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You're certainly right. It is wise to avoid the assumption that this is just a US thing. And surely even the hipsters of one neighborhood are different from the hipsters of another. Subcultures within subcultures and whatnot. Her frame of reference, also, is obviously much different from mine! She may be using extreme examples but I think she's also generalizing in an extreme way that is damaging both to her argument and to her credibility.