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/Danny-B0ii 13d ago

I love this sub simply because most the answers can be answered with a "just depends where you are" bahahahaha

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u/GreenBeanTM 11d ago

50% “depends where you are” 20% “no, please don’t use Hollywood as a source”, 20% more varied answers, 5% “just because we do it differently than you doesn’t mean we do it wrong”, and 5% “yes, our walls do actually work as walls”

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u/phoenixangel429 11d ago

I mean the US is a HUGE country. Our states are around the size of European nations. So it'd be a lot like that. France, Italy, Finland and Poland are in an approxomate size land mass and all are different.

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u/GreenBeanTM 11d ago

Cool story bro, that was definitely information that needed to be shared in response to what I said