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Anonymous wrote:Many of the comments people make here are valid. However, there is an extreme American fragility held by a small number of people on this site. Just look at the thread about how British people cuss so colourfully. See the responses about them being obscene, elitist, emotionally repressed or white racists. A few people just can’t handle Americans being the best at everything.

*not being the best

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Anonymous wrote:My husband is a white American man. I am an Asian immigrant who received her citizenship upon marriage to him.

Lately, he gets angry and defensive and calls me "anti-American" when I complain about various things. U.S. Foreign policy, the junk food, the lack of style of fellow Americans.

He says if I live here, I should be happy and not anti-patriotic.

Wondering if other Americans feel this way?

Yes I do and I have no qualms about telling you that you are free to return to your home country. I have lived all over the world and my philosophy was very simple: I was a guest in that country and, as such, would behave as a guest and never complaint to a citizen if that country.

You might try to adopt my philosophy. The worst part is that you will become a citizen of a country you dislike and find our customs,food, and style offensive to your very delicate senses and a martyr to love because the man you married lives in a first world country! Millions of people would give anything to live here. We have a lot of problems.but having lived in Europe, Asia, and South America, I know the United States of America is the best place to live.

You disgust me.

Not OP but how about take down the stupid just a notch. Citizens of this country have the right to complain about anything and everything. Just like you do.

I'm am a citizen but here but naturalized citizens should keep their complaints to themselves because not one single person held a gun to OP's head forcing her to become a citizen of a country she finds so beneath her.

Nope. A citizen is a citizen and we have all the same rights as you. If I don’t like something I will use all avenues available to me to change it.

Anonymous wrote:Many of the comments people make here are valid. However, there is an extreme American fragility held by a small number of people on this site. Just look at the thread about how British people cuss so colourfully. See the responses about them being obscene, elitist, emotionally repressed or white racists. A few people just can’t handle Americans being the best at everything.

Anonymous wrote:No. Sometimes it's annoying when they continually talk about how dumb Americans are bc it's like "hello then why are you talking to me?!"

Anonymous wrote:When I hear someone use the term anti-patriotic, I think that person must be MAGA. OP, is your husband far right republican? How long have you been married? Just a heads up that some white men (but not all), marry minority women because they expect a passive wife.

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Anonymous wrote:I work in Healthcare and I am the only US born person in my department. All of my coworkers talk about how much they hate it here! The food is a special complaint but also they complain about oversexualized culture and the men complain about women in the workforce. All of these except food should be verboten topics but I don't rock the boat. Occasionally I've asked why they're even living here and it's always "great money".
As an aside the higher ups were planning to bring in pizza to show their appreciation. I said that no one but me would eat it (last year they all refused it) and they really ought to order another type of food if they wanted people to enjoy it. We ended up with nothing.

Over sexualized culture? Where did they immigrate from? Salt Lake City? We are basically sexually repressed.

I’ve heard this too. This man explained to me how his sisters weren’t like American girls, they were conservative about sex. He said it like it was a common opinion. He was from Eritrea.

I still don't know we allow women out of the home unescorted. And don't get me started on driver's licenses. It just a slippery slope. Next they will want to hold political office.

Anonymous wrote:My husband is a white American man. I am an Asian immigrant who received her citizenship upon marriage to him.

Lately, he gets angry and defensive and calls me "anti-American" when I complain about various things. U.S. Foreign policy, the junk food, the lack of style of fellow Americans.

He says if I live here, I should be happy and not anti-patriotic.

Wondering if other Americans feel this way?

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Anonymous wrote:I work in Healthcare and I am the only US born person in my department. All of my coworkers talk about how much they hate it here! The food is a special complaint but also they complain about oversexualized culture and the men complain about women in the workforce. All of these except food should be verboten topics but I don't rock the boat. Occasionally I've asked why they're even living here and it's always "great money".
As an aside the higher ups were planning to bring in pizza to show their appreciation. I said that no one but me would eat it (last year they all refused it) and they really ought to order another type of food if they wanted people to enjoy it. We ended up with nothing.

Over sexualized culture? Where did they immigrate from? Salt Lake City? We are basically sexually repressed.

I’ve heard this too. This man explained to me how his sisters weren’t like American girls, they were conservative about sex. He said it like it was a common opinion. He was from Eritrea.

Um, see the other threads talking about kids having sex at ages as young as 12, mothers buying vibrators for their daughters, and parents providing space and privacy for their teenagers to have sex. Maybe you haven’t seen it, but it’s out there.

The practice of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Eritrea has been declining since initial data were collected in 1995. The percentage of girls and women who have undergone FGM/C declined from 95 percent in 1995 to 89 percent in 2002 and 83 percent in 2010.

https://fxb.harvard.edu/2017/01/04/accelerating-the-eradication-of-female-genital-mutilationcutting-in-eritrea/
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
Accelerating the Eradication of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Eritrea

The State report from the government of Eritrea to the Committee on the
Rights of the Child, U.N. Doc. CRC/C/41/Add.12 (2002), specifically recognizes discrimination against the girl child in several respects, including the prevalence of female genital mutilation (FGM), the common occurrence of early marriages for girls, division of labor in the home which puts an undue burden on the girl child, disparities in education between girls and boys, and the particular effect of armed conflict on the girl child. While OMCT commends the government for its candour concerning some of the gender-specific problems faced by girl children, it remains concerned that domestic violence and incest are not adequately addressed and there is also insufficient information concerning the occurrence of rape.

https://www.omct.org/files/2004/07/2409/eng_2003_05_eritrea.pdf
A Report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child
World Organization Against Torture
Violence Against Girls in Eritrea

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in Healthcare and I am the only US born person in my department. All of my coworkers talk about how much they hate it here! The food is a special complaint but also they complain about oversexualized culture and the men complain about women in the workforce. All of these except food should be verboten topics but I don't rock the boat. Occasionally I've asked why they're even living here and it's always "great money".
As an aside the higher ups were planning to bring in pizza to show their appreciation. I said that no one but me would eat it (last year they all refused it) and they really ought to order another type of food if they wanted people to enjoy it. We ended up with nothing.

Over sexualized culture? Where did they immigrate from? Salt Lake City? We are basically sexually repressed.

I’ve heard this too. This man explained to me how his sisters weren’t like American girls, they were conservative about sex. He said it like it was a common opinion. He was from Eritrea.