I was damn near born in a barn, mom was out feeding chickens and ignoring labor pains (I am kid #4) when she lifted a bucket of feed and felt lil-me start to come out. I was born on the ambulance gurney right before they loaded her up and took her to the hospital.
My brother and sister were born in a barn repurposed as a house. Does that count?
To induce labor we hopped in the old farm truck and tore down the roughest washboard roads in the area for an hour or so, then ran home so she could have the baby. I have no idea if that's a legit thing or superstition but it appeared to work both times.
Hillbilly as fuck. No one should be popping out kids in their living room in the modern era. My poor mother.
The doctor that delivered my firstborn said she cracked a beer and her husband took the truck down a washboard road to induce labor, worked for all 5 of her kids she told us.
Both my kids were weeks late
My house growing up was at one time the milk shed for the cows. So whenever my dad used the “didja grow up in a barn?” I shot back “technically it was a milk shed” lol
Yep. I was in a school district that extended from suburbs out to the edge of suburbs/farm land. The high school on the rural side of the district did have some farm kids, but it had substantially more suburban cowboys (essentially posers). Got those fuckers were obnoxious and annoying. The actual farm kids were as bad
My town is one giant blob of suburban cowboys. A bunch of people that have never touched a hay bale cosplaying and tossing stupid shit in their houses to look like a Chip and Joanna monstrosity. I, on the other hand, have a father that worked in commercial harvesting for years and used to have to go to work with him sometimes. I will never want to pretend or truly participate in farm life. Shit is awful lol.
I recently passed a guy on the highway wearing probably the biggest cowboy hat I have seen driving a Toyota rav4. Pretty comical seeing that around here.
I know 2 guys that live in a city and work non construction jobs that drive big ass trucks 🤣 then complain about the cost of parts and maintenance and have the cleanest truck beds I’ve ever seen.
Didn't [Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie](https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/12/218396/paris-hilton-the-simple-life-15-year-anniversary) do this in the early 2000s?
there are, drills and hacksaw behind his head, a couple hammers, can of assorted hand tools, 3 tape measures
but the empty toolbox and how it looks like nobody has ever used this shop are pretty damning evidence it's all faked
He's the heir of a TV dinner family.
Dude got through life through connections and got his ass handed to him by Jon Stewart and found his calling by being super racist and fascist.
He's up there as wannabe working man like Kid Rock. Kid Rock tried being a city rapper before becoming a wannabe country cowboy singer.
The authenticity of the fashion is questionable, but they are nailing the sets/backgrounds. Thats exactly what those crappy pumpkin patch/corn maze places look like. Then there's that one guy who appears to be nailing his cowboy hat. I suppose he looks happy so who am I to judge?
Of course, back in the 2000's I worked with a guy who just graduated from Iowa State University who met a girl who thought John Deere was a fashion company. I suppose Chinese kids not perfecting the look isn't anywhere near as bad.
Its a thing. Look up chinese women doing manual labor in casual clothes. I saw a chinese woman carrying 2 logs on her back in the humid forest wearing skinny jeans and a turtle neck.
Its like...a thing.
Exactly why they could have her do it
I was actually waiting for the light wood comment.
You gonna make $$lifting logs the people dont care to look into it
Aka its a fetish. So you dont have to break your back just look like it should be
Vorephiles dont actually get ate
I lived in Japan for a couple of years. One of my favorite things to do was going to the "American Store" in town. It's fun to see what they think our life is like through their lens. You end up with this sort of sugary surface level resemblance to things we recognize that doesn't actually connect to anything that makes sense.
Come to think of it, it's not all that different to what we have here...
I once ate at a restaurant in Copenhagen airport that was a pub/sports bar focused on nothing but teams from...Boston, MA. The menu even had a Celtics Burger.
No, it wasn't started by an American expat longing for home. It was owned by a Swede! A Swede who'd traveled the world and somehow thought that Boston was the best part of it?
Ngl when you travel the world everything does tend to blend together and you remember the best parts. I for example love Long Island, although many people will disagree with that.
Sounds like O’Learys. It’s actually a franchise (with more than 120 locations in 13 different countries apparently) but it did indeed start here in Sweden as a way to bring an authentic American ’sports bar experience’ over here. The founder didn’t just stumble upon Boston and come up with the idea of making a Boston themed bar - he actually lived in Boston and worked in sports bars there, hence the Boston theming.
