People are drawn to trainwrecks. The weirdest part of living outside the US is the number of people who still obsess over the US.
Canadian, here. Kind of hard to ignore our giant idiot neighbour to the south.
I mean I feel like Canada is a given. The reference in my mind was China.
I guess in retrospect, people in China obsess over the US about as much as Americans obsess over whatever China does, so in that context maybe it’s just superpower rivalry.
But it is something when you go to other countries like Mongolia where people don’t generally know English, yet you walk into a random shop and they’re still playing Taylor Swift over the radio, and the first question asked when people learn you’re American is what you think about Trump.
The weirdest part of living outside the US is the number of people who still obsess over the US.
Do you honestly find it weird that people all over the world obsess over the one country in the world that constantly sends its enormous military all over the world?
Also the country that collapsed the world economy when some guy in Florida was late on a mortgage payment.
Please. Let it diversify.
As a US dweller, I’d love it to be anything but US centric.
I think I know what you mean. When I go on holidays, the last place I want to spend my days is in Irish pubs. The good ones can be lovely, and it’s nice to meet new people from home, but it’s not why I’m there.
Yes!
And also, imagine the loudest bits of your local pubs are Trump, Trump, Trump, 24/7/365.
That’s another good point. That mindset is probably overrepresented online.
Everyone slows down to watch the car wreck.
From around 7PM - 9PM HST, lemmy is almost 100% German.
No idea where/what time HST is, but I agree, there is a “German time”, not so for French, Italian, …
https://www.timetemperature.com/tzhi/honolulu.shtml
My read is that this is about when Germans are waking up, so there are many people posting whatever the new’s of the day is. It just so happens that it corresponds with the time of the evening after work where I might browse lemmy while watching a show.
Most of us came from Reddit, and Reddit is predominantly Americans.
and unfortunately a lot of people don’t want to leave the reddit behind
If they’re that addicted to reddit’s way of doing things they can stay.
No, the majority of users on reddit are non-Americans. Americans are just the biggest national group of users, but they are a minority. You are more likely to be talking to a non-American than an American on reddit.
Because it’s the most newsworthy country at the moment. The most powerful country in the world is crashing before your eyes, whilst the rest of the world mostly continues on as it was. Yeah, some noteworthy things are happening all over the world, but that’s not as dramatic as the fall of arguably the most hated country in the world. And everything from genocide to climate change, disease and general suffering can be at least tangentially related to the disaster that is the US and it’s administration. I mean, what noteworthy things are there to chide Sweden for? Anything? Is it comparible to the horrors and despair that the US is causing? There’s your answer.
Almost at all times…
Because those at the head of the whole government thingy fuck it up for almost half of the world…… but that’s not as dramatic as the fall of arguably the most hated country in the world
Easy there, lets not forget Israel. America is maybe right behind them though.
That’s why that key word, “arguably” is there. Russia is also working for that title.
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It is not just the funding, they literally got a cheerleader in Trump, extremely eager to participate as well, as was seen with the bombing of Iran.
Netanyahu doesn’t have to hold back anymore, he can blatantly genocide because he got the backing of the US, and the European leaders are mostly too spineless to cross the Americans.
Most of the things happening in Israel now is because of the US though. Netanyahu really felt empowered by Trump becoming president, and rightly so, because he can manipulate that orange toddler into doing anything he wants.
what noteworthy things are there to chide Sweden for?
They’re been losing Social Bastion points for a while now and are turning a hard right towards Aryan Master-race ethos.
Most of europe actually.I checked the news in the biggest newspaper in sweden, and there’s this story about a bus that scraped the roof while driving under a bridge. Must have been scary for the passengers. Luckily it wasn’t going that fast. And there’s a list of schools where you actually get paid to study so you don’t need student loans.
That’s awesome that that’s the worst news from there. And I love Sweden and Norway as that’s where my family originated from. What I wouldn’t give to have been born in either of those countries. Unfortunately I’m one generation out of being able to easily go back.
For Norway a good chunk of the news on our state-run newspaper is related to the US as well. Especially the recent Epstein stuff
Other than that it’s Israel/Palestine, Ukraine/Russia, some other international news, sports, the current heatwave, a little about nature, a little about new infrastructure projects, a news story about hate speech, and a couple other misc stories
No moose mentioned?
