Post 9/11, we got used to hearing how much worse American culture was to Europe.
But watching Europeans fall in love with the simple joys of American culture during the World Cup is a reminder:
What we have is special and worth being proud of.
Just watch these clips 🇺🇸
I keep saying. X is concentrated malcontents who make hating America a personality (and other countries who want to run ops to divide us). It’s not reality. Normie Americans love this country.
Europeans keep asking what American culture looks like.
Ever since the dawn of time man has sought to fill his gut with beer and food in the anticipation of watching other people exercise
We have people who voluntarily wake up at 5 a.m. to stand in a parking lot for a sporting event that doesn’t start until noon.
Some scholars suggest this is the origin of the term “pregaming”
They bring tents.
Televisions.
Generators.
Smokers.
Coolers.
Entire kitchens.
Some spend more money on their tailgating setup than they do on their first car.
Thousands of people gather in a sea of pickup trucks and recreational vehicles to grill burgers, drink copious amounts of beer, play cornhole, and debate whether a 19-year-old quarterback can save the season.
The game is almost secondary.
In some places, 100,000 people show up to watch college students play football.
And another 20,000 never even enter the stadium.
They’re just there for the tailgate.
In Buffalo they jump off buses and snow piles onto folding tables.
In Wisconsin they drink more beers than a white girl on her 21st birthday… before the game
America looked at a patch of asphalt and said:
“You know what this needs?”
A barbecue festival.
Every Saturday.
For 100 years.
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Anthony Bourdain: “…the world is, in fact, filled with mostly good and decent people who are simply doing the best they can. Everybody, it turns out, is proud of their food (when they have it). They enjoy sharing it with others (if they can). They love their children...”
World Cup tourists fall in love with middle America — raving about Waffle House at 1 a.m., Buc-ee's gas stations, and strangers driving them to stadiums in the rain. Oxford Economics expects 1.24 million international visitors for the tournament, and their viral posts are showcasing a side of the country most foreign media never covers.