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sparkle@lemm.ee 3 months agoI don’t think non-Americans would primarily be talking about specific American cities, things they experienced in America, primarily American cultural icons, and American politics while also calling American democrats “leftists” but I suppose anything’s possible isn’t it. But that’s just from a few seconds of scrolling.
MudMan@fedia.io 3 months ago
Hey, you may be shocked by this idea, but sometimes people live in places where they weren't born for a while.
But also, even if they didn't, it turns out you can't exist in the world, let alone the Internet, without being constantly exposed to an absolute firehose of US-generated media, including all those very specific references. And, by extension, we also have to be concerned about you weirdos not messing up without having any agency on the outcomes of your bizarre political system (so don't mess it up for us this November, thanks in advance).
That's the entire impetus of my intervention in this thread, the ongoing frustration of seeing Americans, both on the left and the right, be constantly convinced that everything everywhere works just like it does around them and that nobody has thought about it or come up with different solutions or had different needs elsewhere.
sparkle@lemm.ee 3 months ago
That… would make you American. I’m confused on how you think you can live and work in America for a long period of time while participating in the culture and not be American…
Regardless, you definitely could have gone through a different country’s education system, so how about I ask this: Which continent was it on? Out of, say, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
MudMan@fedia.io 3 months ago
Holy crap, does that have strong "shit Americans say" Reddit energy. The friends I have who actually wanted to live in the US had to worry about getting a green card for a decade, but I apparently qualified for a passport after week two. I mean, I never wanted to move there permanently, even when offered, but it's good to know it would have been that easy.
Aaanyway, if you wanted to reveal my place of origin you probably could, given how you're fond of digging through my post history. Go see if you can put together the clues. Or don't, because if I did want to share that I would have at this point, don't you think?
Turns out that I don't feel like passing whatever litmus test for "foreignness" you may have, my hopefully accidentally exceptionalist friend. The fact that you're not seeing how this entire line of questioning is getting very weird is definitely making my point and should absolutely give you pause.
sparkle@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I asked for the continent. So basically what you’re saying is that you’re North American.