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6 June 2025

Stuff Americans say
Europe part 2: US more diverse part 1

Stuff Americans say

Prague Castle and St Vitus Cathedral illuminated at night above the Charles Bridge and the Vltava River — Prague Castle and the Charles Bridge over the Vltava River in Prague, Czechia

Facebook/Instagram comment with Italian-language interface ("Mi piace", "Rispondi"). username redacted, 3h, 1 laughing reaction. Text: "Also Europe is not that big and all Europeans have pretty much the exact same culture and genetics. Someone saying that they are part "Irish" and part "French" is the equivalent of saying you are part Kentuckian and part New Yorkan. Irish and French are nationalities, not races. Europeans are Europeans. Europe isn't big enough to distinguish one European from another."

Reddit comment thread (old Reddit style with RES). hego555 (-9 points, 11 hours ago): "The United States. A union of states. The only similarity between US states are language. Hell some places English isn't spoken, lot more diversity in LA than Europe" lazylazycat (+10 points, 11 hours ago): "Nonsense. You grow up with the same education, TV shows, popular music, fashion, shops, the list goes on. > lot more diversity in LA than Europe This bit made me laugh out loud." hego555 (11 hours ago): "Again presumptions. Half of California's population is foreign born. While I had American shows as a child, I had more Armenian influences. Visit Los Angeles and you will see for yourself". "continue this thread" link at bottom

TikTok/Instagram comment thread with German-language interface ("Std" timestamps). First comment (username redacted, 12 Std): "In europe there is no unwalkalble cities. Every city is walkable" Reply (username redacted, 3 Std, eye-roll emoji): "In Europe there's also restrictions on free speech, extremely high taxes, and a resounding lack of diversity. But hey we can walk everywhere!"

Instagram comment thread with Italian-language interface ("Rispondi", "sett" timestamps). First comment (username redacted, 2 sett, red heart): "I love the fact that Americans think 'Europe' is all one place... Like you're going to get the same thing in Sweden and Bulgaria" with laughing emoji. Reply (username redacted, 1 sett): "I mean you call us "Americans" but I would argue individual states are as much or more culturally distinct (think California vs the Appalachia) than Sweden is from Bulgaria."

YouTube comment (username redacted, 1 minute ago). Text: ""I'm from Sweden" .. who cares? I hate it when Europeans do that... Sweden is about the same size as California... it's enough to just say, "I'm from Europe""

Social media comment (username redacted). Text: "considering that the US has 50 STATES which are very well like countries that were almost completely built on immigrants I would say that the US may have WAY more cultural differences than Europe ever will. European culture is almost all the same really."

X/Twitter thread. First tweet (3d). Text: "Them: 'I love the British accent'" then "Me: SELECT YOUR CHARACTER" with map of British Isles showing different dialect regions. Reply (username redacted, 7:59 PM, 10 Apr 20): "Cute. Your accents have so little drift that even to a laymen's ear they all sound like the same language. Come to America where our dialects are so different some count as completely different languages."

Facebook comment thread (Swedish-language interface - "Gilla", "Svara"). First: "Lived in Germany for 6 years. We used to go to a different country every weekend and it was fantastic" Reply: "we do that in the US too, we just call them states." Long reply: "even I've been to east coast and west coast and even Central America... (I'm from Hawaii) it's pretty much the same wherever you go (admittedly there's are differences in attitudes) but all in all we're all American..." Also: "Even my home state with its rich Hawaiian culture (cuz we were conquered and land stolen) is mostly 'Americanized'" Third: "...you think Mississippi, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, West Virginia, Oregon, Arizona, etc. are not distinctive cultures from each other I can't help you understand how huge and diverse The United States is. Even laws are very different from state to state."

TikTok screenshot. Video showing young man with curly hair. Caption: "I don't like how everyone from Europe claims they speak 4 languages". Comments section. Comment (4w): "Everyone is saying rage but he's just right. Dialects from coast to coast have the same amount of variance as their different languages. Euro cope and seethe, I can fit a couple of your countries in my one state"

Twitter post by M @Mark_McLelland (Follow button). Text: "When u wake up thinking it's Monday morning and text your gaffer wanting a day aff" with laughing emoji. WhatsApp screenshot showing conversation with "Greig Work" (EE WiFiCall, 10:31). Sent: "Greig isit awryt if a can take a holiday the day mate av got the runs man". Reply: "1 - you need to come up with a better excuse than the runs, thats the worst ever. 2 - its sunday ya fuckin weapon"

Twitter thread. First tweet (username redacted, 14:21, 13 Apr 19 from Brussel, Belgie): "I once told a yank I was from Dublin and she goes "omg I was right by there when I studied abroad!" So I ask where she studied and she said FUCKING ROME" Reply (username redacted, 21h): "ROME? In Italy?? And she goes "yeah do you know it?""

