List your honest opinions about Americans

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This is why I don't post in PPR. I only have posted here because everywhere else is so inactive. Otherwise I avoid posting here because you can't post here without offending someone.

After all, the title of the thread did include "list your HONEST opinions", and I thought that would be the chance to get it off my chest.

If it makes you feel any better, create a thread listing your honest opinions about the UK and British people.

I think this is just an Aspie misunderstanding. In these sorts of conversations, honesty is not always the best policy.

If you state an opinion on PPR, it needs to be backed by some non-anecdotal evidence or else it’s going to be picked apart, especially if it’s surrounding a topic that could offend some people.

Maybe Twisty wouldn’t mind hearing what someone honestly FEELS while most other Americans aren’t going to like hearing what they know not to be true about their country as a whole. It’s such a big, diverse place you can’t say one thing and expect it to be applicable “from sea to shining sea.”

Last edited by TwilightPrincess on 13 Dec 2019, 10:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

British people come in all shapes and sizes and personalities----just like USA people.

One thing I can say:

They are usually more polite in public transportation than New Yorkers.

Speaking of which:

In the US southerners are thought of as being more polite and mannerly than northeners, we actually say "have a nice day" to strangers or hold doors open for them and and they HATE that about us because they think we're either being too nosy about people's personal business or we're simply being fake (I've heard people say this.) Also we use words like "ma'am" and "sir" as polite terms of respect and somehow they twist that into being something offensive.

Like you guys should read some of the things they say about us on places like this...

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read ... ad=9268803

One can find all sorts of negative silliness online on about any topic you could imagine.

Most of the time it's probably just young punks talking trash.

It's why I prefer to hang out with people older than me. Even when I was a kid I was like that. I can't stand the cruel things young people say about other people.

Not sure what I ought to feel better about, anyway if you want such a thread you'll have to start it yourself. This thread was started by an American. I'm sure that's the etiquette for such things.

I just wrote what I feel about Americans, or what I've experienced in YouTube videos. It's not against anyone personally, it's just what I've picked up on how most Americans talk in general.
I'm usually not this blunt, but really, a lot of Aspies are always going on about how they'd rather people be blunt with you than to "sugarcoat" everything or tell lies. Hopefully this has taught you why NTs lie. It's to avoid offending people.
And a thread started saying to give your HONEST opinion is expectedly going to be taken literally on an Aspie forum.

When I visited your country, people there seemed so polite, even when they are angry.

Autistic people contradict each other all the time. Want honesty but they get offended by peoples honest opinions. They expect people to understand them but then they don't understand other autistic people and they assume the worse in their actions. Autistic people complain about NTs reading into things but they do the same to others.

I've seen it all.

I already know why people lie. I, myself, do it all the time to avoid hurting people’s feelings. That’s what tact is.

It just doesn’t seem logical to stereotype people who live in the USA as being a certain way. It’s a large, diverse country.

If someone has a false impression based on limited experience, there’s nothing wrong with addressing that problem.

I don’t really have strong feelings or negative opinions about countries that I’ve not been to because people are people and are not all that different from each other. Sure, cultures vary greatly which is fascinating, but the values and feelings behind those cultures are usually not all that different. Also, not everyone fits smoothly into the culture they are a part of.

I don’t even have negative feelings towards countries with oppressive political regimes. I just don’t care for the oppressors. Similarly, in cultures that are oppressive towards women based on religious ideology, I don’t have negative feelings towards the people but towards the problematic ideology that the people are pushed into believing or following.

Being an outlier myself, I tend to take a broad view when it comes to people and don’t like pigeonholing them.

It’s helpful to keep in mind that one person asked for “honesty” as far as feelings go. That doesn’t mean everyone on a forum like this would appreciate it. If it were me personally, I’d feel odd about stating a public opinion on something which I actually knew little about.

Maybe I am too critically harsh on my fellow Americans...

Lazy

Simple-minded

Gluttonous

Impatient

Manipulative arrogant judgmental entitled

But whatever. Since I have not gone outside United States for a significant amount of time, maybe the whole world is like that

Maybe that's just human nature?