A Pick-me American is someone who feels insecure or ashamed for being an American citizen and dunks on the US and fellow Americans to get validation from people in other countries. Some will make videos on social media, blanketing the whole US as a monolithic hellhole with no diversity in state, culture, or ethnicity. They harmfully project their personal experience like it's true everywhere in the States. This creates a false view of Americans abroad, even if it's skewed by Pick-me's self-hatred, causing prejudice or misunderstanding about Americans or the US. Pick-me's have a rose-colored lens when viewing the world vs. the US and tend to cherry-pick topics. They think culture (European)abroad is only authentic. Ignoring cultures like Appalachian, Cajun, Tejano, and indigenous people whose history is older than the founding of the US because it's not Eurocentric. Nothing validates them more than having Europeans agree with them while they bash other Americans. Some pick-me's try hard to show how un-American they are, but when they say something stupid or false and get called out, they say, "I'm just an American🤪" to save themselves.
Americans who want to travel or move abroad are fine. What's wrong is Americans who go abroad and say they're Canadians, bash fellow Americans, or apologize for being born in the US. The US and its people aren't perfect, but what you see online can be skewed to show the bad and wrong, ignoring the good aspects, of which there are many!
Americans who want to travel or move abroad are fine. What's wrong is Americans who go abroad and say they're Canadians, bash fellow Americans, or apologize for being born in the US. The US and its people aren't perfect, but what you see online can be skewed to show the bad and wrong, ignoring the good aspects, of which there are many!
Pick-me American examples
Vanessa said calmly, " I don't know why the US always has to be different from the rest of the world. Unlike other Americans; I use metric, not imperial!"
Other Americans watching this pitiful display." Who is going to tell her that we actually use a mixed system like Canada and the UK and use Metric for things such as science, etc, and use US customary, not imperial."
An American Tiktoker trying to earn pity points"Stupid Americans, it's so horrible how they want to put hot sauce on a schnitzel they paid for!"
only to delete her post after getting called out by others.
Vanessa said calmly, " I don't know why the US always has to be different from the rest of the world. Unlike other Americans; I use metric, not imperial!"
Other Americans watching this pitiful display." Who is going to tell her that we actually use a mixed system like Canada and the UK and use Metric for things such as science, etc, and use US customary, not imperial."
An American Tiktoker trying to earn pity points"Stupid Americans, it's so horrible how they want to put hot sauce on a schnitzel they paid for!"
only to delete her post after getting called out by others.
by Just a normal American April 4, 2024
Get the Pick-me Americanmug. by SpongeBob the Goat 15 April 5, 2022
Get the Pick Me Girlmug. by Finbo slice 69 March 20, 2023
Get the Easy pickingsmug. When two Asians are having sex, one will use chopsticks on his/her female partner. Using one to manipulate the clitoris and the other to apply pressure to the g-spot.
by Dekky November 1, 2015
Get the picking the lockmug. a pick me girl is a girl who tries to make herself the center of atenttion or will compare herself to other girls in a negative way and will get mad if her guy friend does not give her atenttion on the daily.
by anonymous April 29, 2022
Get the pick me girlmug. "It's shameful how Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B have no respect for themselves," Amy sighed, watching the two women perform W.A.P at the 2021's Grammys, "They are hardly wearing clothes and have the audacity to dance like this on national television. And seeing how women strive to be them, looks like I'll be the only women left to truly love and respect myself."
"Amy, please go to hell and stop being a Pick Me," her friend, Joselin replied.
"Amy, please go to hell and stop being a Pick Me," her friend, Joselin replied.
by titi_kusha April 16, 2022
Get the Pick Memug. 