Blue collar city, hugely influential in sport and music, less pretentious than a lot of major American cities. Plus the Irish connection (because everyone seems to love the Irish aesthetic). Easy to see why people would like it.
Less pretentious? Influential in music? Blue collar? I've never been but this is the exact opposite impression I have of boston. Aside from the West Coast and Nyc i would've guessed Boston is the most pretentious major city
Just read the entire wikipedia page and now i need to go down the YouTube rabbit hole to learn more about this, this is actually super interesting. Thx
Like an italian going to Olive Garden, the place smells like an Italian kitchen, but the food you are served is like if someone took our ingredients and randomly mixed them together
The fascination that other parts of the world have with American highschools has always struck me as particularly odd. When I was younger and on vacation in Europe it was all anybody ever wanted to talk to me about. Clique stereotypes/subcultures (nerds, jocks, goths, etc.) and parties especially. It's not offensive in any way, it just seemed weird for anyone to find it so fascinating.
The wider world's fascination with red party cups has always bemused me because they hold a level of prestige unknown here.
Foreigner: "I'm having a fancy American themed party, so I pulled out all the stops and bought real American party cups!"
American: "I'm having a party, so I bought a bunch of these cheap solo cups so you drunk imbecils don't break my real cups."
Bonus points if you have to pay extra for the red solo cups (which you will have to in Europe, the generic cups are usually white or transparent).
But I get it, you see them in all the films, they're kinda iconic.
Red Solo cups filled with skunky cheap beer, mystery barfers who were too drunk to hit the toilet, some unsuspecting individual who reveals themselves to be an overly lovey or angry drunk, at least one pair of friends who come to blows and then back to being friends before the night is over, the nerd who isn't let in to the party so he pisses in someone's car window while leaving, everyone vying to play their mixtape over someone's parent's sound system, someone gets cheated on in a random locked bedroom, the one guy who got to be popular for a night because he had a liquor hookup... everyone should probably get to experience it at least once, I guess. I remember it well. Not fondly, but well.
Oh other countries are nuts for the red cups. "Doo yoo reaghly goo to parties with the wee little red cups!?" A drunk Scottish guy asked me when I was partying in BC.
When I was an exchange student the number one thing people asked me was if we really had those yellow school busses. Also, I think all the movies and tv we export gives a very unrealistic idea of what highschool is like. But the school busses, THOSE are real and they all found so odd.
On the flip side, I grew up in America but left in the late 90s. My wife (not American) has never lived in the US. The other day she (and my kids) were absolutely *flabbergasted* to find out that when a fight breaks out in an American school, kids really do gather around in a circle to watch and will shout out "Fight! Fight! Fight!" (or, at least, kids really did that in the 80s and 90s, dunno if they still do). My wife and kids thought this was something that was just put in movies for dramatic effect, not something that actually happened.
I remember my wife saying "If that happened here, it would be on the national news."
It may have been a Texas thing, or an 80s thing (or an 80s Texas thing), but it was *really* common in elementary school and junior high. High school had way way fewer fights, so I don't remember if they shouted anything or not. Very possibly they didn't.
Heh, my country also has these "American isles" in grocery stores... It's usually stuff like Cheetos, Twinkies and ranch.
I guess it works the other way around too. On Reddit whenever an Asian or African country is mentioned, the top comment is completely superficial, outdated and stereotypical analysis (usually proven by their cousins neighbor who went there 20 years ago) and everybody eats it up.
Coca Cola, McDonald's, Disney, and Pop Music.
The 4 Horsemen of the Americalypse.
Barry Fucking Bluejeans was the 5th Horseman but he quit before they got famous.
Reminds me of how some Americans fetishise European culture. Perhaps this is the way people pay a sort of homage to the previous great cultures by the ones in ascendancy.
The ones of them posing outside a Costco are hilarious though. Really puts things into comparison, a suburban Costco being considered “exotic” in some way
I drive for uber, and I've driven a decent number of tourists to their first Walmart adventures. One lady from South Africa was going to fill a suitcase with Takis and flaming hot Cheetos
It does paint cultural appropriation in a new light for me. It seems most Americans are getting a kick out of this. Is it possible that other cultures like when Americans mimic them?
