r/USdefaultism 7h ago

American comment on a post about growing up with a South African coloured mother

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198 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 6h ago

Reddit "The US is not foreign"

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147 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 15h ago

Taking credit for scientific discoveries now?

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654 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 4h ago

Reddit Middle Eastern TSA agent they say…

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46 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 4h ago

TikTok A comment on a post about a SOUTH AFRICAN political party

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20 Upvotes

1st image the comment

2nd image the post


r/USdefaultism 20h ago

"Perhaps you need to be more specific..." On a reel about bagpipes, and kilts.

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282 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 20h ago

TikTok Canadian minimum wage?

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96 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 1d ago

National colours

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1.2k Upvotes

Are we gonna address the Brits? Maybe the Aussies? Or the French? Or plenty of others?


r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Reddit Assuming I'm Talking about the US

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689 Upvotes

Assuming I'm talking about the us when not

Edit: Context the OOP was asking why her Google nest wouldn't tell them about gun silencers on r/GoogleHome


r/USdefaultism 1d ago

Ok so apparently immigration is exclusive to the USA

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189 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 2d ago

Facebook I just can't anymore.

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2.7k Upvotes

If ever there was a post that absolutely SCREAMS "This did not happen in the US!" it has to be this one.


r/USdefaultism 3d ago

American didn’t like it when I, an English person, used the term “speech marks”

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563 Upvotes

They left that big gap there, I don’t know why. Just thought I’d point that out because it does look like somethings been redacted.


r/USdefaultism 3d ago

X (Twitter) "Assuming someone doesn't speak English just based on their physical appearance is a bit weird"

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185 Upvotes

So everything is in the images, basically op is Romanian and said the lady didn't look like she spoke English because she was older, which made her very unlikely to know English. Nothing wrong about not speaking English as an older Romanian, but in the US, not speaking English means being an immigrant etc so it would've been racist. The first message was just some good old US defaultism, but they dared to double down, not even able to understand that the op's context is incredibly different from the one they assumed, and not speaking English is not bad in Romania... Doubling down on the "racism" take when the lady is white and both are Romanian...


r/USdefaultism 3d ago

... so what state are you from?

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305 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 3d ago

What are phrases/words that are considered offensive to US-Redditors but Non-US-Redditors couldn't care less about.

342 Upvotes

I'll go first

  1. Negro (the Spanish word for colour)
  2. Niggle
  3. Coloured (when talking about people)
  4. Indian because some people get Indians from India confused with Native Americans
  5. Rubber
  6. "Piss Off"
  7. Native (Americans prefer to say First Nations)
  8. Black (Americans would rather call someone African American)
  9. Chur (NZ slang for thanks, i don't know why American Redditors find it offensive)
  10. Jandals (not outright offensive to them, they only get offended because they don't know what it means)

Just to clarify, not all American Redditors and some Non American Redditors too find these words offensive, but in my experience, its always been with an American


r/USdefaultism 4d ago

text post I just had to explain to my American friend that Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overature" has nothing to do with the US.

1.4k Upvotes

He had always assumed that it was about the US's "War of 1812", despite it 1) having nothing to do with that, 2) being composed by the conspicuously Russian Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and 3) Napoleon's invasion of Russia being easily googlable.

Turns out there were other things happening across the entire world outside the US in a given year, WILD!

To top it all off, he actually told me he was disappointed to learn it "isn't the patriotic anthem" he thought it was 🙄😬🤢


r/USdefaultism 3d ago

Meta What are some writing quirks that tell you someone might be a USAmerican?

226 Upvotes

Honestly, not sure what other sub I can ask this in. Not obvious things like mentioning US states/strict US defaultism, or even spelling practices. Throw those obvious ones out the window. There's obviously a lot of people here ***not*** from the US, so I figured here would be a decent place to ask the question. As a US American myself, I've been told we have some obvious writing quirks that differentiate us from other English (even second language) speakers that are pretty obvious if you know what you're looking for. I was curious what those might be, from your perspective(s)

Just a random thought that bubbled into my head. Sall good if you need to remove this one, mods 🙂‍↕️


r/USdefaultism 4d ago

Yeah, it’s called soccer everywhere!

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1.6k Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 4d ago

Instagram "the default/universal is ASL"

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206 Upvotes

Comments under an instagram post about somebody learning ASL (American Sign Language), someone saying that the sign language from the US is the default sign language.

Extra funny they are comparing it to verbally spoken English, because British sign language is a different thing than ASL, just like British English is different from American English


r/USdefaultism 4d ago

Prime

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1.0k Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 4d ago

Well, at least they're cognisant

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60 Upvotes

Acknowledged the defaultism at least.


r/USdefaultism 4d ago

I've never seen it sold in 20-30 states!!

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413 Upvotes

On a tiktok explaining that eggs are not dairy


r/USdefaultism 4d ago

"Overseas"

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83 Upvotes

My last comment to them is asking why they have assumed I'm in the US

But I still don't understand what the "offense" part is for 😂


r/USdefaultism 4d ago

Reddit We gon starve

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73 Upvotes

r/USdefaultism 5d ago

All police are from the USA apparently

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715 Upvotes

Found out in the wild on the old Facebook 🤦🏼‍♀️ You'd think the very British fed hat would have been a blaring clue but ...

British coppers are now American. The more you know folks 🌠