Europeans Share Things Americans Aren't Ready To Hear

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Jun 14, 2023 7:00 PM EDT

American culture can be pretty cringe. Even though I'm pro-America on some Europe vs. America issues (Stephen Sondheim over Andrew Lloyd Webber any day), I am not ignorant of my nation's flaws. The Pledge of Allegiance is one of my favorite stupid things Americans force children to do. Not only did I have to recite it every day for 13 years, but I also had to recite The Texas Pledge. For those of you who don't believe me, this is the Texas pledge:

Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.

It's a bit of a knock-off of the Pledge of Allegiance, but it gets the Texan propaganda job done. Unfortunately, that pledge did not work well because I have not been allegiant to Texas since I left high school. 

The Pledge of Allegiance isn't the only cringe thing that comes out of American culture: far from it! Europeans took to Reddit to tell Americans things wrong with our country we aren't ready to hear, and some of it is a little too real. 

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    Rectangle - r/AskReddit u/Mamutu7. 6h Europeans, what is something us Americans aren't ready to hear?
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    Rectangle - TantrumZentrum . 5h Worcestershire Reply 2.7k 2.7k
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    Font - Wrestling Woman • 6h Sugar does not belong in everything, esp. not bread. ... Reply 2.3k
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    Font - Affectionate_Call778. 4h South Park shouldn't be a perfect documentary of your country ... Reply 2.8k
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    Rectangle - Roselily808 6h ● It's neither normal nor okay to have to go bankrupt just to go to school or going to the hospital Reply 3.3k
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    Rectangle - Coin-op77. 1h Tipping is stupid. Just pay your staff a proper living wage! ... Reply 563
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    Handwriting - bless-you-mlud . 4h F Having school children recite the Pledge of Allegiance is creepy AF. Reply 42.9k
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    Font - CabbageMasher. 2h Y'all need some trains Reply 351
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    Rectangle - Idlezzz. 5h You complain about soccer being boring while the NFL has like 12 minutes of play over 3 hours. Reply 1.4k
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    Font - It_is_Fries_No_Patat. 3h You do not need a 5000 pound truck to haul your laptop and cellphone to the office. Reply 745
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    Font - Peikkotytto 5h ● Going to a hospital, calling an ambulance or getting education shouldn't ruin your life. You shouldn't have to be afraid of getting killed while at school. Education should be based on universal facts, not religion or some bigots opinion. You should have nation wide lesson plan, which covers the basics students need to master before they can move onto the next grade. Your worshipping on some politicans is scary and crazy. They're just humans, not rockstars or gods. ... Re
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    Font - GandhisPornAccount 3h It's "I couldn't care less"... ... Reply 394 394
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    Font - Gytarius626. 1h "On accident" is absolutely criminal as well, it sounds so wrong 4118
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    Font - Tired_tall 4h ● You actually have less freedom than most of the world. Your country is a pay to play. Reply ... 1.2k
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    Rectangle - p4tt|1992. 2h We have pubs older than your country Reply 205 205
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    Font - SadlyNotDanny DeVito . 6h Having your national flag EVERYWHERE is ridiculous to most of us. Reply 1k
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    Font - SloRules • 3h Europe is more than England and Paris. Reply 88 88
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    Font - Peikkotytto 6h grandparents moved And if your great-great-great from Norway to USA, start a family and generations later you were born, you are NOT norwegian. Your ancestors were, you have a bit of nordic blood in you, but you are still 100% american. Not norwegian. Not 25% irish, 10% swedish, 3% finnish, 17% norwegian, 5% danish... just plain american. Reply 801 ...
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    Human body - AlwaysCurious93 . 5h It's okay not to have an opinion about everything. Reply 154
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    Font - Potonje • 6h You're very loud as tourists. Speak at a normal volume, please. Yes, I'm petty, and this is insignificant. Just wanted to say this for ages and finally got the chance ... Reply 328
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    Font - SorryTelling 7h The world isn't just america. The internet isn't just america. You're like 3% of the world's population, stop assuming everybody is american... or cares about you. At all. ..also stop electing fascists. Reply 323
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