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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (5 children)

That's generally Reddit too. Everything is /r/usdefaultism

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anyone notice that when they visit a webpage predominantly used by Americans that is marketed towards Americans that it feels very American?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’ve had Americans argue with me saying that what I was talking about doesn’t happen in America and that I don’t know what I’m talking about, when I made it abundantly clear that what I was talking about was irrelevant to the US as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Like talking European politics in a Starbucks in Ohio you’re going to run into that, it’s because of where you are and your surroundings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Tbf, Europeans often do the same to us (or at least they did on Reddit) when we try to talk about how dystopian late-stage-capitalism has become in the US. So many Europeans can't wrap their minds around: being fired for calling out sick, women being forced to return to work a week after giving birth because we don't have paid parental leave, people going bankrupt for using an ambulance, companies firing people with zero warning,reason or severance, millions of Americans not having access to healthcare, having huge areas in your city too dangerous to walk through because you would have to sprint across 40m of concrete with cars speeding around you at 70kmph just to cross the road, our traffic fatality rate being 10x higher than most European countries, not having any functional public transit in most US towns and cities, etc....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

of course we can't wrap our minds around it, America is insane in every aspect

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

There's a little German peppered in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's better on Lemmy but definitely still there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Bollywood needs to make more SciFi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What I really hate is when I want to buy something from a website that was linked from a US Youtuber and the only place that hints that they only ship to the US is that you can only select US states in the checkout.

Happened to me multiple times, its not that hard to list the places you ship to in your FAQ.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah it's pretty crazy how that American website is so full of Americans and that they have a mostly American-centric point of view.

Anyone ever notice that so many of the comments on Weibo talk about China so much?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know but it's going to be the largest demographic by far, always has been

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Largest or not, there is a less than 50 percent chance the person you are talking to is American, so making the assumption is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's a very safe assumption depending on the time of day

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Okay but it's the exact same on Lemmy, even though the devs and the biggest instances aren't from the US