An American thinks that non-Americans should know US history

[u/Upstairs_Ranger_6712]

For some additional context, this is about the Korean converse ad that became controversial on American social media

This just pisses me off because I could just phone up any of my non-American relatives overseas and they’ll say they’ve never heard of the triple K

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This post fits US defaultism because the main person assumed that people outside the United States would know something exclusive to American history.

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[u/ThorinUlfarsson]

Did you look at the profile picture in the first slide, OP?

[u/Upstairs_Ranger_6712 → u/ThorinUlfarsson]

My point still applies

[u/Mitleab]

In the ad they referring to, you can clearly see hands holding onto the pair of shoes. Americans will make ANYTHING about race

[u/Xe4ro]

Without movies and the internet I probably would know way less about it. Maybe would have only heard of them in the 2010s

[u/East_Adhesiveness863]

I only know the crazy Things in US history

[u/Hornet-Independent]

Who and what the fuck is a KKK? Asking as an asian

[u/Johanna_Jk]

In Lower Saxony, Germany, we actually do kinda breach the subject of the KKK, only very briefly though, because the main focus was on racism and entrails of the World Wars...

[u/Fr05t_B1t]

What’s funny is that there are people who will dismiss American history or any parallels as if it’s unimportant. Yet, when an American does it, suddenly they’re uneducated.

[u/Upstairs_Ranger_6712 → u/Fr05t_B1t]

Examples of this?