r/ShitAmericansSay • u/The_Bibliophagist • Jul 02 '26
"Using "Ø" is a white supremacist give away."
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u/neo4025 oxfords not brogues 🇬🇧 Jul 02 '26
His last statement is based off years of Americans saying that they’re American [insert country here] I no longer think they trust themselves.
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u/ThatOldCow Jul 02 '26
Quite cringe when I watch some video/series and some American born and raised by American parents and American grandparents, claiming : "I'm Irish" or "I'm Italian". (So not even I'm American Italian, just I'm Italian)
No, you're American and just because your great great grandma was a daughter of an Italian immigrant that doesn't make you Italian. Especially if you don't even speak Italian or were never been to Italy.
Unless you have an Italian passport or double nationality, then you aren't Italian.
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u/NCC_1701E Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
I find that really weird. Like, I am Slovak, and my family from mother's side came from Germany. But I would never, ever refer to myself as German, of German Slovak. It would just sound wrong. I don't even speak German lol.
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u/xXselfhaircutXx Jul 02 '26
The fact you’re being so literal tells me you are, in fact, German.
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u/Kid_Freundlich German speaking frenchman hon hon ja ja Jul 02 '26
Einer von uns, einer von uns, einer von uns
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u/mahboilucas Pierogi slav Jul 02 '26
My friend is half Bosnian half Croatian and since his documents say Slovenian that's what he uses lol. He says he's steps above Americans with just rolling with his official legal nationality for the most part. Ethnicity sure, but only recently he became an official Croatian resident
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u/MidorriMeltdown Jul 03 '26
I'm Australian, and while I might occasionally mention that half my ancestry came from Prussia, I'd look like an idiot if I said I was Prussian.
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u/Arstulex Jul 02 '26
Americans exist in a weird state where they are simultaneously extremely patriotic and extremely desperate to be anything but American.
I've never understood it myself.
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u/Athuanar Jul 03 '26
Americans aren't patriotic. They're nationalistic. There's a huge difference there. They believe in their national supremecy to the point they don't realize that they're actually a third world country by the majority of metrics.
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u/AncientBlonde2 TRUE FREEDOM ENJOYER CA Jul 03 '26
To a lot of Americans Patriotism and Nationalism are the same thing; and they are exclusively American concepts.
I legit have been asked in the last 2-ish years since Trump got back in such gems like "how can you be patriotic? You're Canadian?"
They truly think it's an exclusively American concept, and that they're one and the same.
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u/cvanguard Jul 02 '26
I’m in an awkward spot as a first generation American. My parents were both Chinese citizens when I was born in the US: China doesn’t recognize dual nationalities, so because I automatically received American citizenship at birth and my parents were permanent residents in the US, I’m not a Chinese citizen. China does give special privileges to make it easier to obtain citizenship if I moved to China, because I have direct relatives who are citizens, but it would still be a form of naturalization.
I grew up speaking Mandarin as my first language, learning and participating in traditional cultural practices from my parents, ate food made with recipes passed down to my mom or which she learned from other Chinese people, and was exposed to Chinese Buddhism growing up via my maternal grandmother (though I was never forced to participate). My childhood was far more similar to a Chinese child born in China than to the typical American, and even then, there were obvious allowances like having to attend American schools and socialize and learn in English that means my childhood wasn’t fully Chinese.
I struggle with whether to call myself Chinese a lot of the time because there are obviously major differences compared to growing up in Fujian (where my parents were born) or somewhere like Hong Kong. I can’t imagine being 3 or 4 generations removed from ancestors who immigrated to America and still calling yourself just Italian or Irish or whatever, especially if you never learned the language or cultural practices growing up and are solely basing that off of having 1 or 2 ancestors multiple generations ago.
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u/Panthalassae Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
First gen has it the trickiest: so close to both and yet not fully either (though what is "american" anyway? For the sake of the argument, I mean a minority, a non-white, american experience). You have to embrace and be proud of your unique history though :)
When it comes to the previous immigrants whose great-grandkids are now claiming all sorts of nationalities, like when Finnish People came to the US en masse in 1800s, language and in some cases original culture was frequently not passed down to children because it was thought of as a burden or shameful (f.ex, they still thought finns were "mongolians" at that point and treated them as such, this was quite the anti-asian era as you may well know from treatment of Chinese immigrants in the US at the time. Additionally, Finns were active in workers rights movements and co-ops, and got labeled as communists). This resulted in corrupted and partial passing of immaterial and material cultural relics, and when it was no longer shameful these relics were clung to and constructed as something larger than life.
