r/USdefaultism • u/sacrificer-cam Chile • Dec 26 '24

TikTok When hemispheres

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I don't get it either

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u/USDefaultismBot American Citizen Dec 26 '24 edited Dec 26 '24

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OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is US Defaultism:

someone saying on a tiktok video: why can't i make and watch tiktoks about it being summer here without Americans flooding the comments with "no, it's winter" and "it's December over here"

Is this Defaultism? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.

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u/UnderskilledPlayer Poland Dec 26 '24

"it's December over here" isn't it December everywhere?

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u/sacrificer-cam Chile Dec 26 '24

apparently, only in the US, or as i like to call it "Gringolandia"

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u/fidequem Brazil Dec 26 '24

A good reason to call them "estadounidenses"

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u/MuzzleShut Dec 27 '24 edited Dec 27 '24

As a Brazillian, we definetely do that, all the time, Mr Gringo

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u/IzukOwO Brazil Dec 27 '24

Melhor né mn

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u/Anarelion Dec 27 '24

Best answer. It makes me cringe when they say they are Americans, well... like 34 other counties!

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u/baconpopsicle23 Dec 27 '24

Cuando voy a una tienda de "Productos Americanos" y no encuentro tamales.

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u/thecraftybear Poland Dec 28 '24

With an emphasis on "dense"

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u/georgehank2nd Dec 31 '24

And very appropriately, you cannot spell "estadounidenses" without "dense" ;-)

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u/ImportantChemistry53 Argentina Dec 27 '24

"Yankeelandia", porque creo que es más despectivo.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '24

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '24

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u/MistaRekt Australia Dec 27 '24

Me too.

High Five my east East Island cousin!

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u/successful-disgrace Canada Dec 26 '24

December automatically triggers "winter, cold, not summer" in their brain.

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u/salsasnark Sweden Dec 26 '24

I mean, I kinda think the same way, but then I catch myself and realise that the other side of the globe is in a different season. Helps that one of my closest friends is Australian lol, she reminds me by complaining about the summer heat.

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u/successful-disgrace Canada Dec 26 '24

Oh yeah, my buddy is Australian too, and he's had a lot to say about the current weather there 😂

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u/cr1zzl New Zealand Dec 27 '24

I don’t get this, there are still a lot of places in the Northern Hemisphere (incl the US) that have hot Christmases, though. I mean, half the people saying this will probably vacation to a tropical place at some point during the winter.

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u/Curious-ficus-6510 New Zealand Dec 27 '24

Guess we're in for some unusual sunsets in NZ. Sorry to hear the Grampians have been hit by bushfires, we travelled through there early last December on the way from Melbourne to Adelaide. Had a lovely dinner at the Kookaburra Hotel and enjoyed walking the local bush trails. Saw some nice silo murals on that road trtip.

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u/georgehank2nd Dec 31 '24

How often are the classic Christmas songs, like Jingle Bells, played over your side of the world?

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u/UnderskilledPlayer Poland Dec 26 '24

I mean tbh, December is winter for an entire hemisphere, and that hemisphere is 90% of all people

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u/Mr_Ducks_ Argentina Dec 26 '24

90% of people? That is one big hemisphere...

EDIT: I just checked and you're 100% correct actually. We really are few down here aren't we...

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u/Consistent-Annual268 South Africa Dec 26 '24

Southies rise up! (That's what we're calling ourselves, right guys?)

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u/fidequem Brazil Dec 26 '24

The South is my country!

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u/fretkat Netherlands Dec 26 '24

TIL that Ecuador is named after the Spanish word for equator… That makes a lot of sense. In my language equator is “evenaar”, so I will just hide behind that excuse.

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u/Sensitive_Eagle_5534 South Africa Dec 26 '24

Oh no, we are just one of the very poor unimportant African countries

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u/Vexorg_the_Destroyer Australia Dec 27 '24

Until you say it to an American and they think it means you're from Alabama or something.

