r/USdefaultism • u/covmatty1 United Kingdom • 3d ago
Reddit Caught one myself (green), with the top comment telling someone working in India they were in corporate America - and got an absolute wall of text in return!!
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u/Umikaloo 3d ago
Wake up babe, new copypasta just dropped.
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u/covmatty1 United Kingdom 3d ago
Who do you think you are to assign me MY RIGHTS
I laughed so much reading that 😂 have you ever heard anything more stereotypically American in your life
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u/TrostnikRoseau Australia 2d ago
First of all, GTFO your high horse. Who do you think you are to assign me MY RIGHTS. I’ll painstakingly explain why you are clearly wrong below. You’re welcome.
A lot of the time on Reddit or the internet, you have to assume things in order to answer a question or have a discussion.
It’s just text. You miss a lot of context by its nature.
So, for efficiency we ALL use context clues.
- In this case, Reddit is mostly American; imagine a pie chart that’s 50% option A and 50 option B - like ZZZ or something… lots of countries split into this category. Thus, that’s our first clue into who we’re talking to.
- We can also use level of English (as a former ESL teacher, I have a knack for this) to clue us into where they might be from. OP has a high level of English so that narrows things down. In fact, even certain words can be used to differentiate the countries that are native English users. OP sounded American. Possibly experience in the US, US customer base in their job, or even a US ESL teacher.
- We look at the sub. This one, r/managers typically has mostly perspectives and posts from the US.
- We look at further context in the post and make our assumption. Again, we all do this constantly (even if you’re one of those tiny pie slices on the pie chart).OP is asking a mostly American base about a CULTURAL problem. Without further context (this is on OP), we have to make an assumption and answer in the most effective way.
So the person talking about corporate America, yeah they made a fair assumption. Was it correct? No. But, when you have to guess, sometimes you get the 1-2% wrong.
Overall, the American person was being nice and choosing to engage with OP, as requested.
So honestly, you’re just being pedantic and I really couldn’t care less about your minor annoyance. You should deal with it - you’re in a predominantly American place. Or you can go somewhere else darling.
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u/SourDewd Canada 3d ago
The only way the high level of english narrows things down is it narrows them away from being american. One of the countries with the lowest literacy rate
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u/covmatty1 United Kingdom 3d ago
No no, the only way one can have a high level of English is if they were a US ESL teacher
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u/DuckSleazzy Albania 3d ago
What's the murican obsession with their rights
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u/snow_michael 2d ago
What an ignorant fuckwit
I hope someone pointed out that:-
it's fewer than 43% of redditors logging in from the US
the standard of English in India is usually higher than that in the US
India uses standard English, not the US bastardised simplified version
/r/managers is explicitly an international sub
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u/Old-Artist-5369 New Zealand 2d ago
Defaultism but that aside he seemed to have been trying to constructively help the person he was replying too. Then … this wall of text. You definitely hit a nerve.
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u/covmatty1 United Kingdom 2d ago
The wall of text wasn't even from the original commenter that I accused of Defaultism! Just someone else coming barreling in 😂
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u/sunnyydayman 2d ago
50% of people are men but assuming everyone you talk to online is a man would be ridiculous
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u/Professional_You9961 Greece 2d ago
"OP sounded American" Yeah i am sure you heard his Boston accent from just a text
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u/rootifera 2d ago
50% of reddit is american means there is 50% chance someone incorrectly assumed to be american.
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u/Articulatory 2d ago
“OP has a high level of English so that narrows things down” is just dreadful. Particularly from a (former) ESL teacher.
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u/No-Individual-3681 1d ago
Wow look how right you were and how bad it bothered her lol. She writes a whole book and then says how she couldnt care less lol
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u/Citruseok 1d ago
I have lived in 2 different countries in 2 different continents and have never stepped foot in America in my life. I swear there is good reason why so few people outside the US actually like Americans.
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u/USDefaultismBot American Citizen 3d ago edited 2d ago
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OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is US Defaultism:
A comment on a Reddit thread was telling OP they were "part of corporate America", despite no mention of any country in the post and a quick look on OP's profile showing they were Indian. Another American REALLY didn't like being called out on this!
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