Why do the British people post their questions in the American section?

Question

Do Americans ask questions about their country in the UK section? Sometimes I am confused and I have to check which section I'm in.

Answer 1

Cultural Imperialism by the Americans?

The default setting
http://answers.yahoo.com/
Is the same as the the American flagged section.
(unless you want it in Spanish) So the whole world gets the American questions unless we opt out.

And people posting a UK-related question might want a worldwide perspective on it.
Though, to be fair, there is a considerable degree of careless mis-categorization on Yahoo answers.

Answer 2

I don't think they (or any other nationality for that matter) do so intentionally. If you are American you might not be aware that yahoo directs any Internet any user to American yahoo pages, including 'yahoo answers', by default. Of course one could fix up one's personal settings later on so they default to the Australian, UK, Swiss, or whatever 'yahoo answers' page but the initial contact must make one wonder if America realises they are not the only country in the world. Of course America must realise this because they are always invading others countries even though those countries never attacked their home soil (Iraq, Korea, Vietnam, Panama, etcetera etcetera etcetera!).
Perhaps the British people do answer their questions on the American section deliberately. Perhaps British people feel they are a part of this world too and perhaps they should keep an eye on 300 million people who seem to believe they can produce as many nuclear weapons as they like, invade whatever country they like, produce as much CO2 as they like, and basically do whatever they like.
The UK only just paid back its WW2 debt recently while America sat back from WW2 long enough to profit and become the richest economy (they aren't silly after all). It's a pity Hitler killed millions of Jews in the meantime but perhaps America can buy Israel's forgiveness for that oversight.
Basically any international Internet user will answer questions wherever he or she feels like because, unlike Americans, the rest of us acknowledge we are a global community and we don't need a big brother thanks.

Answer 3

The British are our good friends and they spend a lot of time in the USA as we spend a lot of time in the UK. They can relate to both sections.

Answer 4

there's a british section and american section? !

Answer 5

have you ever heard english and american are friends e.g bush and blair when you decided ( americans) to go to war with iraq some of our troups died because of yous

english gir;

Answer 6

You probably have "All English questions" selected instead of "USA questions only." That's all that is.

Answer 7

Maybe we should show you our passports first. We might be mind terrorists making you think unamerican thoughts with our limey questions.

Answer 8

Are you sure it isn't the big words?