Even though I made sure to drop little clues about my nationality such as the fact that the post contains the words “in France,” my post about Halloween being a recent phenomenon in my country prompted multiple Americans to say this was bullshit misinformation from the US conservative that I must be, since Halloween is not a recent thing in the US at all and their US relatives already celebrated it in the US decades ago. Someone said I must have grown up in a conservative cult to be unaware of Halloween being a thing, because “OP is saying something that makes no sense re: US culture—OP must have grown-up in a terminally isolated cult within the USA” is the only explanation. At this point I could say “the national anthem of my country is La Marseillaise” and some USians would be like “no? why would you say that?? please delete this misinformation op la Marseillaise is NOT the American anthem where in the US did you grow up that you never heard our anthem??”

#soooo many Americans. so many of them #even people aren’t horrible or stupid #will just believe that the US is the centre of the universe and everything is about then #and their political and social neuroses #for so many of them it doesn’t even seem aggressive they just seem to placidly assume that everything is about them #the amount of times online I’ve had to correct Americans #who say embarrassingly stupid shit to me #because they assumed I was American #they will call everyone else in the world weird for doing a thing a certain way #without realising that everyone else thinks they’re a bit odd for doing that thing the way they do #like it’s just a grating casual sort self-absorption paired with not knowing anything about other countries’ cultures or politics or history #you get used to translating for Americans online bc you know all the equivalents for a Thing and they never know yours via @teacupsandcyanide