Don't Chant USA...

[Sparko]

Just to be clear, I was not referring to sporting events. Chanting something to support your team at sporting events is standard practice worldwide. It's the unusually patriotic/nationalistic american behaviors outside of sporting events that people find weird.

oh really? You realize that this entire thread is about students chanting USA at sporting events, right?

Do you think Americans just walk around the town chanting USA! for no reason?

[Sparko]

This is all mostly just stereotyping. America isn't really like this everywhere. It seems like when a lot of Europeans imagine America, they're mostly imagining places like Texas, or what you see in movies and TV shows which often take place in LA (or, more commonly now, Vancouver and Toronto). I imagine that most Danes would feel relatively comfortable in the upper corners of America where people act and think more European (at least in my experience). Places like Maine, Vermont, Upper NY, and New Hampshire on the East Coast, and Northern California, Washington, and Oregon on the West. Even the local politics seem more Euro-centric in those places.




Yeah, the politics here are terrible. Everything is super polarizing. That's why I find myself pretty disinterested in them. In fact, I think you'd be surprised how many people in the US just want to tune politics out altogether. It just makes people depressed and anxious, and we don't have enough options, so everyone will root for their side even if they don't like half the things that side does.






I hear ya. I'm not a big American flag waving type guy myself, and don't care about anthems, and the whole rah-rah-rah, Go USA stuff. I think it's often silly, and some people tend to make an idol out of all of it, but I generally understand the reason people are proud of these sorts of things. As much as I don't buy into all of that jingoistic type Americana stuff, videos like this one where a Canadian audience finished the American anthem bring a lump to my throat.

When I lived in Germany, I thought it was a bit sad how disheartened people seemed when it came to national pride. The constant guilt hanging over the heads of even young people for two world wars, and the Nazi legacy made it so that the concept of pride and patriotism is completely verbotten.

Bavarians are very proud and you see the bavarian flag everywhere, even on flag poles outside of homes, table coths, t-shirts, oktoberfest, and beer glasses.

[rogue06]

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The Nazis essentially made Muslims something like "honorary Aryans" as well.

[seer]

The Nazis essentially made Muslims something like "honorary Aryans" as well.

Yes, I think they even let them join the SS - reserved for Aryans...

[rogue06]

oh really? You realize that this entire thread is about students chanting USA at sporting events, right?

Do you think Americans just walk around the town chanting USA! for no reason?

Knowing what Starlight thinks about America...

[Mountain Man]

What gets me, though, is Starlight's constant cocksure attitude about so many things he's completely and hopelessly ignorant about. The guy lives in a bubble.

Classic Dunning-Kruger.

[Mountain Man]

Good idea to, you know, read the OP next time you decide to chime in with your two cents on it.

I'm reminded of the saying, "When some people give their 2-cents worth, they're overcharging."

[Mountain Man]

oh really? You realize that this entire thread is about students chanting USA at sporting events, right?

Do you think Americans just walk around the town chanting USA! for no reason?

It's like someone watching "Duck Dynasty" and thinking it's representative of the average US citizen.

[Leonhard]

This is all mostly just stereotyping.

That was the point. Framing the kind of stereotype a European has in their mind of a US citizen. I know you guys are far more diverse.

[seer]

It's like someone watching "Duck Dynasty" and thinking it's representative of the average US citizen.

It doesn't?

[Starlight]

oh really? You realize that this entire thread is about students chanting USA at sporting events, right?

Well, self-evidently the entire thread wasn't about that, since my sections of it weren't. Furthermore, again, chanting USA at international sporting events is normal and fine. But the OP was about chanting USA at local sporting events which is an insane thing to do and equivalent to as you put it "walk[ing] around the town chanting USA! for no reason".

Do you think Americans just walk around the town chanting USA! for no reason?

I've seen plenty of video footage of Americans chanting USA at times and places that weren't sporting events. I found it inappropriate, bizarre, and felt embarrassed for them.

[Starlight]

What gets me, though, is Starlight's constant cocksure attitude about so many things he's completely and hopelessly ignorant about. The guy lives in a bubble.

Classic Dunning-Kruger.

Perfect self-descriptions of two posters in a single post. Well done.

[Adrift]

Well, self-evidently the entire thread wasn't about that, since my sections of it weren't.

You are too much.

[rogue06]

It's like someone watching "Duck Dynasty" and thinking it's representative of the average US citizen.

Wait. You mean it isn't?

[rogue06]

Well, self-evidently the entire thread wasn't about that, since my sections of it weren't.

Words. Fail. To. Describe.