Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad), a UK Youtuber, just got back from visiting rural Virginia in the United States and he made an entire video about how superior US culture was to UK, how everyone was nice, how he went to an expensive restaurant and spent $100 on a meal, and how the same restaurant would be “impossible to find” in the UK, and how it was indicative of how much better a lifestyle Americans must live compared to the UK.
How do you deal with these sorts of people? I feel like every tourist who ever visits another country says the same thing. I’ve had Americans visit the UK and talk about how uncharacteristically polite the Brits were. Do people like Sargon not understand that the average American isn’t spending $100 on a meal from a 5-star restaurant in downtown Washington DC? He also seems to think that the Left makes cities they touch worse, which is funny because it’s generally the opposite causal relationship – people become leftists because they live in terrible conditions and are looking for help to get out of it.
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Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad), a UK Youtuber, just got back from visiting rural Virginia in the United States and he made an entire video about how superior US culture was to UK, how everyone was nice, how he went to an expensive restaurant and spent $100 on a meal, and how the same restaurant would be “impossible to find” in the UK, and how it was indicative of how much better a lifestyle Americans must live compared to the UK.
How do you deal with these sorts of people? I feel like every tourist who ever visits another country says the same thing. I’ve had Americans visit the UK and talk about how uncharacteristically polite the Brits were. Do they not understand that the average American isn’t spending $100 on a meal from a 5-star restaurant in downtown Washington DC? He also seems to think that the Left makes cities they touch worse, which is funny because it’s generally the opposite causal relationship – people become leftists because they live in terrible conditions and are looking for help to get out of it.
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