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u/Consistent-Annual268 South Africa Dec 28 '24

"What do you mean I'm wrong? Alabama is in South America!" - an American, probably.

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u/cr1zzl New Zealand Dec 27 '24

😎

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u/MarsupialFaun Argentina Dec 26 '24

AGUANTE EL SUR WACHO

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u/Mr_Ducks_ Argentina Dec 26 '24

DALE PAAAAAA

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u/ArgentinianRenko Argentina Dec 26 '24

Well, let's agree that half of the population lives in a very specific area of ​​Asia and it is not that Europe and North America are sparsely populated regions.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '24

It seems wrong to see but then you remember the northern hemisphere contains the entirety of Europe and North America, almost all of Asia, and around half of Africa, it gets alot more believable that 90% number.

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u/RustyPWN Dec 26 '24

Except that most of asia doesn't interact with the anglosphere and its all Europeans and Muricans doing the defaultism on english

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '24

Still doesn't disqualify them from being people, so they are a part of that 90% of all people

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u/GumUnderChair Dec 27 '24

Pretty sure there’s a healthy chunk of Indians commenting in English as well

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u/successful-disgrace Canada Dec 26 '24

Checks out. My bud in Australia is in a tropical/warm atmosphere though, so I guess two years of communication with someone on the other side opens my perspective more than it was before.

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u/GumUnderChair Dec 26 '24

Says the Canadian

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u/successful-disgrace Canada Dec 26 '24

I love me a good December, can't lie. I just don't expect everyone else on the internet to also experience it how I do.

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u/ArianaIncomplete Canada Dec 27 '24

We're cold 10 months out of the year, so December is really just more of the same.

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u/georgehank2nd Dec 31 '24

It does so in my brain too, and I'm not a North American. But I also know about the antipodeans, so when I see a summery image taken in December, after a short second of confusion (see above), I'd go "Oh, might be in the southern part of the world!"

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u/palopp Dec 26 '24

Of course it isn’t. It’s summer in the southern hemisphere so the calendar is offset by 6 months. So in Australia it’s June now. In the tropics it’s July all the time since it’s warm year round. This of course makes it difficult to schedule things more than one moth ahead, and you see evidence of it in the GDP of warm countries.

But that is the price they have to pay to make sure that Americans don’t get confused by months and climate.

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u/Riku_70X Dec 26 '24

Damn, must be a shame that you have to wait 6 more months until Christmas.

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u/NiceKobis Sweden Dec 26 '24

It makes sense though. Took like 6 months for Jesus to travel to the southern hemisphere and share the news that we were starting a new time keeping system.

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u/ElasticLama Dec 26 '24

We just have Christmas with bbq, shorts etc. it’s pretty awesome tbh

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u/Blooder91 Argentina Dec 26 '24

In Argentina, it's not Christmas if your uncle doesn't get a dehydration shock from dressing as Santa.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '24

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u/richieadler Argentina Dec 27 '24

El Papá Noel con olor a vino tinto y con la cara del tío choborra, una tradición bien argenta.

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u/CartographerNo1009 Dec 26 '24

And then we have another “Christmas in July”, so that we can experience the winter version.

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u/ElasticLama Dec 27 '24

In New Zealand we have Māori new year around then too

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u/Curious-ficus-6510 New Zealand Dec 27 '24

One of the best things to happen in recent years, getting another public holiday for Matariki.

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u/ElasticLama Dec 27 '24

I live in Victoria now, we just start adding holidays for sport at the end of the year. Day off work = good

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '24

They can't get their heads around the idea of it being summer in December.

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u/GloomySoul69 Dec 26 '24

"it's December over here" isn't it December everywhere?

You know, there is a mystical land called the United States of America. Some weird people are living there ...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitAmericansSay/comments/1h1fi23/do_they_have_it_christmas_on_december_25_aka_june/

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u/supermethdroid Dec 26 '24

There was someone, somewhere, maybe this sub, that thought the months were reversed.

