When something or someone from a foreign culture is adapted/changed or adapts/changes itself to allign with american culture and/or american standarts. (usually also comes with the underlying perception of american culture as being either superior or "the standart", also read "US Defaultism")
It's a neutral term in itself, but it is most commonly used as a negative in discussions about american imperialism/soft power and it's impact on foreigners and their cultures, products and exports.
Another word used with similar meaning (but more broadly about "global north" cultural impact in other cultures) is "colonized"
Obs: People (usually from the "global north") talking about the same concept in defense of a foreign standart while actually not fully knowledgeable of the cultural context of said standart, usually uses "westernized".
It's a neutral term in itself, but it is most commonly used as a negative in discussions about american imperialism/soft power and it's impact on foreigners and their cultures, products and exports.
Another word used with similar meaning (but more broadly about "global north" cultural impact in other cultures) is "colonized"
Obs: People (usually from the "global north") talking about the same concept in defense of a foreign standart while actually not fully knowledgeable of the cultural context of said standart, usually uses "westernized".
"I had to send my son back to our village for a while to remember his roots, he was becoming too americanized"
"Friend 1#: It's 32ºC outside, please put on a top and shorts or you'll boil;
Friend 2#: I just don't like exposing myself like that;
Friend 1#: And you're going under the blasting sun with jeans and a hoodie like a wattpad protagonist? stop acting americanized and go put on some decent weather-appropriate clothes then"
"That gas station is so cheap they americanized, now you gotta put your own gas!"
"I hate americanized translations, they only loosely translate the words but not the sentence structure and even make up ones that just doesn't exist in our vocabulary"
"Friend 1#: It's 32ºC outside, please put on a top and shorts or you'll boil;
Friend 2#: I just don't like exposing myself like that;
Friend 1#: And you're going under the blasting sun with jeans and a hoodie like a wattpad protagonist? stop acting americanized and go put on some decent weather-appropriate clothes then"
"That gas station is so cheap they americanized, now you gotta put your own gas!"
"I hate americanized translations, they only loosely translate the words but not the sentence structure and even make up ones that just doesn't exist in our vocabulary"
by Alkalineconcubine March 20, 2025
Get the Americanizedmug. When you roll dab wax into a thin hot dog shape, roll it in keef, then wrap it in ground marijuana. After, you wrap it with a blur wrap and get fucking zonked.
by BooAmGhost May 10, 2022
Get the All-American Weed Dogmug. n.
1. Donald Trump's vision of an America not under his rule.
2. A New Campaign Trail mod made in the 𝚆. style that focuses on the Trump Presidency and its events.
1. Donald Trump's vision of an America not under his rule.
2. A New Campaign Trail mod made in the 𝚆. style that focuses on the Trump Presidency and its events.
n.
1. This American Carnage stops right here, right now.
2. American Carnage is a very detailed mod, but its writing gives me a stroke
1. This American Carnage stops right here, right now.
2. American Carnage is a very detailed mod, but its writing gives me a stroke
by PolitksandBoredom December 15, 2024
Get the American Carnagemug. 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. Great American Family is an American cable television network. Owned by Great American Media, it broadcasts family-oriented general entertainment programming, including television series and made-for-TV movies.
by Wendysfg June 27, 2023
Get the Great American Familymug. By late April, it still had not occurred to anyone in government to question whether the American slaughterhouse shutdowns, due to huge numbers of worker infections, might be a signal that coronavirus was animal-borne.
by Monkey's Dad April 29, 2020
Get the American slaughterhousemug. Things that go against how Americans live, especially historically.
ie professionalism is being fake and America hates liars. Paperwork is anti-fighting and Americans love fighting and watching it. Cussing is freedom of speech and there's lots of sailors in america. Feelings tend to be absent of reason and logic and in america we believe in evidence not defense.
ie professionalism is being fake and America hates liars. Paperwork is anti-fighting and Americans love fighting and watching it. Cussing is freedom of speech and there's lots of sailors in america. Feelings tend to be absent of reason and logic and in america we believe in evidence not defense.
So some un-American immigrant was offended today that i called him a little communist propaganda machine. Response: Good to to hear you're taking the offensive, all these "poor me's" on the defense are un-American.
by Juncture May 18, 2024
Get the Un-americanmug.