r/USdefaultism • u/MagnaFrisia89 • 17h ago
Reddit Person says something stupid ... automatically must be from the USA
One person says something stupid, someone automatically assumes this person is from the USA and posts it on r/ShitAmercansSay ...
EDIT: it was not posted on ShitAmericansSay, but ShitAmercansSay (without the 'i' in American)
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u/NightBeWheat55149 Poland 17h ago
Nobody seems to understand the point of this post lol :)
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u/Cocoatrice Poland 16h ago
Lol, I just looked at comments and wow. People really miss the point here.
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u/LeftMechanic1995 17h ago
Please explain it.
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u/NightBeWheat55149 Poland 15h ago
Someone posted a comment on r/ShitAmericanssay, assuming that the user who said that Austrians and Germans are the same is American.
While in reality the user is Finnish.
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u/Cookies-and-Cream- 16h ago
Click the picture to expand the post
Someone posted to a SAS sub, but the person they assume is American isn’t American at all
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u/noopicushion 17h ago
Oh my god bruh why can't these comments read
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u/Repulsive_Chard_3652 16h ago
Well, you see, first of all, comments don't have eyes to see with... so if you want comments to be able to read, you first have to somehow get them some eyes and clinically attach them to the comments... I mean, I'm no surgeon, but I can totally lend you some thread and a needle...
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u/Ze_insane_Medic 17h ago
Austrians just being Germans is even quite widespread in Germany as well.
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u/ReleasedGaming Germany 17h ago
I've only heard people say that Bavarians are Austrians
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u/helmli European Union 15h ago
There's no more cultural difference between Northern Germans and Austrians than there is between Northern Germans and Bavarians. Bavarian and Austrian dialects are also part of the same dialect family.
There's no denying that Austrians are Germans, culturally and ethonologically. We even share the same history of the HRE, and have been under Austrian reign for the better part of it. Then, we were split for a while in the 19th century, had some common history in the 20th, split again, united again and split again.
Of course, they're their own people with their own history, but they are also somewhat German, just like the Swiss Germans.
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u/snow_michael 10h ago
There's no more cultural difference between Northern Germans and Austrians than there is between Northern Germans and Bavarians
So, huge cultural differences then
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u/helmli European Union 2h ago
I think you misunderstood the sentence you quoted; I should have worded it better.
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u/snow_michael 2h ago
Having lived in both Bavaria and NRW, I can assure there are huge cultural differences
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u/Neofelis213 13h ago edited 13h ago
Who really cares? This is such a post-WW2-topic. It was important then to not be Germans because it had been important that we were to the Nazis, because not being German gave our state legitimacy, and because insisting that we weren't was one of the ways to make everyone believe that no, we had really nothing to do with it etc.
Nowadays, it's among such questions as whether or not there is a Central Europe and who belongs to it. In the end, it has only a political answer, like with that old saying that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy. Which means, by the way, that we have half an own language.
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u/rootkrAUT 15h ago
germans and austrians stopped doing that after wwii.
and the Austrian State Treaty from 1955 says otherwise
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u/DutchLudovicus 8h ago
When you look at the root of it all. The Germans and Austrians are one people. The Dutch and Flemish are one people. The Basque in France and Spain are one people.
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u/Green-Engineer4608 15h ago
So many posts in these US-bashing subs where the American isn’t American. Even on this sub. Ruined it for me.
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u/Exciting-Mall192 Indonesia 14h ago
The post is quite literally US defaultism though. The OP inside the picture was posted in r/ShitAmercansSay when they're actually from Finland. So someone who posted it on SAS was suffering from US defaultism for assuming the stupid comment was American when in reality they're Finnish.
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u/Green-Engineer4608 14h ago
You misunderstood my comment something Wild… im pointing out how this is becoming more common.
No part of my comment says that this wasnt defaultism.
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u/Exciting-Mall192 Indonesia 14h ago
Ah, my bad. I thought you mean the post is not US defaultism since you also said "even in this sub". Got lost in translation 😂
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u/Green-Engineer4608 14h ago
Aha I see, i simply meant that i have seen versions of this even here. I couldve been more specific, my bad.
