r/USdefaultism • u/godzillasfinger • 17h ago

Commenter on video of English lady with PhD (Hannah Fry) assumes she is American

763 Upvotes

67 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Johnatron2000 • 4h ago

Reddit I’m tired.

29 Upvotes

I’m just over American exceptionalism. I use to just think it was kinda funny, now I see it as a nation of wilfully ignorant children.

6 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/lasoonNo1 • 19h ago

Instagram Must be made of Gold

407 Upvotes

35 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Orangutan_Soda • 15h ago

TikTok Only Americans watch Movies I guess

163 Upvotes

While on a discussion about the themes of Primetime, I saw this person (green) saying people go to the movies because they can’t read. Which IMO is very silly.
Then he swung back with some US literacy “stats.” (No sources of course)
I was under the impression that Primetime was available to watch in theatres across the world, and that movies in general were in nearly every country as a form of entertainment. But I guess the average movie goer = Only Americans.

Good to know ig

16 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/MoveTheGoalPost • 56m ago

Reddit Under a post about Tokyo’s record-breaking temperatures

• Upvotes

6 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/88klonics • 1d ago

TikTok Someone found out accents are not only for people outside of the US

235 Upvotes

"So I’m in the Netherlands right, and every time I talk to somebody I’m like you I wonder if they know I’m American but I just realise no they f***ing do. I have an American accent, like here I have an accent!! I’ve never like thought about that but like I have an accent here and that’s blowing my f***ing mind! so they know, they gotta know like I’m not sneaky bro"

41 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Pennyorsomething • 1d ago

Reddit I guess the NHL in American now.

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69 Upvotes

42 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/were_toucan • 1d ago

TikTok #Nigeriantiktok in the caption

152 Upvotes

Literally in the description of the video it said it was in Nigeria

10 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/masonic-youth • 2d ago

It's basic politeness not to default to the US

1.6k Upvotes

He even has an Irish flag next to his name!

311 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Heavy-Nose3529 • 2d ago

Reddit Under a post about a man defending his store during the Paris riots

1.1k Upvotes

180 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Ciubowski • 2d ago

Reddit Apparently it's "american" to suffer unexpected power outages

102 Upvotes

73 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/OpabiniaRegalis320 • 3d ago

Reddit Rule 3 section F: On a post about a prescribed medication, which was shown in blister packs.

636 Upvotes

99 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/CyclingUpsideDown • 2d ago

Reddit Sees a photo and assumes “the ADA” applies even though no location is specified

270 Upvotes

According to the comments, it’s in Asia, possibly South Korea.

32 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep • 3d ago

Reddit About a cat in a cruel situation, guess it must be a felony... Or something...

392 Upvotes

14 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/BirthdayEffect • 4d ago

Japan is after the first amendment now

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678 Upvotes

Just to give more context to the story: the YouTuber in question is *also* Japanese. No American was involved or harmed in the making of this news article... except for maybe Phillip.

30 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/firefree373737 • 4d ago

i dont think FBI will try to help us gng 💔💔💔

134 Upvotes

7 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/DraconicDreamer3072 • 5d ago

im pretty sure r/notipcanada is about canada bud

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334 Upvotes

53 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Voodoopulse • 5d ago

No you have to be over 21 to buy non- alcoholic beer all over the world

339 Upvotes

69 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/BeefmasterDeluxe • 6d ago

Reddit New Zealand and Australia no longer western countries due to inconvenient time zone differences.

451 Upvotes

I know I shouldn't expect any better from an online alcoholic Nostradamus, but by the time Auckland wakes up on Sunday morning it'll still be lunchtime on Saturday in DC. Or is there a themepark somewhere in the states called Western World that I'm unaware of? Cos I'm pretty sure NZ and Aus are western countries. Got a lot of white people here.

194 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Alriandi • 7d ago

On a Facebook post about an Australian family illegally keeping a native turtle

541 Upvotes

29 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Fr05t_B1t • 7d ago

Every video featuring snow is obviously in the US

134 Upvotes

10 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Pleasant-Wolverine38 • 7d ago

Events that make the world feel unified

367 Upvotes

172 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Paxmahnihob • 7d ago

The All-Powerful 13th amendment

1.2k Upvotes

56 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/betterland • 8d ago

Reddit Yet another "ItS aN AmEriCaN WeBsiTe"

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268 Upvotes

why do they always reply with "who cares" lmao

62 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Witchberry31 • 8d ago

Reddit TIL not knowing about something that's niche in my country is feigning ignorance.

