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NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 5 weeks agoAgreed. I don’t think Americans appreciate how much the rest of the world hates (and has hated for many years) American defaultism and exceptionalism.
I would love to see the USA balkanize into smaller countries
Flisty@mstdn.social 5 weeks ago
@NotSteve_ @alphabethunter spent some time on TikTok between the election and the inauguration and the defaultism is reeeeally apparent on there. There was a big thing about Robbie Williams being "some guy who was big in the UK" at Christmas, and recently another one about how jacket potatoes and baked beans are "war rations". And endlessly recurring takes on how the US is more culturally diverse than Europe because it is ... bigger. The video element makes it all so much more *out there*.
Flisty@mstdn.social 5 weeks ago
@NotSteve_ @alphabethunter the funniest ones are people who go "to Europe" on holiday and then get confused when they can't get exactly the coffee they are used to. I do think the algorithm pushes this stuff in people's faces though. I left after the day the US wasn't on it and I suddenly got shown Aussies and Canadians and English-speaking Africans and Europeans. Made me realise quite how bad the feed was normally.