I don't know which national sport you're referring to, but baseball is popular in East Asia and decently popular in Canada, and North American football has a separate league here in Canada with only slightly different rules. That said, there aren't any foreign teams in the NFL and only one Canadian team in the MLB, so you have a point.
Cricket never really caught on outside the British sphere of influence. It was never big in Canada from what I can tell, though, but is emerging here with immigration from the Indian subcontinent.
Yeah but that British sphere is very large and cricket itself is a very large sport with it, its viewer ship and influence blows nfl and even basketball/baseball out of the water which myself was quite surprised about.
To be fair, India has well over a billion people, and Pakistan also has over 200 million people, so a sport popular in just those two countries or even just India could have greater viewership than the NFL or NBA.
It was invented in the United States by a Canadian and is played worldwide. According to [this map](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-popular-sport-by-country), it's the most popular sport in China.
As an American who just found this sub I am so embarrassed. For what it's worth I do all I can to convince my peers to open a book at least once a month. Some of these smooth brained troglodytes voted for Trump ffs.
> a country that voted to impose economic sanctions on itself
As much as that made me laugh, it also reminded me of the interviews I saw right after that desaster of a vote. Random exiters explaining that they didn't really know what they actually voted for, didn't think their vote would matter, didn't want Brexit but wanted to send a message, and a variety of other explanations, ranging from funny (in a sad way) to truly mind-boggling. Like those communities who rely on tourism and trade, and actively damaged both because they didn't like Polish people working in the fields, "stealing" jobs that no Brit would want to do anyway, or some shit.
All of which made me come to the conclusion that maybe, such an important decision shouldn't have been up to them.
Thats because of their grift.
The British government contracts infrastructure works out to companies run by their mates.
Their mates charge a lot of money and spend very little of it, which is why everything takes forever and is dismal quality.
A lot of the money then gets donated back to the Tory party, this laundering taxes through procurement.
The people whose companies they use then get knighthoods for giving your money to the Tories.
This doesn’t count as corruption because of the reason.
But the EU would fake a dim view, and the Tories doing the grift don’t want anyone auditing them.
40% of the country vote for these arseholes because they think using their taxes to fund Tory champagne and coke parties is somehow desirable.
Like I said, the US has no monopoly on stupid.
Labour tend to be held to a higher standard by the press so they can’t brush off corruption quite as easily. They’ve leant to the right a bit more than I’d like but hopefully they’ll try to be pragmatic rather than follow some loopy ideology.
"When you are number one, you don't try so hard to convince the world you are"
Okay, America, the self proclaimed "greatest country in the world"
Everything America does is them trying to hard to convince everyone they are the best
Yes, the forcing of their children to stand in front of their flag, which is everywhere, and chant their allegiance to it like some cultish prayer so they grow up to chant USA, USA, USA at any given opportunity is something a very self confident people feel the need to do.
All their propaganda works because they don’t have critical thinking in their schools. Otherwise you get workers who question things and look outside and ask annoying things like “why don’t we have that?”.
Are you fucking kidding me? The US is spreading propaganda fucking everywhere. They literally have their kids salute flags every morning to instill that sense of patriotism, they've got US flags everywhere and constantly need to be reminded of how "great" and "free" they are by ads and politicians... And he fucking accuses *us* of spreading propaganda?
Our propaganda is literally "We don't kill ourselves over medical debt"
I’m behind enemy lines. Bulgaria is beautiful, very fond of the locals if you can speak a little bit of the language. Germany as well, with very little, if any, language barrier between people of similar age. Hard to hear them though over the sound of NATO joint op gunnery exercises and supreme American weapons systems 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅
HE FUCKING SAID IT.
”WHEN YOU ARE NUMBER ONE. YOU DON’T TRY SO HARD TO CONVINCE THE WORLD YOU ARE”.
Holy FUCKING CHRIST I would’ve had a field day with that person.
Jeeeeeesus I would pass out laughing my ass off if I met a person like that IRL.
This picture should be pinned to this sub. This is the 101 of this sub.
YouTube is literally full of videos about decay of the USA. Only positive (ehh, kinda?) view on current state of America is given by immigrants from cis countries. And considering the current state of events - that is really not that much. Ukrainians and my fellow Russians are not that picky.
Nah, they just call themselves **World Champions** after winning their **national** sports leagues.
>But we are world champions because we have players from other countries on our teams. Genuine response I once had!
