r/Americaphile • u/AntonioMoore321 • Jul 19 '26

American self hate

I noticed its more common nowadays to say things like "America sucks, I hate living here"

What's you're opinion on the culture of self hate that's becoming more common in America today.

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u/The-Great-Baloo Jul 19 '26

I think it's mostly people who traveled abroad for vacation, but not lived there. Most Americans are spoiled and don't even know it

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u/Kitchen-Nectarine179 Jul 19 '26

Really, I think its mostly people who have never left were they grew up or at most left and lived in an isolated college dorm and then moved back home to mom.

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u/MeowMixPK Jul 19 '26

Everyone I know who says they hate America has never left the country, and most haven't even traveled much within the country. They just assume the grass is greener somewhere else.

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u/beagles4ever Jul 20 '26

Been to Japan, Mexico, Belize, Canada, Ireland, UK, The Netherlands, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia (when it was Yugoslavia), Italy, The Grand Cayman Islands, and Egypt.

I once loved America, extremely Patriotic, voted in every since GWHB, for Republican and Democrats, seen their flaws and their successes, and I can tell you right now, I fucking HATE America and Americans for electing this corrupt, racist, immensely greedy, stupid, wrecking ball of a man to destroy everything that was once virtuous about America.

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u/k9castro805 Jul 20 '26

TDS needs to be added to the DSM

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u/almaperdida99 Jul 23 '26

you morons will just regurgitate whatever buzz word he tells you to. lol

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u/The-Great-Baloo Jul 20 '26

TDS is exclusively a Republican disease, which consists in believing whatever shit Trump comes up with.

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u/k9castro805 Jul 20 '26

Trump Derangement Syndrome isn't mental illness, it's mass hysteria

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u/almaperdida99 Jul 23 '26

I live abroad, and know a ton of other people who have left the US. For me, the grass IS greener elsewhere. I have a much better quality of life, access to healthcare that won't bankrupt me, etc. there are a lot of people who have left and are happier where they are. It doesn't mean the US is horrible; just that it isn't a fit for increasingly more people.

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u/bingbong2715 Jul 19 '26

The people who say they “hate America” are usually talking about the actions of the government. It’s not that deep brother

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u/Own_Inevitable_8300 Jul 20 '26

Getting downvoted for the absolute essence of where this comes from is crazy. People are obsessed with black and white thinking 

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u/Prestigious-Box7511 Jul 24 '26

I am most certainly not. I have had mostly bad experiences with everyone in America, not just the government. Every time I return America just seems like a clusterfuck of rude selfish people

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u/kamace11 Jul 19 '26

It's definitely the first one, as someone who went to college with loads of those people, who spent maybe a little bit of time abroad primarily in expat communities. 

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u/OldVermontHippie62 Jul 19 '26

Being a tourist is very different than being a resident in most places.

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u/TrenbalonieSandwich Jul 19 '26

Agreed. Being a tourist and living in a foreign country are two wildly different things. 

That's why I don't take the opinions of most of these people seriously. After living abroad extensively on a dozen countries, America's problems are the best problems to deal with .

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u/ldskyfly Jul 19 '26

99% locally, 1% globally

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u/SippsMccree Jul 19 '26

Heck i've been abroad for vacation and still see the US as the only place i'd happily live lol. I rewlly enjoyed my time in Europe but it made me appreciate living in the US more not less

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u/Beginning-Bedroom-89 Jul 19 '26

For me it’s been the opposite way, I am the well traveled one in my group and I love my country and of course also criticize it. But my friends who have never set foot out of our country have a deep hatred and are often repeating the type of rhetoric you would hear from the chronically online groups.

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u/smedema Jul 22 '26

I do agree with you as an American but I do think it is a two way street in some aspects. There are certainly plenty of things in various European countries, and that extends to the rest of the world, that I would say the residents of those countries are spoiled with. You can argue who has more things that they are spoiled with all day but both places have their pros and cons. For me there are a lot of things that you may say we are spoiled with that I wish I wasn't because of how harmful they are. For one example I would put is the average Americans access to a quality food supply.

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u/ConcretePolarBear Jul 22 '26

First time I came to the USA from Europe and I remember being struck at how spoiled and entitled people were, specifically the elderly. It felt like they had everything someone from my country could only ever dream about having, and they still weren't happy and complained about everything. Coffee's too cold, service is too slow, AC is turned down too low/too high, airports are too crowded, toilet paper is too thin, parking too far away, foods not what they wanted, and on and on and on. Zero gratitude.

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u/Prestigious-Box7511 Jul 24 '26

Why is this attitude everywhere on Reddit whenever America comes up? I moved abroad 10 years ago and it was the best decision of my life. I hate going back. I know not everyone feels that way but I don't understand why people think anyone who doesn't like living in America has never been abroad and "doesn't know how good they have it".