It kinda brothers me when I see something attributed to an entire country when it really only has to do with a small group or area within that county.
Like a single town in India could do some thing, with 95% of the population having no idea about it, and the headline would say “look at this thing India did!”. I use India as an example because I feel like this happens with non english speaking or non-western countries more. Like, if it were US researchers that made the silence gun the caption would say “researchers at Harvard” instead of “the US did this”.
I think its appropriate to use that phrasing when its something that was done as part of a national government project or policy, if its something that exists across a wide swath of the population/area of the country, or if you are comparing a thing across two countries (e.g. the Taiwanese semiconductor industry vs the South Korean one).
Yeah, I once saw the Uno Reverse card of this, where some horrid, conservative Indian media outlet was saying some shit like the EU is holding some bad position. And the guy, who had posted that article, would not even engage in discussion that this was a massive point of contention, where neither France and Germany, nor me and my neighbor agreed. It just felt like shit. Don’t drag me into what the assholes are doing, please.
It kinda brothers me when I see something attributed to an entire country when it really only has to do with a small group or area within that county.
Like a single town in India could do some thing, with 95% of the population having no idea about it, and the headline would say “look at this thing India did!”. I use India as an example because I feel like this happens with non english speaking or non-western countries more. Like, if it were US researchers that made the silence gun the caption would say “researchers at Harvard” instead of “the US did this”.
I think its appropriate to use that phrasing when its something that was done as part of a national government project or policy, if its something that exists across a wide swath of the population/area of the country, or if you are comparing a thing across two countries (e.g. the Taiwanese semiconductor industry vs the South Korean one).
if it helps, other countries do the same thing to the us.
Yeah, I once saw the Uno Reverse card of this, where some horrid, conservative Indian media outlet was saying some shit like the EU is holding some bad position. And the guy, who had posted that article, would not even engage in discussion that this was a massive point of contention, where neither France and Germany, nor me and my neighbor agreed. It just felt like shit. Don’t drag me into what the assholes are doing, please.