yeah, that particular comment is egregious and beyond insensitive. (but it would take a lot of talking to explain to that person why!)
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tbh i didn’t try. i thought for a few seconds where i would start and decided not to go there.
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It's so common and also the same thing happens in any Western country (Eurocentrism) etc. Really exhausting. I can't stand it.
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Does if manifest the same way in Europe you think? This “the rest of the world follows everything we do” type of worldview which is accepted as a fact and never questioned...
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Guardian Weekly good antidote to this; wide-ranging (in topic & location) news digest, varied length of read, with +word & other puzzles as bonus. [Slimline hard copy invaluable where Twitter not available]
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I can't say I find the Guardian that helpful but that might just be me — nothing specifically to do with content mind! I just don't think my issues with for example the Western perspective on homophobia or sexism are seen by others, they don't care or know.
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It's the kind of stuff I'm daily life that I have to navigate ane negotiate that I wish people were more sensitive to. I grew up with barracks and military camps at every street corner pretty much. With a much higher and more pervasive sexism, in a country which never had a
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feminist movement. I don't have the same childhood memories or feel that my safety is guaranteed in the same way. I have/had so many issues I had to work through all on my own when I emigrated.
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Living amongst people with Western privilege is exhausting.
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Oh, and to directly address the question: yes, USAians are particularly bad. Hell they literally call themselves "Americans" to the exclusion of others who are just as American. (I try to not call them Americans for that reasons). But! Europeans and Australians are also bad.
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And just because USAians are bad doesn't mean that other Westerners in general are fine merely by comparison. They aren't. They are kind of out control often. To make it out like USAians are "the worst" is a neat like absolution of guilt that Europeans like to pull. 
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Oh, and Europeans are definitely those who started pretty much all this shit historically so they have a lot /just as much to answer for.
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