Americans Living Abroad: First Time You Realized America Really Messed You Up | Part 2 | TikTok

Americans Living Abroad: First Time You Realized America Really Messed You Up | Part 2 | TikTok

Besides the pervasive dishonesty demanded by the capitalist way of running society, there's the endless irritation of an intrusive marketing system that won't leave our minds alone. The US is one of two countries in the world that permits the idiocy of Big Pharma ads, for example. And which still doesn't have a free and universal healthcare system.

Turns out, more Americans are beginning to realise the "American Way of Life" —steeped in hyper-individualism and privatism—both offshoots of economic and social liberalism—is actually a dumb and diseased way to organise a society. Living in America, as these young people suggest, ends up damaging you in unavoidable ways, if it doesn't kill you outright. The select comments below are interesting and inspiring: people are waking up at last (the right kind of waking, not the WOKE bullshit sort.)

  SELECTED COMMENTS

shantelle F 11 months ago It will always be beyond me how people glamourize America so heavy when there are much better places to live

ShanaJean Gedeon 11 months ago As someone who was born and raised in America, and still lives here, it surprises me how many of us don't realize that America's "culture" is to literally not care about people. So many countries have these cool cultures that can be expressed through dance or customization/outfits, but America's culture is to brag about how much they don't give a fuck about anyone.

Freddie Mercury 11 months ago My parents had a reverse experience of that as atheist, progressive Swedes living in Texas in the early 2000s. My mum in particular. She was considered “weird” because she didn’t take us to church every Sunday and didn’t consider us spending time with our dad him “babysitting”. She was laughed at for perfecting her Spanish so she could talk to the men who did yard work outside and for having a no junk-food rule from Monday to Friday.

eric moss 10 months ago In the US friends warned me about going to SE Europe — “will you be safe???” In Romania, I told my friend that he could go into the store while I watched the bicycles. He stopped and asked, “watch them do what?”

Felipe 10 months ago Before learning English: "I'd like to go to America someday". After learning English: "I'd like to go to any country but America today."

tzirl reznik 10 months ago I’m currently a student in Italy and it has been a culture shock. People just live and enjoy life and take breaks when they need them and they aren’t money hungry freaks who work till 7 till they die. It’s quite refreshing. I will say there is a downside because stores are more closed than open but the idea behind it is incredible

Lantz 11 months ago (edited) My pregnant teacher begged her students that if her water ever broke during class or something similar, to call her husband instead of the ambulance because she couldnt afford it. She's a teacher, and she cant afford an ambulance. You know how messed up that sounds, right?

Lily Bunnyface 11 months ago I feel like America and these stories are like people leaving a relationship and then realize it was hella toxic. Kinda want to leave and see how messed up I am

Gerardo Thielen 10 months ago (edited) It is refreshing to see young Americans realising the shortcomings of US society and knowing other countries.

neckpeck 10 months ago (edited) Every time I talk about colonialism with my friends from the US (who, note, are well-meaning and for american standards, very well educated on social issues) I have to explain basic history to them and dismantle soooo much patriotism and nationalism that's been ingrained into them since they were preschoolers. Like, a friend explained to me after a long conversation of me criticising these nationalistic tendencies in the US, that he was still happy to be an American because of his ancestors efforts to come to the US. If it hadn't been for them, he wouldn't be here. When I told him that he most likely would have been born in Europe instead, because his ancestors were Europeans who colonised North America and murdered most indigenous people there, it was a genuine eye-opener for him. He simply had never seen things from that perspective before. So folks, let's keep in mind that US Americans aren't stupid or arrogant. They simply don't know how much they don't know, because the turbocapitalist white supremacist hellhole called an education system over there has shaped them that way.

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