• watson@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The difference between the US and Europe in this regard is that Europeans are a bit more discreet with their crazy people. EU have 3 times the population as the United States does, obviously they’re gonna have ~3 times more crazy people than we do. They just don’t talk much about it, while, in the US, the crazy people refuse to shut the fuck up

    Edit: I mistakingly used EU instead of Europe when referring to a population of around 750 million. The EU does not have that population, but Europe, generally speaking, it does. That was my mistake.

    Edit: yikes, a lot of crazy people disagree with me

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        1 month ago

        I was thinking of the population of all of Europe, not just the EU. And I tend to use Europe and EU interchangeably. I probably shouldn’t do that.

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          Not your fault. Both are valid abbreviations for each other. Only E.U. would actually be concrete, but…

          Saying the EU should be the European Union. Whereas just EU should signify Europe as you wouldnt say the Europe.

          The context here made it obvious you meant Europe though, dont know how people missed that.

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            1 month ago

            I think the EU is a beautiful thing, and sometimes I forget that not all of Europe agrees with me.

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            I assumed OP either did a typo or wasn’t a native English speaker

            I have not encountered anyone referring to geographical Europe as “EU” before, that would be confusing!

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      Education makes a tremendous difference. Americans have mentally ill people probably at the same rate as EU, but also has ignorant people and that’s where the difference is made up. If you travel 3 hrs in USA, you’ll find the same culture. If you travel 3 hrs in Europe, you’ll be in a different culture altogether.

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        clicks on post

        “hmm this is interesting wonder what people have to say about this”

        scrolls

        the people

        “y’know people are crazy y’all don’t know how to read your pronouncation is wrong that’s the wrong word that’s not right there’s like 4586k people there how about being mental huh we’re just quiet Americans suck”

        sighs

        “how did this even come to this bro…?!”

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        1 month ago

        Culture doesn’t have anything to do with intelligence. Also, no, driving 3 hours in the US will definitely get you to a different culture, likely a different accent even. It takes 3.5 hours to get from NYC to Boston…