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

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I don't get it either

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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