I wanted to ask this question to Americans, do you think it is ok for people who don’t have a stake in USA future to discuss USA events and politics?
I personally think it should be encouraged, but I had met a very small minority of people who think it’s not ok.
What do you think?
It’s alright for anyone to discuss and have opinions on anything.
Wrong
Do not discuss 🚫🚫🚫
Disrespectfully I disagree
Am I allowed to talk about Russia and Ukraine? Israel and Palestine? Great Britain and Ireland? Australia and some birds?
If something is happening it’s fair game to talk about. We may not be able to fix / change anything, but we can express our opinions on the subject.
Are you familiar with the pūteketeke?
They are majestic but they don’t strike fear into the heart of Australians quite like an Emu does.
A truly majestic bird
America influences the world quite a bit. Feels fair for the world to have an opinion on it.
Took the words right of my fingertips.
Hell yes! We Americans are raised believing that we’re exceptional. That led to Trump. (It’s being used to propagate lies/misinformation.)
Dig into any discussion you want. Be prepared to learn, but call out lies when to see them. Thanks!
Our shit can often affect a lot of the rest of the world, so it makes sense for our business to be relevant to people outside the US.
I feel like as long as your country has one of our military bases in it, and the chances are unfortunately pretty high that you do, you’ve got about as much right to criticize the U.S. as anyone else. The U.S. falling to fascism would have global repercussions, so don’t let anyone ever tell you that you don’t have skin in the game too.
Not only that. We have your nuklear weapons as well.
I recently learned that one of the US nuclear weapon depots was at the german airforce airbase my father was stationed on and we lived nearby when I was a kid.
It wasn’t public knowledge and I’m glad I only learned about it 20 years later. But even if they are not there exactly anymore, they are somewhere in Germany at an undisclosed location and that does makes us a target.
Absolutely. The only time I see an issue with this is when someone only spams “America bad”. Yes, the government is bad, but that ignores a lot of the nuance of the situation. Similarly, people who only want to talk about how China, Russia, other colonizing power, etc is bad and refuse to understand that it isn’t the people of those places as a whole.
My county has very much felt it has a stake in your country, whatever country that may be. We probably enforced that stake with weapons at some point.
My countrymen spend a lot of time pontificating on how they feel about other countries. I think it is entierly welcome that people other than Americans and Europeans have some discussions about us.
I sincerely hope that some of my fellow Americans get mad about the things you might have to say about us. We very much deserve it.
Sure. America has its slimy tendrils in everyone else’s business, so it’s only fair that you have a say.
It absolutely should be talked about. All events in all of the world should be talked about as long as it involves factual information, which can sometimes be hard to come by these days . It’s only extremists trying to create false narratives who would say otherwise. And mostly only because they don’t want you telling the people they control the truth or they’re so dependent using the lie to their advantage that even they don’t want to know the truth.
It’s fine to discuss, not okay to pretend to have inside perspective
This puts it nicely and succinctly. It’s important to remember that the USA has single states larger than some European countries. It’s enormous.
For as much diversity as there is in wherever you are from… just compare the sizes and think a little.
Trying to take pieces of information, even when from reputable news sources, and apply it to the entirety of this massive place with a wildly diverse population like it’s some sort of insider information that magically applies to all or even most is foolish.
No one is completely living outside the US. No one. Especially big elections concern everyone on the globe to some degree. It’s also simply interesting, although sometimes in a morbid way.
That being said, if you’re into politics in the first place, the one in your own country should have the higher priority in my opinion. I’m saying this because I know non-Americans who concern themselves more with American politics (it’s flashier and social media is so full of it, it’s easy to fall down that rabbit hole) than those of their own country. I think that’s a problem because it distracts them from problems they face in their own backyards that they might not even be aware of.
Anyone anywhere should be able to discuss anything about anything within reason.
I’m anyone, and I agree.
I don’t know why Americans’ opinion would matter. That said, it is fine. We’re used to it.
Yes, it ok for humans to speak and hold opinions on things.
