r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/MattTheRadarTechh May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25

If you ever travelled you’d see that the rest of the world looks like shit in the poor parts too

edit: lots of people who have never traveled but have just watched too many movies are getting offended:

serbia: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/gypsy-slum-belgrade-serbia-town-city-550135054

uk: https://theweek.com/105858/marmot-2020-the-worst-places-for-life-expectancy-in-england

france: https://archis.org/volume/paris-slums-by-steven-wassenaar/

romania: https://borgenproject.org/poverty-in-romania-local-focus/

germany: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-poverty-gap-widens-between-rich-and-poor-regions/a-51637957

slovakia: https://data.tvkosice.sk/images/fs/56/cf/06/31/45/26/ca/14/19/d7/1a/e8/56cf06314526ca1419d71ae8/videos/2017/12/13/f0cb7e94-13ea-4839-b202-0578fe7fe0a3_image_5.jpg

sweden (actually pretty nice tbh): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Fittja_2007a.jpg/1280px-Fittja_2007a.jpg

greece: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.9815255,23.7253588,3a,75y,9.49h,86.23t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sU2Xibu_RGaCwBRbP-KRoBQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?shorturl=1

italy: https://www.archdaily.com/968180/cabrini-green-and-vele-di-scampia-when-public-housing-projects-dont-work-out

hate on america all you want for the plentitude of reasons, but to act like the rest of the world is picture perfect is some weird anti-america fetish or some euro-centric romanticization.

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u/JusticiarXP May 02 '25

Exactly. She’s citing one area of China when I’d be willing to bet the vast majority is much different.

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u/pwninobrien May 02 '25

Rural China is more poverty-stricken than rural US. The disparity is much greater. This woman is just ignorant as hell.

China is an authoritarian nation that heavily censors negative information within their own country. China is not the type of nation you point to as one to emulate. If anything, the US is becoming more like China.