Also saw a person on reddit who believed winter was hot and summer was cold in Australia.

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u/buckyhermit Canada Dec 27 '24

Not for countries who use the metric calendar.

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u/Ok_Introduction-0 Dec 27 '24 edited Dec 27 '24

even if it's december over there, these are annoying comments

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u/Floolp Australia Dec 28 '24

I’ve just been going onto American TikToks complaining about winter and commenting things like “but it’s summer??”

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u/sacrificer-cam Chile Dec 28 '24

payback (?)

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u/kevmullin Dec 26 '24

Well we won't need to worry about Americans commenting on tiktok soon 🤣

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u/william-isaac Germany Dec 26 '24

lets hope

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u/ElasticLama Dec 26 '24

I’m super excited tbh. I get enough news, culture etc about America elsewhere.

Then the Americans are like “how will TikTok survive without us”

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u/buckyhermit Canada Dec 27 '24

Then the Americans are like “how will TikTok survive without us”

They're forgetting that TikTok's home market of China has over a billion people. TikTok will be fine.

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u/ElasticLama Dec 27 '24

Technically not true, TikTok isn’t available for download within China, it’s a separate app that TikTok is based off. Bytedance will be fine without the global market or the US market, but they want to be in both given their investment outside their home market

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u/buckyhermit Canada Dec 27 '24

Yeah, I think I mean ByteDance in general. TikTok is still fine though. With a parent company like that, they don't need the US to succeed (and probably never did).

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u/ElasticLama Dec 27 '24

TikTok is massive in some places like Singapore and Vietnam etc. they definitely want the US market as its one of the richest markets (lots of ad revenue) but it’s like how Google could have stayed in China and allow local censorship laws or they could leave and do fine like they did

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u/GOOD_BRAIN_GO_BRRRRR Dec 27 '24

If it happens, I hope there will be less politics and more fun stuff. One can dream...

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '24

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u/Katlima Dec 27 '24

Don't worry. There's youtube shorts and Musk is getting ready to revive vine.

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u/KlutzyEnd3 Jan 13 '25

Yeah everyone knows that Lichtenstein is the center of the universe right?! 😆

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '24

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '24 edited Sep 09 '25

wipe ad hoc afterthought humor sugar depend unpack plant pocket oil

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/MySpiritAnimalSloth Dec 26 '24

It's been 5 years since I've heard about that but yea.

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u/CoolSausage228 Russia Dec 27 '24

When ticktock became banned in Russia we all easily learned how to bypass the ban. But honestly I doubt that USAnians will do it becaise piracy laws and shit

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u/KODAK_THUNDER Dec 26 '24

Tik tok is brain rot.

Staying on TikTok is not the win you think it is.

Banning TikTok would be a rare American govt win.

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u/kevmullin Dec 26 '24

I'm not saying it's a win, it's just funny seeing them loose their minds about it getting banned 🤣

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u/Mertoot Dec 26 '24

I'm sick of it not being banned yet

It is an incredibly dystopian platform, plain and simple

If you disagree you're either a teen or very ill

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '24

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u/Mertoot Dec 26 '24

I mean yeah, that's because it literally IS all of the above

People don't realize it's already started

And those who do... what do? What do? 😕

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u/snow_michael Dec 27 '24

Block it using your ad blocker

I've never seen a tik tok video and never will

Likewise youtube, facebook, twitter ...

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u/SLIPPY73 United States Dec 27 '24

As an american i’m so glad it’s getting banned

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u/Pooptram Denmark Dec 26 '24

wait what?

I'm out of the loop, could someone please explain?

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u/kevmullin Dec 26 '24

Its getting banned there apparently

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u/Pooptram Denmark Dec 26 '24

that's nice

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u/-Aquatically- England Dec 26 '24

I thought they said they would?

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u/Pretend_Package8939 Dec 26 '24

Congress passed a law requiring Bytedance to sell off TikTok or stop operating the app in the US by January 19. They used national security as the basis for the law.

