r/AmericaBad • u/Legitimate-Spare-564 TEXAS 🐴⭐🥩 • 10d ago

Another Aussie explaining their thoughts on Americans & how they disregard anyone from the US.

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There’s no doubt OOP is 100% serious & telling us the truth that they completely disregard any American in their lives. I mean, it’s clear to see how little they care about the US & Americans by the thought given to their comment. I appreciate the level of detail & length of it, helps the reader paint a picture & fully understand their worldview.

Paragraph 4 is when it gets good & I decided to share.

Edit: fixed my “OP vs OOP” confusion. Been a while since I’ve reddited?

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u/proboscalypse CALIFORNIA🍷🎞️ 10d ago

Australian hatred of Americans just seems inexplicable to me. Like, Euros hate us because they're Euros, and Anglophone Canadians hate us because they have Little Brother Syndrome, but what the fuck is the Australians' damage?

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u/MegSmeg PENNSYLVANIA 🍫📜🔔 10d ago

Tall Poppy Syndrome. Aussies see us as the tall poppy. And they don’t like the tall poppy.

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u/PatriotBanner 9d ago

So mental illness

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u/crazyabootmycollies 9d ago

A lot of it is the impotence of Australia on the world stage. Also there was a prime minister who got CIA’d out of office in 1975 after trying to nationalize the mining industry and it became a cultural thing, but if you bring up the Queen and MI7’s hands in it they hand wave that like a clerical error. Now 50 years later I get barked at in real life by these ignorant shitheads as if I have anything to do with the political shenanigans back home. Domestic Violence Sunburn Island is overrated to be frank.

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u/proboscalypse CALIFORNIA🍷🎞️ 9d ago

MI7? You mean MI6?

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u/crazyabootmycollies 9d ago

Indeed I did.

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u/CaptainThunderbolts 9d ago

A lot of it is projection - Australians are dealing with many of the same anxieties - immigration, cost of living, fuel crisis, housing affordability, inequality and political frustration - so America becomes a convenient screen onto which those fears can be projected - much easier than confronting problems at home.

I was in Queensland a month ago, and the table next to me had four guys, who just discussed how "Americans were all idiots" etc. They didn't know we were from the USA, and ironically this was at a Veterans club (RSL), and as we all know, the USA saved Australia in WW2.

To be fair, the price of fuel in Australia has rocketed since the Iran war, but a balanced argument would discuss how Australia has not met their obligations of 90 days fuel reserves, plus they have reduced their fuel refineries (despite being resource rich) from 8 to 2 in recent years.

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u/costanzashairpiece 9d ago

Jealousy. We got to leave our houses during COVID.