Things Americans Aren’t Ready to Hear, According to Reddit
(Answers only by non-Americans)
I’ve never been to the US. But I’ve been raised partially as an American.
Why? Because pretty much everything I’ve watched, played, listened to or read since I was 5 was produced by Americans. This influence is so widespread that we can’t notice it anymore, even if we wanted to.
Here’s how people like me see your country from a “foreigner’s” perspective. Namely, these are “things we think Americans aren’t ready to hear. ”
II7sevenII writes (12.7k upvotes):
Lobbying is essentially legal bribery.
It baffles me how every elected official is essentially sponsored by a bunch of companies or “movements” that are essentially corporations in disguise.
Also, corporations don’t care about you. At all.
My comment: yes, the general image of American democracy is that corporations basically have all the power in your country, and that the entire government is almost a formality to fulfil the interests of said corporations.
In my country, this is called corruption. I mean, Eastern Europe isn’t exactly what you’d call the most democratic (or transparent) region in the world, but…
