Iâve noticed lately that itâs often Americans who leave tags like âI donât even care if itâs made upâ on posts I make that are not particularly unbelievable, but are pretty specific to my way of life or corner of the world (like the one about the cheese vendor). It reminds me of that tweet that was circulating, that said Americans have a âmedieval peasant scale of worldviewââI mean, if you donât want to be perceived this way by the rest of the world maybe donât go around social media saying that if a cultural concept or way of life sounds unfamiliar it must be made up?
Itâs the imbalance thatâs annoying, because likeâwhen I mentioned having no mobile network around here I had people giving me info about Verizon to fix my problem. I post some rural pic and someone says it must be somewhere in the Midwest because the Southwest doesnât look like this. My post about my postwoman has thousands of Americans assuming itâs about the USPS. On my post about my architect thereâs someone saying âitâs because architecture is an impacted majorâ and other irrelevant stuff about how architecture is taught in the US. This kind of thing happens so so so often and Iâm expected to be familiar with the concepts of Verizon and the Midwest and impacted majors and the USPS and meanwhile I make a post about my daily life and Americans in the notes are debating like âdunno if real. it sounds made upâ
Going online for the rest of the world means having to keep in mind an insane amount of hyperspecific trivia about American culture while going online for Americans means having to keep in mind that the rest of the world really exists I guess
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