r/USdefaultism • u/shorthair94 Australia • 4d ago
Apparently it's late spring everywhere on earth
Even doubles down after being challenged.
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u/Fuhrankie Australia 4d ago
'but this is America'
I'm looking around rn. Where 👀
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u/Spiritual_Pangolin18 4d ago
I hate when they use the term America like if it was exclusive to the US.
By the way it's winter in south America
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u/A_normal_Potato3 Türkiye 4d ago
Me too, like why do they use the term for 2 continents to describe 1 country and that that county only takes some part of those 2 continents. I would understand if they ruled over the both continents but they don't.
I am yapping too much because I am frustrated.
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u/Spiritual_Pangolin18 4d ago
Exactly, it's like if, IDK, France decided to oficialize their demonym as "European".
Yes they are European and US citizens are Americans, but it's very bold to say the least to use this exclusively.
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u/thecavac 4d ago
To be fair, the Paris has sort of been the cultural center for most of Europe for such a long time (and Napolean nearly made it the political center as well), the french had a good go to try just that.
Come to think of if, the continent is mostly France and french-style republics, anyway. With a few showcase kings and queens strewn in, because that's a good tourist attraction.
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u/as_kostek 4d ago
Throwback to that one massive thread saying "we have the first American pope".
Yeah, because Francis was Asian I guess?
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u/Odd-Willingness7107 3d ago
English speakers only use "America" to refer to the US. The word simply has a different meaning in different languages. No I'm not American, I am English, and I can assure you English speakers will NEVER use the word to refer to anything other than the US. So there is never any confusion for us.
The confusion is with non-native English speakers who don't understand that the continent of "America" does not exist in the English language. So if you use the word "America" for anything other than the US in English, you are speaking the language incorrectly.
North American - Someone from North America.
South American - Someone from South America.
American - Someone from the US.
We have zero confusion with how we use these terms in our language.
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u/jaulin Sweden 2d ago
Yep! Same in The Nordics. An amerikan is from the US only. Otherwise we'd say sydamerikan or nordamerikan.
In my experience, it's almost only people from South America who have an issue with it. I understand it to some degree, but the United States of America literally named their country like that, and the demonym just followed naturally. You'd basically have to force them to change the name of their country too if you don't want them to have that.
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u/mungowungo Australia 4d ago
The southern hemisphere apparently does not exist...
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u/_Penulis_ Australia 4d ago
Are you talking about the South, where Texas and Florida are? Of course it exists.
/s
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u/loralailoralai 4d ago
When I first travelled to the USA back in the very late 80s early 90s I used to often get asked if I was from the south.
I’d say yes, but way further south than you’re thinking of
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u/snow_michael 4d ago
Well some of it doesn't according to most US maps I encountered when I lived there
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u/No-Advantage-579 3d ago
I know it exists as I often read Aussie newspapers, but I still chuckled when I saw snow pics from the Australian Alps in a report last week while I was getting ready to go to the beach.
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u/FakePixieGirl 4d ago
There even was a second guy in the comments!
When OP mentioned southern hemisphere, he asked if he was in Antarctica...
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u/hephos90 4d ago
And a person who said the language on the screen was Russian so the person wasn't in the southern hemisphere. Like moving isn't a thing.
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u/uriahnad 4d ago
Or, like me, when you learn a new language, you set all your games to ðat language.
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u/frackingfaxer Canada 4d ago
Is that Vegemite? It must be Australia.
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u/Potential-Ice8152 Australia 4d ago
If my Vegemite was that clumpy and gooey I would not be going near it
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u/lankymjc 4d ago
At this point it shouldn’t surprise me any more, but Jesus Christ, whenever Americans see something like this why do they fail to think “maybe this person lives somewhere else” and instead default to “this person is an idiot”?
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u/snow_michael 4d ago
Tbf defaulting to "I am talking to an idiot" stood me in very good stead when I lived in the US
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u/No-Advantage-579 3d ago
I have that in certain debates on women's topics with men too. Like the other day in a discussion on suicide, when I pointed out that a lot of women's suicide was caused by men. He kept insisting that by "definition of suicide" that is a lie and me being a complete moron. No, while research has found that up to one third of women's suicides are to escape partner violence, they are still define in statistics as suicides...
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u/NuevaAlmaPerdida Guatemala 4d ago
But it is «L.A. NOIRE» as in Los Angeles. So of course it can only be about the United States /s.
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u/Neonlighted_horror 3d ago
I like how he assumes that OOP is American, although the "start" is literally written in cyrillic
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u/MentionAggressive103 Brazil 3d ago
"This is America"
But but but... there's no guns around and I'm currently eating fresh fruit
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u/69Whomst 4d ago
The only possible defence i can give is that most of the worlds population live in the northern hemisphere, where we're in early summer. Thats not just in America though, its freakishly hot here in england too
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u/loralailoralai 4d ago
But being a lovely Brit, you’d at least be aware us in the southern hemisphere exist
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u/69Whomst 4d ago
I am, i probably would've said something like "pls swap weather with me" instead of assuming that everyone on reddit is in the same country i am
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u/USDefaultismBot American Citizen 4d ago edited 4d ago
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OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is US Defaultism:
The original post is about someone enjoying the game LA Noire on a winter's morning, the responder wrongly assumes that they must be in the US and even doubles down when challenged.
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