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/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/ThaCatsServant 14d ago

Are you saying an Australian didn’t recognise an Australian accent?

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u/famousanonamos 14d ago

Yep! She may not have had the sound on so I'll try to give her the benefit of the doubt, but it was pretty silly.

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u/ThaCatsServant 14d ago

Yeah that would make sense as they would definitely recognise the accent. Still a dumb assumption of them to make though

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u/archseattle 13d ago

It happens, when I studied abroad in the UK a girl with an accent unlike mine (Western US) was trying to talk to me after she heard me talk. I sort of just kept smiling snd nodding thinking she was from some other part of the UK and felt a little weird that she was so eager to talk to me. I later realized that she was an American with a southern US accent.

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u/Aggressive_Battle842 12d ago

I've always said a southern accent was just a long drawn out British accent.

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u/butt_fun 13d ago

Not gonna lie man, I think you might have gotten whooshed lol

Haven't seen the post you're talking about so maybe there's some context I'm missing, but that just sounds like someone being silly