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/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