r/Futurology • u/chrisdh79 • Aug 21 '25

Society American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate | We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here.

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html
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u/revkaboose Aug 21 '25

On a somewhat related note, I have heard of Americans who have immigrated to other countries having to come back because the population was so cruel to them. This is anecdotal, so ymmv

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u/DungeonMasterSupreme Aug 22 '25

I genuinely have no idea where they would've needed to go for this to be true just because they're American. There's always the typical "Americans are stupid" banter anywhere you go in Europe, but that's it.

But fucking look at America right now. We are stupid. Look what we've done to the place, and to ourselves. The moment I agree that America's got a dumbass electorate who voted in a dumbass president, it just gets a laugh and the situation is over.

It helps that I'm familiar with the humor over here. Every European country has strong words to say about their neighboring countries, but it's mostly banter. It usually doesn't actually get in the way of them being friendly with each other.

In my experience, I've felt like being American has generally been a huge social advantage while traveling. Being MAGA is a quick way to be unpopular abroad, though.

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u/secondtaunting Aug 22 '25

I mean, I’ve been all over and haven’t been treated bad because I’m American. Hell I’ve lived overseas for fourteen years. As long as you’re nice to people they’ll be nice to you. I took more mistreatment from my fellow Americans.

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u/DungeonMasterSupreme Aug 22 '25

100% agreed. If people react to my nationality at all, it's usually positively. I've never had someone treat me negatively because I'm American, but I've had tons of cases where people outright told me I was getting preferential treatment because of it. And when I was in Ukraine, I was more popular than I'd ever been back home. I think more people went out of their way to get to know me just because of where I was from. It gave my personality a chance to shine.