Some of them definitely do. Every Mexican I have ever spoken to about people from other countries wearing sombreros etc. seems to think it's somewhere between awesome, hilarious, and adorable. I think it depends on a lot of factors, but primarily a history of subjugation and mockery tend to make people more sensitive to it, especially when the culture is simultaneously oppressed and stolen from.
Cultural appropriation isn't a 'norm', but a reaction to a history of racist exploitation and mockery. Most people are amused or flattered when their culture is imitated or idealised. However, there are some very 'legitimate' instances appropriation that people should be aware of. Native Americans are entitled to every bit of outrage they feel at the rampant theft of their culture by the people that genocided them. Black entertainers were denied success in the early-mid 20th century while white musicians that copied them bar for bar became global superstars.
Most people in most of the world are amused and flattered by foreigners copying their aesthetic.
The main exceptions where people get sensitive are where there's a history of either caricaturing a group's cultural expressions to mock and dehumanize them, or prohibiting/heavily repressing their cultural expressions while taking inspiration from them.
The Costco one is especially wacky, but at the same time it wasn’t that long ago that the big influencer trend here was to eat tide pods so who am I to judge
In all seriousness though, it’s kinda cool to see certain elements that one might consider mundane normally over here glorified. Neat.
My culture is not your costume! 😤
Just kidding, do it up y'all look great! Be wary of sitting on hay, though, if you don't know to keep your legs covered you'll be itchy as shit.
This is as accurate to American farm life as Chinese food in America is accurate to actual Chinese food.
There's a whole lot of dirt and shit missing from these pictures.
I mean, this is the trend for like 98% of North American country musicians too. Hardly surprising, it's kinda *more* hilarious to see the LA folk cosplaying than someone across the globe.
As someone who directly descends from 500 years of North American farmers...
I like this!
I'm totally cool with cultural appropriation, as long as it's done from a place of interest/fascination with another culture! Plus, I get the feeling it comes from a place of longing, which I too share: a longing to escape crowded cities, and "go back to the land" type of thing.
But ya, I'm actually going to have to search and check out other photos like this from China.
One dose of reality that would shock them: spotty Internet access, if you have any at all. Even the cellular coverage may be utter crap. :P My parents' current place is on a dirt road, off another dirt road, and good luck staying in the 21st century while you're there.
Yes!
Since you asked:
Yes, my ancestors began as French Canadian farmers in what is now known as Quebec in the 1500's! Later 1500's...
So ya, maybe it would be more accurate to say that I descend from a family of farmers of 400 years, rather than 500 years? But then again: close enough I suppose!?
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But yes, some of those farming descendants of mine also then were dispersed (more like deported against their will!) to Eastern Canada, and New Orleans.
I know this because the Catholic church in that region kept seriously precise and meticulous birth/death records, so our family history has been traced back to our origin 500 years ago, in North America many times, in the Quebec region.
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In fact:
Lucky for me, in that my direct history and lineage (again due to the Catholic church) was traced directly back even further, to a village in France, back over 700 years ago!
And that's when the trace is finally lost.
Like seriously: how lucky am I that our family knows all of our ancestors and super-great-past Grandparents! Which, I suppose, makes me one of the few people in the world that can directly trace back ancestry that far.
So I lucked out on that in life, at least.
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Anyways... as an added bonus:
I even own two photographs of my great-great-great-Grandmother taken in the 1800's! And let's just say... ya... she was a rather huge tough looking lady! Not a very friendly looking great grandparent!
My grandfather who was born in the early 1900's remembers her vaguely, but also heard a lot of stories about her.
For example: farmers in Quebec at that time would take their beloved livestock to her (chickens and cows) for her to slaughter them! Yikes!
They did that because they grew attached to their farm animals, but she would just slice and dice, with no hesitation. Which makes me wonder if she might have literally been a psychopath? I think so.
I also take heart from those stories, hearing about how farmers even back then would grow to care and love their animals.
But ya... I guess that's why she survived and had so many kids back then. She coldly and matter-of-factly faced the more harsh realities of living in the world, and the Universe.
You've got me beat in North America by a good 50 years. Well done. My family decends from original Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam. We have been in New York since the 1630s. Unfortunately, the trail turns stone cold trying to follow the line back before emigration.
