These 32 Components Of American "Culture" Have Americans And Non-Americans Alike Feeling Fed-Up

Reddit idiosyncratic Butterfly-girl19 precocious asked, "What elements of US civilization annoy you?" Americans and non-Americans alike flooded the replies with the American qualities, habits, and pieces of civilization they find the astir frustrating. Here's what they shared:

1. "Constantly saying the US is the 'best state successful the world.' It's usually said by radical who don't adjacent ain a passport. And champion for what? Medical bankruptcy rates? Incarceration rates? National debt?"

—HistoricalRock7146

2. "Everything is truthful bloody commercial. You person a babe coming? Throw a party. You cognize what the baby's enactment is gonna be? Another party! Hey, it's aboriginal November, let's commencement broadcasting Christmas specials already! Sorry, I don't get it."

—Lvcivs2311

3. "Not knowing that what galore Americans comprehend to beryllium far-left is halfway oregon center-right everyplace other connected earth. The authorities of the US is truthful skewed rightward that thing that isn't efficaciously 'grind up the poors for meat' is considered communism."

—_CMDR_

4. "The drinking age. At 18, you tin legally spell to jail, articulation the army, and ballot connected who volition tally the full country, but you can't person a beer."

—Hashashin455

5. "The grade to which alleged 'trickle down economics' inactive pervades the wide attack to the economical and ineligible systems. Everyone is sitting present being robbed unsighted by corporations 24/7, and past patting each different connected the backs astir each the sacrifices we marque truthful that our employers, banks, favourite online retailers, etc. tin deed their gross targets."

—4a4a

6. "The deficiency of assemblage that is owed to ascendant car culture. A batch of Americans are precise severely socially adjusted due to the fact that of this atomization. Extremely performative culture. Many Americans enactment similar what they spot connected TV/internet media. It's tiresome and inhumane. I deliberation this leads to an unacceptably precocious fig of radical treating others similar sources of entertainment/products. Anti-urbanism, anti-intellectualism, and anti-progressive attitudes are precise common. Being reactionary arsenic opposed to captious governmental sermon owed to media overexposure. A batch of Americans, including beauteous overmuch each conservatives/MAGA, lone attraction astir making the 'other guy' look bad. There are nary different thoughts there. That's precisely however our governmental amusement networks premier radical to think, and it works. As such, determination is precise small country for captious investigation of our nine and however we tin amended it. We're wholly stymied."

—BigBoyGoldenTicket

7. "I'm a beauteous affable and sociable dude, but I person genuine disdain for the mode Americans volition conscionable locomotion up to you and commencement a speech retired of the blue. I'm bully with tiny speech and gathering caller people, but I couldn't locomotion 2 blocks successful the US without getting pulled into immoderate benignant of interaction. After a twelve conversations, it gets kinda tiring. The worst is erstwhile radical usage you arsenic their captive assemblage portion you're pumping state oregon waiting successful line. Political freaks are particularly fond of this."

—AmbientRiffster

8. "I don't cognize if it's the culture, but radical utilizing idiosyncratic state arsenic a crushed to disregard societal responsibility, e.g., refusing to disguise up erstwhile they are sick with COVID-19."

—MissyLuna

9. "Expensive healthcare for life-threatening conditions and security companies moving loops astir wherefore they shouldn't wage your bill, adjacent though they instrumentality wealth retired of your cheque each fuckin' month. And if you're not full-time oregon enactment arsenic a contractor, freelancer, oregon gig work...good fucking luck paying $357 a period for the lowest tier of healthcare insurance. I spent much connected wellness security erstwhile I was part-time and had to determine betwixt wellness and car insurance. I ended up going with health, and got into a car mishap that I had to wage out-of-pocket for. Then I switched to car security and past sprained my ankle, which I besides had to wage retired of pouch for, successful the aforesaid fucking year."

—2short4-a-hihorse

11. "The two-party system."

—Taupe88

12. "The 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' mentality and the full civilization astir enactment portion we each enactment our asses disconnected for radical who don't work."

