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Please don't take threads off topic into nationalistic resentment. It inevitably starts pointless spats that would be ridiculous if they weren't so nasty.

It's a U.S. site; of course they don't put the qualifier "American" on everything, for the same reason programming languages have namespaces. HN's case is different, since we're obviously an international community, but (a) readers here are smart enough to disambiguate things, and (b) the internationalness of the site means we all need to be particularly respectful when talking about each other's countries.