Yeah, basically no successful American social media company advertises itself as being American. And its users do not think of it as "an American company," they just think of it as its own thing.

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benrutter 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That might be true for social media, but there are 100s of American brands that make a large point of being thought of as an "American company" or "American made" goods.

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vovavili an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This kind of messaging is overtly Republican-coded.

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csomar an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think that's when selling inside America but I don't remember seeing any american company proudly advertising its product as "American". I'd wager that today they want to hide that fact.

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rndm77be9f 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Does the average non-HN type in Europe hold comparable pan-European or even plain National Pride? I think here of the German national relationship with their own flag and feel skeptical of a comparison here.

	▲	vovavili 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		From my observation both studying and working abroad in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Finland and Latvia, people almost always tend to cluster along ethnic or linguistic lines in another European country. This stays invariant even if the command of English is perfect. Pan-European national identity is very much non-existent, ethno-lingustic patriotism very much is alive.

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beAbU 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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