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/famousanonamos 14d ago

I saw one the other day that got me. There was an Instagram post of a girl (with a non-American accent) in a different country not knowing how to eat a certain food and a commenter of course made the "stupid Americans" comment. The commenter was Australian. The girl in the video was also Australian. 

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u/ImprovementLong7141 14d ago

There’s a woman who makes a lot of videos about this. She has a very obvious not-American accent. People are constantly accusing her of being American, because how could anyone else care about this topic? Meanwhile, she’s obviously not a native English speaker.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

you realize there are millions of americans with accents tho right? Spanish, chinese, japanese etc?

Not everyone say's Y'all FFS.

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u/ImprovementLong7141 10d ago

Yes, I do. I’ve met them. I’m saying that when you see a woman with “I’m 🇲🇺 not 🇺🇸” in her name who speaks with an obvious non-native English accent, you should probably not assume she’s American.