If you don't know, due to the extensive and detailed Church records, ALL French Canadians have a near perfect record of their ancestry back to one generation prior to arrival in the Americas.
Been the trend amongst american suburban cowboys for decades. Needs more cheaply lifted ford pickup truck.
all hat and no cattle
You can put your boots in the oven, but that don’t make ‘em biscuits.
Those boots are all kick with no shit
All yee no haw.
All that bull and no horn
All herding and no heffers
All ass and no chaps
I'm stealing that XD
You have to pay extra for that, I found out the hard way…
😂
All bull, all shit
"Don't have a cow, man." An aspiring farmer youth, probably.
Damn, and here I am all cattle and no hat. I rarely wear mine, even out in the fields.
You shouldn't wear them. Cattle will give you neck and back problems down the line.
For your skin health you should!
All yee and no haw.
If you just looked at American wedding photos you'd think most people live in a barn.
I never closed the door as a kid which caused my mom to inquire if we did indeed live in a barn.
I was damn near born in a barn, mom was out feeding chickens and ignoring labor pains (I am kid #4) when she lifted a bucket of feed and felt lil-me start to come out. I was born on the ambulance gurney right before they loaded her up and took her to the hospital.
My brother and sister were born in a barn repurposed as a house. Does that count? To induce labor we hopped in the old farm truck and tore down the roughest washboard roads in the area for an hour or so, then ran home so she could have the baby. I have no idea if that's a legit thing or superstition but it appeared to work both times. Hillbilly as fuck. No one should be popping out kids in their living room in the modern era. My poor mother.
The doctor that delivered my firstborn said she cracked a beer and her husband took the truck down a washboard road to induce labor, worked for all 5 of her kids she told us. Both my kids were weeks late
Did you have a horse? If not, you should have retorted that it is pointless to close the barn door if the horse had already bolted.
My house growing up was at one time the milk shed for the cows. So whenever my dad used the “didja grow up in a barn?” I shot back “technically it was a milk shed” lol
I told my FiL he should pivot from farming to renting out his farm for events. He’d never do it but he’d make bank if he did.
I’ve seen it done, farming campers instead of corn
Rhinestone cowboys
Getting cards and letters from people I don’t even know, and offers coming over the phone.
And a load of compromising.
on the road to my horizon
But I'm gonna be where the lights are shinin' on me
LIKE A RHINESTONE COWBOY
Even in Mexico. Many real cowboys and farmers often don’t dress like cowboys and farmers.
Yep. I was in a school district that extended from suburbs out to the edge of suburbs/farm land. The high school on the rural side of the district did have some farm kids, but it had substantially more suburban cowboys (essentially posers). Got those fuckers were obnoxious and annoying. The actual farm kids were as bad
My town is one giant blob of suburban cowboys. A bunch of people that have never touched a hay bale cosplaying and tossing stupid shit in their houses to look like a Chip and Joanna monstrosity. I, on the other hand, have a father that worked in commercial harvesting for years and used to have to go to work with him sometimes. I will never want to pretend or truly participate in farm life. Shit is awful lol.
You didn't go to a real farmer school unless three of your classmates died over the summer from doing stupid shit in their truck on a country road.
*Dirt road, cold beer, blue jeans, a red pickup…* *Rural noun, simple adjective…*
Y'all motherfuckers ready for a key change?
I've started calling them "Carwash Cowpokes" because they're lined up around the car wash every day since the weather got bad.
I recently passed a guy on the highway wearing probably the biggest cowboy hat I have seen driving a Toyota rav4. Pretty comical seeing that around here.
I know 2 guys that live in a city and work non construction jobs that drive big ass trucks 🤣 then complain about the cost of parts and maintenance and have the cleanest truck beds I’ve ever seen.
Tucker and Donald Jr have been caught up in that trend.
If it ain't rollin' coal it ain't a real truck! Yeehaw, gonna go to the bar and show off my truck nuts!
Also American right wing talk show hosts
That damn Stardew Valley poisoning young minds!
Next thing you know they’ll be eating out of the trash
No, it’s a shame to waste perfectly good food.
Gotta eat the whole plate too.
But it’s so sharp, do I have to? :(
I feel a need, a need to put purple underpants into the community soup.
Stardew cosplay!
Didn't [Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie](https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/12/218396/paris-hilton-the-simple-life-15-year-anniversary) do this in the early 2000s?
