I don't know if you could write on this but I moved abroad permanently from the US a few years ago. Initially we moved to a higher expat place but after witnessing their astoundingly toxic behavior towards locals we moved to a more locals place.
The contrast between the local culture vs gringo is immense. When I write down and reflect on my former life I relate a lot to the mistreated locals. I honestly feel that a few hundred years of brainwashing the colonizers in the US to commit the original atrocities to justify killing and taking the land of the natives has formed the foundation of their culture today.
Here are a few minor examples of obvious differences I've witnessed directly. We avoid expats now actively.
1. Locals listen well, even if they disagree they don't interrupt you or call you names. Free to express is valued here. Heck they even have towns and a state that told the govt to leave
Expats talk a lot about themselves, interrupt often, don't listen or respect differing opinions.
2. Locals are most incredibly patient
Expats are very impatient
3. Locals are curious about you, everyone likes to share and ask questions
Expats can't be bothered to learn the language. Many if their English is not understood they enunciate louder as if that helps. It borders on yelling at the local who sometimes is a Fing kid.
These barely scrape the surface. I honestly believe the toxic colonialist mindset roots are now being actively used on each other. I learned so much in 2 years just watching and comparing them to locals. They really are clueless and seem incapable of self reflection.
Ps because they grossly misunderstand the dog culture here they judge it. And some times they even "rescue" ie kidnap a local's dog!
Wish I could be less harsh but after seeing them here and the conflicts culturally with locals I totally get why it is such a toxic cesspool in the US
I don't know if you could write on this but I moved abroad permanently from the US a few years ago. Initially we moved to a higher expat place but after witnessing their astoundingly toxic behavior towards locals we moved to a more locals place.
The contrast between the local culture vs gringo is immense. When I write down and reflect on my former life I relate a lot to the mistreated locals. I honestly feel that a few hundred years of brainwashing the colonizers in the US to commit the original atrocities to justify killing and taking the land of the natives has formed the foundation of their culture today.
Here are a few minor examples of obvious differences I've witnessed directly. We avoid expats now actively.
1. Locals listen well, even if they disagree they don't interrupt you or call you names. Free to express is valued here. Heck they even have towns and a state that told the govt to leave
Expats talk a lot about themselves, interrupt often, don't listen or respect differing opinions.
2. Locals are most incredibly patient
Expats are very impatient
3. Locals are curious about you, everyone likes to share and ask questions
Expats can't be bothered to learn the language. Many if their English is not understood they enunciate louder as if that helps. It borders on yelling at the local who sometimes is a Fing kid.
These barely scrape the surface. I honestly believe the toxic colonialist mindset roots are now being actively used on each other. I learned so much in 2 years just watching and comparing them to locals. They really are clueless and seem incapable of self reflection.
Ps because they grossly misunderstand the dog culture here they judge it. And some times they even "rescue" ie kidnap a local's dog!
Wish I could be less harsh but after seeing them here and the conflicts culturally with locals I totally get why it is such a toxic cesspool in the US
If you can get a copy, please read The Ugly American, a book that came out in the 1950s.