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275 Upvotes

Firstly, the membership base of LDS Church (when I searched around about it) is heavily US-based. North and South America alone already takes up ~80%.

Secondly, its influence isn't that big in Southeast Asia outside of the Philippines.

Third, I was previously a Muslim and Indonesia itself is a country with the most Muslim population in the world so my unfamiliarity goes even further. Not to mention that among 72 countries this Church has set its influence in, my country is at the very bottom of it in terms of registered member count.

Fourth, the main post itself shouldn't really have anything to do with this at all.

I'd say it's a church of an internationally established but globally niche religious institution. It's more than an obscure local sect, but it is not a religion with the kind of universal public recognition.

I mean, it can be historically significant, internationally organized and influential in particular communities without being common knowledge in Indonesia.

We are allowed to discover that something exists without being expected to have known it existed all along. 🙄

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This is not an anti-American sub – if you're here to lash your hate against Americans, you are not welcome here.

There is a zero-tolerance policy for hate on this sub. Consequently, any comment or post containing racist, hateful or derogatory content (against anyone) will be removed.

Rule 2: What constitutes US-defaultism (part 1)

When someone, whether from the US or not, with an international audience (e. g. on Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, etc.) …

a. assumes that the audience is US-only and will therefore understand common things from the US.

b. does not specify that something is from the US but assumes that it will be understood as such; terms like "civil war" without specifying which one.

c. does not specify that something takes place in the US in a way that everyone easily understands (when that information matters).

Rule 3: What constitutes US-defaultism (part 2)

d. assumes that something they see is from/about the US without any indication of that being the case.

e. talks about the US only but uses general terms. E.g., "the history of film" when only referring to US films, or "people from the 80s" when referring to the US population.

f. assumes that if something is true for the US, it also is for the rest of the world, or uses US-only terms such as "the first amendment" when not talking about the US. f. also applies regardless of the audience.

Rule 4: What does not constitute US-defaultism

a. American exceptionalism (“The USA is superior”, “The USA is inherently different” or “The USA is protecting/saving/willing to destroy the world”) belongs on r/ShitAmericansSay,

b. People defaulting to some other country, the northern hemisphere, the western world etc.,

c. Using US customary units or the MM/DD/YY date format,

d. Calling somebody/something from the US "American",

e. "This is an American website" on Reddit (except when used as a justification for actual US-defaultism).

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After making a post, please respond to the automod with the following:

a. An explanation of why which part of the post is US-defaultism. It is also useful to state which point(s) under rules 2 and 3 you think your posts falls under,

b. Any context required to understand the post.

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Reposts will be removed. Before posting, check whether the thing you are about to post has already been posted.

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b. Memes about US-defaultism,

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d. "Defaultisn't" posts: Including the nuances of the US not being the default country when talking about the US. Please use the "Defaultisn't" flair.

Rule 8: Crossposting, direct links, and censorship

Censoring usernames is not required.

However, crossposts or direct links to a post/comment that you want to criticise directly encourage brigading (members of a subreddit “invading” another subreddit), therefore:

-Never crosspost or link to a post/comment that you want to criticise!

-Crossposting is encouraged, but only if OOP is featuring someone else committing US-defaultism.

Rule 9: Quality control 1: Low-hanging fruit

Posts only containing the following fall into the low-hanging fruit category. They don’t contribute to the subreddit and will be removed:

a. US state abbreviations,

b. Search engine results or suggestions,

c. US-defaultism loops,

d. Defaultism by Duolingo,

e. The US flag representing the English language,

f. Charles Peralo polls.

Rule 10: Quality control 2: Provoked defaultism

We don’t want people to harass others in any way – it hurts the reputation of this subreddit. We particularly don’t want people to provoke others into committing US-defaultism to then post them on here. The following types of posts will therefore be removed:

a. Posts featuring any sort of harassment or provocation by the OP,

b. Posts that only feature defaultism which was the result of a provocation by someone other than OP.

Rule 11: Quality control 3: General low-quality posts

We want the posts in our subreddit to be of high quality so that people can appreciate its content. Low-quality, nitpicking posts aren’t welcome here. Therefore, we reserve our right to remove the following posts:

a. Posts that aren’t appreciated by the community (with few upvotes, many downvotes on the automod and/or overwhelmingly negative comments),

b. Posts where the defaultism is questionable or dubious.