Aloha,

So I'm currently saving up to go to a community college in the US because of many things I've observed growing up in the UK that used to unsettle me but now just totally disturb my cool, and one of them is this outright mockery of the U.S. that goes beyond it's trash stances on things like gun laws, the history of racism in the country etc and into almost abject mockery of a country that has 5x as many people and as such way more of a possibility of things not being as homogenous as they may think, especially because the knowledge of the US in the U.K. It seems to start and end with the Hillbilly South and the Socialite West Coast, and then maybe New York and Florida. It stopped being humorous and light-hearted a hot minute ago for me.

This is kind of mentioned in the subsequent paragraph but I'm a person who enjoys spending money on myself or spending lots of money on a creative endeavour for example and I am very reticent to tell someone a lot of the time because I will probably be met with some snide comment about how "I like to shove things in peoples faces" and I have never understood why it's acceptable in any situations to give counsel on the financial decisions someone else makes.

Not to mention the incredibly hostile attitude towards someone doing well or in their eyes "too well" in a way that comes across as straight up bitter at times , towards someone being "educated" and a general use of phrases like "too clever for your own good" or "being a know-it-all", and as someone who has an immigrant parent, the incredibly hostile and at best, fake-nice attitude towards those from conflicting "cultures" or cultures that perhaps are not as easy to warm to at first glance. Which leads back to what, in my experience, I see as a general hostility towards trying anything new. It is depressing as all hell.

Has anyone else seen this?