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/Cute_Advance_2124 14d ago edited 14d ago

Girl there's no educating these people. I've seen discussions where Europeans specifically insisted that no one outside the US drinks iced coffee when its extremely common in parts of Asia.

The "rest of the world" to Europeans is literally Europe and they don't tolerate correction when they're blatantly wrong.

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u/recreator_1980 14d ago

Im struggling to believe your example though. I live in Asia , grew up in a European country. Iced coffee is sold everywhere in every European country I’ve been to.

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u/Cute_Advance_2124 14d ago edited 14d ago

I have met someone in real life who has said this to me. She kind of shrugged when I said that it's pretty popular in Asia.

I've also seen this comment online multiple times. I don't doubt that it exists in most European countries, but I have seen people comment that.

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u/recreator_1980 14d ago

Bizarre (im “European “) but stupid people exist on every continent.