Is wrongplanet.net too american?

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As someone from Asia... Even I'd say 'no'.
I might as well perceive my current country's capital more 'American' than this very website.
Yes, most urban NTs from where I live are culturally confused to some degree, or at least colonial mentality is more pronounced.

This website, from my perspective, is 'neutral'. Even if most sets of data, discussions, issues, and representations came from America, it doesn't make it American.

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I don't think it's too American or anything else to be honest.

i always thought it leaned heavily towards the brit side of things.

well noone (sane) ever said thoughts needed to make total sense.

i suppose i just notice the brits in particular more?
not sure.

all i know, is, that there is a reason i thought that.

Personally I'm Canadian but I've seen many other people in these forums from other Commonwealth Nations countries like Aussies and Kiwis and quite a few Brits too.

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No, like Edna I see it as neutral.

People here come from all over the world, and there are quite a few here particularly from Canada, Europe and Oceania. Everyone is free to post topics about anything that is within the rules.

The whole internet seems to be mostly in USA language. Whenever I look on Google for something, I always have to type "UK" so that I can get the right results. Like if I want to look up something to do with sick days off work, it always comes up with American results, and America probably has different laws or policies than the UK with that sort of thing.

And there's so many threads about Trump in the news and current events forum, that I avoid that forum altogether now.

There is no such thing as “too American!”

The US is the world's third most populated country, with their primary language being English, and as this is mainly an English language website, Americans definitely tend to dominate the discussion.

Admittedly, I find this to be quite annoying, what with the endless discussions of US issues and politics (and for some reason a metric tonne of Trump worship; can't understand how anyone who isn't a straight white cisgender neurotypical Christian male can support the guy. )

Really though, what can be done about it? I'd suggest creating a subforum for discussion of non-US issues, a place where people can discuss issues that apply to their own parts of the world instead of getting caught up in US politics. Hell, I think there should be a way to tag topics so that you can filter them out when you search the latest posts.

Considering that WP is an American-based site, it comes as no surprise that most of what's on here revolves around the U.S.A.

The USA is a nation of immigrants, too.

There’s a definite “Aussie” culture, just like there’s a definite “American” culture.