• poo@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    67
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    1 month ago

    I’ve heard it called “US Defaultism” where most Americans online seem to assume that everyone they interact with is from their country and all US news is considered significant even when it really isn’t.

    • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      25
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      Counterpoint: I rarely see non-US news posted. I do from time to time here on Lemmy, but it’s very rare.

      I might just be in the wrong communities though.

      • bruhduh@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        That’s because most of the world countries keep internal news, internal, but you’re right tho, not enough representation makes people think like that

        • Kyouki@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          30 days ago

          I do lean moee towards us defaultism being the case as other country news does get posted but has zero to none interaction because the us posts threads are getting so much more activity.

          • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            30 days ago

            Outside Lemmy I use Apple News and what I kind of hate about it is even while traveling abroad you’re stuck with US news. I have both English and Spanish languages set up on iOS so being in a Spanish-speaking country, it would be nice to see local news in either language.

            • Kyouki@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              30 days ago

              Wish we had Apple News :(

              I generally avoid news of late of any kind as its just so bloated and every once a week or so just visit one of my local sites for a quick scroll.

      • wieson@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        30 days ago

        The community news@lemmy.world used to have it in their rules, that it must be US news, same as on the old site. I just looked, and it’s no longer a rule on lemmy.world

    • 200ok@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 month ago

      Imagine if different fonts represented different accents.

      𝓗𝓸𝔀 𝓭𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓭𝓸𝓸𝓸𝓸𝓸𝓸𝓸?

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 month ago

      I’ve been guilty of that- commenting before checking what community the post was in. Thankfully, I’ve found that most people outside of the US prefer gentle correction. Unfortunately, I doubt the average person from the US would show the same courtesy if the roles were reversed.

      • OpenStars@discuss.online
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 month ago

        I find that it correlates more with education status than nationality… but therefore it surely is more rare among the set of average Americans who have access to the internet than globally.

        • MBM@lemmings.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          30 days ago

          … the average Westerner also has access to the internet? At most, maybe it excludes those who don’t speak English