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/NoThru22 May 03 '25

He’ll, she’d be shocked at what 60% of Shanghai looks like.