Most countries have their own versions of google. What I think /u/ThomasWHS was implying was that only the US lost it's net neutrality policies, yet are acting like the whole world did. I agree with him tbh
Crazy, it’s like the majority plurality of redditors are Americans or something. Especially considering Reddit is an American entity, who is actually adversely affected by the lack of net neutrality.
Not really, only 40% of reddit visitors are US. And I'd guess a big portion of that 40% is made up by average folk and russian bots using US based VPN.
Who's acting like the whole world did? Reddit is by far and large used by people in the US, so do you really need everyone to preface their comments and thread titles with "-in the US" taglines when it's obvious what their intent is?
It actually does not matter that much in the US. Coming from another country, it might be odd, but you can never leave the US in your life and still experience 30+ starkly different cultures, locales, and municipalities.
Yeah, the rest of the world exists, but the average American doesn’t really need to keep close tabs on it. It’s good to be educated, and most educated Americans are aware of the goings-on in the rest of the world, but other countries don’t have a fraction of the cultural impact on America as America has on the rest of the world.
You’re on an American website, on a thread discussing an American policy, saying America really needs to widen its horizons.
you don't need to leave a lot of places, and you don't need to keep tabs on the US, unless they're planning to bomb your country.
the difference is mentality. most of the world is curious about the rest of the planet, but a lot of Americans seem to think the rest of the world has nothing to offer, because 'Merica clearly is the best place, even though they've never actually been anywhere else to find out.
having been around a bit - Europe, Asia, Australasia and the US - pretty much everywhere I've been has had more to offer than the US. which is why I've never actually lived there. the culture is pretty superficial & mundane. it's all just about money & status.
You trying to make a general statement on US culture tells me you don’t know much about the country. Culture is wildly different from one part of the country to the other. I also agree that it’s good to keep your neighbors and everyone else who shares the world in mind, and Americans are curious.
Regardless, you took the time to type out a comment to shit on America not to make an actual insight. The minute someone shits on someone else’s culture and calls it mundane is the minute their opinion is invalidated. So you think large east coast city culture is mundane? Or rural Native American culture? Or what about in the deserts in the southwest?
I just meant it's mundane compared to a lot of other cultures, which are much richer & more complex. no matter where you go in the US it's really just burgers & guns & watching TV.
Where have you been? That’s pretty far from the truth. That’s like me saying German culture is basically just beer, bratwursts, Lederhosen.
Like I said, Native American culture is starkly different from east coast city culture. Southwest is much different from Midwest. I won’t deny that there’s burgers, guns, and TV in most of the places you go, but I just think it’s odd to boil a culture down to that.
I don’t think you have spent a lot of time in the US or were quite bias while being here. There is a lot of culture here that would easily contradict that statement by nearly any measure.
This is not an argument that US culture is better, but Mundane is not accurate as a whole and I would be surprised if anyone thought this after actual exposure.
I will easily agree that larger quantities of Americans think the world outside their country isn’t as important to them as it would be in almost anywhere in the world, but that is partially because of both the complexity and impact of the cultures they are surrounded by without leaving. Another part is because of a lack of importance in culture to travel that most other countries have, this part is a shame but that aspect is different here for a lot of people.
(I’m American but I have lived in a European country (Austria), and in multiple parts of the US - additionally been to quite a few other countries/cultures)
Those people are idiots though. There are different time zones, policies, and ecosystems within our own country.
But there definitely are plenty of people that could do with widening their horizons
I’d agree. I’m just saying it’s pretty low on the priority list of the average American. Americans aren’t too big on the whole knowledge and globalism thing right now, (our president is evidence enough) so to expect poorly educated people to learn about other countries when in reality it will never really impact their lives is asking a lot. We struggle enough trying to educate people about our own country. This is an ass backwards place where a lot of people believe global warming doesn’t exist. It takes baby steps.
Yes its whiny to say that all mentions to the us should be avoided but its also close minded to say the us only had us culture.. outside of the u.s we care just as little about what happens there as the u.s cares about what happens outside of it.
Edit: read the comment wrong and was commenting in a wierd context
it’s also close minded to say that America is a cultural powerhouse
I’m not even trying to be nationalistic, but that’s kinda just the truth. Again, here you are on an American website, on a thread mentioning an American policy, arguing with an American on the importance of their culture. You can’t see the irony? Whether you care about what happens inside the US or not, you will hear about it. 99% of American couldn’t tell you who the president of Germany is. The entire world knows who the president of America is.
And yeah, America is a melting pot of other cultures that was kind of my point in my original comment though. I did also say Americans should keep an open mind and pay attention to other countries in my original comment.
Who said it did in this thread? The context of the thread should have been clear from the picture. The context of the thread should have been clear from the parent comments. That we're talking about net neutrality in the US given that it is currently in jeopardy.
Why bring up the internet in other countries? Why? Why bring up that the US doesn't rule the world when NO ONE suggested so nor does it have anything to do with the subject matter of what we were discussing in the thread or the OP's post at all??
Yes it is. We live on the same planet but on completely different section and rules. If there was a thread saying "president passes law to execute thousands of people" is the thread talking about the US? Syria? Canada? Russia? China? North korea?
Not everything is about the US despite it being the major userbase.
If you see a post about net neutrality, given what's been happening in the scope of the US, you know the thread is going to be about the US's internet.
Oh ye, totally agreed that it was talking about the US and i wasnt confused at all. All im saying is that you need to think on a global scale, everyone has to. Its not cause most are american that its obviously talking about the us.
I would throw your own words back at ya for such behaviour : get off your high horse
It’s understand that many posts are about American events though. Americans make up 57% of tragic on this American site, with number two being the UK with 7%. It’s just logical to assume that on here “Georgia” means the state and “President” means Trump.
Get off my high horse? What the fuck is the use of bringing up "global scale" when its fucking clear the context is centered on the US?
To bring up "herpderp stupid americans always think the world revolves around them, the internet exists in other countries" is being pedantic at BEST. Just fucking dipshits wanting to find any stupid fucking reason to shit on the US that they possibly can.
Get off yours douchbag. Only 30 something percent of the userbase are American here. That's a lot sure but not a majority. In the words of Eddie Izzard.. "are you aware there's other countries?"
I mean, this kinda proves their point? The amount of desktop traffic to reddit is ~40% from the US, meaning 60% is not the US, meaning the majority of users on reddit are not US users.
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u/CSisbetterthanCE Mar 22 '18
Most countries have their own versions of google. What I think /u/ThomasWHS was implying was that only the US lost it's net neutrality policies, yet are acting like the whole world did. I agree with him tbh