LogFAQs > #972900534

for doing shit that they chastise Americans for doing.
Like I see people constantly saying you're an asshole for making fun of Italian's pride and love of their food, as if food isn't an important part of all cultures -- and when that nationalist pride is treated totally differently in the context of the United States.

They can sit there and make totally classist comments about food, like talking about the *preservatives* in food - as if their entire countries in Europe aren't the size of some medium-sized states in the US. Food literally has longer to travel in the US - it's not a difficult concept to grasp. The most commonly used preservatives are things like ascorbic acid anyways.There's this huge willful ignorance of food science in general - like additives where in studies the amounts needed to consume are hundreds or thousands of times greater than what we typically consume are banned in Europe, so it must just be Americans intentionally harming themselves or something.

Or America aside, they'll make fun of Asian countries for eating insects, or make jokes about Asian countries eating bats and dogs and shit. Hell - the whole idea that spices are for those in poverty and that quality should "speak for itself" is some horribly classist attitude that's super European and has even been adopted by Euro-worshipping Americans in the "fine dining" community.

Then acting like local food or privately owned businesses don't exist in the US - cause it's "all McDonalds"? Like every single grocery store and farmer's market doesn't have a bakery? Nope - we all just eat Wonder Bread here. Or when they say that American cuisine is derivative - as if we're literally not a nation built upon immigration and annexing our indigenous people? Stuff like soul food, Cajun, Creole, etc. are distinctly American and you're not going to properly find them anywhere else: they're an amalgamation of various influences and utilizing what's regionally available, and differ enough for their source material to warrant their own categories. Then the hypocrisy involved when you talk about how tomatoes and potatoes and many other plants literally came from South America and Europe claims them as their own?

We talk about America like we're the big, bad imperialists. Which - sure. But Europe were the OG imperialists and are guilty of so much of the same shit, even if many of the countries currently have better social programs. They still have just as much classism, nationalism and national pride, and prejudice as the United States. And Greece and Rome really were the bad guys in Western history -- but we paint them as "the birthplace of civilization" blah blah blah.

Online Europeans are literally just a bunch of hooligans committing crimes, seeing America committing crimes and pointing their finger at them to skirt responsibility for their own transgressions.