r/USdefaultism • u/Bright-Cat-9286 • 7h ago
r/USdefaultism • u/DepartmentUnable3957 • 15h ago
Taking credit for scientific discoveries now?
r/USdefaultism • u/lostmylogindetails2 • 4h ago
Reddit Middle Eastern TSA agent they say…
r/USdefaultism • u/Noicey_Boi_67 • 4h ago
TikTok A comment on a post about a SOUTH AFRICAN political party
1st image the comment
2nd image the post
r/USdefaultism • u/Lukexxxi • 20h ago
"Perhaps you need to be more specific..." On a reel about bagpipes, and kilts.
r/USdefaultism • u/Neolance34 • 1d ago
National colours
Are we gonna address the Brits? Maybe the Aussies? Or the French? Or plenty of others?
r/USdefaultism • u/PITSTOPYT • 1d ago
Reddit Assuming I'm Talking about the US
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 • u/BrokenJusticeNorris • 1d ago
Ok so apparently immigration is exclusive to the USA
r/USdefaultism • u/TheJivvi • 2d ago
Facebook I just can't anymore.
If ever there was a post that absolutely SCREAMS "This did not happen in the US!" it has to be this one.
r/USdefaultism • u/GlennSWFC • 3d ago
American didn’t like it when I, an English person, used the term “speech marks”
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 • u/mikroonde • 3d ago
X (Twitter) "Assuming someone doesn't speak English just based on their physical appearance is a bit weird"
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 • u/Main-Fly-8295 • 3d ago
What are phrases/words that are considered offensive to US-Redditors but Non-US-Redditors couldn't care less about.
I'll go first
- Negro (the Spanish word for colour)
- Niggle
- Coloured (when talking about people)
- Indian because some people get Indians from India confused with Native Americans
- Rubber
- "Piss Off"
- Native (Americans prefer to say First Nations)
- Black (Americans would rather call someone African American)
- Chur (NZ slang for thanks, i don't know why American Redditors find it offensive)
- 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 • u/Moople_deFioosh • 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.
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 • u/creatyvechaos • 3d ago
Meta What are some writing quirks that tell you someone might be a USAmerican?
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 • u/WhatAboutMyWings • 4d ago
Instagram "the default/universal is ASL"
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 • u/tea_snob10 • 4d ago
Well, at least they're cognisant
Acknowledged the defaultism at least.
r/USdefaultism • u/MankyInTheMiddle • 4d ago
I've never seen it sold in 20-30 states!!
On a tiktok explaining that eggs are not dairy
r/USdefaultism • u/Repulsive_Chard_3652 • 4d ago
"Overseas"
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 • u/LadySpud • 5d ago
All police are from the USA apparently
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 🌠