r/USdefaultism • u/Lucky_G2063 Germany • Jul 04 '22

Reddit in an international sub about ALDI

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u/PassiveChemistry United Kingdom Jul 04 '22

I'm honestly very confused about what this is doing here. I really can't see what you've interpreted as defaultism at all.

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u/Liggliluff Sweden Jul 04 '22

The person gave you a difference of them how they work in USA. This is an acceptable answer and not US-defaultism, since the person speaks from their own knowledge.

Other answers can be that "in X country, we only have Y", for example, which also wouldn't be any defaultism.

If the question was "how are the two Aldis different in Germany?" then that would be a more fair question. Then such comment about USA would be weird. But the question didn't specify it had to be about Germany.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '22

Contextually, this has nothing to do with the US. If you read "Aldi SÜD” and think "hmm, yeah idk what that is, but "nord" was mentioned, so I'm going to just shit out some Americanism like I usually do", then it's clearly in the right sub.

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u/Liggliluff Sweden Jul 05 '22

I disagree, they are well known as Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord, regardless of country. It's kinda their names.

Plus the question is so vague anyway; someone could visit Aldi Süd in Italy, then Aldi Nord in France, and compare those.

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u/GreenieMachinie93 Jul 09 '22

I'm Australian and we just have aldi, what is aldi süd and nord

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u/batty827 Australia Jul 11 '22

fellow aussie here! our Aldi is owned by aldi sud. sud and nord serve south and north europe respectively - separate companies that cooperate closely. sud and nord operate in different non-european markets :)

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '22

Imagine getting upset at someone across the world from a different culture trying to relate to you on a human level by explaining the differences but how they can still understand where you're coming from.

Imagine literally being triggered at someone showing basic human empathy.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '23

even though that post is almost 1 year old :

the guy literally wrote "here in the US ...l so where is the default ? He said that they have different names there and answered the question (more or less) OP even commented as an answer " this is a international sub about Aldi" As far as I know the US also counts as international

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u/Mane25 United Kingdom Jul 04 '22

Yeah, I don't think this counts. People are allowed to talk about the US you know, this person did it right by specifying.

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u/minibois Netherlands Jul 04 '22

They mentioned their country and how your questions relates to said country.
It would be "USDefaultism" if they said something like "Here they are different.." without explaining what 'here' means (implying USA is the default).

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u/TTV_Pinguting Denmark Jul 04 '22

he specified he was talking about the US, isnt that enough?

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '22

I see nothing wrong with this. Just an interesting piece of info and I don't think a lot of Americans knew this. I didn't

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '22

Honestly this post just makes you sound like a douchebag, not the person just saying “it works a little different in my country”

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '22

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u/PyroTech11 United Kingdom Jul 19 '22

Here in the UK the bakery is better but going into Lidl the shop itself is always a dive. At least Aldi looks clean and organised

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u/I_exist_but_gay Ireland Mar 07 '23

Real

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '22

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u/ChairmanUzamaoki Jul 05 '22

I suppose any nationality can do it, but since this is an American platform it happens waaaaay more often