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fandomsecrets2011-11-24 03:29 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2011-11-24 03:29 pm
[ SECRET POST #1787 ]
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 40 secrets from Secret Submission Post #255.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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(Anonymous) 2011-11-25 02:59 am (UTC)(link)THIS is what annoys me. Not the fact that you might not have had experience with alternate money systems, or might not have experience with other people doing things differently, but that you can stand there and say, "Why should I have to learn that other people might do things differently than me?"
Where the dollar sign was in this secret was irrelevant to the secret. There was no reason for the first anon to even "correct" the OP if not to say, "That's not how WE do it."
On a whole, I'm not anti-American. A lot of people, not just Americans, show an astounding amount of ignorance to other people and other cultures. This instance just happens to involve a supposed American. Hell, they could be Canadian, since as I think with maybe the exception of Quebec, the dollar sign goes in front there too.
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(Anonymous) 2011-11-25 07:19 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2011-11-26 04:47 am (UTC)(link)The USA is a highly isolated and large country
Large? Yes. Isolated? ... wha? The USA does not exist in a vacuum or a bubble. It's not third world country where it receives no information about other countries and is behind the times.
Like I said, I can see not knowing every specific thing about every fucking country's day to day culture, but to honestly say with a straight face, "it's that this kind of information isn't stressed because for most parts of the country, it's not necessary" which makes it sound like no one needs to know that other countries have different currencies/ways of doing things, is just ridiculous.
I don't know how everyone else does things, but if I come across someone who says or does something in a manner that I'm not familiar with, my common sense is to presume they're from somewhere that does it that way, not that it's wrong. That's what I don't get with your logic, and what pissed me off about the original anon's reply.
It was so... ME ME ME THIS IS HOW ****I**** DO IT, AND YOU'RE WROOOOOONG!!! that I recoiled in disbelief. They came across as not even ATTEMPTING to consider that the OP was from a place that just DID THINGS DIFFERENTLY. Their first assumption seemed to be that the OP was just an idiot who did it wrong.
It's just a matter of what people grow up having relayed to them.
I can accept this if you're under the age of a teenager, but to be honest, not much further past that. While a lot of knowledge comes from your family and how you were raised, with that knowledge there should also be the understanding that what you're learning isn't everything, and that there's more out there. Someone who's in high school should be aware that they might come across things they've never learned about.
Anyway, while I'm sorry my initial comment came across as very assholey (so not a word, but I'm sleepy XD), I am just constantly baffled by people who act like what they know is The One Truth™, and that there couldn't possibly be people out there who *GASP* do things in a different way.