#europe vs american

[mask131]

Well the short answer would be: Protestantism by definition is a much more fragmented and "branched out" part of Christianity than Catholicism or Orthodoxism, precisely because the very basis of Protestantism was to "protest", "reject" the strict, clear, rigid structure that had been imposed by Catholicism. As such, Protestantism actually covers all the religious currents that tried to change/reject/reform/oppose Catholic Christianty while staying Christian... but nobody agreed on one specific way to do this. They were united by a same rejection, not by a same building-effort - and as such the various Protestant faiths and churches are all very diverse.

And THAT must be added to the Europe vs American divide. Because when it comes to Christianity, from an European point of view, Americans are SO FRIGGIN' WEIRD. Precisely because of how the religions reinvented themselves there. European Protestantism was at least still in line with the varous historical currents and evolutions of Christianity, since the whole point of Protestantism was originally to return to an "older", "purer", "simpler" form of Christianity. But the USA? The people who went there not only tended to be most of the time religious fanatics that nobody in Europe agreed with and who pushed things way further than actual European Protestantism ever did ; but you also have to take into account the whole "building of a nation", "free land" idea that was ingrained in the settlers and colonizers' minds.

For the people of the colonies that would become the USA, America was the "free land" and "new land" for a fresh start new start, outside of any convention or heritage from the old Europe - and this was especially obvious in the religion domain. Protestantism was already an effort to rebuild a religion/build a new religion ; but American Protestantism moved it even further since they saw the opportunity to literaly recreate religion in a place where they wouldn't be "checked" and where the old authorities could not go contest them.

In fact, the very history of the differing religious currents and trends among the 13 colonies is a quite fascinating one, and explains a LOT about how Americans view Christianity vs how Europeans view it. You literaly had small religious wars in the proto-United States as almost each colony had its own dominating religious ideology, which often entered in conflicts with each other (for example, I am pulling out vague memories of the history lessons I received on the early USA literature here so it is very vague - but some colonies had a very misogynistic take religion, while others banked everything on female religious leader or an openness of clericalism to both genders)

And still today the American Christianity has so much weird differences to European Christianity (like how there's the whole "Rapture" myth that is so big in the American mindset, while barely existing in Europe).

I’m not knowledgeable enough about the differences between American Protestantism and Nordic Protestantism to say anything deep or groundbreaking about it but hearing the way Americans talk about Protestantism makes it sound like an entirely different religion.

To be clear I’m not religious. The only thing that passed for a religious upbringing was my Religions class in high school. Like most Danes I don’t have any strong feelings about Christianity. It’s just there, Christmas is nice and we get days off from work around Easter.

But just the sentence “Protestant work ethic” as a way to explain why Americans are so overworked sounds kinda humorous to a simple Dane like me. Protestantism is the state religion in Denmark (Evangelical Lutheran to be precise) and we have the highest number of Protestants per capita in the world and yet Americans who move over here often comment on how lazy we are. We leave work early, we have an ungodly number of paid days off (most of them religious), all parents get paid maternity leave and we will break our bosses’ arms if they try to make us work paid overtime too many days in a row. I’m not saying that to brag, it’s just to illustrate what the “Protestant work ethic” looks like in the most Protestant country in the world.

This is super interesting and I need to dig deeper into why Protestantism turned out so differently in our countries.

[cowboylikeyouu]

clint barton has been my favorite character for years, i've been writing him for years, and i still have to do a quick google search every. single. time. i have to mention his height in feet somewhere, i can't remember that shit for the life of me. my european ass knows damn well that man is 1.91m tall but as soon as i'm in american territory?? no fucking clue. is he 6'1", 6'2", 6'3", 6'4", 10'69"??? who tf knows, definitely not me

[kittykatninja321]

On both a watsonian and doylist level Dick Grayson is white passing

[linogram]

everyday europeans find new ways to piss me off

[goldenpinof]

has anyone emailed dnpshop's customer service in late December-early January and actually got a reply?

[meyerlansky]

also wrt that gifset: the way jack goes to talk to curt and then makes THE most disappointed and annoyed face when bucky gets there first has me feeling Some Kinda Way

[moodr1ng]

once again i am begging you to realize that using "european" to mean "white people" is shitty to european people of color and that if youre going to talk shit about white europeans and their racism (as you should) you oughta realize that some of the principal victims of that racism are the people of color LITERALLY LIVING WITH IT. the us is 75% white. france is 85% white. those numbers are not so ludicrously far apart that you can keep pretending like your countrys diversity is evident and needs be respected while obviously other countries are white only bc theres a white majority.

[chronically-chaotic-cryptid]

Americans! Do you have instant hot water? Like, do you get hot water a few seconds after turning the shower/faucet on, without having to do anything before (running the water to heat it up with electricity/turning the immersion on/whatever you call it)

Edit: I should probably clarify that I don't mean 'do you turn on the tap and there's already hot water' I mean 'can you impulsively take a shower without having to wait 15+ minutes for your house to heat water up'

Reblog for sample size!

