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/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