Basically just something people say that indicates a position indirectly, like how seperatists from a given region might always say they're from [region] and not [country] or how trump supporters call AI "SI" now.

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[–] [S] 1 point 4 hours ago (1 child)

I do agree that American defaultism only hurts them, but at least in english it's rare enough that saying "American" doesn't count as US defaultism imo, I'm in Québec and I'd say at least 20% of people here say that.

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    yeah someone was talking to me like. well its not the name. the name is the united states of america. and im like. well its the republic of ireland but people just call it ireland. lots of countries have a sorta descritive official name with elements of what it is.

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