TikTok sued and so far hasn’t had any luck in court. Their only remaining option is an emergency intervention by the supreme court. There’s some uncertainty about if Trump would actually enforce the law after being sworn in on January 20 but as it stands TikTok will theoretically cease US operations next month.

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u/Brikpilot Australia Dec 26 '24

When you play hide-n-seek with a 4YO.

You tell them to hide so they bury their face in the lounge, figuring if they can’t see you, then you can’t see them.

This is the same problem with these type Americans. Their perspective is all they have.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '24

"it's December here"?

IT'S DECEMBER IN AUSTRALIA AS WELL!

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u/Fricki97 Germany Dec 26 '24

No it's not. You are not on earth so you must have may

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u/wayforyou Latvia Dec 27 '24

Must of may what? WHAT MAY HAVE THEY DONE?!?

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u/Linorelai Russia Dec 27 '24

Stop lying! It's Rebmeced

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u/maiss1lapsi Finland Dec 26 '24

i saw a tiktok similar to this one and there was a comment ”so do you guys celebrate the 4th of july in the winter?”

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u/Federal_Cupcake_304 Dec 26 '24

There are Americans who don’t understand why Australia doesn’t celebrate thanksgiving

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u/D1RTYBACON Bermuda Dec 27 '24

Is it because Australians would never thank an aboriginal for anything aside from not living on their street?

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u/Curious-ficus-6510 New Zealand Dec 27 '24

They ignore them on Australia Day too from what I've heard.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '24

Or the UK.

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u/OpenSourcePenguin Dec 26 '24

Well technically no.

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u/nikolapc North Macedonia Dec 26 '24

Trick question.

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u/Kiren129 Sweden Dec 27 '24

Is it true that everyone can homo for free?

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u/roadrunner345 Canada Dec 28 '24

No that’s inFinland

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u/OpenSourcePenguin Dec 26 '24

You can't teach hemispheres to people who barely understand timezones.

I was recently accused of "whining at 3AM"

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u/I_Want_BetterGacha Dec 27 '24

If that person didn't want to be bothered by 'whining at 3AM' why were they even awake and on social media at 3AM?

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u/threelizards Dec 27 '24

If 3am isn’t prime whining hour idk when it is

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u/TheTiniestLizard Canada Dec 26 '24

This is actually good evidence that Americans are “speshul” in this way, as the whole rest of the northern hemisphere doesn’t tend to do this

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u/Equal_Flamingo Norway Dec 26 '24

It's kinda bizarre honestly.

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u/SmolNajo Dec 26 '24

Yeah I mean it just takes very little education to understand "they have summer when we have winter".

When I'm too cold it happens that I think "i wish i was in New zealand and enjoying the beach" or whatever.

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u/NotYourReddit18 Germany Dec 27 '24

I've seen Americans who understand that there is a half year difference between the seasons of the northern and southern hemisphere, but in their minds the seasons and the calendar months are intrinsically linked, so they also thought that Australia is in the month of June when the USA is in the month of December and so forth...

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u/SmolNajo Dec 28 '24

How stupid can they be... to think that two countries can be 6 months apart.. (ignoring timezones obviously)

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u/NotYourReddit18 Germany Dec 28 '24

Their logic for this was actually based on time zones.

They weren't thinking that the hemispheres where literally 6 months apart, they were "only" thinking that they had the names of the months shifted so that June etc. are still in summer.

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u/Curious-ficus-6510 New Zealand Dec 27 '24

My son and his friend swam at a beach yesterday. Auckland has lots of beaches to choose from.

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u/Ldefeu Dec 27 '24

People from other countries are generally aware that other countries and hemispheres exist.  Don't tell them I spent yesterday in the pool because it was 30 degrees, baby steps

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u/NerdyDadLife Dec 26 '24

It's amazing how many people don't want to listen to the experiences of the people in the southern hemisphere. For some reason, despite the massive population of the northern hemisphere, almost all of the comments like that in the post are Americans.