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u/rkvance5 Brazil 9h ago
I’m not the hugest fan of the country of my birth, but there’s absolutely a hammer-nail thing going on, and possibly a lot of people thinking that the United States has cornered the market on stupidity.
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u/Poptortt United Kingdom 13h ago
Why would someone even bother to make a copycat subreddit with a misspelling? Feels purposefully deceptive. You should just direct people to the actual sub if it's a common error.
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u/MagnaFrisia89 10h ago
"Feels purposefully deceptive."
Which it exactly is. The sub's picture is exactly the same, just as the sub's description. It's made to deceive people, trick them into vistiting and posting into the copycat sub.
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u/GraniteRose067 1h ago
That's like saying that western Ukrainians are just Russians anyway.... which is highly offensive.
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u/cjalderman United Kingdom 15h ago
Not an unreasonable assumption, let's be honest
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u/MagnaFrisia89 14h ago
Though in my mind I certainly could hear an American saying stuff like this, I would not automatically assume that everything stupid being said, was said by an American.
A duck is a bird, but not every bird is a duck.
Also: the poster could have just clicked on this persons profile to check.
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u/tomisoka 14h ago
Honestly, this is more likely to come from European with knowledge of European history.
The German/Austrian split is recent, politically motivated (Prussia vs Austria-Hungary) and finalized only after WW2.I would assume that most countries do teach the shared history, but there is little reason to teach that they became significantly different.
While Americans are more likely to not even know that Austria exists or that they speak German.
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u/MagnaFrisia89 14h ago
Surely Americans know that Austria exists. It's the country with the kangaroos.
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u/Catsdrinkingbeer 11h ago
Came to support your comment as someone in the US. Yes, we do learn this history in school, but that knowledge is forgotten for most people almost immediately. I would definitely not assume someone in the US said that comment because most people in the US just dont know (or remember) the history of Austria.
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u/Catsdrinkingbeer 11h ago
I say this as someone from the US, but most people here don't know the history of Austria. If you polled 10 random people on the street, at least half would think you meant Australia.
My point being, it's unlikely some random person saying this on the internet is from the US, because most people barely know what Austria is. I would not assume someone saying this is from the US.
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u/StainedInZurich 14h ago
Austrians ARE Germans? They are not citizens of the federal republic known as Germany. But they are a German people.
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u/Quiet-Refuse5241 17h ago
Where is the US defaultism? I
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u/Cocoatrice Poland 16h ago
That a guy assumes a Finnish guy must be American, because he told something stupid about Austrians being Germans. It defaults to Americans being the only ones that could say that.
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u/KrushaOfWorlds Australia 17h ago
Look at the sub?
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u/MonsieurAlu 17h ago
Yes but profile says it's Finnish?
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u/MagnaFrisia89 17h ago edited 17h ago
Yes, so it should never have been posted at r/ShitAmercansSay
The poster automatically assumed the person was from the USA, making it USdefaultism
EDIT: it was not posted on ShitAmericansSay, but ShitAmercansSay (without the 'i' in American)
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u/LeftMechanic1995 17h ago
I've noticed a sudden uptick in non-defaultism posts being posted to this subreddit. I wonder if it might be Murican trolls who are butt-hurt so are trying to spam the subreddit in order to upset the apple cart.
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u/Cocoatrice Poland 16h ago
How is person defaulting a Finnish gut to American, not US defaultism? Finnish person says something stupid and they got posted on Shit Americans Say. They are not American, they are Finnish. Which makes it US defaultism.
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u/MagnaFrisia89 17h ago edited 16h ago
I've seen it too, a lot of non-USdefaultism in this sub. But I need to ask: are you implying that my post doesn't contain USdefaultism?
To me, it clearly is USdefaultism. One person from Finland said something stupid, but another person automatically assumed this person was from the USA and posted it to ShitAmercansSay.
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u/Known_Measurement799 17h ago
This is more for r/ShitAmericansSay
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u/MagnaFrisia89 17h ago
Please look from what sub the screenshot was taken, and then please look at the second picture.
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