—LotusEaterEvans

13. "Materialism and the changeless advertisements. Buy, buy, bargain much crap that truly volition not marque you overmuch happier."

—troymclure79

14. "(Many) Universities are associated with diversion programs earlier academics."

—uhhfuhhh

15. "Car dependence. More specifically, designing car-dependent cities, past gaslighting the adjacent procreation into reasoning car dependence is their choice. We tin inactive person cars. We tin inactive not complaint retired the ass for gasoline. But we tin besides make proscription networks that don't punish you for being blind, a child, oregon broke."

—Bootmacher

"The car-centric hellhole of suburbs. Specifically successful my suburb, each the residential areas are connected 1 side, and each the commercialized worldly is connected the other side. It's virtually a 30-minute locomotion to get to the nearest store, and it's boring due to the fact that it's each residential suburban housing. There's nary constituent successful walking anywhere."

—SinfullySinless

17. "The adulation of billionaires who dainty communal radical similar garbage."

—BenPanthera00

18. "The presumption that a extremity is required and starts astatine 18% now."

—Her_Ma_Ger

"Employers person truly convinced radical that it is mean for customers to person to subsidize their employees' wages. It is absurd."

—patrickw234

19. "The obsession with oversized trucks."

—cookie042

20. "Nothing different than implicit domination of an manufacture is seen arsenic success. God forbid a institution is tally to person tenable profits for the involvement of filling a request successful a assemblage and providing for its workers and owners. It indispensable extract each cent imaginable for maximum profits astatine each times."

—my_son_is_a_box

21. "The obsession with 'hustle culture.' Sometimes remainder is conscionable rest, not failure."

—MaellePetite

22. "Teachers are expected to beryllium the astir respected assemblage successful a functioning society, alongside doctors and the radical who support america safe. It is unreal to maine however flippant we are towards the radical who walk much clip with children than parents."

—TurbulentMeet3337

24. "The thought that parents are nary longer liable for their kids aft they crook 18, and that thing but moving retired arsenic soon arsenic you tin is being a loser."

—FuujinSama

25. "As a non-American, the obsession with guns portion kids are perpetually getting killed by guns successful schools."

—SenSei_Buzzkill

26. "That minimum wage is not tied to the outgo of living. I mean, WTF?"

—jtsrgmc

28. "How uptight everyone is astir nudity. I person been astir the world, and Americans conscionable person this happening that nudity is bad."

—aj_1954

29. "The full accent connected 'independence' and 'self-reliance', to the constituent wherever radical who need/want assistance are shamed."

—BrowningLoPower

30. "Using AI successful spot of imaginativeness and knowledge. There's really a caller survey showing that radical who relied connected AI to constitute essays had little encephalon enactment than radical who didn't. Literally little intelligent for doing it."

—lavapig_love

31. "The blending (especially recently) of authorities and religion, and enforcing your spiritual beliefs connected others via policy. It's good to not get an termination oregon beryllium against it if your spiritual beliefs dictate it, but it's not good to beryllium against it and region it arsenic a prime for others. Or, successful a little 'controversial' topic: I can't bargain hard liquor connected a Sunday successful my authorities from a liquor store due to the fact that it's 'God's Day,' but I tin beryllium down astatine the barroom adjacent doorway and instrumentality changeable aft shot. If you don't privation to drink/buy intoxicant connected Sundays, don't. It's not up to you to find if others do."

—somuchbush

32. And: "Misguided patriotism and supporting destructive policies that spell against everything the state was founded on. Proud ignorance benignant of goes hand-in-hand with the aforementioned, but it's different occupation arsenic well. The content successful exceptionalism — that there's nary mode immoderate different state oregon thought could beryllium amended than we are, truthful there's nary request to proceed to improve. Denial of hard truths. This effort to fell our past due to the fact that it makes radical uncomfortable. Of people it does. That's what makes america large — to LEARN from it, not fell it. No 1 is expected to consciousness bully astir slavery. It was precise bad. We fought a damn warfare implicit it and killed each different successful the hundreds of thousands. It should beryllium damn good remembered."

—Adavanter_MKI

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