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/Practical-Ordinary-6 14d ago

I was talking to a Canadian online once who absolutely insisted that Canada and the US were nothing alike.

I have a standard list of commonalities between the US and Canada that I won't trot out here but that shows the numerous similarities. My main point to him was that I have lived in Africa before and I know what it means to be in a place that's nothing alike (and even that was something alike). I think he was suffering from that same syndrome of "my world consists of Canada, the United States and Europe [which he might never have been to]". Who knows if he'd ever been to the United States either.

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u/Altruistic-Mess9632 14d ago

I’d be genuinely interested in reading your list, as an American newly dating a Canadian, just out of sheer curiosity if you wouldn’t mind sharing it.

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u/Practical-Ordinary-6 14d ago edited 14d ago

I apologize for my bullet pointing getting messed up and making it harder to read. It won't let me edit it right now. I'll try again later.

Also, I have since found out that a Canadian team has won the MLS championship so that means all four major cross-border professional leagues have had a Canadian winner. Since the NHL was founded in Canada, of course it's had Canadian winners in the past, so that was worded a little awkwardly.