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⌈ Secret Post #2227 ⌋

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[Roswell]

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[Gyakuten Saiban/Ace Attorney]

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[Pokemon]

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[The Vampire Diaries]

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[Teen Wolf]

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[Les Miserables: Shojo Cosette]

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[The Hobbit]

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[Neil Gaiman, Mark Gatiss, Dan Handler]

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[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)]

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[Power Rangers]

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[Star Wars: The Old Republic]

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[Big Bang Theory]

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[Breaking Bad]

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[Troy Baker]

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[Magi; Final Fantasy IX]

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[Skyrim]

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[Supernatural]

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[Penn & Teller]

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[Flight Facilities - With You]

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[Neil Gaiman]

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Wow. What is your problem?

The sad thing is, that's not completely inaccurate. I wouldn't classify all Europeans like that (generalizations are bad) but there's definitely a pervasive attitude in Western Europe at least.

AYRT I didn't pick up on that at all during the five years I lived in Germany and traveled throughout Western Europe. Maybe the attitude is more restricted to some destination cities? I know in Paris and Berlin some (not as many as people who'd visited in the 80s and 90s led me to believe) merchants disliked American tourists and in Dresden there is still a great deal of hostility towards America and Americans (understandably), but nothing like the "pervasive attitude" you mentioned.

Probably a reaction to the frequency within which the discourse can at least seem to take on the character of Europeans hectoring Americans for their perceived cultural & moral deficiencies? The casual ways in which some people from Europe tend to make arguments, or even unconscious assumptions, about the backwardness of America and the comparative liberality of European mores?

I mean, I'm really trying not to get emotion into this, and please don't take this as an attack or anything. But I think there is a tendency for this kind of unconscious attitude to inform conversations (especially on the Internet, although obviously it would be wiser to take that with a grain of salt) and it's certainly easy to perceive, and it gets on my nerves personally at least.

But in any case - I think that dynamic definitely exists, not necessarily consciously or constantly, but it's there, and that's probably where the comment was coming from.

Nice try. Mekkio's was the only xenophobic and hostile reply to news about human equality.

Slow your roll, anon, you're being a little too obvious

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