Topic: What do Americans not fully grasp about Europeans?
Depressionmod™ !iAYoMftFR2 started this discussion 8 years ago#75,234
We do not mind high taxes - nope. Free healthcare, free education far outweigh high taxes. Maybe our paychecks don’t look as bloated in the end, but you don’t save a lifetime for college of sell your house for surgery.
We do not want to carry guns. Bats can help bend stuff, knives can cut stuff, axes can chop, but guns cannot do anything but kill. Why would I need to edc one? Do I need to kill someone daily? I know bandits will still have guns, but if I get in a fight with my wife, or next door neighbour or another driver I know he won’t shoot me on a whim.
Tips are tips. Extra money to be given as extra thank you for extra good service. Paycheck should be decent so that people don’t work for tips… it feels like formal bribery or tax evasion to hide paychecks as tips.
We are not the same. There are 50 countries in Europe and countless regions and 118 languages are spoken. Some are rich some are not so rich…
We are not “white” and could not care less about what the US thinks of colour ratings. UK is full of Pakistani and Indians, France of Morroccans and Tunisians, Finland and Russia of Asiatic people and yes Mediteranean peoples are all European, thank you very much. Noone in Europe loses sleep if the neighbour is darker or lighter than he is.
Having kings is not a “crutch”. They are just like presidents who have been groomed for life.
Scandinavia is neither socialist, nor communist, nor is it dieing.
We do not all use the Euro. There are many other currencies.
No country really chose to be communist (arguably Russia sort of did). Communism was sprung on most countries after WW2.
Speaking of war.. we’re sick and tired of it. We’ve been slaughtering each other for 3000 years. It’s about time we stopped, pooled our resources together and started working.
We are FREE. Really. US isn’t the only free country (arguably it’s one of the least free). Even in Russia you can go on the street and shout against Putin - you might get a fine for disturbing the peace, but you won’t go to the Gulag.
We don’t need BIG … stuff .. we don’t need huge houses and pick-up trucks. Countries are small and so are the roads.
We don’t need sky-scrapers. Center of Paris, Milan, Amsterdam, Prague etc isn’t filled with Sky-scrapers because we can’t afford them, it’s because we like our old, beautiful architecture.
Our houses are made of brick and concrete. In most of Europe you’d freeze to death in US-style huge matchstick-homes.
Policemen are your friends. Really. In Amsterdam they will take drunk tourists to their hotel, in Prague they would point you to a brothel. Anywhere in Europe you can ask a cop for info, or help, or directions. Policeman aren’t to be feared and they won’t be shooting at you.
Being “Christian” or “Atheist” is not a big deal. Most people in Europe will say they are “Christians” because they were baptised as such, but really it’s just a formal thing. They attend church at baptisms, weddings, funerals and on Easter Mass. Nobody gives a crap if your politician or neighbour goes to Church 3 times a week or reads his Bible every night.
Europe is smallish and complex. Travel network is great. We visit other countries daily/weekly/monthly. There is definitely more than one country in the world.
It’s called football, not soccer - you hit it with your foot. Everybody calls it that.
It’s not a World Series if it’s only one country playing it.
Metric system is logical and pretty much everybody uses it (even the UK)
A restaurant in Europe is not a burger joint.
Starbucks is crap coffee - it’s all Marketing.
Hershey is not good. Even bad European chocolate is better than US one. Belgian and Swiss ones are amazing.
Bud is not beer. Bud is flavoured water. Drink German or Czech beer and you’ll see.
Cheese should not be in plastic tubes.
You did not “save” us in WW2. If was the English and many more who did the fighting and the Russians who did the dieing. US supported from the side and only came in at the end.
We did not ask the US to play world police, world economics manager or world manners teacher. We did not need the Gulf Wars, the Serbian bombing, the shit you pulled, creating Al Qaeda and Isis. You guys keep rattling the wasp’s nests, giving weapons to the bumblebees while looking or oil and we get the “ stings” - mass immigration, bombs etc.
Thanks for keeping “The Russian Bear” in check. Please try not to start a Nuclear War. TYVM.
US is not the center of the World. We like Hollywood and your entertainment industry, but we do not really look up to you as a country or really want to immigrate there.
We still fail to see how Chocolate Surprise eggs are more dangerous to kids than guns.
We also fail to see why a child at 18 is too young to drink a beer, too young to have sex but not too young to go to war and shoot a machine gun.
We think nudity and sex are natural and that violence is the one to be censored.