• WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    I think the charitable explanation is that the US exports so much pop culture and also several of the main social media companies are US based that US Americans see “their culture” constantly reflected back to them causing a reflexive assumption that is often wrong. The less charitable explanation would be willful, myopic ignorance I guess.

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      8 hours ago

      In this case, I think most Americans would assume we’re the only ones actually dumb enough to do this.