Americans make me angry and sad

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I am so sick of their cancel culture and their woke culture, their hypocritically "modest" society, their obsession with politics and religion. and for taking all the beauty and joy out of everything I once harmlessly enjoyed. Thanks to them I don't have any special interests anymore. All I have are special disinterests. And they are on the top of that list of disinterests.

Yes I know I'm to get banned for this. I don't care. If I keep all my anger hate and frustration bottled up I will explode, and take anyone nearby with me.

I'm hypocritically modest. So modest in fact that I'm acutely aware that the Earth can't sustain my standard of living and lifestyle for 7 billion people.

People of Earth made me sad, then I stopped caring.

Why would you get banned for venting in The Haven? Isn't that it's sole purpose?

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Last edited by dragonsanddemons on 05 Mar 2021, 8:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

You won't get banned for what you said.
This is what The Haven is for, after all.

Yes, I don't like the wokeness of American culture either.
In Australia, we have greater freedoms of expression but here too our way of life is being eroded.

Personally, I can't keep up with all the political correctness which is expected from some quarters, these days.
Being on the spectrum doesn't help either, in coping with the changing conditions.
Poor memory is a problem also.

"Life. Don't talk to me about life." Marvin the depressed robot, from THHGTTG.

Your thread may be considered 'political' and may be removed, but you won't get banned.

I don't like much of "wokeness," either-----but it's definitely not an exclusively American phenomenon. I don't agree with those who associate the US with "wokeness."

The Haven is for support responders, not political echo chamber. Carry on.

Because these days people get offended if you express any sort of negativity on a group of people. Freedom of speech is sadly becoming a thing of the past.

I can relate to the OP. I don't have anything against American people personally, and all our American friends on WP are wonderful people...it's just the US in general. The persistant obsession with Donald Trump. The American sitcoms. The political correctness. The way they still use fahrenheit instead of celsius. The way they have to specify and enlarge some of the English language ("horse riding" = "horseback riding", "cleaner" = "cleaning person", "bin" = "trash can", etc).

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. Feel free to vent about the UK, as I've got better things to worry about than getting offended by people disagreeing with my culture.

We have "cleaner" in the US, too.

We go to the "cleaners" if we have to get a suit dry-cleaned.

I've always liked Canada, by the way.

I've been to New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia.

My wife and I had a nice long drive in New Brunswick once.

I also get angry and sad about Americans. Also disillusioned. And embarrassed. And I am American. I can totally imagine that people in other countries would have a lot of resentment about America and Americans.

Kraftie I didn’t know you were up here? Cool. I wonder how good I would do in the states. This one guy I know said he was mugged three times in New York, just leaving the airport. Lol. Then he said when he was down in Texas and someone told him it wasn’t safe to leave his wallet on the table at a restaurant, even though he was sitting right there with it.

Seriously though Americans, when they come up here to Canada, I don’t even know they’re American until they tell me. People are like the same everywhere you go. The media makes people seem different from each other I think.

The few American jerks make it bad for the vast body of Americans who don't act like the stereotypical "American."

cancel culture isn't just an American thing, it's the whole western world, here in Australia it's just as bad.

Isn't 'cancel culture' mostly just a boogieman used by conservatives who are upset that they no longer have a monopoly on defining what's considered decent? It sure seems that way.

I'm proud to be an American.

I was pretty dismayed by Trumpism and the January 6 insurrection. But the pendulum always swings the other way. Democracy survived. America has problems, but America is strong, resilient, and wonderfully diverse.