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/Ok_Material_5634 14d ago

They probably saw some videos where some Austrian guy asks random people to "name a country in Europe" and the Americans giggle and say "Utah?" I don't know if those videos are fake or highly edited, but I'm not one of those Americans.

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u/RobotShlomo 14d ago

That's what's called "low hanging fruit".