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  Dude Europe is not a country 😐
context: Europe is not a country.
  I know some Redditors find this concept difficult to grasp, but it's true - Europe is not a country.
  As an actual European (Bulgarian, to be precise), I find it difficult to make generalized statements about other European nations. Hell, I can't even say how materialistic Bulgarians are. >
  
  I mean that’s 100% a fair assertion but it doesn’t stop the average redditor (or people doing the same thing about Americans… you say that about your country, Bulgaria of 7 million people; now the US is 330 million people
  Edit: to be clear I agree with your comment, just pointing this out >
  
  In Europe you give 50% of what you earn so you want the benefits back >
  
  Something I have seen in Europe that I haven't seen anywhere else: a doctor having coffee at a bar sitting next to a peasant and talking to each other as equals - this is actually a quite common scene. Their children study at the same school and have the same opportunities, they have the same healthcare, they frequent the same bars and restaurants... they all have access to social benefits in common.
  At an elitist society like the US, the peasant lowers his head to talk to the doctor, and if a house servant eats at the same restaurant as the rich madam, the latter will have an indigestion.
  Europe has less social inequality than the US, that means people's wages are more equal. So I would say less inequality makes people less materialistic. While the USA is one of the richest countries with the biggest number of poor people and social injustices. It's immoral for a rich nation to let its children have poor education because their parents can't pay for it... and I think it's inhumane that they let so many of their citizens live in miserable conditions. >
  
  Im sorry but what?!? Hahahahahaha no this is not true. You think that I, an average lower class American…. See a doctor.. and lower my head cuz I’m scared to speak to them? What are you on about???? You think that I, a family from lower class with a household income of 75k growing up, went to public school and didn’t have plenty of friends whose parents were rich as all shit??? And finally *you think we segregate ourselves into not going into coffee shops that a rich community might frequent?
  You know nothing. Everyone ignore this waste of a comment. >
  
  This is not statistics - this is an index created with cherry-picked factors. In other words, this is an opinion disguised as science, because this index really “means” nothing to humans. I mean, according to this index somalia has better economic equality than Australia… lol >
  
  Europeans are pretty much the same as Americans. They’re just better at hiding who they are, because Americans don’t really give a fuck what people think of them. >
  
  Lol you don’t have to include the word “fat” in “standard fat American”, that shit is implied. >
  
  Where you think all those designer brands come from? Lol it’s the same >
  
  Watch europeans say this guys in American, even though he’s from Greece >
  
  I don' think you know what materialistic means.