One of the intresting things we are taught about unconscious bias, is besides people actively discriminating agianst outer groups, most people simply reserve postive emotions for inner groups leading people to be kinda like this without really realizing it.
So remember don’t just reconsider your views on natinoalism, but consider everyone else probably has unconscious prejudice agianst others, so don’t just attack them for thier views but at least try to educate them.
Then if they continue to be willfully ignorant shrug…
In related news: My local group totally doesn’t have an accent. Everyone else does!
I feel like most Midwestern Americans believe this unironically
I’d go further and say most Americans outside the Southeast US think they don’t have accents. This is the only time the Southeast has ever topped the charts on anything involving intelligence.
it’s true, the true English accent is Scottish English with a hint of polish influence
Right, but that’s just post-hoc rationalisation by Americans crying that their “culture” breaks down to authoritarianism, slavery, and genocide.
? Inner / Outer group psychology isn’t an American thing…it’s a human thing. It’s seen in slightly diffrent ways across the world but is seen universally
This is what our prehistoric ape ancestors on the western plains thought of our prehistoric ape ancestors on the eastern plains half a million years ago. … stupid eastern plains apes >:(
I mean, I like the food in my country, but I would never want to do without the cuisine of foreign countries. Or the culture, or whatever else. Friends 💕
That’s what’s so great about American ‘cuisine’. Everybody comes here and opens up restaurants. We got it all.
There is a reason we are all fat yo.
Sure, but you shouldn’t think that the “ethnic” restaurants in the US are serving what is actually served in their home country. Just about every restaurant tunes their recipes for local tastes. And, since the US is more insular than most countries, the recipes are adjusted a lot more for Americans than for people in other countries.
This is silly and I love it.
I am silly and I love you.
Hot take: if someone says “my country has the best ____” and has not ever lived for an extended period in another country, you can just ignore anything they have to say.
Australia has the best Vegemite.
Canada has the best Poutine.
My country has the best people that come from my country. Fight me.
Anationalism, yay!
Now if one of them has a recent genocide, I’m voting for the other one.
We were deeply brainwashed to believe we were the best and discovered the world. Never were we enlightened about we being at fault for bootraping the slave market across the Atlantic. Ups, a silly omission in our history lessons.