There was a story about moose some weeks ago, but it’s been a while now, sadly.
Europe is trying to solve their problems while we are just throwing fuel on the fire.
There are 27 countries in the EU, there is only one USA. Most people don’t seem to care about each other’s national happenings.
That’s so fascinating.
As an American, only peak news from Mexico and Canada gets on my radar. I don’t know shit about Brazil, Cuba, etc. and with my shit American education system, I can’t even name the South American countries.
So if you’re in Italy, you don’t give a shit about Austria, Switzerland, or France and their big news?
Yes, we do.
I remember in primary school that we were tasked with learning the names and capitals of all countries on the planet, continent for continent, so there is an early taught awareness of all countries, as well as a culture for backpacking, experiencing and adapting to other cultures. As a Norwegian, most news here are about here, and only major headlines from other countries are mentioned in the news, like the upcoming doctors strike in UK in the news today or the power outage in Spain a while back. Some more news from Sweden though, as it is our closest neighbour and the country we visit the most.
It’s possible that most English-speakers on this planet are in the US.
Maybe native speakers or English only speakers. But over a billion people speak English (approx, per Wikipedia), and US only accounts for a fraction of that.
Nice! I was wondering if US or India would be higher and this answers that. I didn’t spot that page in time for the previous response.
I should add too, I don’t disagree with your point! It is a huge portion of the English speaking population. I was mostly just being pedantic, but also wanting to push back on a statement that could overstate the importance and relative size of the US.
Sure. But people upvote content about their own nation, and the US is the largest single population of english speakers. Maybe India would beat us out, but they seem to have their own internet that they stick to for the most part.
Even then, though, the US accounting for 1/5 of all English speakers, and the majority of native (L1) English speakers, is notable all the same.
No, most English speakers on the planet are not from the US. In fact most English speakers on the planet are secondary speakers, and not even from an English speaking country.
English is used on the internet as an international language which enables people from all over the world to understand each other.
I see German content here all the time, even though I don’t understand it or follow it.
I’ve blocked so much german.
𝔅𝔲𝔱 𝔴𝔥𝔶?
It’s either that or learn German and I’m way too busy scrolling for that.
I’ve accidentally learned a good amount of German from lemmy, actually. I didnt mean to, but from similar words, to looking up Rammstein lyrics, I had a base. From that base, and context, I’m actually learning a good bit of German without intention. Sometimes I read a German headline and it takes me a second to realize I’m reading German. I come across a word I don’t know and I’m like “oh shit, I’m reading German”. It’s honestly been my favorite part of lemmy, I struggled with Spanish in a classroom setting and here I am learning German on accident. Granted, I couldn’t pretend to know how to pronounce half of it, but I’m learning to read it.
You have to be a bit careful, because some people deliberately talk in wrong German (“Zangendeutsch”, where words are translated from English by “force”).
That makes sense, like learning English from Internet memes?
Even worse, English memes usually aren’t as bad regarding the creation of new words.
Worse.
The German you read from Zangendeutsch memes are almost as grammatically accurate as the German accent you got from Schwarzenegger.
Imagine the most broken grammar and then you get that.On top the grammar is also non-applicable.
Upside: You can still get some idea of what the meme is about. :)
The good news is German has consistent pronunciation so it’s easy to learn that part
Until the loan words come out.
Because the average US citizen doesn’t speak a 2nd language while most of Europeans know English, so the focus shifts towards that
This is one of my main motivations to learn other languages. The internet is tedious if you only speak English.
We have Florida Man and Europe doesnt
I think we might be noisy.
It would already be nice if posts specified they are about the USA instead of just blurping out something about “the civil war” for example instead of “the USA civil war”.
One can dream!
Do you agree that Israel should stop receiving any and all US aid and end the genocide on Palestine?
I agree to you stfu instead of polluting the discussion.
How the fuck is that related to this thread?
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There are several of these already, which one are you talking about?
United States of Bolivia: Civil War: Federal War (1898-1899)
United States of Colombia: Civil War: The War of a Thousand Days (1899-1902)
United States of Venezuela: Civil War: Federal War (1859-1863)
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