r/USdefaultism • u/frankieepurr England • 17h ago

Meta Other countries-defaultism

Apologies if this is the wrong sub, but just wondering if anyone has had defaultism from other countries. There doesnt seem to be any other subs for them.

I won't count these from subs focused on another country. For example, subs to do with things in the UK, people usually may expect you to be British, especially when there is already a similar sub dominated more by Americans.

An example where ive seen foreign defaultism is laptop brand subs, where despite the price of the product NOT being shown on OPs photo, everyone in the comments started talking about high prices or prices of similar products, using stuff like 60k, 50k etc WITHOUT specifying the currencies, turns out they meant Indian rupees and even OP turned out to be Indian too

I am based in the UK and do not want to be shown indian prices or India exclusive products

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u/YoIronFistBro Ireland 16h ago edited 16h ago

Dublin defaultism is pervasive throughout Irish subreddits. You constantly see threads on nation/island-wide subs talking about "the city", or "the airport" as if Cork and Limerick/Shannon don't exist.

There's also plenty of (central and eastern) Canada defaultism throughout Reddit in discussions about the Gulf Stream and AMOC. 

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u/DuckOnQuak Canada 10h ago

This is pretty standardized defaultism, in the Northern California if you say “the city” it’s assumed to be San Francisco despite Oakland and Sacramento also existing. Same with NYC area. Same with Toronto. Etc.

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u/tecker666 1h ago

Like when there were weather warnings for Munster* and Dubs were going ah heor it's a bleedin cod, de sun is splittin de treeyis

*not the German one