American Derangement Syndrome

An irrational belief held by Americans that the U.S. is superior to other nations, particularly European countries, despite evidence of high crime rates and mass poverty levels, where 75+ million citizens cannot afford basic living costs like rent, groceries, healthcare, yet still defend the nation emotionally to save face and cope.

This can also apply to any western country with high cost of living that does not provide basic needs for its citizens such as Canada or the UK.

That boomer has american derangement syndrome, I can't afford rent and I'm living in my car!

by CravingCinema December 26, 2024

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Summer All-American

Someone who is a college runner that visits Boulder or Flagstaff during the summer and only talks about being All-American in cross country. These athletes usually hammer easy runs, finish outside the top 150, or never make it to nationals.

Andrew: You see those “Summer All-Americans” hammering their long run at Mags.

by Runnerboy69 December 8, 2023

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american jackass

when you know just enough about a topic or subject to mention it but don't know enough to elaborate on it.

I started telling my friend about how the James Webb telescope was finding galaxies so far away that they shouldn't exist but then realized I was being an American Jackass as I tried to explain the findings further.

by Traveling_Ace October 13, 2023

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South American Snow

Cocaine

Person 1: Bro do you know where I can get some of that South American Snow?
Person 2: Yeah bro, just like the name insists the best ones are in Columbia or Peru.

by lilauss November 6, 2021

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Hyphenated American

A derogatory term used to describe American of foreign birth or ethnicity,accusing them of allegiance to a foreign country. Originating in the late 1880s, It was later used as a political tool by Woodrow Wilson to provoke hysteria against German Americans or Irish Americans who called for U.S. neutrality in World War

Teddy Roosevelt: "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all ... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic"

by Pinko-Basher December 3, 2021

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