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It's not unusual in the US to assume the US are the only planet in the universe.
by classified 2y ago
It's not unusual in the US to assume the US are the only planet in the universe.
- ed_elliott_asc 2y agoYou mean self declared (rightfully or wrongfully) leaders of the free world? :)
- justinclift 2y agoThere's a documentary about exactly that: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/ :)
- jpgvm 2y agoIs it bad that I knew exactly what this was before I clicked on it?
- justinclift 2y agoNope, it just shows you're aware. :)
- RandomThoughts3 2y agoSpecial mention of the expression “the west” which Americans like to use to mean the USA and some amorphous blob I don’t really want to think about but I’m going to pretend is exactly the same as the USA.
- aquova 2y agoThat's easy, it's the US and any Canadian city with an NHL team.
- djtango 2y agoI'd argue the UK is part of "the west"?
- ben_w 2y agoThe UK is the old west (but not the Old West). London is in the global west, except for the whole thing with the Greenwich Meridian going through… Greenwich, east London. Not to be confused with East London, which is in South Africa, which fortunately is also in south Africa. The UK is definitely in the west of Europe though.
- blitzar 2y agoIts the World Series of Baseball.
- ralgozino 2y agoSomehow related, expressions like "next summer", "starting this spring" and such on public global announcements make absolutely nonsense if you are in the southern hemisphere (like a big percentage of the global population)
- gruez 2y agoWhat are they supposed to use instead? "Starting in Q3/H2"?
- ralgozino 2y agoMaybe you are not aware but while it is summer in the northern hemisphere in the southern hemisphere you have winter (and so on). So, speaking of seasons means exactly the opposite depending on which hemisphere you are. What's wrong with using a calendar date like may the 1st? I know that there are other calendars too. But is more manageable IMO.
- gruez 2y ago>What's wrong with using a calendar date like may the 1st? Usually it's because they want to keep it vague because the exact date (or even month) hasn't been set yet.
- dathinab 2y agoyes, many non US firms do exactly that for international announcements: - use "second half of ", "begin of", 3 quartal of, etc. - or a specific month if they want to be more precise also for western focused announcements they also use "holliday session" as their tends to be a holliday session in most countries in both summer and winter (through their start differs _a lot_, but it tends to just work out if you release early enough)
- cesarb 2y ago> use "second half of ", "begin of", 3 quartal of, etc. And they sometimes use their internal fiscal year, which doesn't align with the calendar year. So sometimes, when they speak of the "fourth quarter" of an year they are talking about the beginning of the next year, or in the opposite direction, they might speak of the "first quarter" of an year but they're talking about the end of the preceding year.
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- cj 2y agoThis is the sad truth. I have a translation/localization company in the US. When pitching investors, first/second gen immigrant investors were always very interested, while multi-gen Americans would always ask "but what's wrong with google translate?" Americans have a very strange and tunnel-vision world view. I blame most of this on the fact that when you turn on any news channel, in an average 1 hour new program, less than 10% of the time is spent talking about anything outside of the US (and when they do talk about international news, it's always tied back to how it impacts the US - no one is listening to international news just for the sake of knowing what's happening in the world)
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> not unusual in the US to assume the US are the only planet in the universe This is true for every large culture.
- account42 2y agoNot really.