#us-centrism

[dracothelizard]

When someone in an international online space asks a location-specific question or introduces themselves without mentioning where they're from, can we start assuming they're from Antarctica or something?

Maybe that'll get the US-Americans (because let's be real, 9 out of 10 times it's a US-American) to remember to include their rough location instead treating 'being from the US' as the unspoken default.

#US-centrism #Out of all the ways to be US-centric it's a pretty harmless one #But still annoying when they ask a question where the answer will depend on their location #And they forget to give it

[ohmystarsy]

oh yeah tankies getting more notes than Ukrainians talking about their first-hand experience of the war is what I love to see on tumblr dot com /s

#im fucking done #yes this is also re the shitshow that is british politics #ukraine #west-centrism #us-centrism #im fucking done with this shit

[tarisbackyard]

Kinda sucks how the protestant label got completely monopolised by specifically post-calvinist US Protestantism, which afaik has very little in common with most other branches of protestantism (at least has fuck all in common with the type of Protestantism where I am from).

When I was still learning English this seriously caused some issues, cause that is not the kind of thing that you'll find anyone explaining to you. Had to figure this out myself through some really painful trial and error.

I guess what I am trying to say is:

USians: if you hear a foreigner talk about anything, there is always a pretty big chance that the words they are using hold some very crucial different connotations that they have no chance to be aware of.

Everyone else: No amount of studying can prepare us for this kind of bullshit.

#language #us-centrism

[vogelmeister]

i am done with america centric attitudes. stop mentioning american specific things and references and expecting i understand. i don’t.

#i don’t know every once in a while i need to say this #im just kinda sick and tired it #‘you know the feeling when you walk into a trader joes-‘ nee #‘have you been to hobby lobby recently-‘ imma stop you right there #us-centrism

[greencheekconure27]

Another one for the block list, ladies and gentlemen: changingperidoically

This useful idiot is US-based as far as I can tell

And many other posts like this in the Ukraine tag

Mostly about how Ukraine is a US money laundering scheme ( because God forbid something isn't about the USA for once🙄) and how Ukrainians are Nazis

#russian propaganda blocklist #useful idiots #us-centrism #russian propaganda #ukraine #russian war on ukraine #russian invasion of ukraine #misinformation

[calicopolitics]

Something that frustrates me is that the English-speaking internet is very American-centric, and this extends to discussions of real-world issues.

The issue with this is that I feel that topics that really ought to be known and discussed more throughout the internet often go unknown if they are not happening in the US or big enough to spread better, such as wars.

You have to specify *country* politics if you want to find posts about it if it is outside of the US the majority of the time, and even then, it seems that it rarely becomes especially widespread outside of those circles.

America is treated as the default and the most important country an awful lot of the time, and I just wish that it wasn't the case.

For one, it would be nice if America wasn't talked about like it was the default, and that people discussed issues from around the world more.

I understand that people are more likely to talk about politics/issues in general specific to their country as they're more likely to be familiar and it is more relevant to them, and that America is a big country with a very large population, but it would nevertheless be nice to see things a little more balanced.

#Politics #America #Americentrism #US-centrism #I understand that it is a little more complicated than being simply choosing to ignore it but it's nevertheless quite sad. #Mine

[snovyda]

US centrism is incredible. You write something about the history of your country that faced some oppression from its neighbours and you get (sometimes seemingly well meaning) USamericans all yelling "me!me!me! What about the oppression WE did? The most important oppression ever, we are THE worst, that is what must be talked about!" And it's literally silencing the voices and experiences of those whose history was NOT related to those very specific US policies. It's still a form of imperialism, too, by the way, stealing voices and agency from others for the sake of your own main character syndrome.

#us centrism #uscentrism #there is a whole world out there #please take some interest in it #it will help #usa centrism

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Shenker-Osorio says the left’s enemy isn’t the right, it’s cynicism. The problem isn’t that authoritarians want to erase the division between church and state, or take away our right to control our bodies. The problem is that this minority can get away with these unpopular proposals because the people who disagree with them think nothing can be done to stop them. For Shenker-Osorio, the tonic for this is to switch from the negative framing (“abolish ICE”) to positive ones: “respect all families.” Rather than saying “end the climate emergency,” she wants us to call for “ensuring clean, safe air to breathe and water to drink.” When the right says they want to cut taxes to improve the economy, we counter with, “we’ll raise wages and increase consumption, which is better for the economy.” Shenker-Osorio proposes a three-step method for changing minds. First, identify a shared value (“people who work for living ought to earn a living”). Move on to a problem (“our divisions distract us while rich people pick our pockets and hand the spoils to their corporate cronies”). And then, the solution: “rewrite the rules so that the wealthiest few pay what they owe and all of us have what we need for generations to come.”

