I’m Danish. I’ve never been outside of Europe, but like many of my contemporaries I have an urge to see more of this world we inhabit. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always wanted to go to America. Everything looks a thousands times bigger than what I am used to in Denmark, and I’d love to experience that first hand.
When I interact with Americans, my experiences are mostly positive. You seem kind and happy enough on the surface, but I’m stunned to learn how many of you who aren’t satisfied by your current standard of living in America. I’m continuously shocked by how many of you who say that you want to get away for there for good. Part of the reason why I am shocked is because I really want to go over there.
There are many things that I’m skeptical about regarding America and the American people. That’s the reason why I wrote this piece. I want to give you a chance to prove me wrong or prove me right before I go to America and see for myself.
I want to be proven wrong.
I’m not going to lie, this piece on American culture upset me, and I wanted to point out that even though you said this may not apply to the reader at all, it implies that the majority of America is like this (or it would have to be for the culture to be this way). The vast majority of people that I’ve come to know in my lifetime in America are not like this at all. There are unremarkable and unpretentious people, brilliant people and of course there are some of these horror stories that you’ve described. But you have to realize that as someone who’s lived outside of the US your entire life, you’re going to be receiving the extremes of the spectrum, the extremely good and, unfortunately, the extremely bad.
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