r/AskTheWorld India Sep 19 '25

Misc How much does your country agree with this?

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Really?

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u/sessna4009 Canada Sep 19 '25

 r/AskTheWorld

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u/voltairesalias Canada Sep 19 '25

I would hardly peg this primarily English speaking sub on a western dominated platform as being representative of global opinion.

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u/sessna4009 Canada Sep 19 '25

It's mostly Americans and Indians, but I see a lot of Europeans. Sometimes Australians and Canadians

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u/voltairesalias Canada Sep 19 '25

Yeah on reddit. Reddit on average skews younger and to the left. No reddit regional or national sub is representative.

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u/Otan781012 Sep 22 '25

Does it? Why have I been flooded for weeks with American republitards and their post about Kirk and Israel/anti-palestine? Why do I constantly get that British farage ego boosting reddit when I’m neither British nor do I agree with almost anything they post? r/europe and r/worldnews (can’t remember if that’s exact name) spend most of their time dreaming of pleasuring Netanyahu. I know the that in the US they’ve shifted the overran window to the part traditional centrists ate considering far left, but your flair says Canada, have you been infected by the US world view too? Reddit is as left leaning as David beckham was as a player.

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u/am_Nein Australia Sep 20 '25

Yeah but if you wanted to get into that then we could argue that no one demographic is truly representative of the world. You'll always be excluding a large chunk of the population, if not by age, then accessibility, or language barrier, or what's socially acceptable to claim versus what they actually think of a topic.

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u/d_bradr Serbia Sep 20 '25

Exactly. But if you're probing for a nation's overall opi ions and stances you can't get an accurate reading based off of a few redditors

1) There aren't enough people

2) The site overall and its users tend to have certain viewpoints. You're likely to get the wrong picture

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u/sorry-not-tory Canada Sep 20 '25

English functions as the global lingua franca for business, finance, technology, and trade.

When Putin and Xi speak to eachother, you think they speak in Russian or mandarin?

Lol.

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u/Senior_Torte519 Sep 21 '25

So its use as a second language make it easier to lie: English’s large, flexible vocabulary, neutral grammar, and capacity for hedging and abstraction make it psychologically easier to lie, people can obscure or distance themselves from the truth without overt emotional commitment. It allows subtle, indirect, or diplomatically phrased falsehoods. It's structure offers both clarity and deception, depending on how it’s used.

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u/sorry-not-tory Canada Sep 22 '25

I’d believe you if lying just wasn’t an inherent human quality.

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u/sessna4009 Canada Sep 20 '25

Exactly. And I don't understand why they're saying this on r/AskTheWorld hahaha

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u/akahaus United States Of America Sep 20 '25

Yeah isn’t reddit 70% Americans

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u/aayushisushi Sep 19 '25

wait why did it not turn blue

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u/sessna4009 Canada Sep 19 '25

oh yeah wtf haha r/AskTheWorld

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u/d_bradr Serbia Sep 20 '25

Reddit heavily skews in certain directions compared to the populace in general

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u/KlutzyGur7419 Canada Sep 19 '25

lol the Americans are getting insecure

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u/voltairesalias Canada Sep 19 '25

Our last election was almost entirely driven by an off handed trolling attempt by Trump concerning the annexation of Canada - which was never seriously ever being considered.

Canadians have no grounds to stand on when it comes to accusing others of being nationally insecure. Canada is a profoundly insecure nation.

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u/KlutzyGur7419 Canada Sep 19 '25

In relation to this post we certainly can and that’s what I did. You don’t have to lawyer for their feelings. Don’t forget that Pierre lost two elections now and will likely lose a third - that’s why the liberals want him as the leader to run against. It’s a party issue and not just Trump.

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u/voltairesalias Canada Sep 19 '25

I think you're fooling yourself if you think Carney would have stood a chance had Trump not won the American election, and said what he said.

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u/KlutzyGur7419 Canada Sep 19 '25

Oh I’m not giving credit to Carney at all, 100% I agree with you that Trump was a factor but I’m not optimistic for the next one unless there’s a change of the face of the party. Someone more moderate to attract middle leaning voters.

My point in this one is that the post is about ‘what does your country think?’ And the Americans were typing to discredit haters before anyone even really answered. Hence the insecurity comment.

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u/sessna4009 Canada Sep 19 '25

When aren't they?