I was watching a video made by an American woman married to German who was astonished to find that life in Germany is far better than in the USA.
She was frightened that the healthcare wouldn't be up to US standards - she found it was better in Germany! She was entitled to 20 days of fully paid vacation along with all public holidays (as are all employees in the EU), sick pay and loads of other advantages that most Americans never see in their entire career!
The average US citizen is completely ignorant of the way of life in any other country and therefore sucks in all the bullshit about how the USA is the greatest country on earth. The USA is a great country if you are rich and prepared to exploit the poor but for everyone else, is a fuckin hell-hole!
@Paulos_the_fog what's pissing me off the most as a European is other Europeans going on all the time about how 'we need to be more like the US'. No we fucking don't. And exactly for the reasons you mentioned.
I might use this post next time it comes up again ;)
Until I moved to Thailand, I had had relatively little contact with Americans. I did work for a couple of American companies and there I met one US guy who impressed me as being a top guy but all the other Americans made me throw up!
I discovered in Thailand that the average American, particularly the males, only seems to know how to interact with people by bouncing their ego off everyone they meet. They are massively aggressive, obnoxious, overbearing, bombastic and very obviously fantastically insecure!
