I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

Re:I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora by skrebbel on Thursday February 14, 2013 @02:26AM (#5218243)

I'm nitpicking, I know, but it's not America. You're on the internet, you know. It's the world.

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Re:I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora by mickhagen on Thursday February 14, 2013 @02:37AM (#5218287)

Lol true.

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Re:I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora by johnp01 on Thursday February 14, 2013 @02:50AM (#5218326)

Yeah, I think it's pretty common for Americans to believe anyone else who can type english is probably also living in America.

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Re:I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora by gbog on Saturday February 16, 2013 @09:36AM (#5231581)

"Americans", you mean Cubans? Equadorians?

Really, you do not seem to be aware of the fact that or people leave in either Nothern or Southern amercian continent, and many of them do not speak English.

Each time any US citizen calls US citizens "Americans" it hurts the heart of hundreds of millions of people.

Shit.

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Re:I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 14, 2013 @04:56AM (#5218739)

I guess it's still not a bad heuristic for them in 80% of cases, so this attitude prevails. HN, however, is quite multinational, so one has to watch out ;).

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Re:I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora by gbog on Saturday February 16, 2013 @09:38AM (#5231587)

It is not a matter of "heuristic", it is a matter of basic respect you have for other people living in other places.

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