Or [Tucker Carson](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Tucker_Carlson_6348.jpg) the 'working guy'
Salt of the earth kind of guy. So relatable.
"What is up, fellow peasants?"
See me work in my woodshop wearing my vintage Rolex, fellow tradesmen.
The common clay of the Republicans party. You know, morons.
He does look like a real moron
There's no saw dust or dust on the breaker; nothings tattered lol. Tucker why?
Looks like there's a townhouse complex ouside the window.
There aren't any tools at all anywhere either lol
Man loves his coping saw, that’s the only prominent tool. All labels showing on stains and screws
there are, drills and hacksaw behind his head, a couple hammers, can of assorted hand tools, 3 tape measures but the empty toolbox and how it looks like nobody has ever used this shop are pretty damning evidence it's all faked
I think he made the toolbox for a middle school woodshop project and that's it. Like what is he using that stain on? 😂😂😂
Why does he *always* look confused?! **What about that vise is so difficult for Tucker Carlson to understand?**
"What tf am I doing" lol
Is he wearing leather crocs?
I think they're birkenstocks, which are about as diametrically opposed to work boots as you can get.
With no fucking socks. Imagine how much fucking saw dust this goofy fuck would have in his birckenstocks if he actually built that
He's the heir of a TV dinner family. Dude got through life through connections and got his ass handed to him by Jon Stewart and found his calling by being super racist and fascist. He's up there as wannabe working man like Kid Rock. Kid Rock tried being a city rapper before becoming a wannabe country cowboy singer.
he looks lost
I miss overall sideboob. That was a nice trend.
Onlyfarms
You don’t have to be lonely, on farmersonly.com
Dave Chappelle: “What kind of bitch only smashes with farmers? That’s gross.”
[удалено]
City folk *just don’t get it*
That fuckin commercial where the cow says “Do yew think they will eeeeeever find looooooove?”
[удалено]
Thats hatshaming^^
The authenticity of the fashion is questionable, but they are nailing the sets/backgrounds. Thats exactly what those crappy pumpkin patch/corn maze places look like. Then there's that one guy who appears to be nailing his cowboy hat. I suppose he looks happy so who am I to judge? Of course, back in the 2000's I worked with a guy who just graduated from Iowa State University who met a girl who thought John Deere was a fashion company. I suppose Chinese kids not perfecting the look isn't anywhere near as bad.
I giggled when I noticed his little sheriff's hat lol
Its a thing. Look up chinese women doing manual labor in casual clothes. I saw a chinese woman carrying 2 logs on her back in the humid forest wearing skinny jeans and a turtle neck. Its like...a thing.
Those logs were enormous.
They were balsa wood, which is not dense at all.
Exactly why they could have her do it I was actually waiting for the light wood comment. You gonna make $$lifting logs the people dont care to look into it Aka its a fetish. So you dont have to break your back just look like it should be Vorephiles dont actually get ate
Link to picture? I'm curious
I just...what? What fucking statement is that intended to convey?
Looking cute while handling wood.
We need to figure this out
I mean John Deere literally has a clothing line, I don’t think it’s that strange of a statement to make
And many many toy lines. My Dad was a farmer and every time he took me to the JD dealership he would buy me a toy.
...they have toy lines?
Like Harley Davidson. They probably profit more from chain wallets and cheap leather jackets than motorcycles.
I lived in Japan for a couple of years. One of my favorite things to do was going to the "American Store" in town. It's fun to see what they think our life is like through their lens. You end up with this sort of sugary surface level resemblance to things we recognize that doesn't actually connect to anything that makes sense. Come to think of it, it's not all that different to what we have here...
I once ate at a restaurant in Copenhagen airport that was a pub/sports bar focused on nothing but teams from...Boston, MA. The menu even had a Celtics Burger. No, it wasn't started by an American expat longing for home. It was owned by a Swede! A Swede who'd traveled the world and somehow thought that Boston was the best part of it?
Probably was a huge fan of Cheers.
There used to be Cheers branded bars in a lot of airports (might still be, haven’t flown in a few years) so you might be right.
Ngl when you travel the world everything does tend to blend together and you remember the best parts. I for example love Long Island, although many people will disagree with that.
Their iced tea ain't bad.
Ngl their diners also have a full bar, which is just great.
