Why do Americans just group all of Europe together

@SW-User blow me dickweed!

How's the spelling?

@Slade

Sad, your Mental Napoleonic complex gets in the way of everything in your existence.

You were done yesterday, Remember the racism? Who the fuck are you to talk shit about a former First Lady?
There isn’t free speech on privately owned servers.

yet here you are thinking that insulting me will change something .

Where did your hate come from?
What makes you think others won’t call you on your bullshit.

Sad, little racist clown.
Say something else smart, keyboard tough boy.
Grow up, adults don’t engage like you do in public.

Keep talking though

@SW-User love it - you're still crying 5 hours later. I OWN YOU twink boy!

Now go collect the fleas from Moochelle's tail butt boy. Make yourself useful

@carpediem I’m sure there’s at least one American who cares. We’re not all a-holes.

Bingo@ChipmunkErnie!

@TrashCat a North Atlantic Union sounds even better

At the very least the US and Canada need to merge

@SW-User ikr

@BlueVeins Well, they have in a sense. They have the EU and the Euro, but both are in decline.

@acpguy America is a republic. So it's the republicans fault that education is failing. After all the democrats are just weak pathetic baby eaters. It's the great right wing that runs everything.
- Our Lord in MAGA DJT.

@canusernamebemyusername You are suffering from a bad case of dumb fuck. I would guess you are not from the USA and have your head buried deeply up your socialist ass.

@acpguy About the same time they started giving awards for participation and said that math was racist.

@hartfire nice. It's impossible that the recent growth of fascism matters to anyone but me. Sorry, but okay, you have a right to be a monster. It's just a matter of taste for the monsters.

@hartfire Just wondering why some people are laughing at my comment, who they are, and what their experiences are.

All generalisations come with exceptions, which I believe is something one should simply accept for what it is - a norm that comes with a sprinkling of abnorms.
In this case the exceptions would be those North Americans who have studied, worked or travelled extensively in Europe, and those would be in the scores of thousands compared to the 331.9 million citizens, most of whom have never travelled outside the USA, and some of whom have rarely been out of their state.
Those who have travelled abroad would have witness how their compatriots behave, and would have heard how they are perceived.
Certainly the Americans I met while abroad - everywhere from Europe to South-East Asia - were constantly surprised at the differences in cultures.
When an American starts living overseas, they slowly begin to see America in a different light.

@Roundandroundwego I don't like fascism either - by which I mean far-right dictatorships of the ilk of Hitler and Mussolini.
Nor do I like it when politicians attempt to usurp the processes of democracy.
I'm not sure how you think fascism has any connection with my first comment in this thread. I be interested to know how you draw that conclusion from what I said.

@RuyLopez And Europe again meets the criteria!
As do many non-Schengen countries.

@ElwoodBluesWell there you go. Ronald would be proud don’t you think?

@RuyLopez Yeah he'd be pretty proud. BTW, we've got 45 mcdonalds per million - we RULE!!!

@bert199 If someone tells me they are "going to Africa" my natural reaction would be to ask which country. Similarly if they had said America, I would ask where in America.

I don't know if the OP was responding to threads on SW that do suggest many Americans think "Europe" is one country rather than over two dozen with their own cultures, languages, political and legal systems, geographical characteristics, etc. There are many overlaps but also many huge differences.

The Euro is the currency of all those nations in the European Union but that is a political and economic bloc, not a nation itself (though it sometimes looks like one and does have its own federalists); and the nations outside of the EU retain their own currencies.

The countries though are too different for "Europe" to be thought of as a cohesive entity. Perhaps when tourists say they are "visiting Europe" they mean they are visiting several countries in one holiday.

@Tracos I was thinking the same thing. It’s an ironic question.

@Nelisme it's well worth it if you can get there...

@Convivial Would love to see London and Paris especially… actually many places. The world has a lot to offer - too bad all we seem to think about is the bad parts.

@Nelisme you'll get there if that's what you desire...

@graphite Lol... I'm flying into Orlando in the morning - and, by tea time, I'm grilling my burgers in Slab City... 🤣🤣🤣

@Slade

Then why bother reading and commenting off you already have you small mind made up.

@pdockal did I hurt your feelz? 😭

@SW-User true, as a world traveler I'd say there are many countries alike, the UK, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and USA Canada are like Israel. One empire.

@SunshineGirl good point

@ArishMell Well there is you answer within your own response to me in your own words:
but an American PM correspondent on here did once tell me they are not taught much about the outside world, at school. Well, not in his school, at any rate.



But hey maybe you as an outside of the US person has some greater knowledge than this American. Dang it I answered you honestly.

