"Las Vegas is an actual city. With people! Who live in homes! And not in casinos!
True story – several foreigners would ask me regularly, “What casino do you live in?”"
"We are not ‘mostly illiterate.’
I recall a documentary from my international business classes documenting the various attitudes towards Americans around Europe.
Apparently, French children were under the impression that Americans did not know their Alphabet."
"Louisiana is a whole state and only a very small part of it is New Orleans.
People go to Mardi Gras parades in their home towns, they don’t all congregate in New Orleans for it, that’s for the tourists."
"I’m in America so I don’t know what rumors are happening outside of the US but I imagine they’re probably all true.
For example, the streets are all paved in cheese."
"My favorite is Swiss boulevard. Too bad it has all those damn potholes because the area is just beautiful."
"WE DONT JUST EAT MCDONALDS"
"Yeah! We got BK and Taco Bell too!"
"An English accent won’t get you a threesome your first night in town.
It takes at least three days."
"Wyoming exists."
"That we’re all rich. I can barely afford the 3 dollar pretzels from wawa"
"Some of us understand geography!"
"That Americans are all the same. Almost every state is different and have their own culture. Texans are nothing like people from New York.
People from Minnesota are nothing like Californias. People from Hawaii are nothing like people from Philly."
"We’re not all fat and stupid.
Some of us are thin and equally stupid.
Not me. I’m fat, stupid and angry."
"The big cities aren’t the only habitable places in the US"
"We idolize Hollywood stars/celebrities. A lot of people gossip about them for entertainment purposes but idk anyone personally that would want to trade places with them.
They live very public lives with no privacy and the majority of them are egocentric narcissists who just virtue signal all day.
Except Keanu Reeves. We all like Keanu."
"I live in Texas….You know that there are major cities here and not everyone is a cowboy, right?"
"Believe it or not, most Americans are actually intelligent, it’s just the stupid ones who get all of the attention"
"People think we drink beer for breakfast and eat cereal made with ammo. And wake up to the squawk of a bald eagle.
That’s all true. We also sing Toby Keith every morning as part of a patriotic ritual."
"I’m a Californian. Foreigners are often surprised we don’t all live on the beach and surf.
But I have also had a few non-Californian Americans think that too."
"The food assumptions are weird. We do not have giant five course pancake breakfasts every morning"
"We have really, really good beer.
The stereotype of American beer tasting like piss may be outdated (I studied in Europe in the late 90s, and everyone thought we only drank mass-produced beer).
Unfortunately, America tends to export its sh#ttiest culture."
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Let's bust that myth, New York City ranks 6th in the world with 10 bookstores per 100,000 inhabitants, Austin TX comes in 10th with 8.2 bookstores per 100,000, and Amsterdam comes in 13th with 6 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Forward 40 years and most of the my local bars have 10 times the selection of pubs back in UK. So I quit drinking Heineken for IPA's.... How things change.....