He was sure that Greenland would choose to be American rather than part of the Kingdom of Denmark (I don't say Danish, because they are clearly not Danish).
Greenland made its opinion clear.
And then JD Vance went, intended to find Greenlanders to back him up, and was chased like Nigel Farage in Scotland.
The only place he visited in Greenland was a US military base.
I know you're joking, but they DID try to find Greenlanders to meet with Vance. None agreed.
Not a single Greenlander.
You would think that you would have one who would do it for the laugh.
But no. Zero Greenlanders wanted to talk to him.
We're talking about a really small population here. If you were the guy to talk to Vance, EVERYBODY would know about it and you would be ousted from society.
I found that very interesting when I worked in the US for a while - mixed democrats/republicans, mixed education, mixed aged adults - all of them believed fully that their country was the best in the world. Genuinely believed that we all wanted to live there. Blew their minds when I resigned rather than relocate.
American states are often larger than many countries. I’m American born, have citizenship in the States and Canada, and have lived in Glasgow for two years over in Scotland. Struck me while in Scotland and the overall UK that it was smaller than my home state let alone Ontario where I lived in Canada. Americans (and Canadians) don’t really need to travel beyond their countries when they are the largest and some of the most geographically diverse on the planet.
Yeah except the by-product of that lack of travel and exposure to other cultures is the kind of ignorance that leads to the election of dickheads like Trump.
Same issue that’s evident with Asian countries. The result is xenophobia, except unlike Asia America comes with an unhealthy dose of Racism, and a bewildering superiority complex from the bottom up. At some point we chose to be the bad guys.
You think the average white American immerses themselves in other cultures? Or do you think they complain about immigrants not speaking English while eating Taco Bell?
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u/Objective-Resident-7 1d ago edited 1d ago
And tries to put his opinion on other people.
He was sure that Greenland would choose to be American rather than part of the Kingdom of Denmark (I don't say Danish, because they are clearly not Danish).
Greenland made its opinion clear.
And then JD Vance went, intended to find Greenlanders to back him up, and was chased like Nigel Farage in Scotland.
The only place he visited in Greenland was a US military base.