#europeans might contribute to this a bit bcs we do loooove to have a superiority complex about america even if it's undeserved | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

lgbtlunaverse · 7 months ago

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I think a lot of people's perception of "US centrism" on this site is "americans assuming us-specific problems are universal" but i've found it just as often if not more often manifests as the opposite. Usamericans thinking a problem people deal with worldwide (food deserts, late stage capitalism, bigotry) or a problem that did start primarily in the US but has been exported worldwide via cultural imperialism (this particular example is not the us but canada, but I sure did looooove having trucker protests in my country after they got 'inspired' by those in north america /s) are things only they have to deal with. I regularly get tags on this post that say something like 'blame the puritans for ruining american society' or will straight up go '#usa #fuck this country #i bet the rest of the world doesn't have this problem' I am from the Netherlands and have never set foot on the american continent.

#us centrism #anyone remember the post about how you benefit from living in the imperial core even if you are in other ways marginalized #and people were like 'um actually some people in the usa are POOR'#listen... being poor in the richest country in the world does in fact mean you still benefit from living in the world's richest country #your standards of living are higher than they would be if you were poor in countries still affected by colonialism and imperialism.#doesn't mean they're GOOD they're criminally bad and you deserve better but you do in fact still benefit from imperialism #and i say this as someone else living in the imperial core like no yeah i *absolutely* benefit from that.#but i KNOW that #europeans might contribute to this a bit bcs we do loooove to have a superiority complex about america even if it's undeserved #having better healthcare more trains and less guns does not make us problem free we suck #and have uhhh caused a significant amount of the problems on the other continents.#does mean we tend to be more aware of the privilege we have living here #but since europe is the only other continent usians know about some think 'murica is unique in having... bigots. or structural problems.

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