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QuantumWarrior t1_j6dc06t wrote

I never got why American TV censors so much stuff, if there's a film with profanity just air it later when the kids are in bed, or even better let the parents decide what their kids can and can't watch.

Also, it's okay for kids to watch John McClane shoot a dozen Germans into bloody swiss cheese but they can't hear him say fuck?

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ShEsHy t1_j6dycqk wrote

Americans are freaking weird, man.
They idolise free speech but censor words just because they deem them bad, they consider themselves more puritan than Europeans but are the origin of most porn and have an insane amount of strip clubs, they're fiercely individualistic but at the same time are one of, if not the most nationalistic country on the planet,...

I think I've partly figured out how they work, though. They're obsessed with image. Fake smiles, fake lawns, fake teeth, fake bodies, going into debt to buy fancy phones and cars,..., all that matters is that they fit the idealistic version of how an American is supposed to be.

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thatsingledadlife t1_j6dzc33 wrote

>Americans are freaking weird, man.

Truth. Everything else you wrote was out of touch generalization but Americans are wierd.

What many from the outside fail to grasp is that Americans aren't any one thing. Alabama MAGA and Portland Antifa don't have much in common other than the currency and language and there might even be a language barrier due to accent. The country's too damn big and varied for it to have a "type". It would be like coming up with 1 common sterotype for the whole of Europe.

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Fondren_Richmond t1_j6e8iyj wrote

> What many from the outside fail to grasp is that Americans aren't any one thing. Alabama MAGA and Portland Antifa don't have much in common other than the currency and language and there might even be a language barrier due to accent.

That's a copout, and MAGA and Antifa are superficial media narratives; racial and class differences, while not necessarily a drum worth beating ad infinitum, fall across the same lines of education, opportunity access and ownership in any American community large enough

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ShEsHy t1_j6e6757 wrote

>What many from the outside fail to grasp is that Americans aren't any one thing.

They are though, they're Americans. It might seem that that they're different to an insider, who notices all the little inconsequential differences, but on the whole, they're the same thing. They share the same language and currency as you've said, but also history, nationality, culture,...

>Alabama MAGA and Portland Antifa

Those are political and rural/urban differences, which occur everywhere outside of city states.

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Sunion t1_j6f27gs wrote

That's just not even remotely true. Some places have a strong English culture, some places of strong French culture, some with Spanish, some with Native American, some with Chinese etc etc. America is a giant melting pot of all the world's cultures. Even history is BS. The states that were the original 13 colonies have a very different history than that of California, Alaska, or Hawaii. We don't even all share the same language man. America has no national language. There are millions of people living here who don't speak english. Basically everything you've said is completely ignorant.

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ShEsHy t1_j6gzzla wrote

And? The same thing happens with literally every country that changed its borders but didn't relocate/wipe out the people in the last couple of centuries. Hell, even in my tiny country of Slovenia, with a population of only 2 million, the North-eastern part is so heavily Hungarian-influenced that their language is incomprehensible to the rest of our country, the coastal part of it is Italian-influenced, and the Northern part Austrian, but those people are still Slovene.

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Mr_Sarcasum t1_j6fbtjx wrote

That's a pretty good description for about 15%-35% of the country. The eccentric part you see on television and tiktok. But it's as accurate as saying Polish people love LGBTs people because they're accepted in Sweden.

You're unknowingly cutting out the normal people you normally don't see portrayed in our media.

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RealMudflapper t1_j6gfdot wrote

Polish people are super not cool with LGBT. And don’t even mention black folks. Source: I’m second generation American born Polish with a huge racist, homophobic extended family.

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Mr_Sarcasum t1_j6h1r5g wrote

Uh yeah. That was the whole point of my analogy. That just because one cultural group in America acts one way, doesn't not mean that completely different region will act the same.

Just because Sweden and Poland are both in Europe doesn't mean they are the same.

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JaxDude123 t1_j6fx81w wrote

A lingering product of our founders. Puritans. Those randy naught Puritans. Now Baptists

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JaxDude123 t1_j6fx00f wrote

Got to sell the money maker ads for Marlboro etc, can’t cuss in front of the kids.

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eairy t1_j6gyeu6 wrote

> just air it later when the kids are in bed

The US doesn't have the concept of the 'watershed' like the UK does. I guess because of the multiple timezones issue.

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