We judge the world based on our own perspectives and our own
   level of experiences. If you hang around groups with a lot of
   English speaking Americans in it, you get a lot of people who
   don't bother mentioning the country they're in.

   If you're in a group of professors and students talking about
   linguistics and there's a slightly heavier Russian population in
   the group, they'll often drop the fact they're from Russia from
   the conversations and just mention their cities and areas.

   I think it's more due to group dominance than certain
   nationalities though.

   Then again, we're taught a peculiar thing in the USA - one of
   our prejudices: We're taught, if someone is from another
   country, we'll be able to tell 'somehow' by their accent or by
   the words they use.

   But online, there's few distinguishing factors from one country
   to another in the words they choose.

   So, our default is: If person writes "like an American", must be
   an American.   Also, we're NOT taught about American Imperialism
   as a _current thing_. I only recently realized it myself. We're
   taught that American Imperialism WAS a phase of the USA in the
   19th century.

   What we're NOT taught is that we're CURRENTLY in a phase of
   American Imperialism.