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. Finding that Mexico is a separate country from America, I find this term as pejorative. In the Mexican-American war Santa Ana lost, so I believe that Hispanic-American or the more general Latino/Latina be used instead. Any claims to the contrary are an act of perfidy(truce breaking), a war crime.
by buildanewbomb November 4, 2021
Get the Mexican-Americanmug. A game depicted by the act of one player cutting a whole through an apple and putting it over the shaft of their penis. The other player will be blindfolded and take a big bite out of the apple hoping not to damage the penis.
by vaginal36 March 23, 2024
Get the American Roulettemug. Getting raped because your race mixer. Referring to the shower scene in the movie "American History X".
Dude 1: "Wow, you hear Jared got American History X'd in prison?"
Dude 2: "Yeah man, that was messed up. All because he hung out with a Mexican dude."
Dude 2: "Yeah man, that was messed up. All because he hung out with a Mexican dude."
by Jerry Batsford July 29, 2022
Get the American History X'dmug. by BrickBurgundy November 8, 2013
Get the south american summermug. Hey man, let's go to the University of American Dance tonight. I just got a bunch of cash out of the ATM.
by Freakstyler March 31, 2021
Get the University of American Dancemug. A superhero that fights against the super villain "Arabic James", but then they turn out to be friends and fight Australian Joe together
by Dalolrx March 17, 2024
Get the American Johnmug.