American reacts to What Australians Think of Americans

US politics over the last 8 years has done a lot of damage to the Australian perception of Americans.

I heard an American politician recently say USA was the "envy of the world". Ummm.. No.

It’s not hate it’s astonishment at the way most Americans think and the way they think the US is the leader of the world and that they mostly know little of the rest of the world

We owe America a massive gratitude. They are an example to the world of how not to run a country.

Choosing ignorance is not strictly American it’s just that Americans are better at it

I once saw a guy on an Australian subreddit wonder if he, an African American, would face discrimination when visiting Australia. The most popular answer was he'd get more shit for being American than he would being black.

We don't hate USA.. If for nothing else, you are entertaining. Watching two old presidents trying to string a coherent sentence together is always good for a giggle 😂

Not all Aussies are under 35. They never interview Aussies over 40.

I went to the States for the first time as an adult a year ago (I'm 41) (from Melbourne Australia). During my first experience dining out when I got the bill I was a bit unsure on how to tip. I leaned over and asked a guy who was at a big family lunch "hey, how am I meant to tip here?" I knew I had to tip, but wasn't sure exactly, how card/cash?, he said just pay on card and leave some cash. When I then went to pay 5 minutes later the waiter said "nah your good, the people behind you have covered your bill". I turned around and thanked them and had a great chat. It was parents of four children who now live all over the states, but all brought back together for lunch and a football game. On leaving and thanking them again the matriarch responded saying "see we're not all that bad". Sure I only saw a tiny sliver of the U.S. but everyone I meet was awesome. But that matriarch's comments make me realise how devided certain parts are, and how much others in different regions are. Good people and bad people and a lot in between. Same same anywhere you go in the world.

I met a guy who worked in a beautiful 5 star hotel in Sydney. An American screamed at him on the front desk insisting the light was broken. He assisted the man, walked into the room with him, flicked on the lights... The man was disgusted that the lights weren't automatic. He complained that he had to lift a finger lol.

We don’t run into too many Americans because they don’t travel “this far”! 😂😂

Few individuals feel very strongly one way or the other about US people. We prefer Canadians, but that is more of a cultural thing. Basically, we just don't understand things such as no universal healthcare, the whole gun thing, the interminable political campaigns, and lack of global awareness. If anything, we pity you more than we dislike you. You're the global bogans, mate. 😅

America! #36 in education world wide but don't worry, you're #1 in confidence :goodvibes:

The people of the USA have been dumbed down the last 25 years . All this baby daddy and baby mama's is so cringworthy. And the seemingly corruption of the justice system over in the USA is embarrassing and difficult to watch. 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

I'll be honest and say I love my American friends, but waking up and finding myself actually living in America would be a nightmare scenario for me. I look at my friends in the US and I see good, kind and decent people. I look at America as a country overall, and I see greed, selfishness, division, hatred, and arrogance.

I'm a 60yo Aussie who was married to an American and lived in Columbus Ohio for 16 years. Day to day life isn't all that different, living in the suburbs. The people aren't that different either. Extroverts & Introverts in every crowd. The key differences that were apparent was most Americans believe their own propaganda, they are ignorant of the world beyond their borders and shores and are extreme and uncompromising in their opinions. ie: politics is a Red Team Vs Blue Team sport. Only Love or Hate is recognised (Ryan jumped to the extreme of Hate several times in this video) Often they ask a question out of genuine curiosity, then answer it incorrectly while talking over you, and continue to believe their own answer.

I've visited the US several times. They can be loud, opinionated and self-assured but overall, I have found them to be very friendly and courteous.

Sorry Ryan, but I lived in Florida for a year and most of the locals where I worked didn’t know where Australia is. I was often asked what state it was in, and one guy confused me a lot when he said, it’s all mountains isn’t it? Lots of snow? He meant Austria of course, so it was not as stupid as all the others I guess.The few who did have a faint clue asked about Steve Irwin or Paul Hogan. I was told several times that I spoke quite good English, after I had toned my accent down so they understood me at all. Had to leave to get decent healthcare because I was pregnant, and we found out just after my green card arrived, so of course it was a bloody pre-existing condition! Some lovely people, but really a very stupid country. Sorry, but true.

Actually let me add something. Aussies don't like "tall poppies" aka people that think they are better than other people. we hear some Americans constantly say how they have the best country, the best system, the best freedom etc. I think it's specifically those attitudes that people bristle at but even so even if you are a bit of a dik we will still be friendly to anyone that is friendly to us

Right off the bat we have a cultural difference which we, quite frankly, don’t understand, and find petty, and in the end divisive. Therefore, we add it to the list of things we don’t like about Americans. Within not even 30 seconds you state there are two types of Americans: Southerners and Northerners. I mean… who does that to their own country? Their fellow countrymen? Australia is the same size an the USA, and we don’t divide ourselves internally by north and south. “I am, you are, we are Australian”. You even state the division so nonchalantly, with 100% acceptance, and without even questioning it for a second. It’s just what you believe. It’s just what you accept. It’s the same as you divide yourself by political alliance. In Australia, I honestly couldn’t tell you the political ideology of a single person I know. We don’t judge people on who they vote for, and what’s more we absolutely don’t care. Who an Australian votes for does not make them a good or bad person. We just don’t divide ourselves down the middle like that. Then there’s being “African American”, or Irish American, or Italian American, or Asian American. We would never stand for that. It’s divisive for he sake of being divisive. It’s based on “I’m better than you, and I need you to be in a different category of American than I am to feel superior”. There’s no such term as African Australian, or Greek Australian , Italian Australian. We are just “Australian”. Sure we have the term “First Nations people”, but that’s a mark of respect simply acknowledging their existence here before Europeans arrived. As outsiders, we look in, and wonder where the “United” is in this United States of yours. You are the most fractured and divided western country on the face of the earth, and you do it down every line you can think of, and you simply can’t see it in yourselves. You are constantly bickering amongst yourselves, along such a ridiculous, pointless lines. Religion, political, affiliation, ethnicity, race, socio-economic status, whether you were born in America, or whether you are a “dirty immigrant”. it’s embarrassing for you as a country, and even more embarrassing that you just don’t have the self awareness to look at yourselves and see it.