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[rakoo]

As someone not from the US, I can assure you the same mindset does appear on American websites about the US.

[DeonPenny → rakoo]

I thought american tech companies were used in most places outside of the US. From what seen facebook, google, amazon, etc are fairly global reaching at this point.

[adventured → DeonPenny]

The globalized US tech companies / services / products.

YouTube, Netflix, Wikipedia, Uber, Google search, iOS & iPhone / watch / iPad, Mac, Android, Windows, Microsoft Office/365, Facebook core, FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Gmail & G services, Google Maps, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail / Outlook.com, Dropbox, Reddit, Imgur, Twitter, LinkedIn, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Adobe / Photoshop, iTunes / Apple Music, Wordpress, Github, Stack Exchange, Steam, Airbnb, Priceline / Booking, Amazon.com, eBay, PayPal, AWS, Oracle, Salesforce, Akamai, Cloudflare, VMWare, Lets Encrypt, GoDaddy, Craigslist, Symantec, Red Hat, Activision, Electronic Arts, Autodesk, IBM, Intel, AMD, nVidia, Cisco, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Dell / EMC, HP, Western Digital, Lam Research, Applied Materials, Micron, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices

There are a bunch more that one could argue for, however that covers the bulk of them.

[rakoo → DeonPenny]

I'm specifically talking about the mindset of equating "it's happening in all America" to "it's happening to the whole world", and that's not only in tech.

[Markoff → DeonPenny]

Reddit it's pretty much unknown in Europe I'd you check statistics

Amazon it's also the last option i would be looking at when shopping for something online in Europe

[varjag → Markoff]

Right, first place would be ebay.de, .fr, .it, .co.uk..

[Markoff → varjag]

that's even less likely than amazon

[varjag → rakoo]

You can't be serious, most of the world uses American websites in all kinds of market sectors.

[throwaway3023 → rakoo]

Yup. Lists like, "The 100 Best Songs of All Time" = 100 American songs.

[sonnyblarney → throwaway3023]

There's nothing wrong with that though, those kinds of statements are implied to be contextual.

If it's an American publication, it's fair.

The OP comment is not unreasonable - American's are fairly nationally centric by default ... but they generally don't say 'the world' when they mean just America.

[Markoff → throwaway3023]

i love "The best budget phones you can buy" *

* of course only in US, where you are limited by nonstandard LTE bands excluding 90% of phones available elsewhere