What are the most Un-American things about you?

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1. There is nothing unamerican about driving a manual car.

   Also nothing unamerican about using the metric system. We are taught it and it is used daily. Many industries use it as well.

   You seem to have a weird idea of what it means to be “unamerican”…….tho plenty of americans do too. We really do need to fix that.

2. I consume a ton of British media: podcasts, YouTube channels, tv shows, music, etc..

   I have dual Italian citizenship.

3. Wait, using a bidet is un-American? How? Many people use them especially in this day and age.

4. Driving a French car is simply unhuman, literally never see French vehicle. Also tennis is popular in America. I don’t really consume foreign movies but if something is really hyped I’ll give it a shot.

   I only tip at restaurants, or delivery apps. No where else. Not fucking Starbucks.

5. I don’t care about the Super Bowl.

6. I’ve never been to Costco.

7. I can drive stick, but I don’t see that as an “unamerican” thing to do.

8. I am American through and through

9. I drive a stick shift and have a bidet

10. Why is driving manual not american? I mean I know they’re hard to get now but I dont think it is unamerican to drive a standard

11. I think all of those things are very American. You don’t have to fulfill the stereotypes of Germans who have never been here to act American.

    Except not tipping service workers, that just makes you a jerk.

12. I will watch any random English Premier League match over any NFL game.

13. I switched my weather app to Celsius so that I could estimate temperatures to my Canadian friend without needing to plug it into Google.

14. I can’t drive a manual car and would probably destroy someone’s clutch/transmission but I can drive a 10 speed crash box with 80,000lbs behind it lol

15. I dont distrust the goverment and I think politician’s mainly say what they mean

    also my literal citizenship of another nation

16. From your list:

    I learned to drive in my grandpa’s car which was a stick shift. My second and 4th cars were manual. Both were VWs. There’s a lot of traffic where I live now though so it’s auto for me.

    I don’t use metric in my day-to-day but I know the conversions. (F – 32)*5/9 = C.

    I’ve seen many foreign films with subtitles.

17. I spell the place that I go to the movies as “theatre”.

18. Using 24 hr time in day to day life without ever being employed in an industry that requires me to do so, but this is not so much an unamerican thing as it is a accidently setting my alarm on pm not am too many times in my life.

19. Being American, everything I do is American. OTOH, my cultural influences are 100% from Europe if you go back far enough. The US is a very un-American country.

    That said, I probably have a lot more interest in foreign things than most Americans. I mean I spend a lot of time on Google Earth, discovering things then learning about them. The web is PARADISE for this!

    For a few years, I binged on movies from the USSR. Which led me to watch more modern pos-Soviet Russian movies. I binged on Russian culture for a while, say between 2010 and 2015. I would watch the Victory Day parade on the 9th of May for a few years running. And the changes from one year to the next were foreshadowing… 🙁 Fuck you, Vladimir Putin. Your country had a good thing going for a while, and you totally fucked it up. You had everything, and you had to go and fuck it up. WTF is wrong with you, “Voda”?

20. I didn’t watch much cable TV, and I’ve never streamed at all. I do worthwhile things, like answering random questions on Reddit.

21. We typically eat dinner at 8-8:30… even though we have a 6yo who eats with us

    Would my budget allow, I’d be driving an Alfa Romeo Stelvio

22. I mean, I have a RHD manual mini, a bidet, and like the 24hr clock, but i will never use the metric system unless absolutely needed.

23. I’ve never used, nor do I own any guns.

24. None of these would be considered un-American.

    Manual cars are fun, they’re just uncommon. And driving a French car would just mean you’re weird, because going they haven’t been sold here since like 1991.

25. Those are dumb examples but my q, z, 0, and 7 have lines through them.

26. I don’t think any of these things really makes someone unAmerican.

    Part of the beauty of America is that people are from everywhere and people like all kinds of things. You’re just sort of pointing out things that aren’t super common, but I wouldn’t find any of these things especially weird.

    The hardest thing on the list would probably be to never have shopped at a Walmart or a Target. There are plenty of people who don’t go there regularly, but it’s going to be tough to find someone who’s literally never been to either of those.

27. There is nothing unAmerican about me because I am an American. Anything I do is American, even if it’s something I did before I became American. That’s how it works here.

28. My music taste, I’m big into folk metal and traditional Irish music. There is not much of the former in America.

    I’m a medievalist history buff, which is unfortunate because America isn’t present in medieval Europe/Middle East.

29. I have an electric tea kettle and a moka pot (two, actually).

30. Nothing on that list is un-American. We are a diverse country and people can and will do things that is not the norm.

31. My Canadian passport I guess

32. I use index, middle and thumb to hold up a 3

33. What a bullshit definition of “unamerian” things.

34. Peugeot, Citroën and Renault haven’t sold cars in America in decades.

35. I don’t know… Maybe watching British TV shows and listening to British podcasts.

36. I play and coach rugby.
    Watch soccer matches at the local pub.
    Drive a manual (but from Japan, not France).
    Use Celsius.
    Use Metric System.
    Don’t own a TV.
    Use 24 hr clock.
    Watch films with subtitles.
    Listen to foreign playlists on Spotify.
    Wear scarves (as a man) often with work clothes.
    Have a two SIM card slot phone.
    Carry two other residency ID cards in my…..fanny pack.

    People are pretty shocked when I show them my American passport.

37. This is great. The whole premise of “being American” is that you can literally be/do anything and still be an American, however shitty (see: racists).

    Just this evening I just used metric measurements, my partner has played rugby for two decades, I recently watched the subbed version of a Studio Ghibli film, and decades ago, I drove/taught my sibling to drive a standard transmission car.

    That said, I put ketchup on my eggs. Fellow Americans, please don’t come for my passport.

38. I really prefer not having ice in my drinks. tyvm. There, I said it; I hope I don’t get expelled.

    (I hope you meant the post to be tongue-in-cheek, if so, you might want to add an edit to mention that.)

39. As you’ve been informed, this is more a list of uncommon things however, I get the question so mine is I never recite the pledge of allegiance or sing the anthem. I do stand for it, basically because I would stand for any other country’s anthem out of respect.

40. I really like France.

41. None of these are unAmerican. Driving a French car would be extremely unusual, since they aren’t sold here, but it wouldn’t be unAmerican.

42. Foreign language movies for sure

43. There are MAYBE two things on your list I guess I’d call un-American. The rest seem to be based on weird and stupid stereotypes.

44. Not you guys getting pissy over this. you know exactly what they meant. they mean what things wouldn’t be typical. yes it is rooted in stereotypes but a lot of these are true, be real. don’t act like the average American uses metric or that they use a bidet or that they drive a manual car. Yall are so being so offended over this for zero reason.