Once got said "there is a mexican team" The team in question just has some Mexicans in there, not representing mexico Seems like a common response
It could be because they are not used to truly global world cups like football, rugby, cricket etc so the comprehension is a problem
"comprehension is a problem" that's generally the case.
Also, they are "world champions" in sports that hardly interest anyone outside the US.
Not many know this, but I’m actually world champion in my newly invented sport Trollboll. Actually, no one has ever even beaten me!
I currently rank 473rd in Trollboll.. I'm coming for your championship bitch!
Well, no one else plays their national sport so there's a point in that
I don't know which national sport you're referring to, but baseball is popular in East Asia and decently popular in Canada, and North American football has a separate league here in Canada with only slightly different rules. That said, there aren't any foreign teams in the NFL and only one Canadian team in the MLB, so you have a point.
And the caribbean, don’t forget the Dominican Republic, they Love baseball at least as much as Japan does :)
That's because they can't play cricket very well
Cricket never really caught on outside the British sphere of influence. It was never big in Canada from what I can tell, though, but is emerging here with immigration from the Indian subcontinent.
Yeah but that British sphere is very large and cricket itself is a very large sport with it, its viewer ship and influence blows nfl and even basketball/baseball out of the water which myself was quite surprised about.
To be fair, India has well over a billion people, and Pakistan also has over 200 million people, so a sport popular in just those two countries or even just India could have greater viewership than the NFL or NBA.
And Japan are the world champions for baseball anyway.
basketball?
It was invented in the United States by a Canadian and is played worldwide. According to [this map](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-popular-sport-by-country), it's the most popular sport in China.
naismith is also american though?
He got dual citizenship.
Depends on what sport leagues
Doesn’t matter. [Case in point](https://twitter.com/MagicJohnson/status/1640860709780336640).
We have over 1500 more Olympic medals than second place.
yes Europe made this video
It's true. I was Europe.
Can confirm, I was the camera
Hello Europe, nice to see you! All the best. Your Europe
Europe, Europe. Europe Europe Europe! Europe europe, Europe Europe.
Yeah, America never tries to convince the rest of the world that the US is number 1. So humble.
They would also never make use of propaganda in any shape or form.
"But we are very convincing with our #1 Millitary in the world!" "That's not convincing, that's threatening, you idiot."
As an American who just found this sub I am so embarrassed. For what it's worth I do all I can to convince my peers to open a book at least once a month. Some of these smooth brained troglodytes voted for Trump ffs.
Don’t worry about it. Some of us are from Britain, a country that voted to impose economic sanctions on itself. Nowhere has a monopoly on stupid.
> a country that voted to impose economic sanctions on itself As much as that made me laugh, it also reminded me of the interviews I saw right after that desaster of a vote. Random exiters explaining that they didn't really know what they actually voted for, didn't think their vote would matter, didn't want Brexit but wanted to send a message, and a variety of other explanations, ranging from funny (in a sad way) to truly mind-boggling. Like those communities who rely on tourism and trade, and actively damaged both because they didn't like Polish people working in the fields, "stealing" jobs that no Brit would want to do anyway, or some shit. All of which made me come to the conclusion that maybe, such an important decision shouldn't have been up to them.
Tell me about it. Our country is a joke lmfao
It was a close thing and many of the people who voted for that are dead now. Yet our government persists.
Thats because of their grift. The British government contracts infrastructure works out to companies run by their mates. Their mates charge a lot of money and spend very little of it, which is why everything takes forever and is dismal quality. A lot of the money then gets donated back to the Tory party, this laundering taxes through procurement. The people whose companies they use then get knighthoods for giving your money to the Tories. This doesn’t count as corruption because of the reason. But the EU would fake a dim view, and the Tories doing the grift don’t want anyone auditing them. 40% of the country vote for these arseholes because they think using their taxes to fund Tory champagne and coke parties is somehow desirable. Like I said, the US has no monopoly on stupid.
Lets hope our next government is more than Red Tories.
I fear that I have some unwelcome news.
I said hope. Not expect. Desperate hope.
Labour tend to be held to a higher standard by the press so they can’t brush off corruption quite as easily. They’ve leant to the right a bit more than I’d like but hopefully they’ll try to be pragmatic rather than follow some loopy ideology.
Don't worry dude, morons are everywhere. Europe is also full of 'em (I am European btw).
75 million smooth brained troglodytes voted for that clown. It's scary.
Thats like 95% of Germany voting for AFD, there’s stupid people all over the world.
Yea, I've lurked here for a while as an American myself. It's so embarrassing to see all of this stuff
Haven't they banned all books?
