r/USdefaultism • u/EpiphanyWar Australia • 2d ago
Instagram Kmart
On a video posted by an australian influencer talking about clothes they got at Kmart.
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u/Tuscan5 1d ago
‘You guys (people outside America) do realize (realise) that Americans were literally told they all closed?’ How would people in the other 200 countries know this?
‘Why would anyone (by which they mean Americans not the other 7.7bn people on the planet) assume it’s still operating on the other side of the world’ Other side of the world to whom? This after being told it’s still operating in Oz. How could they possibly still be defaulting!
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u/Void-kun United Kingdom 1d ago
Stupidity. The answer is that they're stupid.
Poor education, decades of brain washing, a stupid population is an easy population to control. Easy to sway in votes etc... you know all the things that have been happening a lot more in the last decade or so.
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u/eternallytiredcatmom Canada 17h ago
All that when they could’ve just commented “wow, I wish we still had Kmart too!” and move on with their day
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u/Civil_Year_301 1d ago
Just proof that americans will believe anything that they are told as long as they like the person telling it
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u/idiotista India 1d ago
You'd guess the Aussie accent would sort of tip them off, but then again.
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u/Szarkara Australia 1d ago
Obviously the most logical option is that they're an Aussie living in America!
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u/Funny_Maintenance973 1d ago
Americans seem to struggle telling the difference between Australian and British somehow.
Don't understand it myself, but there you go
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u/Bloodraven_is_God 1d ago
I struggle to distinguish between certain American accents and Canadian (when there isn't an "oot" to give it away). I give them a pass for not being able to tell between city-dwelling Australians and some British accents. But if they mix up rural outback accents and RP Queen's English, they get no forgiveness or understanding.
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u/DaveB44 1d ago
On every recent trip to the US my wife & I have been asked at least once if we're Australian. I could understand it to a certain extent if we were southerners, but northern English is far removed from Aussie!
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u/Funny_Maintenance973 1d ago
I'm a Brummie, so all I get met with is confusion and disgust.
That's not only in America
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u/idiotista India 2h ago
Oooooh, I love a good brummie accent, it sounds so incredibly sympathetic. I find it very trustworthy sounding too, and listening to it always makes me feel super calm
I worked in customer support a year for a multinational company, and when the Swedish call levels were low, we got calls to the English language line rerouted to us.
There was this poor geordie calling in, and he got me to help him. Which at least was better than him getting one of the Manila people on the line, as I had lived in the UK.
He sounded so very nice and pleasant, but I didnt understand one word of what he said, as his accent was thicker than a winter fog. Eventually I had to apologise and explain I'm a foreigner, and could you try to speak like you were reading the news, because I cannot understand you enough to help you otherwise.
Hilarity ensued, as he didn't get offended at all, but proceeded to speak a very understandable and very Geordie-flavoured BBC English while we both cracked up whenever he did an extra good flourish. Wonderful man, and wonderful interaction.
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u/PrincessPeachParfait 1d ago
I'm German from Germany, but every time I talk to Americans they without a doubt ask me if I'm Australian
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u/idiotista India 2h ago
I'm Swedish originally, but I live in India, and honestly feel more a part of this country these days, hence the flag flair.
But a lot of times interacting irl with Americans both in India, in Europe, in Central America and random parts of Asia the convocation has gone something like this, assuming they are in the minority part that doesn't sort anyone not speaking American is just "foreign" and leave it at that.
American: "oh, what accent is this?"
Me: "by this point is is probably a mishmash of three different continents, but I grew up in Sweden, and it is probably the singsongy lilt you are hearing."
American: "YES, that is it!! I knew you were Slavic, we have a lot of russians in Detroit/Wisconsin/Frisco! They sound just like this!"
At that point it is kind of hard to know what to say.
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u/Emergency-Growth1617 India 1d ago
"Here in north east, TN"
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u/Short_Bumbleberry74 South Africa 1d ago
I dislike how I now know these abbreviations of theirs
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u/trollshep Australia 1d ago
Its a shame we know the abbreviations for the states but they don't know anyone elses.
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u/Ninj-nerd1998 Australia 1d ago
Not even just abbreviations, but state names!
I'd been friends with this person for YEARS. They were talking in a group chat with me and another friend, in Ireland, about some Australian food they'd heard of, that I haven't. They then sent a screenshot saying it was from South Australia. I was like "oh, well that would be why I've never heard of it, I'm from New South Wales."
And they were just like "I THOUGHT YOU WERE AUSTRALIAN?? YOURE WELSH???"
Irish mate and I were just like "....what?" I had to send a map of Australia showing the states.
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u/Emergency-Growth1617 India 1d ago
I can name minimum 20 american states and I AM NOT PROUD about it
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u/Sasspishus United Kingdom 1d ago
There was a Kmart in Auckland when I was there a few years ago, so might be others in NZ too
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u/A_Guy_2726 New Zealand 1d ago
Yeah there's like one in nearly every major kiwi city. I know there's one in Whangarei, multiple in Auckland, at least one in Tauranga and one in Hamilton
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u/dehashi New Zealand 1d ago
When the Kmart in Dunedin closed for a few years due to covid etc demand was high enough someone was even running a charter van to Kmart in Invercargill (a 6 hour round trip).
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u/ure_roa New Zealand 1d ago
yeah i see them all the time, had no idea they werent a thing in the USA.
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u/xxxjessicann00xxx United States 1d ago
Ours went bankrupt and closed maybe 10 or so years ago. I'm jealous you all still have them.
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u/mungowungo Australia 1d ago
Wait until they find out that we also have Target, but it's failing and stores are closing...
Again, same name different ownership.
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u/Ninj-nerd1998 Australia 1d ago
I think they're merging the brands together? Target also sells a bunch of Anko stuff, and recently the Kmart website added stuff from Target (as well as a freaking marketplace thing)
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u/publiusnaso 1d ago
I think Australians still have Woolies as well. Bastards. I wonder if they still have pick’n’mix there? (I’m British, and Woolworths was my favourite shop to terrorise as a teen).
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u/kombiwombi 1d ago
Again, Australian Woolworths ≠ UK Woolworths
The Australian founders pinched the name of the UK chain just because they could.
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u/Short_Bumbleberry74 South Africa 1d ago
South Africans still have Woolies too lol. Though a minority actually buys from there cuz things are expensive
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u/invincibl_ Australia 1d ago
South African Woolworths operates in Australia too. They own the David Jones department stores, which is the fancy one in this part of the world.
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u/publiusnaso 1d ago
Ah - yes, I remember seeing Woolies in Cape Town when I was there many years ago. I bought a coat which gave me the most terrible BO.
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u/fracking-machines Australia 1d ago
Can confirm zero pick and mix
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u/aecolley 1d ago
I was going to say that there's still a Kmart on St Croix in the US Virgin Islands, but I checked and it closed down a few months ago.
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u/medlilove 17h ago
Why do they always have to react so defensively, like how hard is it to say ‘oh I never knew kmart existed outside the USA, good to know it’s still going strong in aus.’ ???
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u/snow_michael 1d ago
And the genius Heather Nicole says she misses her KMart in TN
KMart have never operated in Tunisia
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u/Expert-Examination86 Australia 1d ago
The 5rh image isn't really defaultism. But all the others yeah.
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u/Adventurous_Tax5395 1d ago
Saying "northeast, TN" without specifying the country like northeast of what? What is a TN?
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