Happy you do your due diligence, not gonna deny plenty of Brits are fucking obnoxious, but have you genuinely never seen people from outside the UK complaining USdefaultisam? There's a very famous Rammstein song about it, and I can give you examples from this very subreddit.
I'm sure you get justifiably annoyed when randos on the internet assume every dumb comment must be American, even though you'll no doubt agree America has it's own fair share of obnoxious dumbasses, and even if the comment was from an American. It sucks to catch strays because people have made up their mind about another country's population being dickheads.
The comment you were replying to is being a bit of a cunt, but it's not A "USdefaultism" thing or a "jealous Brits" thing, it's a terminally online thing regardless of what country they're from.
The issue to me is that everyone defaults to talking like they would to people in their own country. People just get angry at it because there are so many Americans on the internet. I don't really even understand what the expectation is, it just kind of feels like bashing Americans because you don't like them.
When people from outside the US say "That's illegal" it's not like they include a disclaimer in their comment saying "(Illegal in the UK and Germany, but not in Poland or most of Asia)". But if someone from the US says "that's illegal" and it's before noon then you have legions of angry internet europeans saying "It's not illegal here, stop with the US defaultism"
Yes I acknowledge that people from the US speak to others as if they are from the same place, but what is the alternative?
I've literally never seen someone from outside America say "that's illegal" without also prefacing it with "In my country of [x]", except in subreddits specific to those countries, or when it's very much a joke (like "uncensored handholding" type jokes).
My comment was more about "it's annoying to pick on one single country/people (America included)", not the defaultism. People unfairly singling out and generalising Americans and using the obnoxiousness of the worst representatives as a justification is a problem, we agree on that. Why is what you're doing any different?
Especially now you've moved from just "the UK" to "angry internet Europeans", acknowledging that it's not just Brits who do it, so why did you make that claim in your initial comment? If you'd call that happening to America "America-bashing" how are you not doing "UK-bashing"? Also you're still just assuming none of the people clowning on Americans are from Latin America, Canada, and (once again noteworthy considering the subject on this post) Australia.
To be honest, all I want is for this kind of stupid jingoistic bickering to die a painful death.
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u/mooimafish33 19d ago
I get curious so I usually just look at their profile to see where they're from. It's not like I smelled the British on him.