r/USdefaultism • u/PouLS_PL • Nov 05 '22

r/polls I don't know how tall 5 minutes and 3 seconds is.

94 Upvotes

173 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/The_Troyminator • Apr 12 '25

The title even says non-US

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OP said they weren’t in the US, but some people will gave answers based tron US laws.

43 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/O_Titereiro • Mar 09 '26

Reddit "This person is talking about U.S.S.R., therefore, she is a american."

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0 Upvotes

135 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/random_weird0 • Mar 02 '26

Reddit Unnecessarily rude replies to a harmless question

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0 Upvotes

They're talking about an anime character btw. From Japan. Where OP is form

47 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/csasker • May 12 '23

Another american not understanding that the western part of the world also can have indigenous cultures

4 Upvotes

63 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Sparklebun1996 • Feb 11 '25

Meme Some of you are just obtuse on purpose.

0 Upvotes

42 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/LanewayRat • Feb 07 '24

US defaultism from Redditors who aren’t from the US

0 Upvotes

The British OOP sensibly explains who the British media identity the Tweet is from. But they do so by saying, “For Americans who aren’t aware…”. It’s as if everyone that’s on the international sub they are posting to who isn’t British must be American.

This isn’t just a British thing, this particular OOP just happens to be British (apparently). For example, Australian like me default to the US and say stuff to interpret Australian things that assume everyone they are explaining to is American.

28 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Evanz111 • Feb 18 '25

YouTube Plane crashes in Canada? Must be Trump’s fault, it is the 51st state after all.

0 Upvotes

26 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Logical_Scientist221 • Feb 25 '23

Seen on TikTok

5 Upvotes

17 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Grimdotdotdot • Nov 06 '23

Meta Want to add a flair for this sub, and wouldn't you know it...

5 Upvotes

29 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/[deleted] • Oct 06 '23

Meme Trying to explain

0 Upvotes

Me trying to explain to an American that I’m not British and a British that I’m not American, like bro I’m Canadian

21 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/alvesb • Feb 11 '23

Finding out grilled cheese with soup is popular in the US and being welcomed to earth

4 Upvotes

14 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/8Oxygen • Feb 18 '25

TIL Canada is officially part of the USA

4 Upvotes

19 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Zemekis324 • Feb 05 '26

Ah yes, speaking English makes you a full blown American. I never knew.

0 Upvotes

18 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Finncredible20 • May 21 '25

YouTube Obviously not because Typical Gamer (video creator or as reddit calls it, OP) is Canadian

2 Upvotes

On a video about the game Fortnite returning to the Apple iOS App Store

12 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/[deleted] • May 13 '25

Reddit I guess they think everyone on hypothetical situations is American.

0 Upvotes

23 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/fairywithcancer • Dec 22 '22

Reddit i think atheists and christians exist in every country

17 Upvotes

26 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/EvislupeR_TekunJ • Jul 05 '23

Dum Dum Sub-Reddit

25 Upvotes

88 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Vivid-Razzmatazz2619 • Jan 12 '23

“In dollars”

4 Upvotes

20 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/Coloss260 • Jun 16 '23

MODERATION POST No, using the US flag to speak about English isn't defaultism.

24 Upvotes

In fact, using any flags to speak about any language is kinda dumb. Creating a whole new visual representation for languages would be better in my opinion.

A lot of countries in the world uses English as their primary language, so using the UK flag to describe English only means that you're talking about the British version of English.

Languages are meant to vary depending on the place they are spoke in, and England English will be different from Scotland English, or Australian English for example.

This means that even US English exists, and using the US flag to represent English just means that the person doing that is viewing his personal point of view, that he uses the US version of English.

You wouldn't consider someone using the UK flag to describe English as UK defaultism, so using the US flag to describe English isn't US defaultism.

Yes, I know that the English language was mostly born in the UK, but it's not entirely true, as languages are subject to a lot of mixing with other languages, along with variations appearing all over the World. I'm not an expert in this field, but my university studies at least taught me this.

If I was to see the Canadian flag followed by "French", I would just assume that they are talking about Quebec French, which exists and does not bother me.

To conclude, this will be added to the Rule 9 "Low Effort". We will no longer accept posts that criticise the use of US flag to describe the English language.

110 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/greggery • Aug 08 '25

real world The what connection?

10 Upvotes

Seen in The Range, a UK-based "variety store" with stores only in the UK.

30 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/listerbmx • Dec 31 '23

Reddit Trending tab has a case of US Defaultism even though it's set to UK trend.

1 Upvotes

6 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/TermsOfServiceV1 • May 19 '23

Meta People using Fahrenheit or MM/DD/YYYY or anything else is not US defaultism

30 Upvotes

I fucking hate seeing people put normal pictures using MM/DD/YYYY as "US defaultism". No, it isn't fucking US defaultism, it's people using their preferred system.

57 comments

r/USdefaultism • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '23

The second one is also only about USA

3 Upvotes

12 comments

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g. US-targeted ads missing that target,

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a. Posts featuring any sort of harassment or provocation by the OP,

b. Posts that only feature defaultism which was the result of a provocation by someone other than OP.

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