Why are americans such bad people?

submitted by elonmusk7 from self.AskSaidIt

they have everything. wealth, respect, power, technology. yet they're such rude and terrible people. in poor countries you'd expect people to be unhappy but they're nicer than the people of the so called civilized world. why is this? mo money mo problems?

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[–]HiddenFox 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (22 children)

Only a small percent are and sadly those are the ones we all talk about and remember. I've been to almost every major city on the east coast and spend many winters in Florida near Delray Beach. I never had an issue any more serious then I did in Toronto, Canada. I was very surprised how friendly people in NYC were. We were clearly tourist and people were great giving us advice on how to get around and good places to eat and visit. No one was rude.

99% of Americans and I would say most people around the world are decent just trying to live their lives.

[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (18 children)

Perhaps. If we judge people solely from our interactions on the Internet, we're going to think everybody is an asshole.

[–]binaryblob 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (17 children)

Everyone is an asshole; it's just that for some people it takes years to show their true face.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

I'm like Trump: An honest asshole. It's the dishonest and phony ones you gotta watch out for.

[–]SMCAB 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

You aren't honest with yourself. If you were you would act different.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I don't think Trump knows the word honest. The US should just ban old people (anyone over 55 when elected) from Congress and the White House. The GDP would skyrocket.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Then you'd just have people like AOC and Ben Shapiro in charge of everything.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It seems to me that you are assuming people's happiness is a direct function of the GDP output.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That just tells me that you can't read.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Care to explain? Or are you just upset I challenged your thoughts on GDP?

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Wikipedia is anything but a valid or unbiased source. Regardless, my comment wasn't that serious.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Wikipedia is not a source. It's an information article written from a bibliography of sources that are cited at the bottom.

Regardless, there are over 30,000 documented lies that trump has told, so to call him honest in any capacity is laughable.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, and the sources cited at the bottom usually aren't valid, unbiased, well-researched, or credible. So Wikipedia provides summary articles of biased and often inaccurate or false information, which was my main point. And I'm not even trying to defend Trump here; you're just taking one comment way too seriously.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

To summarily dismiss something because "all sources that don't agree with my statement must be bad" is just a poisoning the well type of argument.

If there's any part of a wikipedia article you feel is not accurate or biased, you can participate in the talk page and in editing of the article as well. The history of those are publicly available, too.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To summarily dismiss something because "all sources that don't agree with my statement must be bad" is just a poisoning the well type of argument.

Except I literally never said that and you're strawmanning me over some TDS nonsense. All of Wikipedia sucks. It's edited by people with a bias and agenda and gatekept by those same people that don't allow edits that go against their viewpoints. It's no more credible as a resource than Reddit or CNN. They're mostly just opinions. Like I said, I don't really care enough about this to keep arguing about it. I think you just really hate Donald Trump, which is ironic cause you're giving him more attention this way, when I don't even really care about this.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You just haven't met the right people, then.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's like saying I haven't been touched by God yet. It's an assertion.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Using the same logic, same can be said about your statement.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am not doubting that you believe you met right people; I am saying that there will come a day that they will abandon you if you have some adverse life event. It's a well documented phenomenon and it's also the reason psychologists exist (to explain that people are awful and to come to accept this as a fact).

[–]Smalls 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My experience in NYC is that people are friendly when you interact with them, but otherwise keep to themselves and rarely make eye contact. Upstate New Yorkers were super friendly.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They are friendly to tourists, because they see a walking wallet.

[–]HiddenFox 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I did the tourist stuff on the honeymoon but we've been back several times and we tend to stick to were the locals go. No more Times Square for us!

Last time we were there we hung out in Hell's Kitchen, in particular there was a bar called The Blue Ruin. Not sure if it survived COVID or not but back then they had a happy hour with draft beer or a rum and coke for $1.50! Place was packed with locals on there way home. They would stop in for a couple of drinks and we would chat them up. It was an awesome time! Lots of cool and crazy stories. Everyone having a great time!

I feel bad for the city with the recent influx of immigrants. I don't think I would feel safe there anymore.

[–]ID10T 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

English people always remark on how friendly and helpful Americans are.

[–]elonmusk7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

they're even worse than the americans

[–]IlluvitarG4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They are taught to value their own boundaries more than they really should.

[–]fla_ral 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

compare to whom?

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

respect.

Hell no they dont, most people I've talked to say there disrespectful.

[–]Smalls 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Stay in character.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

mo money mo problems?

That might be it.

[–]xoenix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They're angry because they spent all their healthcare money on being everyone else's military.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The government does not represent us anymore, not the people, but corporations that use lobbyists to give bribe money to vote for laws in their favor.

George Washington is rolling in his grave that the USA is a Corporate Tyranny.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It would be more appropriate to discuss one particular Russian when discussing bad people.

[–]Mcheetah 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Bad" is relative to the observer. If you ask me, I'd say 99% of people in this world are selfish and objectively worthless to the species and contribute literally nothing of value to humanity. But that's because I'm cynical and jaded. If you asked most people, they'd probably say something like "Most people are just trying to live their lives and make their way home" or some Joan Osborne rhetoric. As long as you're not trying to rape anyone or diddle kids, I won't consider someone to be a "bad person," but I still do think most people are too self-absorbed to be anything you'd call "good." You've probably spent too much time on social media, regardless if you're not an American or actually are.

Also, as a American-born citizen, I guarantee you my ass grew up broker than you. Unless you too went dumpster diving behind fast food restaurants and had to eat processed, bullshit Dollar Tree "food" for large chunks of your life.

[–]topiary2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What is an American? Given the diversity of the population, you will need to be specific, we practically have 50 different states with 50 different backgrounds minimum.

[–]Mark_Shill 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Its the liberals, we aren't all that bad