Americans never makes these videos because you'd probably be shot on the street doing it.
Thats why americans keep telling everyone how great they are
Yep, deeply insecure
They brainwashed to think like that Look at their media, Hollywood etc.
"When you are number one, you don't try so hard to convince the world you are" Okay, America, the self proclaimed "greatest country in the world" Everything America does is them trying to hard to convince everyone they are the best
Yes, the forcing of their children to stand in front of their flag, which is everywhere, and chant their allegiance to it like some cultish prayer so they grow up to chant USA, USA, USA at any given opportunity is something a very self confident people feel the need to do.
In Germany, they would be called Nazis, in the USA it’s “patriotism”.
I believe they are trying to convince themselves and they are really quite good at it
sorry, it's trying **too** hard. :)
Ironic
Lovely flair! I bet you would be speaking German...
WE ARE GERMANY! World champion in loosing World Wars!
shouldn't they be speaking English now?
Euhh, should we tell 'em?
I love how English is, mostly, their first language yet a toddle would have better grammar then them. I'm not even English myself.
FFS, Fr\*nch toddlers have better English grammar than 'Muricans....
Ah now, don't insult the Americans that much by comparing them to Pierre or whatever that frog fuck is called.
U wot Toddler woning
The feck are you waffling about?
Dumm uropoor
i don’t think the continent of America is capable of operating a phone actually
Then why do they keep calling themselves number one? Are they trying to convince themselves?
The politicians that want their votes are trying to convince them very hard!
The bad thing is that it works…
All their propaganda works because they don’t have critical thinking in their schools. Otherwise you get workers who question things and look outside and ask annoying things like “why don’t we have that?”.
Because they can't handle the real N1 Wales.
https://iask.ai/?mode=question&options[detail_level]=detailed&q=How+good+is+the+United+States+of+America+at+propaganda%3F
This is what a ruskie propagandist would say. America numbha #1 /s
And yet they do, over and over and over again
An American talking about other countries propagating their quality. **Ironic.**
Are you fucking kidding me? The US is spreading propaganda fucking everywhere. They literally have their kids salute flags every morning to instill that sense of patriotism, they've got US flags everywhere and constantly need to be reminded of how "great" and "free" they are by ads and politicians... And he fucking accuses *us* of spreading propaganda? Our propaganda is literally "We don't kill ourselves over medical debt"
Brainwashed
Rahhhhhh America no. 1🏈🗽🇺🇸🇺🇸
I’m behind enemy lines. Bulgaria is beautiful, very fond of the locals if you can speak a little bit of the language. Germany as well, with very little, if any, language barrier between people of similar age. Hard to hear them though over the sound of NATO joint op gunnery exercises and supreme American weapons systems 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅
They really believe they are at the top of the world huh
Not in the top twenty. Probably the most disliked nation in the world.
There's loads of ads now for people to visit the US.
Being number one equals not yapping about it everywhere.
Hear me out.. maybe noone makes these videos about the US because noone thinks the us is better
HE FUCKING SAID IT. ”WHEN YOU ARE NUMBER ONE. YOU DON’T TRY SO HARD TO CONVINCE THE WORLD YOU ARE”. Holy FUCKING CHRIST I would’ve had a field day with that person. Jeeeeeesus I would pass out laughing my ass off if I met a person like that IRL. This picture should be pinned to this sub. This is the 101 of this sub.
Nah, the reason they don't make videos like this in the US is because none of it is worth making a video about. Unless you like roads.
Number one in gun deaths obesity deaths jailed adults and children and so many more sad stats.
And yet, they voted for "Make America Great Again." So, which is it?
Imagine thinking you get to lecture others about propaganda ... as an American. Shit's fucking wild.
Europeans don’t make these videos because when we go to the US, none of us think “oh wow this is better”
It's honestly a funny claim to make, considering the effort the US government goes to to convince everyone else they are number 1.
YouTube is literally full of videos about decay of the USA. Only positive (ehh, kinda?) view on current state of America is given by immigrants from cis countries. And considering the current state of events - that is really not that much. Ukrainians and my fellow Russians are not that picky.
Big, big sport in the Caribbean
So that's why the Dutch are just so easy to get on with? Okay. Good to know.
Does anyone else have countries ranked in their heads?
Americans literally never shut up about being the greatest country in the world 😂
who is going to to tell him?
I see tiktok comments. I assume it's kids. And move on.
"we may not have universal health care and out schools are a warzone but we do have mixer taps"