Quote: (12-13-2018 11:17 AM)Day Game Bang Wrote:
Quote: (11-26-2018 11:25 AM)TigerMandingo Wrote:
Hmm..it depends. I generally find Americans fake as fuck. "Friendly but not your friend" is the best way to describe them. They'll go out with you for a beer but don't expect anything deeper than that.
Euros are definitely more open to friendships, I find. The Anglosphere is individualism on steroids so that may be why it is harder to form genuine friendships there.
Individualism and fakeness is ingrained into American culture.
I don't know how many times I've heard some dude talk about "being your authentic self" in America.
On the other hand, I've never heard anything like that uttered in Mexico.
It's like so many Americans live their whole lives as a fake persona, and that inner conflict manifests itself in them thinking they're qualified to give advice to other people about how to be "authentic."
"So authentic." "Your true self." "Game changer." "Killing it."
I walk into a room in America and someone asks, "How are you doing today?"
And I think about answering the question, but then I realize, "Wait, no, this guy doesn't care how I'm doing today, he just likes to make sounds. If I actually answer his question, he'll be offended if I take more than 2 seconds."
"Be personable, but not personal" is basically an unspoken American mantra.
This applies more to people that work in the corporate world and academia. Tradesmen and the like seem to do their own thing.