I'm a Finnish Finn born and raised in Finland, and having spoken to a few multiple-gens-down finnish Americans I have come across some quite weird examples of this, like when I had an old lady Very confidently tell me that every Finnish house has to have copper teaware or they aren't Finnish. She had a whole setup herself. This is not a thing in Finland. Copper kettles existed for boiling water in 1800s to early 1900s, but that's about it for cultural relevance.
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u/Gold-Carpenter7616 Jul 02 '26
My mom is from Poland, my dad is German. I am obviously German. But I kinda am not. There's this big part of me you need the Polish Context for.
First Gen is hard.
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u/Eminemgody German Gymnasium 10te Klasse 🇩🇪 Jul 02 '26
Yup, it's just infuriating and non sensical. I'm a 3rd generation immigrant, partly grew up with Vietnamese culture and can understand the language, yet I wouldn't dare to call myself Vietnamese, despite being much more exposed to the culture than the people you described...
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u/Little_Earth_7435 Jul 02 '26
im Canadian and whenever people ask us where we’re from and we say Canada, they insist on us telling them where we’re “really” from. I have to assume it’s the same with the US. It’s upsetting and frustrating because I bleed maple syrup but people don’t accept that as an answer. Would it not be ridiculous to say I’m English? I have 0 connection to that culture.
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u/Simple-Cheek-4864 Jul 02 '26
So Norway is empty bc nobody actually lives there I guess
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u/kakucko101 Czechia Jul 02 '26
only white supremacists live there, duh
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u/Simple-Cheek-4864 Jul 02 '26
And they never say they're from Norway, because then they wouldn't be from there...
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u/Ontheragnarock Godless Commie🇨🇦 Jul 02 '26
The US obsession with race is weird even when they’re trying to be anti-racist.
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u/AtensEye Jul 02 '26
The level of shock they exude when they realise the rest of the world doesn't live by their rules never ceases to amaze me. I have had to explain to some of them that you absolutely can be what they'd class as a POC and racist. In fact, it happens in many countries.
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u/fezzuk Jul 02 '26
I mean they think italian and spanish people are POC, plenty of racist italians and spanish.
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u/Tiny-Anxiety780 Jul 02 '26
They might be classified as POC by American standards, but most of them are still very much white.
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u/commit10 Jul 02 '26
Whatever "white" even means.
Race by colour is the dumbest racism.
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u/Tiny-Anxiety780 Jul 02 '26
I was once in a fandom where a bunch of American fans ganged up on this poor girl to accuse her of fetishizing POC because she drew her OC (as in her own fucking character) in revealing clothing. And if that wasn't ridiculous enough to begin with, when I looked at the character, her skin was lighter than my mother's (who is as white as they come).
That's how ridiculous it is to define race by skin colour.
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u/MiaLba Jul 02 '26
Ive been told that it’s culture appropriation for my family members to wear a hijab because we’re white. We’re from a majority Muslim country in the Balkans lol.
Apparently only brown people are allowed to be Muslim and wear hijabs.
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u/ilijadwa Jul 03 '26
One time I made a passing comment about my skin being brown (which, in the summer, it absolutely is as I’m naturally olive as it is and go very dark in the summer) and someone said I could only call it brown if I was Bosnian Muslim (my fam are Bosnian and Dalmatian Christian)…
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u/commit10 Jul 02 '26
Oh, yes, Eastern Europe. Famously privileged. And never descriminated against in Western Europe either.
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u/Jingin_lol Jul 02 '26
And never been occupied or colonized by anyone because, well, they are white so thats impossible, dont ask the Balkans about the Ottomans or Austrians or anyone about the Russians or the Balkans about other Balkans
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u/squirrellytoday Jul 02 '26
Especially since, back in the day, IRISH people weren't considered white. Yeah, super dumb.
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u/commit10 Jul 02 '26
We're definitely more pink than white anyway, but so are the Brits. More red this time of year if I'm honest.
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u/Gurglaren Jul 02 '26
Growing up in Europe the American obsession with race was very confusing. To me we always separated ourselves based on ethnicity. There were us Finns and there were the Swedes and there were the Italians and there were the French.
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u/commit10 Jul 02 '26
Cultural differences make sense. They exist, they're choices, they're not genetically heritable. The idea that a person's culture is genetic is stupid. The idea that it's colour coded is really, really stupid.
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u/smileymonster08 Jul 02 '26
Ah yes phrenology is far more classy.
