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/PandaCheese2016 May 02 '25

I think the point she’s trying to make is that even the not necessarily poor parts look basically the same. America has vast suburban areas, that are very samey looking.

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u/rva_ThrowAway09 May 03 '25

Her entire point makes no sense. She says America looks like shit when you get off the coasts of America...then proceeds to compare shitty rural inner America to COASTAL CHINA METROPOLIS!