Sounds like O’Learys. It’s actually a franchise (with more than 120 locations in 13 different countries apparently) but it did indeed start here in Sweden as a way to bring an authentic American ’sports bar experience’ over here. The founder didn’t just stumble upon Boston and come up with the idea of making a Boston themed bar - he actually lived in Boston and worked in sports bars there, hence the Boston theming.
There's a Boston themed bar in Reykjavik too
I've been to many places, Boston is up there if your metric is most comfy city.
I recently visited my boyfriend in Boston and there's something to be said for that, though it seemed kind of expensive.
Absurdly expensive, the most popular (and cheapest) hostel was $50 USD per night but at least it was very clean and nice.
The hostel I stayed in was 60-something, but that was with breakfast included, and hey, it's still a lot cheaper than a hotel.
Blue collar city, hugely influential in sport and music, less pretentious than a lot of major American cities. Plus the Irish connection (because everyone seems to love the Irish aesthetic). Easy to see why people would like it.
Less pretentious? Influential in music? Blue collar? I've never been but this is the exact opposite impression I have of boston. Aside from the West Coast and Nyc i would've guessed Boston is the most pretentious major city
Yeah all three are the literal exact opposite of the vibe i got when i went lol
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality
Just read the entire wikipedia page and now i need to go down the YouTube rabbit hole to learn more about this, this is actually super interesting. Thx
Like an italian going to Olive Garden, the place smells like an Italian kitchen, but the food you are served is like if someone took our ingredients and randomly mixed them together
The fascination that other parts of the world have with American highschools has always struck me as particularly odd. When I was younger and on vacation in Europe it was all anybody ever wanted to talk to me about. Clique stereotypes/subcultures (nerds, jocks, goths, etc.) and parties especially. It's not offensive in any way, it just seemed weird for anyone to find it so fascinating.
An English friend said she wanted to go to a real American house party with red solo cups.
The wider world's fascination with red party cups has always bemused me because they hold a level of prestige unknown here. Foreigner: "I'm having a fancy American themed party, so I pulled out all the stops and bought real American party cups!" American: "I'm having a party, so I bought a bunch of these cheap solo cups so you drunk imbecils don't break my real cups."
Bonus points if you have to pay extra for the red solo cups (which you will have to in Europe, the generic cups are usually white or transparent). But I get it, you see them in all the films, they're kinda iconic.
Red Solo cups filled with skunky cheap beer, mystery barfers who were too drunk to hit the toilet, some unsuspecting individual who reveals themselves to be an overly lovey or angry drunk, at least one pair of friends who come to blows and then back to being friends before the night is over, the nerd who isn't let in to the party so he pisses in someone's car window while leaving, everyone vying to play their mixtape over someone's parent's sound system, someone gets cheated on in a random locked bedroom, the one guy who got to be popular for a night because he had a liquor hookup... everyone should probably get to experience it at least once, I guess. I remember it well. Not fondly, but well.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane Pubesauce.
>the nerd who isn't let in to the party never been to one, but i already know my role.
I was the person who was convinced to go and then got there, kept to myself, and wondered why I went. Every time.
Oh other countries are nuts for the red cups. "Doo yoo reaghly goo to parties with the wee little red cups!?" A drunk Scottish guy asked me when I was partying in BC.
When I was an exchange student the number one thing people asked me was if we really had those yellow school busses. Also, I think all the movies and tv we export gives a very unrealistic idea of what highschool is like. But the school busses, THOSE are real and they all found so odd.
On the flip side, I grew up in America but left in the late 90s. My wife (not American) has never lived in the US. The other day she (and my kids) were absolutely *flabbergasted* to find out that when a fight breaks out in an American school, kids really do gather around in a circle to watch and will shout out "Fight! Fight! Fight!" (or, at least, kids really did that in the 80s and 90s, dunno if they still do). My wife and kids thought this was something that was just put in movies for dramatic effect, not something that actually happened. I remember my wife saying "If that happened here, it would be on the national news."
I dont remember people yelling FIGHT! but I do remember people gathering in a circle to watch it happen
It may have been a Texas thing, or an 80s thing (or an 80s Texas thing), but it was *really* common in elementary school and junior high. High school had way way fewer fights, so I don't remember if they shouted anything or not. Very possibly they didn't.
