Is there a Paris Syndrome but for American Highschools? - "What you mean you're not singing all day?"

[cybertoaster]

One chick I talked to had this funny story about an exchange student she had back in her school who freaked the fuck out when she saw what a real American school was like. The exchange girl really thought it was going to be like highschool musical and instead she got the average midwest bland public highschool experience. But then it got worse, she went hysterical, cried all day, refused to go to school. It got so bad at some point her mom had to fly from the Netherlands to bring her back.

Really reminded me of this meme:


This is not the first time I heard a story like this, other people have told me of similar cases with exchange students, none as extreme as that dutch girl but its still insane so many foreigners think crap shows like HSM and 90210 were accurate at all.

Is this our Paris syndrome? what should we call it?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

99% of media works depicting American high schools show them as complete shit.

 

[Smoltine Kiminal]

what do you mean there are no weekly school shootings?

 

[23iwakura23]

I've only ever met one legit exchange student, and honestly, she used the whole experience for sex tourism more or less.

 

[grump]

This is not the first time I heard a story like this, other people have told me of similar cases with exchange students, none as extreme as that dutch girl but its still insane so many foreigners think crap shows like HSM and 90210 were accurate at all.

Is this our Paris syndrome? what should we call it?

If you go by people who claim to be europeans on the internet, particularly reddit, America is a warzone with half the people in sweatshops and the other half dying on the streets due to gun violence or lack of single payer healthcare and Europe is better in everyway including simultaneously ways which seem to contradict each other. For instance Europeans will in one instance mock America's low wage slave labor but in other instances say that the lower pay Europeans get in the many fields which are less compensated than their American counterparts, breeds less materialism and the excess money goes to more urgently needed social services.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

America is a warzone with half the people in sweatshops and the other half dying on the streets due to gun violence or lack of single payer healthcare and Europe is better in everyway including simultaneously ways which seem to contradict each other

Well, you lot talk about politics all day long yet don't vote. American troons claim to be gunned down in the streets and when europoors finally discuss school shootings, there has already been another 5 since the last discussion.

No matter where you live, someone is suicidal about living there. I love watching media depicting a normal non-tourist day in other countries. Japanese countryside? No jobs, no consensual sex, no future. America? Watch any european worth the airtime road trip there and within 2 days they'll go from "Omg that's the ICONIC movie location!" to "I am locking my doors".

Europeans don't even need to badmouth the US anymore; your fellow yanks do it for us.

 

[cybertoaster]

If you go by people who claim to be europeans on the internet,

No this comes from IRL convos, besides I doubt any real europeans would confess to being so stupid as to come all the way over here just because they thought a shitty teen show was real life.

 

[Smoltine Kiminal]

No this comes from IRL convos, besides I doubt any real europeans would confess to being so stupid as to come all the way over here just because they thought a shitty teen show was real life.

we only do that with superior japan

 

[Meriasek]

I have said it before in the fuckcars-community thread, Europeans in particular have a very romanticised view of America due to pop culture exposure.
I sure as hell have that, with all the sitcoms taking place in big cities the magic of places like NYC is so ingrained in me that I still wish to visit even though I know I'd hate it if I had to stay more than a week.
With high schools it's the same, American high schools depicted in pop culture are just so different than what we have here. Now anyone with half a brain knows that it's all fictional, but there always is this underlying romantisation going on.

 

[pollution jim]

being a nerd in high school doesn't mean you get shoved in lockers at the beginning of your arc before becoming respected near the end you just get shoved in lockers

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Who the hell romanticizes high school? If anything, media typically portrays it as worse than it actually is.

 

[Paper Machete]

I don't really know anyone who romanticizes high school...though there are certainly people who romanticize the age range where you're coming of age and everything is new which happens to overlap with that setting.

 

[Pajeet123]

When I was a kid, American schools seemed different (and cooler) to me, because going purely by pop culture knowledge, they don't have to care much about studying, they don't have a rigid dress code, dating and casual sex are a lot more accepted and even encouraged, kids are allowed to be a bit more rebellious (getting drunk with friends, graffiting), there is a popularity hierarchy (being nerdy is uncool, being a jock is cool)....

Honestly made me kinda jealous (especially the rather lax attitude towards studying and schoolwork. (Over here, it pretty much decides your future). Just much of that stuff is true? Barely any of the movies or nickelodeon TV shows I grew up on talked about studying at all, aside from an occasional episode about the protagonist having to study for a quiz (and even that didn't seem all that bad since the punishment was just being grounded for two weeks or something).

 

[Fishnumm]

99% of media works depicting American high schools show them as complete shit.

id say its more like 50/50 childrens media loves to depict high school as great for some reason same with college for some reason

pee-aris syndrome hits hard for people visiting jew york too

 

[Squanto Airi]

Why would anyone be shocked at niggers living in Paris when there's a popular song called Niggas in Paris, which was named that because "niggas was in Paris".

 

[rel=alternate]

It does not sound to me like she was under a delusion of what it actually was. Normal people would still go to school. Clearly, there were some psychological issues there.

Some people can't handle it if they don't fit in and have nobody to turn to. I have friends who's son fucking moved back in a couple months after getting his own apartment because the fucker would get panic attacks being alone.

 

[Fishnumm]

Why would anyone be shocked at niggers living in Paris when there's a popular song called Niggas in Paris, which was named that because "niggas was in Paris".

"niggaz wuz in paris an sheeeeeit"*

 

[Smoltine Kiminal]

they don't have to care much about studying

i believe this part of the stereotype is real

they don't have a rigid dress code

i think they have more rigid dresscodes than most places
you must be a bong with uniforms n shit

getting drunk with friends, graffiting

wow you must just have been a boring kid, im sure teen bongs get shitfaced with friends all the time
alcohol in burgerland is 21+, in europe its 16 but noone really cares if you take hard drugs at 14 as long as you do it after school and dont mess up your exams too much

 

[Foghotten]

There is one of sorts, but not in the way Amerimutts believe in this thread lmfao

 

[cybertoaster]

(especially the rather lax attitude towards studying and schoolwork. (Over here, it pretty much decides your future).

I'm guessing east asia?

Barely any of the movies or nickelodeon TV shows I grew up on talked about studying at all

Who would watch half an hour of some kid reading and taking notes in silence? is the same reason why movies do montages of training or show 3D graphics when hacking: watching the real stuff happen is boring as hell.

As for college, all the party animals I knew that were wasted 24/7 like in the movies dropped out. I guess in countries with free college you can stay a decade there getting your phd in azerbaijani breakdancing or whatever bullshit degree dumb lazy shits go for but over here if you're not a rich kid you have to go back, and if you're a rich kid you're most likely going to pretend-work for your dad anyway (then tank the company when he dies).