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> It's not just America

America is not even the worst offender. Check out China and SE Asia. Only places in the world where it's completely normal to center the marketing of every single phone around how good it is at taking selfies. China is single-handedly responsible for the introduction of the beautify non-sense in smartphone cameras.

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Yea, I don't particularly have anything for or against selfies, but its kind of bizarre to look around nightspots in Vietnam and notice literally every other person taking selfies. Far more than in similar places in the States.

Though to be fair "X is true in the US" isn't really saying it isn't true elsewhere. Just that the writer is familiar with the US, and isn't making a statement one way or another about places they aren't familiar with.

(Though in anycase, the article isn't really about selfies, despite the title)

Regarding Asia that’s an apt observation that goes right against the premise of the author.

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