#dear usamericans

[dear-usamericans]

dear USamericans,

did you know there are more non-native speakers of english than there are native speakers?

there are only a handfull of natural languages like that in the world!

(natural as we're ignoring any constructed language such as esperanto or klingon as there are (virtually) no native speakers of those)

some others i could think of being french, latin, and swahili

us non-native english speakers actually outnumber you native speakers vastly! we make up 71.5% of the ca 1.2 billion english speakers world-wide!

so why am i telling you this?

i am telling you this because while you do make up nearly 77% of all native english speakers, you make up less that 27% of all english speakers (and that's counting non-native english speakers in the u.s. too, if you only counted native speakers, you'd be less than 22%)

so assuming that anyone who speaks english must be an american just like you is just not true. 71.5% aren't even native speakers, and even in native speakers there's a 23% chance you're speaking to someone who's not from the u.s.

73% of english speakers are not USamericans

so please stop assuming anyone who speaks english in a global place (yk like the internet) must be a local

we're all local, but we're not your local

time for some sonder cause hi! we all do live real lives, and we're all not from your country, many of us have never even been to your country (nor plan to go there), and we all really live in our countries which are really how we tell you they're like and how you hear they're like (so also using other countries as like scare story or something for yourselves and your country and your activism in a global place where people from said countries can see it? very insensitive and very rude and people have been telling you this, please stop)

so yeah im not sure if you just assume everyone's USamerican because we all speak english and many USamericans speak english and you just didn't know that there's over 860 million english speakers who aren't from the u.s. and that we outnumber you nearly 3 to 1, or if you didn't quite grasp that people in other countries exist and are also real people with real lives who really live differently from you, or if you had/have a different understanding problem altogether, but i hope i could clear some of that up!

sincerely, a non-native speaker

[dear-usamericans]

Dear US-americans

Your states are not equivalent to european countries. It does not matter how big some of them are. They're still not a country. They're a state.

Stop acting like they are.

You're not special.

Shush.

Sincerely, Europeans

[dear-usamericans]

dear USamericans,

“white people have no culture”

just say you're USamerican and go

sincerely, a european

[dear-usamericans]

Dear USAmericans (of Latine &/or Filipino descent/diaspora), we native Latines & Filipinos don't like the terms Latinx & Filipinx & wish you stop forcing it on us coz 1) Latine is much better & easier to pronounce 2) the Filipino language is already gender neutral 3) it shows you know nothing about the Spanish & Filipino languages 4) it's basically linguistic imperialism, forcing USA centric views & is rude 5) our LGBT folks hate it, too

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[dear-usamericans]

Dear USAmericans, please stop acting like your diaspora experience is the same as natives (i.e. the Mexican-American experience ISN'T the same as a native Mexican). Also, just coz your heritage comes from another country doesn't mean you automatically know everything about it (i.e. Italian-Americans who never step foot in Italy & can't speak the language acting like they know more than the natives). Sincerely, the rest of the world.

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[dear-usamericans]

I Should Be Able to Mute America

The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss

I'm neither USAmerican or Aussie, but yeah I found this Australian post talking about the former. Thought you might be interested

(note by mod: i saw the title and instantly went true, might reblog this with a 'dear usamericans' style letter

also read this entire article, it's good)

[dear-usamericans]

[ID: a screenshot of a tweet from twitter. it's a reply to another tweet that says “30k likes for “Frida Kahlo was white”. one brain cell between them all”. the reply reads “this and the anne frank had white privilege just shows usamericans shouldn't speak of race when it comes to stories outside the usa”. End ID.]

(note by mod: sorry, i looked up frida kahlo and whomst the fuck said

[ID: a photo frida kahlo. she is a mexican woman. End ID.]

this person is white?

also, as a german, don't even get me started on the anne frank is white bullshit.)

[dear-usamericans]

dear USamericans,

others have said it better than me, but if your knowledge and love for germany basically boils down to WWII, warfare, and weapons, and the only things you can say in german are names of weapons or tanks or what-not (instead of for example 'Ich mag Musik.' (I like music.) or 'Meine Geschwister nerven.' (My siblings are annoying.) or literally anything that is not war-related), then piss off (:

we don't want you, we don't like you, we don't want you anywhere near our actual culture (which is much more poetry, meat, and beer related than anything else i've said so far), you don't know anything about us, our culture, or anything that really makes germany germany, and you are not a "germany enthusiast" or "history enthusiast"

this goes especially if your family went from germany to the US during WWII. you're not ""embracing your heritage/culture"", you're being a massive dick

sincerely,

germans