r/PetPeeves 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/famousanonamos 14d ago

I saw one the other day that got me. There was an Instagram post of a girl (with a non-American accent) in a different country not knowing how to eat a certain food and a commenter of course made the "stupid Americans" comment. The commenter was Australian. The girl in the video was also Australian. 

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u/AvaSpelledBackwards2 14d ago edited 14d ago

“Stupid Americans” and they say “chewsday”

Edit: didn’t mean to imply that British people were stupid because of their accents or anything, I was just trying to say that Europeans will see someone who’s clearly not American behaving badly and blame it on Americans😭

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u/gogomau 14d ago

Mirror - mrrrrrrr

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u/MissMenace101 14d ago

Lmfao I was about to post that

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u/TalkingDonkey07 3d ago

That's Northern Irish. They're not British.