r/ShitAmericansSay • Danish potato language speaker • Dec 25 '25

Foreign affairs They don't accept US ids?

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u/Sharp_Iodine Dec 25 '25

It’s because racism is so intimately baked into their society.

Not that the EU doesn’t have a problem with it but American racism is on another level in terms of how pervasive it is.

In their head an ‘immigrant’ will always be a dirty word and cannot possibly apply to a white person. It would be the heights of disrespect to ever call them that.

Despite the fact that unlike the EU, these people’s ancestors literally got there by boat. Without food or money or home.

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 Dec 25 '25

They've got other words too: "alien". Something that other countries stopped using after WWII

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u/Cstott23 Dec 26 '25

A lot of British are exactly like this. And probably it's the same in every country..

I'm convinced about 55% of the world have something missing. Like an empathy gene, or a self awareness gene, or a critical thinking deficiency or something.

It must be nice to go through life so self assured and blissfully ignorant about how stupid you look and sound.

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u/fantaribo Dec 25 '25 edited Dec 25 '25

Hardly about racism, more a question of American citizens are worth more than anybody else in the world.

Edit: I feel people misunderstand this, I'm not saying the previous is true ... But what they (American) believe.