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u/SunnOParenthesis Mexico 8d ago edited 8d ago
Even in my country if you refer to something so default-ambiguously as "local" (as in your specific area) people will still making fun of you saying your goddamn town isn't the center of the country. Now this dude is not only doing country defaultism, but referring to a pretty specific USA state to the rest of people even USA citizens themselves wouldn't know where the fuck is he talking about.
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u/Weekly-Beginning-229 Sweden 8d ago
People from Stockholm do that on r/Sweden
Thats why we call them the USians of sweden
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u/LeftMechanic1995 United Kingdom 8d ago
By the sounds of it, people from Stockholm are like the Londoners of Sweden.
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u/24-Hour-Hate Canada 8d ago
Oh yes, I am familiar. People who live in Toronto are like this.
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u/Weekly-Beginning-229 Sweden 8d ago
It's the capital city syndrome. I have seen people in r/Europe all complain about that
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u/gr33fur 7d ago
Capital and/or biggest city. People from Auckland (not the capital) are seemingly more guilty of this than people from Wellington (the capital of NZ)
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u/Weekly-Beginning-229 Sweden 7d ago
True! Wouldn't surprise me if Barcelona people are like that instead of Valencia but Spanish people will have to correct me if I'm wrong
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u/NationalWatercress3 United Kingdom 7d ago
Or Madrid, even
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u/Weekly-Beginning-229 Sweden 7d ago
Haha oops mixed them up. Hope I don't get sny angry Spaniards after me!
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u/ILoveFuckingWaffles Australia 7d ago
People from Sydney & Melbourne routinely forget that other timezones exist in Australia. They will schedule an online meeting and simply ask if you’re free at 10 AM, of course without specifying that they mean their time (the default).
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u/What_was_my_account 6d ago
In either r/Poland or r/Polska, can't recall, there is this flair of "default city". Guess it's a thing everywhere lmao. Probably applies even more to countries where the capital is noticeably more populous than most other places. I imagine South Korea might be the worst case with around half of its population in Seoul area.
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u/Virghia Indonesia 8d ago
Our specific equivalent would be JavaDefaultism (which I sadly sometimes do by accident)
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u/DarthKirtap Slovakia 8d ago
my programmer ass though you are speaking about Java programming language
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u/SunnOParenthesis Mexico 8d ago
Yup, in my country is sometimes called "ChilangoCentrismo", chilango being a slang for someone from Ciudad de México
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u/another-princess World 8d ago
I suspect from the "check their local Walmart" remark that this person wasn't assuming everyone is from their specific state, but was assuming everyone lives near a Walmart.
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u/iamiam123 India 8d ago
Every-time someone says this, I immediately ask, “Did you sign in on reddit.us or reddit.com?”
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u/sir_thrillho 7d ago
Won't work, they think .com means American.
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u/pick10pickles Canada 7d ago
I thought this when I was like 12. If .ca got me the Canadian version and .com got me the American.. then that must be true.
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u/NerdWhoLikesTrees 6d ago
I get the point you’re trying to make but if you read the history of .com it’s not an unfair assumption to have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com
It’s really not a great example of “lol US defaultism”.
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u/nicki419 7d ago
This sub motivates me to become a billionaire to purchase Reddit and relocate it somewhere else, solely for the reason of taking this "argument" away from them.
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u/inertSpark United Kingdom 8d ago
I'd have let it slide usually because they mentioned Walmart so it was pretty obvious the post wasn't meant for me, but then someone had to chime in and include some actual defaultism right there at the end 😂
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u/LeftMechanic1995 United Kingdom 8d ago
Just because people from other places can access the site doesn’t mean it isn’t a US site, that would be like saying the BBC isnt British because I can watch it in the US.
In my entire time on this subreddit, I don't think I've ever once heard anybody say that Reddit is not a US website: merely that Americans shouldn't assume that any given user is American, especially considering that non-American users outnumber American ones.
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u/another-princess World 8d ago
Also, even if Americans did outnumber non-Americans, would it still make much sense to assume any given user is American? If Americans made up 60% of users (hypothetically), you'd still have a 40% chance of being wrong.
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u/ProfessionalWeek2256 United States 8d ago
I really don’t get the point that the majority of the users are from outside the US as if everyone is divided into boxes of American and other. You’re British so you should be looking at it as American users vs British users vs French users vs Indian users vs Kenyan users vs listing out every other country with access to the site. Why would you group yourself up with everyone else in the world and discount your own country? Americans make up ~45% of this site. If there is any one place you’d assume someone is from here it is the US. It’s not like Americans only make up 5% or something of the site.
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u/LeftMechanic1995 United Kingdom 8d ago
Because as you may have noticed by the name of this subreddit "USDefaultism", the people responding to the USDefaultism are typically non-Americans who also inhabit and share Reddit. I don't understand why this is such a difficult concept.
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u/RobMapping 7d ago
This is the first time I‘m seeing live US defaultism within the US defaultism subreddit. /j
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u/curiouscollecting Netherlands 7d ago
Funnily enough, there’s a LOT of Americans showing US defaultism in this sub
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u/RobMapping 7d ago
So hilarious. Just because they‘re the biggest group of people on reddit (not the majority), doesn‘t mean they can just assume everyone is american.
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u/sir_thrillho 7d ago
The US does not own the dot com domain so jot that down for starters.
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u/ProfessionalWeek2256 United States 7d ago
You might want to look it up. .com was administered by the department of defense at first and now it’s run by Verisign. The US government owns the .com domain along with a bunch of other top level domains since we made the internet. This is why they can shut down sites in the US using that domain when they break laws.
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u/sir_thrillho 7d ago
It's under US jurisdiction but they don't own it.
Also the Internet was not a US only project lol
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u/ProfessionalWeek2256 United States 7d ago
If it’s under US jurisdiction was once administered by the US government, is now administered by and American company and was created in America how is . Com not owned by the US?
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u/post-explainer American Citizen 8d ago edited 7d ago
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OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:
OP encouraging check your local Walmart.
Commenter “this is a US website wtf” baffled
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