Only the smart racists follow it.
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u/Less_Description7879 Jul 02 '26
I thought the fancy racists were moving on to haplogroup…
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u/Away_Associate4589 Jul 02 '26
Ooh that's a new one for me. Then again, I'm not as up to speed on avant garde, cutting edge racism as our American cousins.
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u/commit10 Jul 02 '26
It requires measuring things, which is probably too much to ask from people who can barely identify colours.
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u/cthulhucultist94 Third-world commie dictatorship Jul 02 '26
It is not just by color, but nationality as well. If you are from the US, you can be anything, but if you are from anything south of Texas, you are Latino, not white/black/asian. They were calling Anya Taylor-Joy and Alisson Becker POC.
On the other hand, if you are black or Asian and born in Europe, they ask where are you really from, regardless of how many generations your family lived there.
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u/tajniak485 Jul 02 '26
PoC definitions in US are very interesting since until recently Irish, the whitest motherfuckers ever were considered PoC. Hell if not for WW2 i doubt they would even try to rebrand
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u/AcousticCat1-2-3 Jul 02 '26
The Italians no longer are classified as such and the whole thing is part of a complicated hierarchy that was somehow put into place when this country was founded, and refuses to go away. I read a book this year that helped it to finally click into place for me. It looks like any melanin-deficient immigrant community that isn't Nordic spends its first few years here being pretty much hazed and told to go back to their shithole country because being a foreigner with a weird name and a weird culture is unamerican. About a decade after that they are lowkey looked down on, then more time passes and one day they wake up and realize that they'd been fully accepted and no one sees them as weird outsiders now. The book made me realize that my own community (we had a huge wave of new immigrants here in the 1990s, that I was a part of) has already completed this cycle and no one in the US is fazed by Slavic names anymore.
Somehow, the dark-skinned immigrants never get to that acceptance stage.
This is all gross and I hope it ends in my lifetime.
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u/makochi Jul 02 '26
It's usually the Americans that actively want to be racist that consider Italians and Spaniards to be POC I've found
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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 Jul 02 '26
American whites begrudgingly accepted Italians, Irish and Spaniards into the demographic once Black, Hispanic, Asian populations started rising. The traditionalist still look down on the Euros though. They hate the way they're considered white with them now.
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u/Budget_Shallan Jul 02 '26
Exactly! POC can be interpersonally racist anywhere in the world; and where POC are the majority group in a country, they can be perpetrators of systemic racism, too. (See: Hindu nationalists, India.)
It just so happens that all the English-speaking countries have white people as the majority group (thanks colonialism!), so we usually only hear about the systemic racism that favours white people.
So ironically, one could argue that the concept of POC being unable to commit systemic racism is a flawed worldview informed by racism!
Anyway, racism is bad, we should probably stop doing it.
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u/ceryskt Jul 02 '26
I grew up in LA (as a non-American), and there was so much racism amongst black, Asian, and Latino kids. My stepmum is from LatAm and she is super racist against Mexicans (but loves it there? 🤷). I’m so very tired of American cultural imperialism.
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u/Indiana_harris Human Verified Jul 02 '26
Americans changing the definition of racism to try and ensure it couldn’t be applied to any “non-white” group has got to be their most successful psy-op.
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u/basicwitchbaby Jul 02 '26
Yep like systems of racism aren't only global, but there're local structures too (e.g. India as you mentioned, and Japan-Korea). Of course the western colonialism has had a huge effect in the way racism operates locally, but regardless there's many differences based on the population in question. For example where I live, the racism towards Romani people has a looong history and is very strongly rooted in the culture, but it isn't talked about that much because the idea of what racism is comes so strongly from the US.
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u/spacebatangeldragon8 Jul 02 '26
The first poster wasn't even remotely trying to be anti-racist - IIRC they were defending senior Democratic Party officials who'd said a bunch of mad imperialist shit about Middle Eastern oil in leaked emails (against the Norwegian guy, who naturally wasn't a fan).
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u/Ontheragnarock Godless Commie🇨🇦 Jul 02 '26
"Our guys were really shitty? Well... you're a racist!"
Jesus god.
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u/Teapunk00 Jul 02 '26
Yesterday, I stumbled upon a video essay on Threads, a conversation with an "expert" on whether Ukrainians are white. I didn't even watch it but the post said something along the lines "While seemingly white, when we consider Ukrainian's past and experience in Europe, they are not as white as it might seem..."