-Pizzaburgers: “Everybody hates this idea, so it must be great”

#us politics #manchin-collins 2024 #no labels #problem solvers caucus #pizzaburgers #centrism #anat shenker-osorio

[dracothelizard]

Canon setting: Not the US

Canon characters: (mostly) Not US-American

English-speaking fandom: *writes a gazillion (modern) AUs set in the US*

#Fandom #US-centrism #Other countries are available

[ohmystarsy]

there is nothing better to start a day than being hit by the instance of us-centrism again while going through the tags of one of those "this [obscure thing] is called [a name] where I live reblog where you live and how do you call it" posts and seeing way too many usamericans saying "of course it's a [name] what else could it be called?" as if other languages didn't exist

#why why why WHY are you like this #us-centrism #pointless post #btw i was going through the tags bc i forgot how we call this obscure thimg in poland and wanted to find out lol

[underclerysclock]

White USAmericans will never understand the impact USCentrism and cultural cringe has on artists outside of their empire. You will never understand writing a story drawing from your own personal understanding of the world and knowing the whole time it'll never be "relatable" enough. But I'm supposed to know what a fucking Trader Joe's is.

I am a white Australian, I'm not exactly that oppressed, I benefit from living in a colonial outpost. But even me, a beneficiary of English colonialism, am not "relatable" enough if I dare to write from an Australian perspective. Your country ousted our then prime minister, Gough Whitlam, in 1975 because he didn't hate communists enough, you plonk your military bases across the outback, further displacing already displaced indigenous people, less and less Australian content is being made because there isn't a viable market for it.

Marginalised Australian voices have absolutely no voice out of this country at all, let alone in our country. Have you consumed a single piece of media created by an Aboriginal Australian? Do you even care that the first transgender women on TV to be played by an out trans woman was on an Australian show (the performer Carlotta as Robyn Ross in the soap opera Number 96)? But I'm supposed to care about American Show #3839384 because there's one loveless, awkward "revolutionary" gay kiss.

If you're a white USAmerican, I want you to imagine that one day you write a story and you mention snow in winter or a yellow school bus, and suddenly someone goes "no one will read that, it's too specific".

#flood warning #us centrism

[politijohn]

Brave!

#resign #politics #us politics #democrats #government #the left #dianne feinstein #progressive #current events #news #twitter post #centrism #neoliberalism

[whentheynameyoujoy]

Sorta kinda can't wrap my head around how usamericans can simultaneously go, "this operation in a war our country doesn't fight was planned specifically around an event nobody but us gives a fuck about" and then be all I'm just a birthday boy the moment they're reminded to pretty please bother to get off their precious ass and fucking vote in their grand imperial elections that will affect the rest of us we're all living in Amerika, ist wunderbar.

#us centrism

[electrosquash]

Ngl the Reichsbürger Razzia today hitting international news (and therefore the dashboard) for once and Americans explaining it as 'Qanon going international' really grates on my nerves.

We've been dealing with these fuckers for decades now, they've recently tried attacking our power grid and rail infrastructure to induce a revolution, they've been planning to abduct ministers, they've been a major motor of fascism, antisemitism and antivax activities, they've tried storming the parliament, they're armed to the teeth, they placed their members in our parliament, in the police police and in the army. Not because of Qanon but because they believe the german empire to never have ceased existing and the current government to be illegitimate. (They ignore that the third reich was dissolved the moment germany capitulated because they want to instill the monarchy, fascism and/or and the borders from 1871 again, which extended to Kaliningrad) And now that it has reached public consciousness it's all being americasplained as just another extension of their politics instead of a deep structural problem in germany.

Don't get me wrong it SHOULD be major news because they are dangerous as fuck even if they come across as totally off the rails and yes they do use Qanon structures to empower themselves and yes some of them believe in Qanon too. But i'm so tired of everything being tied to US politics all the time without people even trying to understand the local context.

#complaints #german stuff #german news #germany #current events #us centrism #qanon #reichsbürger #the scariest thing is that this doesn't even feel like a big thing anymore #ok to reblog

[snovyda]

Just watched a documentary mini-series on how Ukraine was regaining its independence in 1991.

The way the US tried so hard to preserve the USSR. That goddamned "Chicken Kiev" speech from George Bush.

And then that ultimatum that the US would only recognise Ukraine's independence if Ukraine gave up its nukes and a significant portion of other weapons, because for some reason they thought only russia had the right to have them.

Ukraine did agree to this ultimatum. It signed that goddamned Budapest memorandum. The US and UK said they, along with russia, would guarantee Ukraine's safety. And then in 2014 Ukraine, having gotten rid of most of its military potential, got invaded by russia. And the UK and US did NOTHING. Then in 2022 russia escalated its war to all out genocide. Entire cities are completely razed to the ground, tens of thousands of people are killed, millions lost their homes, thousands are subject to torture and forced deportations. Only then the US reluctantly started providing help, which is MUCH appreciated, I must stress on that, but Ukraine still has to keep begging. For its very existence. That was "guaranteed".

And in the midst of this, a lot of USAmericans are like, "why would we care about these millions of people (that we gave security guarantees to) that are being subject to genocide when the roads in my town are bad and the streets are filled with garbage? They must all die because there is garbage on my street!"

#i am so tired i can't even express it #ukraine #russian invasion of ukraine #western hypocrisy #us centrism #us privilege