Do you think Americans live in a bubble?

We don't, the reason you and many others think that is because you know more about us then we know about you, only because american media and culture is prominent everywhere, A lot of americans are ignorant but I wouldn't say most are.

It was my impression when I was there. But it depends where. In New York and Boston people seemed "normal". I Rhode Island they were strange. Like in the invasion of the body snatchers or something like that

I think they live in a shithole

housing bubble, for one

Historically there was virtually no reason for us to know or care about the rest of the world, there was more important things happening here. Obviously that's changed quite a bit though since the world wars and our position as the world police. I'd be lying though if I said that Americans know any good amount of knowledge about countries and cultures outside of North America, it's getting better though as time goes on. We've only been a majority urban country since the end of WW2, before that everybody lived on farms.

Aren't we all?

>Historically there was virtually no reason for us to know or care about the rest of the world
That's just a dumb excuse

Euros are just as ignorant of America desu, most only know about New York, California and Texas

It's like they divided the world into strange undecipherable clumps. Reading an American comment section about anything and watching them talk about foreign countries is akin to watching extraterrestrial aliens.

Truly horrifying and disgusting to say the least.

Did you even read the second half of my post?

I've got an impression that you don't know and don't really care about everything happening outside of your borders as long as it doesn't affect you directly.

>Truly horrifying and disgusting to say the least.

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I'd learn about other countries if they mattered.

Why would I care about what doesn't affect me? There is so much of this it's stupid to focus my energy on that rather than what does influence my existence.

most americans are ignorant, their world knowledge is usually limited to 70's (or older) stereotypes and very generalized views of the world

he's right, america has never faced a real threat to it's country before. Meanwhile your entire history involves you carefully sorting alliances and neutrality to ensure that your much larger and stronger neighbors didn't invade you.

I don't watch the news. I just focus on my career and study all day. I wouldn't know anything about current events if my co-workers didn't talk about it.

It's called having a basic knowledge of the world. Talk to any young Australian about say, the Syrian civil war, and they'll be able to give you a rundown on the pretext, the war itself, all the meddling foreign elements as well as a basic understanding of Syria's future after the war.

Ask an American about the Syrian civil war and he'll mumble something about ISIS before stuffing their face with KFC.

Its insane that people who don't interact and live with americans on a daily basis seem to know exactly what americans think and do

if you grew up in Siberia would you really give a shit about the rest of the world? No. Well that was the situation for most Americans up until about 50 years ago. Imagine flyover Kentucky but that's literally the entire country.

Some people definitely do. Though I think it more depends on your region. Rural communities, definitely. Although that’s probably similar in other countries too. But i’d also say urban areas if they are in irrelevant parts of the US. Like the Midwest.

>Talk to any young Australian about say, the Syrian civil war, and they'll be able to give you a rundown on the pretext, the war itself, all the meddling foreign elements as well as a basic understanding of Syria's future after the war.
kek, you'd be hard pressed to find a single average person from any demographic who would have the slightest clue about the ongoing conflict in Syria.

>Talk to any young Australian about say, the Syrian civil war, and they'll be able to give you a rundown on the pretext, the war itself, all the meddling foreign elements as well as a basic understanding of Syria's future after the war.
this is a joke post right?

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Considering Americans go out of their way to document ever aspect of their lives online and their/your media spends billions of dollars pushing it's products, ideas and news all around the world, it shouldn't be very surprising.
You can't be both mysterious and omnipresent.

phoneposting is hard

>if you grew up in Siberia would you really give a shit about the rest of the world?

Yes, I grew up in Siberia and I would.

it's not directed at you on purpose, it's for other americans

>fat pizza 2.0
Garbage like this replaced a once rich in-house translation team for films all around the world.
Such a fucking disgrace.

yes, don't bother talking to americans without passports

>you'd be hard pressed to find a single average person from any demographic who would have the slightest clue about the ongoing conflict in Syria
easy
syrians

>ITT seething Australians

Well at least Americans don't think of them as Europeans

>it's not directed at you on purpose
Are you referring to your multinational media and corporations? In that case, it most certainly is. I don't think you yanks have a remote understanding of just how invasive your corporations are around the world.

No you wouldn't, there's more local and immediate things for you to care about.

Australian here, you taking the piss? You are so full shit mate. We aren't worldly and we are ignorant too. Cunts here don't know shit about Syria dickhead. Maybe some Melbourne libs activists types that are "socially conscious"

How many Americans have you fucking talked to about Syria. Honestly.

Fuck out of here smug cunt.

Well probably you're right. But Americans should travel more imo. And give us their monnies

>Syrians
dss.gov.au/our-responsibilities/settlement-services/programs-policy/a-multicultural-australia/programs-and-publications/community-information-summaries/the-syria-born-community
>The latest Census in 2011 recorded 8392 Syria-born people in Australia, an increase of 20.4 per cent from the 2006 Census. The 2011 distribution by state and territory showed New South Wales had the largest number with 5152 followed by Victoria (2262), Queensland (315) and Western Australia (288).
>The median age of the Syria-born in 2011 was 45 years compared with 45 years for all overseas-born and 37 years for the total Australian population.
Yeah, good fucking luck finding any of them in Australia, let alone young Syrians.

Yes

Oh fuck off yank cunt. We don't consider ourselves European, we consider ourselves Australian.

If you base your knowledge of America on what our corporations tell you then you're just as ignorant as we are.

kys desert bong

Wait, what? Mind giving some background?

