I Feel Like This Is A Whole Asian Culture Thing. My Dad And I Argue On This All The Time And He Doesn't

Anyway if you’re from the US and you ever wanted to know what tumblr feels like from a non-USAmerican perspective (please note that the rest of the world is not a monolith either and none of these apply without exception):

Everybody’s talking about brands and stores you’ve never seen in real life. You generally assume they exist, but they might as well be one giant prank the rest of the internet is in on.

You find a post that just sounds wrong. It makes no sense. It’s like OP lives in a weird alternate reality. 9/10 times, it’s just some USAmerican Thing.

You’re still not entirely sure how much an inch is. Or a foot. Or even how many of the former there are in the latter. You maybe know your height in feet and inches.

You have no idea how much a pound is. You’d also like to know how the fuck pound shortens to lbs.

What the fuck is “military time”

Somebody talks about some legal process or something similar. They don’t mention which country’s legal system this pertains to. You know anyway.

People talk about politics. None of it pertains to you. Many posts contain guilt tripping. “How can you not care about this?? Why won’t you reblog this?? People need to know this about x candidate for y position!” You’re busy trying to stay on top of the political landscape in your own country.

You pick up some random slang from the internet. Monkey see monkey do. You’re called racist. You didn’t know it was AAVE. You learnt it from black letters on white background, not from the mouths of people whose faces you could see. How would you have known? You try to unlearn it.

People tell you that you must publicly denounce Chick-fil-A or you’re homophobic. You don’t even know what a Chick-fil-A is.

People say you don’t know LGBTQ+ history. What they mean is you don’t know USAmerican LGBTQ+ history. Nobody cares about your country’s history.

You’re “called out” on using an “offensive” term. It’s (a direct translation of) a completely harmless word where you live.

People expect you to have an idea of how far apart 2 USAmerican states are. You barely know geography past your country’s immediate neighbors.

You randomly switch between British and American spellings. Nothing’s real and there are no rules.

People talk about multiple hour car rides and you get twitchy just thinking about it. You suddenly understand why USAmerican cars are so big.

Somebody talks about school shooting drills. You only ever had fire alarm drills.

You see a cool statistic. The study’s only about the US. It’s unfortunately of no use to you.

People misuse/misspell words and names from your native language. It’s tiring.

(You feel sorry for the French. Nobody should be allowed to mangle the word déjà vu like that.)

You’re still not over the fact that USAmerican school children are supposed to say that pledge thing every morning. You’re never getting over that.

You still don’t know why the men are fresh or what the fuck a sophomore is.

Who the fuck pays up first and then fills up gas??? That’s made up, right??

Everybody has a weird obsession with some comfort food you’d never even heard of before you signed up here.

Fellow non-USAmericans, please add anything else you can think of.

Its new year already!!!

Jules from Euphoria is a Faerie from the Faerie world who probably keeps a dollar under your pillow for your tooth and whispers magic for sweet dreams to people who have trouble sleeping.

Just read post

Hi 🙋 guys! Just wanna shout out and give big thumbs up and hi-5s to all peeps who have been bitch enough to follow me.After all "Great bitches follow alike". Spn fandom has been so good and loving by accepting me in the familia *am so touched am gonna effong cry* THANK YOU ALLL! Keep up the good work and follow me cause am comin up with xciting ideas to keep u interested.....and even if I don't u HAVE to follow me okay? Also follow me in insta on :iamcocothewitchy Hail Misha! Over and out

This is the best thing I have read all day.

ISAAC ASIMOV ‘A lifetime of learning’

Just Indian things

God bless this post.

A helpful guide to some common birds here in the western US

What color?

this is the funniest twitter thread i’ve ever seen in my goddamn life

"It's a good thing dreams change or else the world would be full of cowboys and princesses."

Stephen Colbert at a graduation speech In Northwestern University ( I am paraphrasing and the university might not be right..)

Men of the world need to be more like Jake Peralta