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I have been living in the US my entire life and the extent of the debate I’ve heard here is: - Someone makes a joke about how you should get a manual, that way
by klodolph 4y ago
I have been living in the US my entire life and the extent of the debate I’ve heard here is:
- Someone makes a joke about how you should get a manual, that way nobody will steal it (because the thieves won’t know how to drive), and
- Someone makes a comment about how they visited the UK and decided to rent a car, and either they paid extra for an automatic or they saved money and drove manual.
> It seems to me as if it is either treated as an arcane art, something to be shunned, a trait of "masculinity", or a trait of toxicity and pretentiousness.
I have no idea why you sense this from American culture.
- arlort 4y ago> I have no idea why you sense this from American culture. The internet. And it applies to much more than this You know that in your local social circle very few people have opinions about such trivial topics and you rightly see those with strong opinions as weirdos But then you go on the internet and something in our monkey brain makes it hard to remember that comments on a thread are not a representative sample. Which is very bad because the kind of people who take the effort to comment on an internet thread are also the kind of people who have weirdly strong opinions one way or another And because negative opinions are much more likely to be expressed than positive ones you end up basing your model of some other place (the US for europeans, europe for americans, other countries and so on) on samples which over represents the most toxic and negative opinions