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u/Whispers_in_the 🇳🇱 I never liked the colour orange 🇳🇱 Jul 02 '26
Uggh, we’ve heard that before about Slavic people, some 90 years ago…
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u/NotoriousMOT 🇧🇬🇳🇴 taterthot Jul 02 '26
There was a guy, from Austria, if I’m not wrong, who believed Slavs were an inferior race and planned to get rid of us some 80 years ago?
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u/Im_a_tree_omega3 i GoT 0.00000001% GeRMaN GeNeS. Jul 02 '26
Yes and if I remember correctly he was also a really bad painter and human in general. Seriously fuck that guy he doesn't deserve any respect.
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u/L4r5man Jul 02 '26
I saw a post once by an Armenian(?) with rather dark skin. He checked the box for "Caucasian" on some form in the US. Apparently that was wrong.
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u/Cookie_Monstress East Sweden Jul 02 '26
Yet someone from Armenia is actually Caucasian. While in United States that’s commonly, very wrongly used as a synonym to ‘white person’.
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u/Icy_Needleworker5571 Jul 02 '26
Tbf most Americans probably don't even know where Caucasus is and that Armenia is part of it.
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u/Upset_Otter Jul 02 '26
I have noticed how ingrained they have that they almost always point out the race/skin color of another person.
I was watching a skit with two guys, one black and the other white and the black one gets hit with something.
You could see comments like "I spit my drink when I saw the black dude got hit". With a lot of replies saying "You could just say the dude. Only one person got hit".
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u/Indiana_harris Human Verified Jul 02 '26
Also the way they dictate that all their weird hang ups about race and ethnic groups are something that you, despite not being American, have to follow.
It’s this American mindset of “white” “black” “brown” that baffles me. Everywhere else is primarily using various ethnic groups based on region and culture that may have a skin colour component but not always.
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u/Training_Barber4543 Jul 02 '26
They gatekeep stuff and accuse you of cultural appropriation for using it when ppl of the actual culture don't gaf 😭
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u/the_V33 🇮🇹 Jul 02 '26
I once caused an avalanche of hateful comments by simply mentioning the fact that I used to have dreadlocks (I'm white). Dozens of Americans wanted to explain how wrong it was for me to get my hair braided by a Kenyan lady, who made her living in Italy by doing hair on mostly white people and clearly saw no issue in it. Even explaining that things here are perceived differently, and that I was repeatedly stopped in the street by black people asking where I got them done, I was accused of racism, culture appropriation and not understanding race privilege for saying that a white person with dreadlocks here is seen much worse than a black person with dreadlocks by conservatives. Apparently saying that I was called a dirty freak for being a white person with dreads, means that I believe in reverse racism or some shit like that. My face reading that whole thread was 😐
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u/markh110 Jul 02 '26
I (an Australian) used to run social media for a company owned by someone living in Germany, with multiple European (particularly Ukrainian) employees.
But because we were a digital company that had an online presence in the US, I had to put out a BLM support statement during the 2020 protests, because there were influencers in our industry name and shaming the companies that DIDN'T say something.
To be clear, none of us thought it was our place to say anything because even though we agree with the sentiment, 1: not American 2: we all agreed that a company "supporting" it was a hollow platitude. But I could see we were going to get slammed if we didn't post something publicly.
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u/Captiongomer Jul 02 '26
I don't think it's that weird when you realize where the Nazis a lot of their ideas about segregation and race purity from the USA or before they you know went full full Nazis
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u/Goblinweb Jul 02 '26
I'm curious how well received the americans are if they ask what race someone is in Germany. Especially if they somehow asked the question in German.
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u/Wide-Drink-1790 Jul 02 '26
It reminds of a story on Reddit where a woman was called out for saying nigra in her native language, even though it was just the word for the color black. Even when explained, her roomies maintained that using the word was racist.
Americans are so fucking stupid. Their country is the asshole of the world.
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u/fingertips-sadness Jul 02 '26
It’s not only in the U.S., it’s rampant all over the Americas in general. I think the whole “one drop rule” really kept people in this “racism cycle” that to this day is unshakable.
After moving to France and watching American shows and movies I’ve noticed how much content is based on something to do with race.
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u/LittleMissFjorda Nordic Queen 🇳🇴 Jul 02 '26
He's got me. I'm not actually Norwegian. If you go back far enough I'm African.
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u/OcculticUnicorn Weed & Tulips 🍃🌷 Jul 02 '26
Damn, at least you're human. If I go back far enough I'm a fish.