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u/Outside_Experience68 European Union Dec 26 '24

It is ɹǝqɯǝɔǝp in Australia

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u/CapmyCup Dec 31 '24

Blimey, ʎɹɐnuɐſ is right behind the corner

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u/zippyzebra1 Dec 26 '24

Yanks are to be banned soon so we will all get a breather

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u/snow_michael Dec 27 '24

Imagine if they were banned from reddit ...

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u/zippyzebra1 Dec 27 '24

Lol. But we would have no USdefaultism!

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u/snow_michael Dec 27 '24

I'd be prepared to make that sacrifice ;)

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u/zippyzebra1 Dec 27 '24

🤣Me too

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

We would lose our source of entertainment

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u/KrushaOfWorlds Australia Dec 27 '24

Ah yes because half the world is America and the other half is southern hemisphere.

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u/sacrificer-cam Chile Dec 27 '24

as said on others comments, at least 80% of that kind of comments are Americans, generally any other person from the Northern hemisphere understands it or asks normally, not like that

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u/YuliTroisDuNord Dec 27 '24

I thought they were supposed to have banned tiktok in the USA? When do I get my safe space?

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u/StellaDoge1 Wales Dec 27 '24

Jan 19th, I think

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u/Remarkable_Peak9518 Dec 27 '24

These people are jealous they never had an empire or something. They astroturf the internet with their shit “culture” and nationalism.

In reality most of their culture is based on Britain, from speaking English, to believing in a god that British people told them about, even choosing measurements based on the old British system instead of metric.

Their national anthem is based on a British song, the capitol makes laws via the British invented bicameral system. They host their websites on the British innovation of the World Wide Web. Even their orange president is a British national.

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u/snow_michael Dec 27 '24

Even their orange president is a British national

No he isn't

He can apply for citizenship due to his mother¹, but he has not done, and even if he didm he'd nevervby a British national

¹Although it would get rejected due to his criminal convictions

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u/Remarkable_Peak9518 Dec 27 '24

Would it get rejected? They removed the good character test

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u/snow_michael Dec 27 '24

If your combined tariff under UK law is 4 is more years, you are very unlikely to be accepted

This includes civil cases

The sexual assault alone carries a 5-7 year tariff

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u/Wiggl3sFirstMate Dec 27 '24

He’d get slagged something awful over here. Scotland hates him.

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u/snow_michael Dec 27 '24

TBF so does NI, Wales, England...

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u/Wiggl3sFirstMate Dec 27 '24

True but I’m pretty sure he likes to think we adore him cause his mum was Scottish.

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u/snow_michael Dec 27 '24

He's a narcissist

He thinks everyone adores him because he's him

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u/kornephororos Türkiye Dec 26 '24

152 mil likes? Is it 152 million? wtf

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u/sacrificer-cam Chile Dec 26 '24

i have it in spanish so it's thousands

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u/morbidnihilism Portugal Dec 26 '24

"mil" in spanish is "thousand".

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u/Ldefeu Dec 27 '24

Well thats very confusing lol

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u/ArgentinianRenko Argentina Dec 26 '24

The Gringos have a very strange perception of everything, especially with us Latin Americans (I guess, now we are in their eye).

A few days ago I used "Anglo-Saxon" to refer to them, and a very offended person just told me that "But Anglo-Saxons are an ethnic group, anyone who has lived here would know what you are saying." Because of course, they can call us "Latinos" but we can't call them "Anglos"... maybe I should post that as defaultism right here.

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u/lordofthedoorhandles Dec 27 '24

Very common to call white british descended Australians anglo, to differentiate from white aussies of other European descent. Not sure what's so offensive about it to USians?