Reddit post from r/skylineporn on mobile (13:17, 5G) with German-language interface ("Antworten", "kommentare", "Punkte", "Beteilige dich an der Unterhaltung"). Title: "The most Multicultural city in the world" (196 kommentare). dadaesque (2d): "Since people keep going back and forth between racial and immigration statistics, try this proxy instead: There are up to 800 languages spoken in New York, compared to just about 200 in Toronto." CraniumEggs (8h): "Queens specifically is the most diverse place on earth" Fun_Chef134 (2d, -50 Punkte): "I had always heard that Brussels, Belgium was the most multicultural city in the world because it is the seat of the EU and it has a high influx of recent migrants as well." Astrosaurus42 (2d): "America is more diverse than Europe."

X/Twitter post with Follow button. Text: "europeans coming to the states realizing we have more types of accent than they do provinces" with GIF of Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants looking unimpressed/shocked (upside down face, large nose). GIF label in corner

X/Twitter reply (username redacted, "Replying to @...", 11:15, 06 Jul 25, 1 Quote). Partially visible parent tweet stats. Text: "I would say Spain and Poland are about as different as California and West Virginia, or Massachusetts and Wyoming"

Reddit comment (old Reddit style). GoldTyrant (1 hour ago): "I fucking hate europoors and their garbage europoor opinion. They're literally all the same." Reply, Give Award

Reddit comment thread (mobile app). First comment (57 minutes ago): "visiting Italy while living in the US is retarded. Just visit NYC and save yourself some money" Reply (highlighted in yellow, 24 minutes ago): "Not all of Italy is Rome, dummy" with DONE, HIDE, ROOT, PARENT buttons. Reply (17 minutes ago): "tell me something Italy has the US doesnt. Old roman buildings dont count"

Reddit comment thread. Coin2111 (33m): "*laughs in european*" Dukakis2020 (20m, -13 votes): "How does one laugh in that? You people repeatedly tell us that Europe isn't one big nation. Except when it's convenient for you."

Reddit comment (old Reddit style). wigg1es (score hidden, 55 minutes ago): "Seriously. This is an absurd argument. A state in America is equivalent to a country in Europe. Pennsylvania and New York are as different as France and Germany." permalink, embed, save, parent, report, give award

Reddit comment (small text). Herdsengineers (8h): "European nations are smaller geographically. Their climates have much less variation, they much more culturally homogeneous than the USA. American doesn't have a single culture. We have several. Southern, deep southern, northern, midwest, urban, rural, Floridian and Southern California deserve their own, etc. And each one has a higher population than that of entire European nations. The other issue is the people of the USA are increasingly divided in our core values. Europeans are much more in step with each other in their core values in each of their nations. So we appear collectively to not have core values at all to their observation. The USA has very vibrant culture, we're just so afraid of each other we're not willing to go experience things different than us."

TikTok/Instagram comment with Dutch-language interface ("Beantwoorden", "Vertaling weergeven"). @charmaxx (username partially visible): "America is much more diverse than Europe. The American pallet is much more used to Thai, Chinese, Mexican, and other Latin or Asian cuisines which are often much more flavorful and dynamic than most European food which tastes blander in comparison."

Reddit comment thread (old Reddit with country flairs). QuatschForReal (Germany flag, 3 days ago): "Ideas of Identity are pretty confusing in Europe. I don't understand most of it to be honest." YMK1234 (Austria flag, 3 days ago): "Honestly I'm more confused by 'identity' in America where people who haven't been to country X for generations claim they are totally 'x-american'." TheNonDuality (3 days ago): "It's weird to relate to my family, but America is so diverse and the cultures and values are so different across this huge country. For example, if you took someone from San Francisco and sent them to London, they'd have way less culture shock then if you sent them to Mississippi." Marsupilami_316 (Portugal flag, 2 days ago): "I find that hard to believe" uyth (Portugal flag, 3 days ago): "It is the american concepts which I find confusing. Other europeans are perfectly understandable mostly."

Reddit comment thread (old Reddit style). 49ers-81-84-88-89-94 (-12 points, 3 hours ago): "If you live in the US, you have no reason to go to Europe. There is enough scenery, culture/food, and entertainment to experience in the US, and the country is more diverse than the entire continent of Europe." [+] manateesaredelicious (-1 points, 2 hours ago, 1 child - collapsed). playgrounddtsa (3 hours ago): "Please list all the places in Europe you've been. I loved there for 2 years and am blown away by the ignorance of your comment." 49ers-81-84-88-89-94 (-4 points, 2 hours ago): "It is just such a cesspool. The people are so rude and for Americans who live in such a vastly diverse country (both geographically and culturally), travel to Europe is a monumental waste of time. I've been all over Europe (unfortunately), and can't emphasize enough to any American to NEVER GO TO EUROPE!"

YouTube/TikTok comment reply with Spanish-language interface ("Respuestas" header). username redacted, 1 m. Text: "Yeah, so you're completely wrong here. Europe is not very diverse at all, and in the last couple decades especially, Europe has come to be one homogenous culture with regional differences not completely unlike the United States. The thing you're not really acknowledging here is that the United States were never separate nations with separate ethic groups to begin. So yes, European countries have their own languages. But in reality, there are far more similarities between the English and the French and the Germans then there are between the people of Ohio and the people of California or New Orleans or Texas. What you're saying is cliche and false.", thumbs down

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The other side

A random story told on BBC One by a German about crossing the border into Czechoslovakia

English people going on holiday to Spain. (Spain is country, in case you didn’t know.)

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