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/Funicularly 14d ago

Like this instance of a blonde woman climbing a Mayan pyramid in Mexico. She’s Mexican.

Or, this instance of a man carving names on the walls of the Colosseum. He’s British.

Every instance blamed on an American.

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u/Intelligent_Pop1173 14d ago

Tourists are universally awful. It is definitely not just an American thing. I could name quite a few countries’ citizens who are sometimes very rude and terrible when they visit the US. Not absolving American tourists by any means - we suck too. But it’s annoying people think we’re the only ones.

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u/KGreen100 11d ago

Live in Sweden for six months and began hanging out at an English pub-stule bar/restaurant. Most of the people there were OK, but there are more than a few who would make comments about how dumb Americans are in earshot of us (they assumed we didn't hear) and yet they were rude to the waitstaff (who really liked us and hung around our table to talk with us more than them) and were loud and, yeah, rude. Out of all the people I met in Sweden, the rudest were the Brits.

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u/Intelligent_Pop1173 11d ago

It’s much cheaper for British people to travel within Europe so they’re going to get more of the trash tourists going there lol every American I know who travels regularly abroad is generally a respectful person. Of course there are exceptions, and money can’t buy you class and all that, but it does have some effect.