#questions for non-americans

[teenidleadultgirl]

can someone actually explain to me why other countries have laws in place preventing solidarity strikes actually???? like why cant french film strike with american film unions ???? what is the reasoning behind it

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is not understanding what's so 'moral' about love, the partners disrespecting someone's boundaries but "oh, no, you dont get it! thats romantic! its cute!" or seeing families hurt each other because they 'love' each other and are 'trying their best'. i will never understand their emotional views, i consider it a blessing, everyone else seems to think its a curse. even other aros seem to fall into that trap, talking about platonic love to no end. friendship and family have no consent, but it is still deemed impolite to not put effort into something you dont care for. people have approached me asking if im their friend. i do not know them. i have never spoken to them. they still seem to get offended when i tell them no, i dont get why. people are so obsessed with romance, but friendship seems like something they only bring up when its to selfishly force others to be around them, to give them emotions and gratitude that cant be given, to act like treating them with anything less is a sin, and they pretend they have always cared. when i say i do not care for love, they dont seem to fully grasp that. i wont pretend for your comfort.

i just have been thinking about platonormativity and amatonormativity and how they are so widespread that even if one is removed it seems like the other gets louder.

something something society and social creatures and social contracts?

[greenerteacups]

Hey GT! Totally fine if you ignore this, and I apologize if you get asks like this a lot as I'm sure they can be irksome, but I was wondering if you'll ever feel comfortable revealing anything about yourself? Even if you keep it vague, I'm just so curious about where you're from (I think you have said you're in the US lol) your age and things like that. I know there are certain things we'll never know and I think that's completely fine, just wondering if you think you'll ever tell us any small, even vague, details x

Oh, sure! For starters, I'm a vampire but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I'm also a witch, and I go to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where I'm in the seventh year (I'm seventeen). I'm a goth (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

[millionsofbooks]

something about the tiktok ban that i haven't really seen people here talking about is the experience of tiktok users not from the usa, which was, as far as i can tell, on the whole, very positive. it was actually really nice to, for a short period of time, be on a major social media network and able to interact with people across the world without usamericans constantly inserting themselves into every conversation.

usamericans kind of take over people's fyp regardless of where you're from. this is partly to do with the fact that the creators fund is only available to usamericans so most of the shitty content farms are from the us. then there's also the cultural aspect of the fact that being a citizen of the most powerful empire in the world is a significant privilege, and also a privilege that 99% of usamericans are seemingly unable to acknowledge, plus the us centrism and exceptionalism, plus the constant need to cast themselves as the underdog, and, well. it's annoying.

so, like. everything of what i've seen (which is not to say that other opinions don't exist, just that i haven't seen them) is that it was really nice when the usamericans were gone, and it kind of sucks that they're back.

[sunflowersinheaven]

an american who buys fanmade keychains and etc often, could DM me pls 👉👈

[morgenlich]

fascinating number of ppl who don’t know that generic drugs are the same dosage and drug as the name brand equivalent tbh

[neolithicastronaut]

Wait I saw a post and then lost it but I have a question for Americans. Do you get paid time off work? Like do you get paid sick days? Parental leave? Bereavement leave? Annual leave (ie - paid days off for whatever reason you want)?

And, if the answer is no, follow up question: what the fuck?

[youre-where-i-wanna-go]

remind me to never open the notes of a post criticizing US (cultural) imperialism

idk why individual americans take it so personally when non-americans are like "americanization makes it harder for us to access our own culture where we live" but somehow there's always bitches forcing on shoes that don't fit and then getting offended.

"how am EYE to blame for that? just try harder!" like no one was even talking about you but thanks for giving us another example of US exceptionalism, like we didn't already have enough. you're annoying.

[theblueboyscout]

You wouldn't survive my school dress code either.

Why?

Because while "they love our costume", cosplay and others are not appropriate for school unless on special occasions like Halloween.

I suppose that’s reasonable. Rules are rules, and schools do need structure.

Luckily I don't have to worry about what I wear when I'm saving people!

[starbuck]

okay, here’s a question: do any of you out there naturally use the phrase “whole-nother” to mean “entirely different,” i.e. “that’s a whole-nother thing”?

i’m trying to figure out if it’s a regionalism from the East Coast Mid-Atlantic area or just an overall Americanism.

[bettyrightnow]

americans being unable to say that there are people who are certifiably smarter than you and better than you at many things is why we got to this place in the first place. like no the "research" you did on the covid vaccine is not better than the research done by the scientists that have degrees in the field. you are actually dumber than them in this area because they have spent far more time in it. you have so little knowledge on the subject that you don't even know what you don't know. obviously

[i-am-church-the-cat]

So Logan and I have like the exact same accent and I never know what my accent is so I’m giving it to the people

[cosmicredcadet]

Y'all listen just because you learned something in school doesn't mean everyone else did. idk how y'all got this idea in ur heads that we all learned the same shit when literal book bans are happening in schools across the united states and certain subjects are being banned from ever being talked about. (do not even get me started on the fact different countries have different curriculum too) Like you cannot say "You guys obviously just didn't pay attention in school and are stupid because we all learned this" like you are ignoring like 50 other options as to why people may not have learned this ranging from poorly funded school to disabled kid getting shoved into special ed classes which are often notorious for mistreating their disabled students. I'm begging you all to understand the nuance of why certain skills and abilities aren't as widely spread as you assume they should be.

[frogwen]

obviouslyyyy its none of my business and i dont even know these people and anyone can change their mind for any reason. but it does weird me out when someone is loudly childfree (as a personal/political statement) and then gets married and has a kid 😩 like there was one youtuber i watched occasionally for a DECADE, and i liked her q&a videos a lot. and every single time she would include the "are you and your longterm partner planning to have kids" question and she would get offended and say why do ppl keep asking me this, if you follow me youd know we arent interested in that kind of life, stop asking etc etc. they got married and bought a house and she had a tour video and in it she complained how her neighbors asked if they were planning kids or commented that the yard was perfect for kids and she scoffed and said its never going to happen and it makes her happy to not live "as a standard young married couple"....AND THEN WITHIN MONTHS SHE POSTED HER PREGNANCY REVEAL VIDEO 😭 GIRL BLINK TWICE ?!?!

[tariah23]

Blah blah blah

[ribbonknot]

sometimes i feel like rn it's really understated just how bad things could be if trump wins. like, actually. i feel like it's being forgotten that despite how bad things are right now, they would surely get WORSE.