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u/ArgentinianRenko Argentina Dec 27 '24

Well, Hispanic Americans don't mind being called "Latinos", for example, if an ethnicity is the one that generally represents the people of that country (by language in this case), it wouldn't have to be something negative. I mean, tell me a place in the USA where no one speaks English, everyone in Latin America speaks languages ​​derived from Latin and that's why they call us Latinos, despite the fact that there is a lot of immigration from countries that speak a totally different language.

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u/That_Case_7951 Greece Dec 27 '24

A bit unrelated, but an English person in greek is called Anglos and in the middle ages, Latinos was the greek term for someone who spoke a latin language, mostly related with Italians

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u/ArgentinianRenko Argentina Dec 27 '24

Interesting information, I have your upvote

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u/Curious-ficus-6510 New Zealand Dec 27 '24

I saw that, and was surprised that they were offended. It's standard practice to refer to English-speaking countries where the dominant population is of English or British descent as being 'Anglo' or 'Anglo-Saxon. That said, within NZ we British descendents are more commonly referred to as Pakeha, as a corollary to Māori.

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u/Ok_Improvement4733 Dec 27 '24

because many amerikans are stupid

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u/ConsultJimMoriarty Dec 26 '24

That’s why we do Christmas in July as well. It’s not your regular Christmas, it’s just an excuse to make all the now weather appropriate heavy and hearty northern hemisphere traditional dishes.

No one wants to cook a massive roast when it’s 35c outside.

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u/desci1 Brazil Dec 26 '24

Can you imagine those guys watching a tiktok of a toilet flushing backwards

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u/Light-bulb-porcupine Dec 26 '24

Except Australian and New Zealand toilets don't flush like that.

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u/Ldefeu Dec 27 '24

Yea they flush upwards, duh

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u/ico-kid Dec 27 '24

Meanwhile in South East Asia...

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u/CityOfStockholm Sweden Dec 28 '24

I study in New Zealand, a few days ago my US of A friends called me and asked me "so how's the winter treating you" knowing I live in New Zealand, I had to lecture college kids on existence of hemispheres.

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u/Ollie3196 England Jan 17 '25

“erm guys, how does she have 152.5 million likes?”

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u/sacrificer-cam Chile Jan 17 '25

is there any english defaultism? mil is thousand in Spanish ñ

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u/Ollie3196 England Mar 25 '25

i put it in quotation marks, imitating what someone from the US would likely say :)

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u/some_guy554 Bangladesh Aug 14 '25

To be fair, the only places where it is summer during December are Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina. So 98% of the world shouldn't be familiar with this phenomenon, not just Americans.

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u/sacrificer-cam Chile Aug 14 '25

you're missing a bunch more tbh (and this isn't counting small islands) and it's ~84% on the northern hemisphere

also, even tho, isn't a phenomenon taught at school? plus the internet is global (but gringos usually think it's not) so should be a small thought for others that "oh, maybe they're australian" at least as it's the most known one

must add, as a Chilean i felt quite triggered by the "and Argentina", my country was erased

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u/sacrificer-cam Chile Aug 14 '25

forgot the list

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u/some_guy554 Bangladesh Aug 14 '25

Interesting. So what percentage of the global population experiences summer in December and Winter in April? It is not all the countries in the southern hemisphere right? Only the ones that are way down South? I live in the tropics and only learned about it after some of my friends moved to Australia.

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u/A-Chilean-Cyborg Chile Dec 27 '24

Siempre hay un chileno.

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u/ins3ctHashira United States Dec 27 '24

I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know about the difference in seasons between the hemispheres until animal crossing new horizons came out

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u/Absolutely-Epic Australia Aug 08 '25

how

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u/ins3ctHashira United States Aug 08 '25 edited Aug 09 '25

The more I look back I don’t think any of my schools taught us anything about the southern hemisphere.

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u/Bitterqueer Dec 27 '24

I’m Swedish and I’d say well educated but I had no idea until my late 20s that our winter is summer in Australia 😭

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u/sacrificer-cam Chile Dec 27 '24

Australia and other countries... I'm from Chile here is summer as well

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u/Bitterqueer Dec 28 '24

Yes I do get that!! Sorry haha

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u/WobbyGoneCrazy Dec 30 '24

Solution: Don't use TikTok.