[mspbandj]

Americans are fuckin wild with their attitude towards marriage tbh you go to America and some guys like "Hi, this is my 26yo wife, we met four months ago at a mutual friends grandmas wake and hit it off immediately, we've been married for two months now and have just put a $120 000 deposit down on a two bedroom flat almost within the city limits of Detroit" but then you go to Europe and some other guy is like "Hello, this is my 43yo boyfriend, we've been together for 28 years, have three adult children, and own and operate a small family bee ranch on the coast of Valencia that we inherited from his great grandma (technically it was willed to me because Edna and I were thick as thieves and also doing it that way was better for tax purposes, but we all share everything in this family) yeah we've thought about marriage before but honestly whats the rush? we just dont want to move too fast, you understand." its fuckin incredible

[orionsangel86]

Reading your tags on the travel poll - you're absolutely right. International travel *used* to be more common among USians, especially to nearby Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean where we used to be able to travel without a passport. But travel costs and restrictions on top of income inequity means fewer people traveling. Also? I've traveled over 4,000 miles/6,700km to a vacation destination (Hawai'i) and was still in the US. It's big here.

Yeah this is it exactly. I can be in France or Belgium in a few hours max for not a HUGE sum of money, and from there the rest of Europe is easy access. Its not even all that difficult to get from here to Africa or the Middle East in all honestly, I understand that a flight from NY to LA is only a bit shorter than a flight from London to Dubai. Insane!

And then wealth inequality and the cost of travel for people in the US is clearly also a huge factor. Its just so much more expensive for Americans to travel to the rest of the world, since you are separated from it by two huge oceans. Even South America is a bloody long trek for someone living in New York.

Though I do think its worth mentioning that when I was staying with a friend in Alabama once upon a time, it was really eye opening to me how so many of her fellow students at her uni had never even left the state let alone the country. I was treated with a mix of curiosity and fascination because I was doing a backpacking trip around the world (literally - I kept to one direction and ended up back where I started take THAT flat Earthers! Lol) and a lot of the comments I got were... why? One extremely patriotic dude was like "why would I leave? America is the greatest country on Earth". (He was also possibly the most idiotic person I've ever met in my life so there is that) so I did get the impression, certainly among certain areas, communities, states, etc... that they simply have no interest in travel either. Though I can't imagine that mindset is one that is popular among Americans who use Tumblr...

So basically there are many many factors as to why Americans don't seem to travel outside of America unlike most people from other countries. It was crazy to me back when I was there how few people had travelled, whereas here in the UK i can't think of a single person I know who hasnt travelled to multiple countries as its just the norm.

Its interesting seeing those differences of experience reflect in the polls though. Tumblr is so America orientated but honestly if that poll was done among only non Americans, I am certain the results would skew heavily in favour of 9+ countries. Over 50% for sure.

[lizardinabigwizardhat]

I know people have brought up the “will drive an hour just to go to work” Americanism and the “lives in a thousand year old building” Europeanism but it’s still wild to me how far us US Americans will drive daily. Like, it’s understood that if you “commute” to work, you don’t live in the same city that you work in, and it’s generally assumed that it takes you at least an hour to get there. I drive 30 miles to get to work and then drive it again to get back home. That’s almost 50 kilometers, which is almost 100 km that I drive 5 days a week. But the oldest thing in my city is like. 150 years old.

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

Did anyone one else see that thing on tiktok a while back when some US American came on and said that there weren't more cultural differences between European countries than US states? Her argument being that the distance between European countries wasn't greater than the distance between US states, so they couldn't possibly be that culturally different. A lot of Europeans responded to correct her (some a lot more kindly and genuinely then others) and instead of being like "Oh wow, what a cool insight into these other cultures and the rest of the world" or even "oh wow that's embarrassing, I'll take the video down" she doubled down and said something like "🦅🦅If you think I, as a goddamn 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸American🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 am going to listen to a bunch of Europeans try to tell me anything🦅🦅"

That was quite funny in and of itself, but when a bunch of other US Americans joined in agreeing with her? That, that was the dumbest shit I've ever seen. Like, I absolutely know it's wrong to make assumptions about people based on nationality, but my God, US Americans just can not beat the stupid allegations

one thing I’ve noticed while running an online shop is that Americans never include their country when writing their address.

I don’t mean when filling in online forms, bc that’s obviously a required element. but when emailing me for address changes for orders, they never include a country in the updated address. but I always know the country is the United States of America because literally nobody else around the world would do that.

[autisticriddler]

the real american experience is driving an hour and 15 minutes just to see a guy who you first met 3 states over (which is like a 5 hour drive or longer away)

[mifunebooty]

Nodding to Buñuel explaining he wouldve made exterminating angel in europe instead of Mexico because that's where he finds the core audience of the "highest society" because he was concerned after production if Europeans would've dismissed certain production styles as cheap or Mexican or both

[penny-anna]

don't think europe vs US states is a fair comparison actually. take this quiz and see how many american countries you can name.

[fawningoveradream]

“Americans Who Fought Putin Share ‘Horrifying’ War Surprises”- Article published by the Daily Beast. 

- Author: National Security Reporter, Shannon Vavra || Published: June 30, 2023 at 11:44PM EDT || Updated: July 01, 2023 at 3:10AM EDT

Link to Article: https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-us-troops-reveal-most-horrifying-surprises-of-russias-war-in-ukraine