• Dr. Moose
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    115 days ago

    Yeah but almost every American I meet here traveling in SEA or Europe is a perfectly reasonable person.

    Dunno I just am in such disbelief that my world experience doesn’t match reality at all. I even consider myself pretty well traveled with 20 years of experience traveling around the globe though admittedly I’ve never been to the USA yet and I fear I might not get to see Yellowstone or Big Sur ever at this point or do I even want to?

    Kinda sucks to be a fan of US now ngl.

    • @[email protected]
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      1115 days ago

      The people you meet while travelling are not the average people. The average American never travels to another state, let alone to other continents… Same is true for many people in many countries: Asians visiting Europe are top % of population in wealth and brains. It’s dissapointing and depressing but fox probably gives you a more true picture of average Americans than Americans you meet while travelling.

      • Dr. Moose
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        315 days ago

        Yes I’m perfectly familiar with “survivors bias” but never seen it so extreme.

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      15 days ago

      The more conservative you are, the less likely you are to travel. The less likely you are to be open to experiencing “them”.

      When I went back to my high school reunion, I tried reconnecting with an old buddy of mine. I found it a little odd that his life seemed exactly the same as in high school, but eventually he admitted that he had never been more than about 50 miles from the town we grew up in. Never left the state, much less the country. Never left the surrounding rural cluster of towns. Never flew. Not even a road trip to a coast, amusement park or city. No changes in food from what he grew up with. No people different from him. What the everliving fuck?

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      515 days ago

      If you go to the States as a tourist the chances are that you will be just fine, it’s the living there that increasingly sucks.