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THIS! I remember a time that my dad had gotten laid off and my mum was dealing with health issues. They were simply down on their luck and filed for food stamps. Due to their Canadian pension they only qualified for $18 in food stamps a month and made too much to have health insurance, just adding to the health issues.

This! Pay everyone a living wage and do away with tips!

Oh, we Germans kinda do that, too, actually 😅

Everything in American-English too rather than British-English. things that are translated from almost any other language into American-English rather than British-English regardless of the subject matter

Its annoying because everything I see on the internet is mostly American or something and a lot of the people are too, it's hard to find Australian things.

There was a huge fight on an international teacher page on Facebook. A woman who clearly stated she was in Croatia posted a pic of her teaching her students math in a creative way of acting out the problem. She was dressed in what they took to be an offensive Native American outfit. American teachers relentlessly attacked her first cultural appropriation. This was a case of applying American opinions to a person in a different culture! How hypocritical can you be! I contacted her and apologized for their rudeness. Turns out her outfit was bought by her husband when he was working in America! She had no idea about it other than she found it to be beautiful. Several Native American teachers even told her it was not offensive to them, and still white teachers attacked her. The whole comment section was shut down.

Told to "s**t off" because I'm not American when I comment, eh...one, US is really close to us and everything they do affects us, so I have a right to an opinion

I was raised on the Canadian border and think in metric, and other things... My mom's family is not from US. I often feel like what is "standard" in the US is just weird.

Yup the amount of times im mistaken as American

Oh! I am so sorry about doing this!!! I just randomly do this! Sorry to those of you who who are not American and i just assume!

Assume everyone is asian, almost half of the world's population is from Asia.

Strange, I've noticed that a lot of Americans are actually denying being an American.

*lol* that is not just a american thing. I am german myself and I usually assume everyone online is american. except it is a german website...

Will only worsen as leaving the EU also ,eat Google,etc.no comes via the US,no longer any EU comsiderations-criticisms or items bureaucracy often valid,but at least they somewhat stood up to / fined tech giants

I am not an American but I have the same. For example, I thought that Bored Panda was founded by the Americans.

Hopefully that isn’t so much a problem as time progresses.

Yes!

This. This really chaps my grit.

I don't assume that at all. I don't assume someone's nationality. Assuming someone's nationality is a surefire way to offend someone.

:( sadly I do this without thinking, hope one day to solve it

This is hilarious, because nearly everyone on here is guilty of the same general error. Judging by the comments nearly everyone here assumes that all non American respondents are in wealthy Western democracies.

Im sorry im kind of guilty of this, idk maybe its because i'm still a kid but its hard for me to think about other countries and stuff, i just feel like the envrionment i am growing up in is "normal" and anything different is weird. I also almost always assume everyone on the internet is american. idk why i just do.

Massive ego and hubris.

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Probably because most websites that Americans use were created in America and are frequented mostly be Americans. And usually it doesn't matter, if I say "I like cheese", it doesn't matter where you're from. American culture has historically been so popular that you can usually make some cultural reference and people from outside the USA will get it.

We’d call that indoctrination in the UK. I remember speaking with an elderly Italian man who was a child when Mussolini came to power. He told me they were forced to do similar things at school.

And lobby for laws that put more people in jail

Most Americans think they're ridiculous too tbh.

It's so much more than that. It's not that they dont want healthcare, they dont want to pay for SOMEONE ELSE'S healthcare.

Most places use chip-and-pin where they *have* to take the card at the table since you need to enter your PIN. USA credit card banks decided Americans aren't smart enough for chip-and-pin, so we just have chip and an archaic signature.

Yeah, I kinda agree with this one.

This is sad

Add "who is paying their debt while also stopping treatment because they can't continue accruing more debt"

yeah...

i know- you can literally stare someone in the face while they are going to the bathroom

How else can they keep up the illusion that they live in a country worth celebrating?

Different taxes in different states. But yeah.

Work to live, don't live to work.

we get sooo many ads too; they're literally everywhere and most of them are attack ads with questionable information

it's disgusting the amount of money my school spends on sports, and we're not even remotely a sporty school

the meal in the picture is not an American one.

Yeah in my country, if you don't take your minimum of 5 weeks of holiday per year, it will be scheduled for you. Literally your manager will force you to relax :D.

Yeah it is pretty weird. Why not just say 9th, 10th , 11th, and 12 grade? Seems much more simple. I am going to be in high school next year and I am Indian but I live in America. I am used to saying junior, sophomore, etc. but my mom finds it really confusing. This seems so unnecessary.

I'm good with it being a weekday, but it should be a national holiday

This is a bad policy because everyone comes to work sick so they can still take vacation days.

Way too much religion everywhere and about everything.

It’s very annoying

Already noted. Pay everyone a living working wage (NOT $7.50/hr). Do away with tipping.