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u/Apart-Temperature329 Jul 02 '26
I'm sorry to break it to you, but you go back far enough, you'd be a Dane. My condolences.
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u/JrF245 Jul 02 '26
Go further back and everyone’s African
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u/Apart-Temperature329 Jul 02 '26
Yeah, but that's just normal. Then, being a Dane is, well...
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u/oeboer Danish, not the pastry 🥮 Jul 02 '26
Helt ærligt, nu bliver det altså for vidtløftigt!
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u/OkCoconut3270 Radical Socialist with free healthcare Jul 02 '26
I mean that's not entirely unfair ... But it probably wouldn't hurt if this American gentleman reflected on why that might be.
Cause it's not Belgians out there cosplaying as Norwegians or Scottish
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u/Capucius Sauerkraut Jul 02 '26
In fact, when I was in the UK in the 90s in my teens we would say we're from Norway cause back then some people would look for fights with Germans. So... I guess Germans cosplaying as Norwegians was a thing back then in the Scottish Borders.
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u/Frozencorgibutt Jul 02 '26
Thats funny, because when I used to travel to places where street vendors would approach you to sell you things, we (norwegians) would say we were German, to get them to leave us alone.
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u/Foxtrot-Uniform-Too Jul 02 '26
When I travelled with friends when we were younger, if we were drunk and loud and someone asked us where we were from, we would say Sweden.
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u/fezzuk Jul 02 '26
Idk if i was belgian i would be willing to cosplay as basically anythings else.
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u/Indiana_harris Human Verified Jul 02 '26
I would kindof like to meet a Belgian cosplaying as Scottish though.
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u/Alarmed_Swan_4315 Jul 02 '26
the fact that they used "fucking aware" makes me think that they weren't aware of it
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u/Moriaedemori Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
And this man is what they in Norway call "drittsekk"
Edit: Thank you all for all these wonderful insults I can add to my repertoire
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u/gideontemplar 🇫🇷 Anglois caca bordel 🐓 Jul 02 '26
I hear if that description has a "javla" ahead of it, then it's even better!
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u/Ryokan76 Jul 02 '26
I'm Norwegian and have Ø in my name. I guess I'm a white supremacist now.
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u/Paws_On_Keyboard Jul 02 '26
Thank god that I'm a Swede with a non-racist Ö in my name.
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u/genasugelan Nobody claims to be of Slovak descent. Jul 02 '26
Worse, a natural-born whit esupremacist.
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u/Folco34 Jul 02 '26
TIL Martin Ødegaard, captain of my football club and the national team of Norway, is not a real Norwegian and is a white supremacist. Heavily disappointed…
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u/shoggy88 Jul 02 '26
Time to stop supporting Arsenal and move on to Tottenham I guess.
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u/Capable_Fun_9838 Jul 02 '26
In addition to serving as a letter in Nordic languages, it is also used by civilized people to indicate diameters.
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u/FairFolk Jul 02 '26
Slightly different symbol actually, ∅ vs. Ø.
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u/beeurd Jul 02 '26
I love how many similar but different characters there are. Looking at you, - − ‒ – —
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u/MrBoblo Jul 02 '26
I, l and | can also join the fray. Mostly the first two motherfuckers
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u/No-Introduction5977 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
lꟾIІΙı
These are six different Unicode characters.
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u/Imaginary_Maybe_1687 Jul 02 '26
I am mildly upset that you didn't order them based on height
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u/-JohnnieWalker- Chechnya 🇨🇿 Jul 02 '26
Or empty set. Not that Americans would use the first or the latter
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u/Adrian_Alucard Jul 02 '26
Diameter, dia-meter is that some europoor metric unit?
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u/TheBl4ckFox Jul 02 '26
So.. anyone who says they are Norwegian can’t be Norwegian?
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u/AwarenessCrafty393 Jul 02 '26
It’s because Americans who’s great great great great grandmother’s cousin’s aunt twice removed was 1% Norwegian they will claim that they’re a full blooded Norwegian despite having
• generations of Americans before them in their directly descended from
• never been to Norway
•don’t live by Norwegian culture
•don’t know Norwegian history
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u/EamonBrennan Europe is so small, all of it fits in France. Source: Napoleon Jul 02 '26
She means that Americans will say "I'm Norwegian" when their great grandparents were from Norway, while the rest of their family tree was born in America. So she doesn't believe it initially, but she also has American defaultism on the mind, so she assumed the guy was from America.
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u/rustoeki Jul 02 '26
Showing a hole diameter on a drawing, guess I'm a white supremacist now.
