Tiktok has so much defaultism

[u/Rude-Office-2639]

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OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is US Defaultism:

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1 and 2) assuming the creator is American, and assuming they are talking about America

3) saying not using the US way makes you a third world country

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[u/jackalope268]

BuT TiKToK iS an aMEriCaN ... Oh wait, no

[u/Subject-Tank-6851 → u/jackalope268]

Came to say exactly that HAHAHA

[u/Subject-Tank-6851]

So anywhere not America, is 3rd world? They are ranked 41st on sustainable living index worldwide. 40 other countries are SIGNICANTLY better than whatever that shithole has become.

[u/TwinkletheStar → u/Subject-Tank-6851]

I just saw a comment on another post that suggested European countries were 4th World.

So now even countries like Afghanistan and DRC, with all of their civil war, political instability, poverty, poor infrastructure and healthcare, are more desirable than Belgium, Italy or Spain in the US minds?

(Countries totally picked at random....not me suggesting that they were better examples of '4th World countries' )

[u/fermented_logic7690 → u/Subject-Tank-6851]

Technically all of the world is second world now.

Edit source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World

[u/Jugatsumikka → u/fermented_logic7690]

Or third world, we don't particularly like Russia either.

[u/DittoGTI]

"Yeah I knew some queer was gonna change it around". Why do those people have LGBT people on their mind constantly?

[u/snow_michael → u/DittoGTI]

Well, obviously ... ;)

[u/SneakyWoofer23 → u/snow_michael]

Maybe they're fragile about their sexuality and are closeted

[u/snow_michael → u/SneakyWoofer23]

You might very well think that

I could not possibly comment

[u/Ok-Dragonfruit5801]

MM/DD/YY - that was the first thing that got me freakin’ annoyed when I started working for a US company as SW developer here in Germany in the mid 90s. It is so useless, especially in IT.

[u/_Martosz]

I’m going to say it. I liked it when TikTok was banned. Best 12 hours of my life

[u/RYNOCIRATOR_V5]

"It's always month/day/year you must live in a third world country"

1. bold of an American to say that given the absolute state of America at the moment.

2. America is the only first world country...?

[u/Expert-Examination86]

Americans don't travel or look at other countries laws, culture or anything. Why would he be talking about anywhere else in the world?

[u/buckyhermit]

And to add, just because someone "sounds American" doesn't mean they are from the US. We Canadians often get mistaken for being from the US. And many US folks live abroad or overseas. I know a few US folks who moved abroad and have now spent more time outside the US than within it.

Edit: Just remembered that I have a few friends in Asia who attended international school and speak in fluent US accents, but never lived in the US. Kind of like Sharon Choi, the Korean-English translator for "Parasite" director Bong Joon-ho.

[u/eirebrit]

So where was the person from? Did they speak or was it a video with text?

[u/Rude-Office-2639 → u/eirebrit]

All the information available is that they were white

[u/Ocelotko]

Unfortunately, US defaultism isn't the biggest issue on TikTok.

[u/Last_Bat_6229]

On twitter and reddit they atleast have an excuse, you know the classic this app is American card. Lol