Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?
https://lemmy.world/post/26221454
Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? - Lemmy.World
Disclaimer: This is not meant to be a bait or any kind of bad-faith devaluing or
stereotyping. This is only based on my experience, hearing similar stories from
others and wanting to understand. I’m aware that there are good and bad people
everywhere. So I’m European and starting on a good note I always admired America
for many things like the freedom, diversity and cool movies. But after more
experience with meeting real Americans I noticed this personality type that I
and I think many other non-Americans would describe as arrogant. Like I stated
before I’m not saying every American is like that and I know there are many very
nice Americans. But I often saw that some Americans seem to only be nice on the
surface (if at all) but actually seem to have this attitude of “I don’t give a f
about you”. And I know that America is a very individualistic culture that
focuses on the self and the belief that everyone can achieve anything on their
own. But I still think having a sense of empathy and sensitivity towards others
is a very important core human quality that everyone should have. And from
personal experience and also from a very prevalent notion of others both in
every day life and when looking it up online it’s clear that many non-Americans
perceive many Americans to cross a line there. For example there’s a prevalent
observation of Americans visiting other countries and acting like they own the
place by being very loud, demanding and not accepting if things aren’t the same
way as they are in America. We know that Americans have very big issues with
divisiveness and social injustice and it seams like there’s also this sort of
“ghetto” personality including trash-talking, lots of vulgar slang and slurs and
bragging. And a general perception of money playing a big role as if many
Americans judge someone’s worth by money and this attitude of not feeling like
needing to help someone. I think there’s this famous description of a person
lying in the middle of the ground in a public city and people just walk around
the person not feeling the need to help. It almost feels like they’re very
entitled and put their ego up way higher than it actually is and lacking the
quality of making themselves smaller/putting themselves second to treat others
with more dignity.
Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?
https://lemmy.world/post/26221453
Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? - Lemmy.World
Disclaimer: This is not meant to be a bait or any kind of bad-faith devaluing or
stereotyping. This is only based on my experience, hearing similar stories from
others and wanting to understand. I’m aware that there are good and bad people
everywhere. So I’m European and starting on a good note I always admired America
for many things like the freedom, diversity and cool movies. But after more
experience with meeting real Americans I noticed this personality type that I
and I think many other non-Americans would describe as arrogant. Like I stated
before I’m not saying every American is like that and I know there are many very
nice Americans. But I often saw that some Americans seem to only be nice on the
surface (if at all) but actually seem to have this attitude of “I don’t give a f
about you”. And I know that America is a very individualistic culture that
focuses on the self and the belief that everyone can achieve anything on their
own. But I still think having a sense of empathy and sensitivity towards others
is a very important core human quality that everyone should have. And from
personal experience and also from a very prevalent notion of others both in
every day life and when looking it up online it’s clear that many non-Americans
perceive many Americans to cross a line there. For example there’s a prevalent
observation of Americans visiting other countries and acting like they own the
place by being very loud, demanding and not accepting if things aren’t the same
way as they are in America. We know that Americans have very big issues with
divisiveness and social injustice and it seams like there’s also this sort of
“ghetto” personality including trash-talking, lots of vulgar slang and slurs and
bragging. And a general perception of money playing a big role as if many
Americans judge someone’s worth by money and this attitude of not feeling like
needing to help someone. I think there’s this famous description of a person
lying in the middle of the ground in a public city and people just walk around
the person not feeling the need to help. It almost feels like they’re very
entitled and put their ego up way higher than it actually is and lacking the
quality of making themselves smaller/putting themselves second to treat others
with more dignity.