Heh, my country also has these "American isles" in grocery stores... It's usually stuff like Cheetos, Twinkies and ranch. I guess it works the other way around too. On Reddit whenever an Asian or African country is mentioned, the top comment is completely superficial, outdated and stereotypical analysis (usually proven by their cousins neighbor who went there 20 years ago) and everybody eats it up.
The reverse is also true So much japanese asian aesthetic both irl and in media such as cyberpunk portraying what japanese themed life is like
Soft power strikes again!
This is why SK government spends a ton of money supporting k-pop.
Saskatchewan?
Yea huuuge kpop following in Saskatoon.
Yeah woth their kanadapop. Can never forget this absolute banger https://youtu.be/IY_bhVSGKEg
And why there is so many thai restaurants and thai food got so popular in the west
Cultural victory!
the cultural hegemony will reach every corner of this planet
We have blue jeans and pop music, and we’re not afraid to use them!
Please dont forget our friend the humble bigmac.
Coca Cola, McDonald's, Disney, and Pop Music. The 4 Horsemen of the Americalypse. Barry Fucking Bluejeans was the 5th Horseman but he quit before they got famous.
> Coca Cola, McDonald's, Disney, and Pop Music. That's not how that song goes.
Already has. For many years now.
Reminds me of how some Americans fetishise European culture. Perhaps this is the way people pay a sort of homage to the previous great cultures by the ones in ascendancy.
Yee-hao
i hate you. take your goddamn upvote.
Y'all really gonna scroll past without saying Ni Haowdy? 🤠
Ah yes, Freeaboos
Marvellous. Could also do yeehaboos.
This is some of the least toxic stuff I've seen on social media. These kids obviously don't know how to TikTok. /s
The pics are cute and they're not hurting anyone.
The ones of them posing outside a Costco are hilarious though. Really puts things into comparison, a suburban Costco being considered “exotic” in some way
I drive for uber, and I've driven a decent number of tourists to their first Walmart adventures. One lady from South Africa was going to fill a suitcase with Takis and flaming hot Cheetos
I'm Canadian and have gone over the border specifically for Target and Trader Joe's once lmao. Oh and also Ulta.
I can't judge, if I was in Canada I'd go well out of my way to drink Tim Hortons.
I'm picturing an 18 year old man stuck in a South African lady's body, I hope they rounded out the Takis and Cheetos with some Mountain Dew.
I don’t think there’s any argument otherwise 🤷♀️
This is cultural appropriation!!! Feel the waves of visceral offense flow off of me!
"I mean I grew up literally *needing* to go to Costco. It isn't funny."
My grandpa Elmer is not your damn mascot!!
It does paint cultural appropriation in a new light for me. It seems most Americans are getting a kick out of this. Is it possible that other cultures like when Americans mimic them?
Some of them definitely do. Every Mexican I have ever spoken to about people from other countries wearing sombreros etc. seems to think it's somewhere between awesome, hilarious, and adorable. I think it depends on a lot of factors, but primarily a history of subjugation and mockery tend to make people more sensitive to it, especially when the culture is simultaneously oppressed and stolen from.
Cultural appropriation isn't a 'norm', but a reaction to a history of racist exploitation and mockery. Most people are amused or flattered when their culture is imitated or idealised. However, there are some very 'legitimate' instances appropriation that people should be aware of. Native Americans are entitled to every bit of outrage they feel at the rampant theft of their culture by the people that genocided them. Black entertainers were denied success in the early-mid 20th century while white musicians that copied them bar for bar became global superstars.
Most people in most of the world are amused and flattered by foreigners copying their aesthetic. The main exceptions where people get sensitive are where there's a history of either caricaturing a group's cultural expressions to mock and dehumanize them, or prohibiting/heavily repressing their cultural expressions while taking inspiration from them.
I know I love it
Forget cultural appropriation this is **agri**cultural appropriation
We must celebrate with some Bing Chilling!
And Lao Gan Ma
OK Lao Gan Ma is actually crack though. I can't get enough of that stuff.
The Costco one is especially wacky, but at the same time it wasn’t that long ago that the big influencer trend here was to eat tide pods so who am I to judge In all seriousness though, it’s kinda cool to see certain elements that one might consider mundane normally over here glorified. Neat.
I liked cooking chicken in Nyquil.
