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> Americans tend to forget that there is a world outside of the USA Reinforced by the apparent reality that mostly what people outside the USA want to talk abo
by rootusrootus 4y ago
> Americans tend to forget that there is a world outside of the USA
Reinforced by the apparent reality that mostly what people outside the USA want to talk about is the USA. Even on HN, where we have a large contingent of Europeans participating, we don't hear too much about Europe. It's almost always about the US.
- wongarsu 4y agoThere are plenty of articles about EU regulations or Amsterdam roads on here. But the US has the biggest single audience. Most websites have like 60% Americans but only 10% British or Germans, so anything about the US has it about six times easier to relate than something about Germany
- pessimizer 4y agoWhich makes sense, because the UK has the population of California + Texas, and Germany has the population of California + Texas + Illinois. Of course this is a US-focused site to some extent, but the US just has a big contiguous language community. It's comparable to all of Europe, not individual countries.
- Al-Khwarizmi 4y ago> Reinforced by the apparent reality that mostly what people outside the USA want to talk about is the USA. I'm from Europe and sure, one of the main reasons why I come to this US-based site with a majority of US readership is to find American viewpoints on issues, and engage in discussions about the USA. This doesn't mean that I spend my life wanting to talk about the USA, though. I talk much more about my own country but it's on sites with readership from that country (and in real life, of course) so you're not aware of it. And many of my compatriots don't talk about the USA at all, you just don't see them because they don't hang out in sites like this at all. (Maybe this is already what you meant, that when an American interacts with someone from outside, they often want to talk about the USA -which is not the same as saying that people from outside often talk about the USA in general-. But it's not clear from your wording).
- Porkins67 4y agoIf I want to get perspectives from Europeans and from other parts of the world, what are the best sites to go to in order to see them?
- programmer_dude 4y agoTalking and hearing about the US is fun but I mainly come here for the tech news.
- Jorengarenar 4y agoBecause hardly anybody in European countries writes about their country using English language. Posting Polish article here would make no sense, since hardly anybody would be able to read it, thus only news which reported internationally get any attention. And since USA is quite big and eventful country English-speaking country, we naturally gravitate toward discussions about it.