ByteOnBikes@discuss.online to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 month agoMy culture also loves music, dancing and telling storiesdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1imageMy culture also loves music, dancing and telling storiesdiscuss.onlineByteOnBikes@discuss.online to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square30linkfedilink
minus-squareslackassassin@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·28 days agoThis is just not true. It is not absolute nor ubiquitous like that. I think the commenter was right who said it is the view from TV and the internet. A funhouse mirror version of some true things taken as reality.
minus-squareTigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·28 days agoSo how to get the correct view? If eating there (all across the US) isn’t good enough apparently.
minus-squareslackassassin@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·28 days agoListen to locals who have lived there their whole lives.
minus-squareTigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·28 days agoLike my American expat friends? Or my online American friends? They all tell me the same
This is just not true. It is not absolute nor ubiquitous like that. I think the commenter was right who said it is the view from TV and the internet. A funhouse mirror version of some true things taken as reality.
So how to get the correct view? If eating there (all across the US) isn’t good enough apparently.
Listen to locals who have lived there their whole lives.
Like my American expat friends? Or my online American friends? They all tell me the same