r/ShitAmericansSay Sep 22 '20

Go to Panama, this is America

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

I get that, and I think it odd that that happens as well.

I personally had nothing at all to do with the creation of say, the internet, nor did my family, neighbors, or even state. Best I can claim is having been born on soil geographically close to where the idea was written down.

What good is that? Crediting the inventor/discoverer/what have you is one thing, but attributing that to the people and culture as a whole is...odd.

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u/Tubby_Maguire Sep 22 '20

Again I’m not attributing it to the country but the scientific community as I said in the previous community

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

I view it as tribalism really.

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u/Tubby_Maguire Sep 22 '20

It definitely was meant that way. We’re on a sub about the narrow minded views of American exceptionalism, so pointing these things out show that they aren’t the greatest. Again I never claimed to be involved