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I don't care where y'all are from as long as you're not a dumbass dickhead.
Oh. I'm shit out of luck then.
Well, I also sit in front of a mirror.
Terrible news, guy who just started posting on the Internet
the default country
Lmao no. God no.
That implies every country started out as the US. Whereas the US is actually one of the youngest countries.
If I was using a website called "Facebloke" that was well known to have been made and ran in the UK, I'd assume everyone on it was British.
Or the Australian version "Matebook", full with Aussies.
Mate.
We call it Cuntface down here.
To be fair, we call everyone Cuntface down here.
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I'm ready to discuss maple syrup on HoserLoonieSorryEh
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Assumed by Americans which is an important detail.
To be honest I also find myself assuming this frequently. And I'm rarely incorrect
Yup, if it's English-language, it's probably American unless otherwise noted
That's extremely wrong.
Weird to go into a website based in the States, with a large audience of Americans, all speaking in the American dialect of English primarily about events in US news and politics, and then get mad because it's America-centric.
Not on Lemmy. Om Lemmy you're 50% German, 50% American unless proven otherwise.
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I'm Scottish and don't know what the fuck % I am.
I'm guessing 67% German, 22% American at this point.
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I wonder if a news community with a "no mentioning the US" rule would work. Not out of any hate, just as something arbitrary like "don't use the letter E".
There was one on Reddit that had a rule that no more than 50% of a story could be about the US and if the US was one of two parties they preferred the other point of view.
As an American who just wants things organized clearly, I find it annoying too
I've heard it called "US Defaultism" where most Americans online seem to assume that everyone they interact with is from their country and all US news is considered significant even when it really isn't.
Counterpoint: I rarely see non-US news posted. I do from time to time here on Lemmy, but itβs very rare.
I might just be in the wrong communities though.
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To be fair, the US has the largest number of English-speakers of any country in the world. As a first language, it has five times as many native English speakers as second place (the UK). It also has one of the highest Internet penetration rates in the world, meaning most of those English-speakers are also Internet users.
The US is a single country that is three-quarters the population of the entire European Union, and nearly all of its inhabitants speak English and use the Internet. So yes, if you pick a random user on an English social media page, odds are very good that person is an American. If you were to guess any random English-speaking Internet user's nationality, "American" is the best possible guess. But go on a Spanish language forum or a French language forum and nobody will assume you're American.
Consequently, Americans generate the majority or large plurality of English-language Internet content.
Edit: Please stop replying with "English is a lingua franca for non-native English speakers". I never made the claim that someone who uses English on the Internet is likely a native English speaker. I am claiming the converseβthat people who natively speak English are likely to use English on the Internet.
Iβm sorry but this is nonsense. Iβm in a lot of online communities where everyone uses English, despite it being nearly nobodyβs first language. It just happens to be the only language that everyone there knows. Language is no indication of nationality, especially online.
And to be honest, in those places the assumption is usually that everyone is European, which I can imagine is just as annoying for the stray American.
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Americans generate the majority of English-language Internet content.
Doubt.
There are 1.3 billion people who use English on the internet as a first or second language.
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Consequently, Americans generate the majority of English-language Internet content.
False. Yes, it is larger than any other individual English speaking group but accounts for less than a fifth of the total English speakers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population
I wouldnβt have guessed Nigeria is the third largest English speaking group.
This point was plainly addressed. Read carefully before going in guns-blazing.
Do you think Nigerians use the Internet as much as Americans?
Again, you are completely missing the point of the internet and English usage on it. People are using English as a lingua franca. There are a lot more non-native English speakers on the internet than native English speakers.
So no, odds are not that it is an American you are speaking to, just because that person speaks English. You are literally regurgitating the fallacy that OP is about.
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I'm from Australia and don't mind engagement with the (mostly) US content.
Let's face it, the US election is the most interesting event on the planet anyway.
Could not disagree more.
It's a pathetic state of affairs that people here care and know more about US politics than our own country's, and I'm personally sick of it.
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Howdy y'all bros. My name is Todd Bonzalez and I am from one of the great American places foreigners know from your TV shows.
Well Al Gore invented the internet so the internet is more a.USA thing π€£π€£
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