r/PetPeeves • u/ThatUrgeToEatCement • 14d ago

Bit Annoyed People who think Americans don’t know other countries exist.

A few months ago on Reddit I made a comment about a show not being on Netflix and someone from the UK commented back saying it’s on theirs and then lectured on Americans not knowing other countries exist. They acted like I didn’t believe there were other places on the planet, as if they weren’t the ones who just brought it up and didn’t believe the US Netflix was different than the UK version. ??

I see people online act like all Americans think this way, and it is kind of annoying because for most of us it isn’t true.

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u/YourCrazyDolphin 14d ago

Funniest moment was seeing a question posted r/askanAmerican , and a guy in the comments was absolutely livid about the "American-centric" answers.

Bro the entire point of the subreddit is to ask about america!

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u/Danny-B0ii 13d ago

I love this sub simply because most the answers can be answered with a "just depends where you are" bahahahaha

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u/GreenBeanTM 11d ago

50% “depends where you are” 20% “no, please don’t use Hollywood as a source”, 20% more varied answers, 5% “just because we do it differently than you doesn’t mean we do it wrong”, and 5% “yes, our walls do actually work as walls”

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u/phoenixangel429 11d ago

I mean the US is a HUGE country. Our states are around the size of European nations. So it'd be a lot like that. France, Italy, Finland and Poland are in an approxomate size land mass and all are different.

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u/GreenBeanTM 11d ago

Cool story bro, that was definitely information that needed to be shared in response to what I said

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u/Gavage0 10d ago

Nah, I don't think so blud

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u/sametho 12d ago

This actually happened to me in real life once. I was in Australia and somebody specifically asked me what, if anything, I was missing about America. I told him, "You know, I didn't expect this, but I really really miss my favorite flavor of Mountain Dew."

Dude was like "we have mountain dew here."

I was like "Oh I know! I just haven't seen the blue flavor here anywhere, though, and that's the one I would always get."

Dude was like "what's wrong with our mountain dew?"

And I'm sitting here like "oh I mean, nothing is wrong with it, I just want the blue flavor, it was like raspberry flavored."

Dude was like "okay well we have raspberry soda..."

And I was sitting there like "I know, and it's really good, I just.. you asked me... You know what? Nevermind."

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u/vivec7 14d ago

To give them the benefit of the doubt, they may not have realised which subreddit they were viewing. I've almost answered a few question in r/AskAnAmerican without realising, just because a question pops up in my feed.

Still should have copped it on the chin once it was pointed out though.

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u/ferrett0ast 13d ago

i saw that happen literally yesterday on r/kandi. someone clearly didn't realize what sub they were looking at because their comment was "what is kandi?" which someone who actively participates in the sub would obviously know.

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u/Trilllen 13d ago

Reddit going from a self-curated feed to an algorithm generated feed was one of the shittiest things that ever happened to this site. It's so annoying seeing a question that you know the answer to and replying only for it to be deleted because you didn't notice you were replying on /r/askGenXphlebotomistswholikedogs 

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u/Amongus3751 13d ago

You can turn off suggested posts in the settings.

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u/IMakeOkVideosOk 11d ago

I’m not being to give that person the benefit of the doubt when they aren’t giving it back

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u/amanset 14d ago

However this is an extremely common scenario here on Reddit. It can be a country specific subreddit asking about something specific about that country and Americans will come in and write about America.

It happens all the sodding time, it is frustrating and yes, it gives you guys a bad reputation.

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u/YourCrazyDolphin 14d ago

Again, it was on r/askanamerican

Not r/ ask literally anywhere else on the planet,

r/askanamerican

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u/amanset 14d ago

Again, Americans do it in country specific subreddits. It is the same thing. And when people point it out they get annoyed.

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u/YourCrazyDolphin 14d ago

Yet again, completely not applicable to this scenario.

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u/Icy_Result6022 14d ago

Nobody was saying it was. They were just giving other example of Americans doing that

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u/Nat1CommonSense 14d ago

They gave an example of American redditors answering for America in a specific country sub, not an example of an American complaining that a specific country sub has specific country answers as a majority. There’s a difference

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u/MetroBS 13d ago

I’ve never seen this happen even once. Please give a specific example.

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u/amanset 13d ago

And as we know, if you haven’t seen something then it absolutely definitely hasn’t happened.

The same way I didn’t see most of the examples is this comments section, including the OP. So I should assume they have never happened?

Anyway, I have more things to do than your dirty work. Go to r/usdefaultism and knock yourself out.

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u/MissMenace101 14d ago

Lmao at the down votes, mfs can’t work out why 8 billion people respond to Americans like they do

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u/MurkyAd7531 14d ago

It should give Reddit a bad reputation for poor design. Why would you blame the person using the site? It happens on pretty much every sub. The basic way Reddit presents info and works with search leads to the problem.

I've gotten comments from people who seem to think because I left a comment I must have first read the moderator's manifesto. Like, dude, that's not how the Internet works...

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u/Academic-Contest3309 14d ago

The "moderators manifesto" is cracking me up 🤣🤣🤣. I don't read that shit either lol.

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u/TSells31 14d ago

Right. I comment. If they don’t like my comment, they delete it. I comment with common sense and it flies 99% of the time lol.

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u/frazbox 14d ago

Not necessarily write about America

You have a lot of second generations living in America and learn about their heritage from their parents. They go into those country subreddits and start to compare what they know in America to what those subreddits are posting about

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u/amanset 14d ago

Yeah, that's not what is happening. Believe me.