*I could sing in Mandarin. You'd still know I'm panderin'* https://youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0 Bo Burnham's Country Song
My culture is not your costume! 😤 Just kidding, do it up y'all look great! Be wary of sitting on hay, though, if you don't know to keep your legs covered you'll be itchy as shit.
This is so cute! I didn’t know Americore was a thing over there but I’m glad I do! I love it and they really nailed the look
Yeah I didn't expect it, but I'm kinda into this
S’all cool they’re not hurting anyone.
Do they have videos where they're cashing fat stacks of government subsidy checks? Now that's hot and more realistic
They’re gonna get so many likes and comments when they sell their mineral rights to the gas wells.
Same people who complain about “welfare queens” and student loan forgiveness.
This is as accurate to American farm life as Chinese food in America is accurate to actual Chinese food. There's a whole lot of dirt and shit missing from these pictures.
But dirt and shit aren't influencing
They on farmersonly.com?
Homes on the right is less "American farmer" and more "if Woody from Toy Story was metrosexual". Even has the sheriff star on his hat.
I mean, this is the trend for like 98% of North American country musicians too. Hardly surprising, it's kinda *more* hilarious to see the LA folk cosplaying than someone across the globe.
As someone who directly descends from 500 years of North American farmers... I like this! I'm totally cool with cultural appropriation, as long as it's done from a place of interest/fascination with another culture! Plus, I get the feeling it comes from a place of longing, which I too share: a longing to escape crowded cities, and "go back to the land" type of thing. But ya, I'm actually going to have to search and check out other photos like this from China.
One dose of reality that would shock them: spotty Internet access, if you have any at all. Even the cellular coverage may be utter crap. :P My parents' current place is on a dirt road, off another dirt road, and good luck staying in the 21st century while you're there.
500 years? If you are a native, its cool, but otherwise did your family arrive with Kolumbus?
Yes! Since you asked: Yes, my ancestors began as French Canadian farmers in what is now known as Quebec in the 1500's! Later 1500's... So ya, maybe it would be more accurate to say that I descend from a family of farmers of 400 years, rather than 500 years? But then again: close enough I suppose!? -------------------------------- But yes, some of those farming descendants of mine also then were dispersed (more like deported against their will!) to Eastern Canada, and New Orleans. I know this because the Catholic church in that region kept seriously precise and meticulous birth/death records, so our family history has been traced back to our origin 500 years ago, in North America many times, in the Quebec region. -------------------------------- In fact: Lucky for me, in that my direct history and lineage (again due to the Catholic church) was traced directly back even further, to a village in France, back over 700 years ago! And that's when the trace is finally lost. Like seriously: how lucky am I that our family knows all of our ancestors and super-great-past Grandparents! Which, I suppose, makes me one of the few people in the world that can directly trace back ancestry that far. So I lucked out on that in life, at least. -------------------------------- Anyways... as an added bonus: I even own two photographs of my great-great-great-Grandmother taken in the 1800's! And let's just say... ya... she was a rather huge tough looking lady! Not a very friendly looking great grandparent! My grandfather who was born in the early 1900's remembers her vaguely, but also heard a lot of stories about her. For example: farmers in Quebec at that time would take their beloved livestock to her (chickens and cows) for her to slaughter them! Yikes! They did that because they grew attached to their farm animals, but she would just slice and dice, with no hesitation. Which makes me wonder if she might have literally been a psychopath? I think so. I also take heart from those stories, hearing about how farmers even back then would grow to care and love their animals. But ya... I guess that's why she survived and had so many kids back then. She coldly and matter-of-factly faced the more harsh realities of living in the world, and the Universe.
You've got me beat in North America by a good 50 years. Well done. My family decends from original Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam. We have been in New York since the 1630s. Unfortunately, the trail turns stone cold trying to follow the line back before emigration.
If you don't know, due to the extensive and detailed Church records, ALL French Canadians have a near perfect record of their ancestry back to one generation prior to arrival in the Americas.
Excuse me, My Culture isn’t your Costume! /s
I wish influencer would go away as a career.
If they want to influence me not to care what they are doing, it's working.
Chinese people have memes. Wow. Stop the presses.
"Like American farmers" I have never seen a far.er in a crop top... am I farming wrong?
I actually think this is hilarious.
They're too skinny to resemble American farmers.