[ SECRET POST #1787 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1787 ⌋


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The USA is a highly isolated and large country. A lack of common knowledge as to what goes on in Lithuania or Wales or Sweden is a reflection on that. It's not that the USA is ignorant when it comes to cultures - they are the melting pot, after all - it's that this kind of information isn't stressed because for most parts of the country, it's not necessary. In an increasingly connected world, this M.O. is quickly becoming outdated, but it's not like the USA is a tiny nation in Europe. The kind of interaction nations engage in elsewhere in the world doesn't really apply to places like the USA or Australia (the latter from which I come, and I assure you people there are infinitely worse than people in the USA when it comes to international knowledge). It's just a matter of what people grow up having relayed to them.

[(Anonymous)]

I know this is probably going to come off as rude, and for that I apologize, but I have to laugh at this:

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.