@WillaKissing Welp... first off, the US is bigger than all of Europe. Driving from Belgium to Spain is like driving from New Hampshire to New York city.

@TrashCat I know that about the US I am an American.

What the original poster of this post was asking: "Why do Americans just group all of Europe together". What does that have to do with the size of the United States compared to Europe when the poster was asking why Americans think Europeans are all the same when they are not and unique to their specific regions and countries. Stick to the question asked please.

@TrashCat A good point, indeed many people in any country would probably have the same difficulty with any other country - or even their own.

That does not excuse making no effort to learn though, or to have never been taught it. Nor to learn how to find out.

Given a map showing only the borders of US states, French départements or Russian oblasts, I could not add the names - but I have atlases to show me.

For example, for much of the first few months of the war in Ukraine I kept it open at the relevant page; and with the aid of 'Google Earth'* knew of the Kersch Straits road and rail bridges long before they were mentioned in News reports. Similarly, as it shows sea-bed as well as terrestrial topography, my atlas occasionally helps me understand severe earthquakes or other natural disasters reported on the News.

Could,, though, every American, French or Russian person identify all of his or her own land's administrative boundaries by that test? Probably not - and I don't suppose I am the only Briton who could not correctly identify every county on a boundary-only map of the UK.

Nevertheless I do know every country and every part of very country has its individual characteristics; and it is not difficult to learn at least their basics, and to learn how to find them.

Sheer memory-knowledge is not so important as understanding where and how to find and use the facts reliably, and having the will to do so. After all, we'd expect a doctor to have up-to-date medical and pharmacological references to hand, or an engineer to use appropriate books of mathematical formulae and tables. (Printed books and reliable Internet references.)

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*Which service also revealed to me, something I have not heard or read reported anywhere else: Chinese settlements apparently still being developed, on a very remote, arid playa-lake bed in their annexed Tibet. These have no obvious purpose, but significantly, are directly below the mountain ridge carrying the short border with Afghanistan, plus those of Pakistan and a third (Tajikistan I think, from memory).

@ArishMell Memory knowledge is on the sharp decline because of the internet. Humans are no longer required to retain detailed info. We've inadvertently triggered an evolutionary reponse that has caused our brains to be rewired to data retrival mode from storage mode.

Tbh, there are a bunch of Americans who don't know where Nebraska is 😃

@TrashCat Well, the USA occupies at least half the area of the continent, but don''t they know how to read a map?

That's a worrying thought though, that we are becoming far too dependent on the Internet as a substitute for learning.

It happens even a small scale. One day my nephew reckoned you don't need learn much maths because "it's all your calculator". I pointed out that the calculator or computer is only an arithmetic machine: you still need understand the problem so you can give the instrument the right instructions.

@Entwistle There was a Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food restaurant near Tower of London when I was there. Wonder if Henry VIII used to eat there?

@helenS

You know what happens to people who assume !

@pdockal I assume we are big winners?

@helenS

Ughhhhh
Bub bye

@pancakeslam cool. In one trip? And how long was the trip?

@SW-User yes in one trip I traveled as far west as Portugal. I was in the Scandinavian countries, Baltic countries, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and on the Mediterranean. it took almost 3 months and I had a rail pass.

@pancakeslam Now that's what I like to hear!

@TrashCat look in the mirror for the prototype

@calicuz LOL!

Ah, but by which European countries, principally?

I expect we East of the Atlantic have some strange ideas about USA life, but much of them are from a combination of News reporting that tends to focus on the successes of NASA, the political antics and social problems; and not least, the deluge of at least some sort of America thrown over us by the entertainments and fast-food trades!

@ArishMell

You've pretty much sumed up all that's left of American culture, if there's anything left. 🤣

@HootyTheNightOwl London's not in Europe? I guess I stand corrected.

@graphite No... London is not the ENTIRITY of Europe. York is in Europe, too, but you don't call York "Europe" in the same way.

Europe looks a lot different from Paris, Brussels, Rome, Amsterdam, to name a few... Why do you have to call London "Europe"??? We're only going to ask for the city or country.

@MrEagle On a steel horse I ride.

@Convivial anything you say. Now back to the short bus

@Convivial That guy left a lasting impression on you 😏

@helenS he has.... Sadly not a good one.
According to him he's rather well off. Yet asks for donations to support him in court... And lots of people oblige him... Objectively, something is very wrong here

@Fluffybull Yes, some British people still have an inflated opinion of themselves and think that the British Empire still exists and is separate from Europe.

@wildbill83 But then, we say we're American, not Floridian or Californian, say. Europeans don't say "I'm European".