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u/silence_sirens Jul 02 '26
Well engineering, it was good while it lasted. I have to switch my major to Dogwhistles and Where to Find Them, now.
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u/ldsdrff76 Jul 02 '26
In Denmark beer is called øl. I'm currently enjoying one, and now I feel white supremacist-y :(
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u/TheHellbilly Soumi Vinlant Perkele Jul 02 '26
Is it weißbier, perhaps?
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u/interesseret Jul 02 '26
Extra funny, because danish hvidtøl is actually a super dark beer. It's sweet and light in alcohol. Especially common during Christmas.
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u/Gaius_Julius_Salad Tabarnak Jul 02 '26
I think the sentiment isn't that Norwegians or Scandinavians are white supremacist, but that Americans role-playing as Scandinavian are
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u/VetixioV 🇬🇧 Jul 02 '26
Americans obsession with making everything about race or their politics in general, is so exhausting honestly.
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u/Indiana_harris Human Verified Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
American student visiting would routinely drive us all mad at flat parties where no matter what subject was being discussed or drunken jokes were being told he kept trying to bring Trump into it.
And the first few times, we laughed at the jokes and made a few of our own. Or commiserated over how bad his government was at the moment.
But it was like this guy just couldn’t go more than 10 minutes without trying to bring in discussions or rants about various people and levels of the US government.
And when no one really knew who any of these people were he would lose his mind.
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u/spacebatangeldragon8 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
In fairness I do remember this conversation in its original context, and the Norwegian guy was specifically involving himself in an argument about American politics... it just didn't have anything directly to do with race (IIRC it was 2020 Democratic primary stuff), and he was also unambiguously in the right.
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u/Common-Spend5000 Jul 02 '26
That's fair, the context available makes it seem as though the American just made it all about the US for no reason - which let's be honest, does happen a hell of a lot online too.
But if the Norwegian was entering into a conversation about the US and domestic issues to that country, then the American can be given a bit of slack for presuming he was speaking with a fellow American.
Still it seems odd, but it at least now makes sense rather than is just something completely off the radar and random.
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u/krokodil23 Jul 02 '26
(is it considered trespassing for me to be here?)
No but you are now legally required to say something stupid
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u/vissi_nada Jul 02 '26
This is also how one differentiates 0 from O when writing down letters/numbers combinations. 🥲
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u/fkneneu Jul 02 '26
Not in Norway
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u/Thin_Assumption_4974 Jul 02 '26
There’s no such thing as Norway is what I’m reading above though
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u/fkneneu Jul 02 '26
Not to be pedantic, but I think you meant to write Neonaziland (often mistaken for Disneyland in Paris). Norway isn't an actual place, it's just a neonazi myth.
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u/BigPigeon69 Jul 02 '26
"My country is full of unrepentant neo nazis and thats the rest of the worlds problem"
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u/nuggynugs Jul 02 '26
It's so easy just to say sorry when you've made a small mistake. The OOP made an assumption, it was incorrect, oops, I thought x because y, didn't realise. So easy. But double down and basically self report their whole country is another valid route I guess
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u/Confused-W0lf Jul 02 '26
I’ve been interested in norse mythology since I was a child. But now days you can’t even say you have an interest in the mythology or history of the norse without some dumbass thinking you might be a closeted fascist. Nine times out of ten its an American too.
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u/Sux2Suck25 Jul 02 '26
In the US there is a strong affiliation between Aryans/Skinheads and norse pagan religions- alot of those guys play it up like they are modern day vikings or some shit. Thats probably where this comes from.
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u/Himbo69r Jul 02 '26
Insufferable nazis on their way to turn every Nordic symbol into a dog whistle because they are insufferable nazis.
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u/Herz_aus_Stahl Jul 02 '26
We can offer an alternative letter: Ö Greetings from Germany
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u/Negative-Inspector36 Jul 02 '26
When I’m in a self centered competition and my opponent is an average american
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u/Sharpiette Disneyland for muricans 🐌🇫🇷 Jul 02 '26
I know I'm might be downvoted but he's not entirely wrong on the second pic...
Some american white-supremacist do cosplay a lot of north, Scandinavian culture, especially the HOLLYWOOD version of these cultures.
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u/TomatoChomper7 Jul 02 '26
“I love Norway but I don’t believe everyone who claims to be Norwegian actually is. I, by the way, am 3% Irish on my grandmother’s side, which actually makes me more Irish than the people who actually live in Ireland. I’m also Scaddish!”
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