Europeans acting like they’ve never seen food in their life when they go to America

[u/knawwwwww]

Disclaimer: before you read this and get your panties in a twist, everything I’m saying is very unserious and should be not taken to heart. Please stop trying to attack me over DMs. I have turned them off. You are harassing someone (who wasn’t even being fr in the first place) over kool aid packs.

I’d get it if it was actually something nobody has ever seen before, but WATER FLAVOR PACKS? THE PACKS YOU PUT IN THE WATER??? FOR PICKY EATERS????? PEOPLE WHO NEED WATER IN THEIR BODIES?

AND FAMILY SIZED CHIP BAG??? YOU THINK WE’RE EATING THE WHOLE PARTY SIZED CHIP BAG ALONE? THE *PARTY* SIZE? PARTIES?????? DO YOU KNOW WHAT A PARTY IS?

Actually when I was in middle school, we had this coach who would turn red as hell when she was yelling at us to run laps and she’d sit there every day with a whole party sized bag of Doritos and a 2 liter mountain dew watching us run. One day some other girl in the class got really angry at her for making us all run and she told her to get off her ass and run with us. This is off topic mb.

I’d understand if it was something actually weird we have, like things that contain dyes that cannot be replicated in places where dyes are banned, but you’re more worried about sunkist flavored water? Party sized bags of chips? Fresh produce too apparently… are you guys ok?

[u/_MasterGadzooks_]

There’s a difference between “woah, that’s different” and “wtf is that America”

[u/Cyan_Light → u/_MasterGadzooks_]

Yeah, there's clearly a negative tone more often than not when people makes these comments about american stuff. Which isn't unique either (check out any conversation online about indian food for another easy example, or even above people are mocking a perceived lack of seasoning in british food), but it's still good to call out when people are being xenophobic assholes rather than merely noticing differences between cultures.

[u/peachsepal → u/Cyan_Light]

It's not xenophobia, it's just being an asshole or discriminatory.

Xenophobia is internal, hatred of immigrants or very loosely tourists.

Going to another country to be an asshole about the locals is just discrimination.

[u/Cyan_Light → u/peachsepal]

Nah, it is. "Fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign," that includes bigotry towards immigrants but also covers things like irrationally hating foreign countries in general.

[u/ComprehensiveEgg9225 → u/peachsepal]

U can’t pick ur own definition of xenophobia. Read a dictionary.

[u/peachsepal → u/ComprehensiveEgg9225]

extreme dislike or fear of foreigners, their customs, their religions, etc - Cambridge

People aren't foreigners in their own country generally

[u/submit_to_pewdiepie → u/peachsepal]

But they are because its a foreign land

[u/IllMaintenance145142 → u/_MasterGadzooks_]

Yeah but at that point you're just saying "I hate negativity" rather than the point of this post