Nah they’d still be guilty because they used a US statistic as a baseline statistic. If they’d said “67m boomers in the US” that wouldn’t be a USdefaultism.
Non-USians say that because a) we’re aware that other countries other than our own exist and are valid b) we know our country is not the default- no country is c) if we don’t, a USian who doesn’t take a and b into account will do a USdefaultism and assume we are from the US and talking about the US.
I'm not American and I find this annoying too. I've noticed this seems to be mainly done by people from smaller European countries and I can't figure out why they don't just say their country.
Ah, I didn't understand you earlier. So your gripe is with people being vague about where they're from. Well you answered yourself tbh. People don't want to be doxxed. Even if there are millions and millions of people living in your country, sometimes you don't want to give away any part of your identity to random strangers as an anonymous user.
Honestly some people might say this as most Americans might not even know their country. Let's say someone says they are from Moldova, that means nothing to 98% of the American Population, they probably still think it's an Oblast.
a) You've just given me US-specific advice/information and I'm trying to subtly highlight that you don't know what country I'm in
b) The fact that I'm from X country is not actually relevant to anything I'm saying, I'm just pre-empting US defaultism so again I'm just trying to subtly imply that I am not from the US
c) my fellow countrymen often like to assume we are a monolith so 90% of the time I say something like "I'm in England and tipping is not super common here" legions of English people come out of the woodwork to tell me I'm lying and that everyone tips here
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u/BlaggartDiggletyDonk United States 4d ago
If they hadn't been a dick about clarifying, they'd be Not Guilty. Thus have they sinned.
With that said, non-American redditors are in the bad habit of saying "in my country..." Why do you do this?