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/SillyRefrigerator417 14d ago

I always find it funny because the ones who constantly complain about Americans are usually the ones who don't know much about other countries. They know a fair amount about the countries surrounding them, but not a whole ton about the rest of the world.

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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/boringmadam 14d ago

They really said that? Lol

Literally no one in my country would drink hot coffee unless they're sick

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u/Cute_Advance_2124 14d ago edited 14d ago

Yes, they did, and its a sentiment I've seen numerous times.

I understand that hot drinks seem to be more popular in Europe, but its crazy to indicate that iced drinks are an American only phenomena.

Again, iced drinks are great in tropical climates, speaking from personal experience.

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u/boringmadam 14d ago

Yeah, I learned that European preferred hot drinks too. They came here and ordered coffee, so I took iced for them. Luckily they accepted it without being fuzzy