ll see this as soon as come across a Moroccan in Europe. And why are we in Eurovision? How have I never gotten any answers to this?
There. I just wasted your time by making you offended. Now go hit that downvote button. (Edit: you clearly did the exact opposite of what I said)