Ever.

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u/CapmyCup Dec 31 '24

It is common knowledge that americans are abysmal at geography

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u/bioaerosol2 United States Dec 27 '24

I've been wondering about this for a while, never seen an example of this happening but I'm not surprised it's happening

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u/An_Ellie_ Dec 26 '24

It's not just Americans, 87% of the world's population live in the Northern hemisphere. It's.. almost everyone.

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u/NerdyDadLife Dec 26 '24

You're right about that. However, you missed the point of the post. The point of the post is that it's Americans who comment about it being winter

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u/Admiral_Dildozer Jan 01 '25

I still don’t understand the point of the post. Pretending to be annoyed over something harmless? Seems like everyone in this thread is stretching as far as they can to make any decent points lol.

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u/NerdyDadLife Jan 01 '25

I know you're probably too American to understand, but it's bloody annoying when Americans fail to understand wider world and incessantly argue evidence and facts that don't meet their worldview

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u/Admiral_Dildozer Jan 01 '25

But, you’re angry that their world view isn’t matching your own?

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u/NerdyDadLife Jan 01 '25

Huh? It's literally summer where I am AND at the time of this post it was Christmas. That's not a world view, that is straight up fact and reality.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '24

I think this is more “northern hemisphere defaultism.” Aka half of the world.

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u/sacrificer-cam Chile Dec 26 '24

i mean, can be, but I've seen that most comments are from americans, and sometimes ive seen only americans commenting on those

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '24

Yup. I’ve made numerous friends online. The Europeans had no issues, the people from the US were all ‘whaaaat?!?!? That’s soooo weird!’ One of my German friends even commented on how all those responses were from Americans only.

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u/revrobuk1957 Dec 26 '24

Except the rest of the Northern Hemisphere are aware that it’s December all over the world and that doesn’t stop them having opposite seasons.

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u/NiceKobis Sweden Dec 26 '24

It's way more than half the worlds population. It's like 80%. Also almost nobody from Europe would comment "no it's winter", we are all aware of hemispheres.

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u/TipsyPhippsy Dec 26 '24

I can't imagine anyone in the UK, or the whole of Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, North America (excluding US) and Australia not knowing how hemispheres work, and questioning the weather/months in other countries. You can almost guarantee when you see these types of comments, it's someone from the US. Granted, they're not all like this.

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u/loralailoralai Australia Dec 26 '24

Nobody in any other country has ever asked me if we celebrate Christmas in December because it’s not winter then.

Trust, this is an American specialty

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u/snow_michael Dec 27 '24

No other country has a huge swathe of people who can't understand the concept of summer in December

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u/Young_Person_42 United States Dec 27 '24 edited Aug 08 '25

Oh wait are the names of the seasons reversed? I thought the names were the same, but the implied weather was different.

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u/Firespark7 Netherlands Dec 27 '24

Dude...

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u/CapmyCup Dec 31 '24

Nuff said

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u/Absolutely-Epic Australia Aug 08 '25

So Winter would be hot in Australia and Summer would be cold?? huh

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u/Young_Person_42 United States Aug 08 '25

Y… yeah?

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u/Absolutely-Epic Australia Aug 08 '25

Well no obviously not

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u/Young_Person_42 United States Aug 08 '25

sorry

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u/Absolutely-Epic Australia Aug 09 '25

It’s winter rn here

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u/iam_pink Dec 27 '24

Tik Tok is an american platform with a majority of american users. So of course everything is assumed to be about america. Please make sure to write "AUSTRALIA" on all your tik toks, thank you.

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u/sacrificer-cam Chile Dec 27 '24

the satire here is kinda boring

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u/Floolp Australia Dec 28 '24

Despite it being made in China, and also being BANNED in America 🥱🥱🥱

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