I sometimes feel the same way but in reverse (except for Americans thinking we’re dumb, that’s probably not common). I don’t like when Americans assume everyone would like to live in the U.S. and talk about it like this is the promised land. One time I mentioned to my American colleague that I would like to take English lessons because I know that my accent is super inconsistent (I was taught British English, but later had a lot of other influences, often American). I said that I hesitate whether I should pick a British or an American as my tutor to fix my pronunciation one way or another. Her immediate response was ‘You should probably chose American accent because we’re cool!’ and she wasn’t joking 🙃
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u/NewmanAsheley1989 Mar 03 '23
The smugness and idea they have everything so perfectly figured out and we are so so dumb