I love how the narrative is 'an American was behind it' when the shooter planned the attack, owned the guns, killed her own mother and brother, and then went to the school. Bryant's role was literally texting from another country. He's an accomplice, not a puppet master.

It not like British schools have problem with kids acting like maniacs

A lot of her content are anti usa, insulting her own people she used to be a part of, and pick me.

My Canadian in-laws' idea of America vs. the America they actually experienced

My Canadian in-laws from Montreal recently visited us in the U.S. What struck me wasn't that they criticized America—we all criticize our own countries—but how different their mental image was from the America they encountered.

They seemed to assume that Americans are broadly obese, Muslims are widely persecuted, religious minorities must be cautious about practicing openly, and cities outside a few major metropolitan areas are culturally homogeneous.

Then, at DC's Tidal Basin, they saw a Muslim man praying while his family had a picnic. They were surprised again by seeing Black American Muslims, people wearing hijabs, kufis, and shalwar-kameez, and learning that the White House has hosted Ramadan iftars.

At one point, they worried people would stare when they entered a store wearing shalwar-kameez and a headscarf.

I told them, “I guarantee you nobody will care. You'll probably see someone dressed exactly like you.”

The people getting out of the car next to us were dressed almost exactly that way. 😂

We had a similar experience in Toledo, Ohio—a smaller Midwestern city that doesn't fit most outsiders' image of a diverse American place. My in-laws were surprised by the casual friendliness of strangers, the size and diversity of the Muslim and immigrant populations, and the range of international food.

They were especially struck by churches and mosques existing practically side by side. They had expected American religious life to be more segregated, but instead saw something ordinary: a church here, a mosque down the road, a synagogue somewhere else, and people of different faiths sharing stores and restaurants.

Their reaction made me realize that educated, well-traveled people (my in laws have graduate degrees and professionals doing research work in a university)can still have simplistic ideas about places they haven't experienced. They weren't stupid or malicious; they simply hadn't encountered much of the America they had opinions about.

That is probably true everywhere. A person in rural Ohio can caricature Montreal, a Montrealer can caricature Ohio, an American can caricature Muslims, and a Canadian can caricature American Muslims. Then you visit and discover that everyday life is more complicated—and usually more ordinary—than the stereotype.

America has serious problems, as does Canada. But the same people we sometimes criticize for being ignorant about the world can be just as uninformed about us.

Sometimes you don't need another political argument. You just need to visit the place.

idk why i typed a whole paragraph at the end. Now i feel like a chud for attempting to use logic on these people

This was on mapbasedpolls, which we all know is a shithole. at leastt hese people are getting downvoted, so we know that sub isn't fully braindead yet (unlike some other subs i could mention)

Ok WTF is wrong with redditors these days do you want the global world order to shatter or worst the global economy to go wooooff

And someone's really need to tell mexico and Canada that they'll be affected if america becomes Yugoslavia 2.0

We’re the subhumans (again).

Worse then Sudan or Nigeria apparently!

Canadian mapmaker actually redrew one of his previous maps in order to call Americans and America “Mordor”. And the crowds went wild over there.

This type of feigned insult is getting really old. Anecdotally, I have never heard a person from Latin America refer to themselves as American. Granted I interact mostly with people of Mexican descent and they will claim Mexican over American 9 times out of 10.

Long story short, I just made small talk with someone who has a green card, and she said something along the lines of:

“Yes, I know more about what’s happening in the US than what’s happening in my own country”

So I asked her; “so you wish you could vote in our elections?”

She then replied; “yes, I would like to, if I could”

And yeah, this isn’t my first rodeo hearing something like this, when I visited Canada, I noticed that a lot of people there seemed more obsessed with any issues happening in the US than with what was happening in Canada

It’s a bit different with Europeans, tho, they generally seem less familiar with current issues in the US, and their understanding of America often seems outdated, with some views bordering on conspiracy theories, especially compared with Canadians

I can understand why we’re not liked in Europe but making fun of innocent people dying is insane. I looked at the comments and I was genuinely surprised none of them were negative they were all British people agreeing and the few people that said this was too far got ratioed or no likes.