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Such as when people outside the US discuss American politics, or especially when they say that those politics are a negative reflection on the people themselves.
People are going to discuss US politics. It's the superpower of the world; it's relevant to a lot more people than those just living in it.
I’m in partial disagreement with the OP. Respectfully distancing from internal affairs is separate from global economic interdependencies.
I live in the US and have no opinion on Canadian national issues. But, I admire Prime minister Justin Trudeau’s ability to build consensus within parliament to keep the country running smoothly.
In contrast, the Parliament in the U.K. is a cluster fuck.
Actually I like it when they do that. Outside opinions are important and usually more interesting, provided it's not just a two-word "America bad" thing. I can see how it would get annoying if you're a traveler, though.
Or they give a zero effort "solution" like ban all guns. Which from the outside world must seem like the obvious choice that all citizens would willingly give their guns... if you have lived in America you would know it will almost guarantee a civil war and its practically impossible to pull off. It's hard to disarm the public when it practically your patriotic duty to highly distrust your goverment.
It's not their fault the entire world showcases American politics. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Reddit are all American owned social media platforms with large foriegn userbases. Obviously these social media platforms are going to have large portions of American news regurgitated to people around the world.
It's like the Russia/Ukraine stuff. Even if you *wanted* to avoid it, you couldn't. It was all over the news when it first began. Imagine that but 24/7 and with American news.
I think it's rather normal to discuss US politics wherever you are, considering how it's the most powerful country and meddles in other countries' affairs like it's their own for I'm not sure how many decades now.
Not really they have the freedom of speech too whether their government recognizes it or not.
A lot of europeans are really rude they come at you with "I really think your country sucks" maybe its just a cultural thing where different things are rude different places but here you dont just walk up to someone and start talking shit about their community unless you're just being a dick on purpose.
Yesterday was talking to this guy and he talked about how the American ppl are solely to blame for the degeneracy and government is not even tho its being pushed in government funded schools and universities. Then after all that shit talking it turns out he's from south africa. One of the most degenerate places on earth. He can't even walk on the same side of the street as a black guy.
As a Brit, What I dislike is when our media pay too much attention to foreign elections (especially USA), way too much detail, way too much analysis - other than knowing it's happening and what the result is, stfu BBC, we can't vote so don't cover it like our own elections. They get a bit carried away with the French too, less so with the German elections.
I'm not american and I find it kind of annoying when people discuss american politics. I dont care, our politics are messed up enough. I knew this guy who only had any knowledge about american politics which was weird as hell, like why would you ONLY be invested in the politics of a country you've never even been to??? He was pretty strange and annoying though.
It doesn't matter what the government says all humans have the right to speak freely by nature of being born human. If your government won't let you speak freely they are suspressing your natural rights and they need to be dealt with.
I don't really care, because I'm powerless over other people, and their beliefs.
i hate goin to the bar in foreign countries and havin people think im some kinda ambassador of cable news bullshut & reality tv
like fuck off i just want some beer & shoot some pool
Actually, these foreigners just want the inside story. Talking to a British babe at the Hard Rock Cafe in Madrid once. She couldn’t figure out how real Jerry Springer was. I explained that he was a responsible mayor doing a decent job for the City of Cleveland, but politics made him want to scream. So now, he makes the world want to scream to symbolically blow off the pressure.
She thanked me and said, “If I never talked to an American like you, this would have bothered me forever.”
I said, “No problem. It’s never freedom that you notice. It’s the chaos it produces that gets interesting.”
Go figure.