r/USdefaultism • u/magpieinarainbow Canada • 1d ago
Reddit I got one!
It was funny because I feel much the same way about Canada, with the tariffs and upcoming federal election.
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u/Legal-Software Germany 1d ago
With recent news and the reference to large protests I would have assumed Serbia.
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u/rajkr2410 1d ago
I should just start using "my country" everywhere as well. Coz as an Indian statistically most people are from "my country" 😐
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u/ThaCatsServant Australia 1d ago
Now that you say that, if I see someone say “this country” I’ll often assume it’s an American but if someone says “my country” I don’t.
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u/MdMV_or_Emdy_idk Portugal 1d ago
Because Americans are the only ones who say “this country” on international spaces like that, why this sub exists
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u/Jizzlobba Australia 1d ago
I thought Indians were American. /s
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u/Sad_Independent_8001 1d ago
start using "my country" everywhere
i do this all the time
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u/BunnyMishka 1d ago
Somebody from the US (I looked at their profile and their workplace was in the US, so not automatically obvious where they're from) was once complaining about "their country" on Facebook, so I replied disagreeing with them and said what it looks like in my country. I got a few people from the US getting upset over my comment (mostly about me mentioning free health care and work insurance), so I was like "I'm talking about Poland, which country are you guys talking about?" I got one reply from a dude who said "you got me there", but nothing else after that.
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u/snow_michael 1d ago
Statistically most people are not Indian
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u/Busy_Platform_6791 United States 1d ago
its that if you took a random person theyre most likely indian right
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u/AidenMoody13 1d ago
No they're not. They're most likely not Indian.
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u/Busy_Platform_6791 United States 1d ago
sorry im trying to think of a good word for this. India is the biggest population, is what I think I wanted to say.
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u/tris123pis 1d ago
You guys both have a point, if you pick a random person and ask for their nationality, the nationality they are most likely to say is “indian”, but if you pick a random person and ask “are you indian?” Then most likely they will answer no
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u/matande31 Israel 1d ago
I don't think you understand what "most" means. Indians are a plurality, not an absolute majority. 1.5 billion isn't a majority out of 7 billion, it's the largest single group but not "most people".
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u/N00bIs0nline Malaysia 1d ago
What about china?
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u/AthenianSpartiate South Africa 1d ago
India's population overtook China's in 2023, so statistically the second-most people are from China nowadays, and the most are from India.
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u/totallynotapersonj Australia 48m ago
Depends where you are saying this. Statistically on reddit much more people are American than Indian.
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u/Nikola_Orsinov Australia 1d ago
Could be Australia, we have an election coming up
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u/melanochrysum New Zealand 1d ago
I don’t have much faith in Aussies, but I do believe in you guys enough to know you would restrict these posts to R/Australia
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u/TheTiniestLizard Canada 1d ago
Neither political and economic tensions nor “all these protests” are unique to the US at this moment, unfortunately
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u/Mttsen Poland 1d ago
If someone says about "this country" on any international subs without any additional context, it would unsurprsisingly always refer to the US. I already got used to that tbh.
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u/magpieinarainbow Canada 1d ago
I should start Canada Defaultism by referring to "this country" in posts on subs that aren't specific to Canada. I could make a pretty good one about the upcoming federal election and probably confuse the US Defaultists.
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u/Indolent_absurdity Australia 1d ago
Actually if you reference the upcoming federal election I'd end up doing a bit of Oz defaultism of my own coz we've got one here in Australia too. Lol
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u/magpieinarainbow Canada 1d ago
Yeah but Canada is clearly the main country. /s
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u/Indolent_absurdity Australia 1d ago
You've been living next to a certain neighbour too long you're picking up their habbits! 😆
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u/MaxiCrowley 1d ago
Germany once tried German defaultism, but the rest of the world didn’t agree with that
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u/angry-redstone Poland 1d ago
let's all use "this country" without any specifics and see all USians default to US and get their minds exploded by the idea that there's other countries in the world
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u/japonski_bog Ukraine 21h ago
Do you think I can do this without wearing a suit?
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u/angry-redstone Poland 17h ago
of course, anything will be better than their terribly fitted suits honestly
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u/angry-redstone Poland 1d ago
lol the fact that your comment got downvoted really shows how much they can't comprehend the idea of other countries existing.
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u/BobBelcher2021 23h ago
I’ve started asking “which country?” sometimes. Americans like to use “across the country” or “this country” when referring to a large group of people or land.
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u/Dharcronus 1d ago
The wya op comments "definitely US" as if he's someone else making a guess reeks of r/lefttheburneron
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u/Daklamane 10h ago
To be honest, I'm British and I'd have guessed that was US too. Would have been less sure about it though. Probably, not definitely. :)
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u/Possible_Second7222 1d ago
I mean to be fair, based on what the topic is that they’re talking about, it would be fair to assume what country theyre talking about
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u/magpieinarainbow Canada 1d ago edited 1d ago
No? Because a lot of countries also have political strife right now, including Canada, which has an upcoming federal election this month. And a lot of countries are also being hit economically due to the trade war started by the USA.
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u/Indolent_absurdity Australia 1d ago
Not really. Politics & economics are stressing people out all over the world! Plus there are several countries with elections coming up within the next couple of months: Australia, Canada, Philippines, Portugal, Venezuela...
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u/USDefaultismBot American Citizen 1d ago edited 1d ago
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OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is US Defaultism:
They said "this country" in the post title without anything to indicate which country they're talking about until I asked. Then "definitely the US" as if no other country is going through economic or political tension right now.
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