That's just an excuse
No country on Earth needed to know other cultures
As you said the world changed for everyone not only Americans and we adapted while you guys mostly remained the same

Yeah, the "Jew Bubble" filled with degeneracy & immorality, which non-American countries somehow see as entertaining

I think Americans should travel less especially to here because they are seriously fat, entitled and annoying, and also Germans. When I'm travelling for work around Ireland the south and west coast is wall to wall Germans coming out from behind every single rock and tree with their nordic walking sticks and artic exploration clothes. Its a serious problem polluting the landscape and something must be done about it.

Europe has been urbanized since forever really. We were an agricultural society until the 1940s, your average american was a farm boy. Obviously farmers care less about national or world happenings because they're more focused on their local community, what they belong to. People from cities don't associate with their neighborhood, they associate with the city and a city is impacted and involved quite a bit more than isolated farming communities

Yeah we live in a bubble. Why does it matter to you?

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kek
those Germans are left-wing's spearhead.
For some strange reason they love Ireland and Sweden.

Just because you're a brainlet doesn't mean all of us are. Most people in Melb unironically keep up with the news.

Europe industrialized at the same pace of Europe
We are still today full of farmers in every major european country

>At the same pace of Europe
I mean at the same pace of USA of course

Yeah nah your average idiot on the street is not that much better than ours.

Than stop singing in Eurovision

>Americans should travel more

This one kills me. You know Yanks have like no countries close to them right? If someone lives north they are by Canada. If they are south they are near Mexico. If they live in the middle they are by nothing. It is the same for us. We don't have a lot of options

It is pretty shit how Euros nag sharts for no travel.

>"Why don't you live on a continent with dozens of little countries next to each other?? travel more!"

kill yourself david

if i grew up in siberia i would be interested in the outside world
if i grew up in spain i would be interested in the outside world
if i grew up in USA i would be watching TV trying to tell me that the rest of hte world is in flames and that i should be scared and live 50 feet away from other humans in a suburban area where nobody knows their neighbors and nobody trusts each other

no, you have been city centric since the 1700s. my state was founded in 1889, and it had less than 100,000 people living in it in 1900. There's 7 million people here now. your country has been inhabited for 1000s of years with villages and towns with very close proximity with each other. We had an entire continent to fill with people and it was settled by homesteaders who later went on to create farming communities. The Louisiana purchase didn't happen until 1803, the only people living there was french fur hunters, only 50,000 or so. The same region today has more than 70 million people.

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Yeah definitely . We aren’t taught anything about other countries , we don’t travel and we aren’t encouraged to learn other languages. I always feel like an idiot talking to people from Europe. And it just makes me want to travel less knowing how annoying I would be.

>he thinks his melbourne bubble of liberal uni students indicates all of Australia

You are certainly aware the US has liberal cities like Berkeley, Portland and so on right?

You are insular enough to be the kind of Yank you criticize mate.

Why the fuck would I want to know my neighbors?

>what is Am*rican isolation
>ww1,ww2, cold war, modern world
The history repeats itself. They only care about how they look and once they start to lose grasp of something they go back to isolation.

Do people living in commieblocks all know each other? same thing

Great contribution to the dialectic, Salman.

Americans are usually ignorant of the outside world but your idea of American ignorance is ignorant

Mate I live in a city which has literally 5000 inhabitants yet I pushed myself out of my comfort zone learning how to read, write and listening English and while I was at it learning about other cultures

And all of this thanks to Internet so no, now that we can be connected in this way to the world; remaining ignorant is not anymore a matter of situations but a choice

Maybe you just have a passion for that? Does everybody else in your city do the same?

yeah but most of the world lives in the shadow of that bubble
all anyone talks about is america/americans on this board

you're right, im just trying to get a reaction i think
sorry
we know our neighbors and get along great with them, so if we ever have any issue we can count on each other, or if we see someone breaking into one of our houses.
eh, in my family we had awful relations with the neighbors, but that was mostly because my family was really fucking noisy and everyone hated us. i hated us too.

Yes, they worship their flag and country and unironically think it's the best when it's in all actuality very mediocre

I live in a shitty town in a shitty state. I don't have any desire to know anybody here.

which state?

Not really point taken

But they know more than your average American on world matters, eg China becoming so big in the world stage or all the stuff happening with Brexit
Even when they don't affect us

What's nuts is that we were taught in school that the Vietnam War was a """"""""""""tie"""""""""""

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that's not what dialectic means you retarded sex tourist

typical amerifat cope, I'm so sorry mate

American Jow Forums and Jow Forums posters certainly do.

A "flyover state" to one of you enlightened coastal people.

idk user, people have been very political since Trump
i live in Idaho

Don't reply to me again

noun
1.
the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions.
synonyms: reasoning, argumentation, contention, logic

The OP asked for opinions on the behavior of Americans and we are investigating it through argumentation. That IS dialectic you cooked cunt.

>say that to my face mother fucker not online amd see what happens

I thought germans weren't supposed to be funny.

>i live in Idaho

Congrats, you still beat me.

I like living here desu

Those are the wrong kind of beans, Bush.

I get your point but it still feels like americans lack a certain type of common knowledge about the surrounding world, way more than people from 1st world and most 2nd world countries.

they used to, now the dream bubble is popping and reality dropping on them like a 10 ton anvil.

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I don't like living here, but then after numerous bad experiences and spending time in Europe, I don't really like living in the US period. But I understand that not everybody is a bitter asshole like me.

literally no one was taught that
>t. 26
>strategic loss due to popular support waning throughout the conflict and the advent of widespread (televised) war correspondence
the only people who say it was a tie are memeing it up, faggot
are you like 40? only way I could even contrive a reason to teach kids that would be a prevalent cold war and a lack of internet access

I figured, nobody moves to other countries unless they're either incredibly ambitious or they're escaping from something

I think the geographical bubble has more of an effect than the cultural one. American citizens don't understand what it's like to be part of a world, because they are so isolated.