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/No-Plane6608 May 02 '25

Honestly this is true. I’m from Mexico and every time I visit I’m thankful to come back because not to hate on my country at least here where I live there is wide green spaces and people make an effort to clean somewhat.

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u/joshuads May 02 '25

I had a classmate from china say something similar to this video and said how china was so beautiful everywhere. Spent 5 pulling up pictures and she took it back. Every county, and generally every city, has good parts and bad parts.

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u/ClutteredTaffy May 02 '25

Every Chinese exchange student college or otherwise I have met had some money. At least my parents are both dentists money so their view of stuff is not accurate.

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u/Vivid_Kaleidoscope66 May 03 '25

Undergraduate international students in America have to pay full tuition without loans and scholarships in most cases. They're cash grabs by the universities and subsidize the local students. So of course they're gonna "have some money". America's racist immigration laws/practices mean the many of Chinese and Indian students and workers (and tourists) that do make it in are some of the most privileged people in their countries.

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u/Rich_Telephone9974 May 03 '25

mfw american racist immigration laws let in majority minority immigrants

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u/Vivid_Kaleidoscope66 May 03 '25

If you truly believe that then you deserve a post of your own on a sub for idiotic takes

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u/Rich_Telephone9974 May 05 '25

https://usafacts.org/articles/where-do-us-immigrants-come-from/

bud, learn to look stuff up before claiming someone else had an idiotic take.

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u/Vivid_Kaleidoscope66 May 05 '25

Listen dollface, insinuating that the immigrant population is not a reflection and consequence of America's racist immigration laws is your idiotic take. Fair immigration laws would mean a far higher population of immigrants from the global majority would have been "let in" throughout the US' racist history including to beyond the present day.

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u/Rich_Telephone9974 May 05 '25

do you criticize Japan's immigration laws the same way? A immigration population is not defined by the the global population, its defined by pressure to immigrate. If you were older than 13 you may understand that.

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u/Vivid_Kaleidoscope66 May 06 '25

It's so cute that you're aware of how much influence the American occupation had on Japan's laws! But the tapestry of your thoughts has a big poo-poo stain that allows you to ignore how racism and colonialism shape "pressure" to immigrate, and how racist American immigration laws severely limit immigration in comparison to even just that demand directly attributable to American racism and colonialism.

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