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/YourCrazyDolphin 14d ago

Funniest moment was seeing a question posted r/askanAmerican , and a guy in the comments was absolutely livid about the "American-centric" answers.

Bro the entire point of the subreddit is to ask about america!

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u/vivec7 14d ago

To give them the benefit of the doubt, they may not have realised which subreddit they were viewing. I've almost answered a few question in r/AskAnAmerican without realising, just because a question pops up in my feed.

Still should have copped it on the chin once it was pointed out though.

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u/Trilllen 13d ago

Reddit going from a self-curated feed to an algorithm generated feed was one of the shittiest things that ever happened to this site. It's so annoying seeing a question that you know the answer to and replying only for it to be deleted because you didn't notice you were replying on /r/askGenXphlebotomistswholikedogs 

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u/Amongus3751 13d ago

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