Our cultural differences are what make us unique and what connect us to other people. , for sure it depends on the person.
It becomes very apparent when you leave your comfortable home behind and go on vacation. Ask travelers how often they find themselves in uncomfortable social situations, engage in bizarre conversations, or become strangers in foreign lands, and they tell a variety of stories.
now This Ask Reddit thread garnered a lot of attention recently, garnering a whopping 28.3k comments and 27.8k upvotes. “What do Americans like that other countries don’t like so much?” Someone asked, and people started sharing their experiences, impressions, stories and how things are relative. was shown again.
college sports. especially soccer and basketball.
The rest of the world loves soccer, but at college level no one is enthusiastic about it.
Opinion sign outside the house. Like “In this house we support …”. I find it strange and unusual.
I’d say I’m optimistic, even if it’s blind. The CAN DO attitude is very strong. I also put belligerence there for better or worse. That “take the f**k off my face, I’m not paying/doing that” attitude. Whether you can actually do it or not, American culture really makes you feel like you can do anything. Again, this is a double-edged sword, but you’ll find Americans who just lie down and take someone’s shit or listen to someone who says “I can’t” (against your wishes) rarely.
What a deli. It has the best delis, at least of all the places I’ve traveled to in the US.
my mother [British] I thought the casserole was weird and disgusting. A British friend of hers visited and asked her not to go to a restaurant where “all the food was in a terrible jumble.”
I love most casseroles.
My sister came to America from Europe and sent me a picture of a small Coke and asked me, “Why is it so big?” I could see the old glory fluttering in the wind.
drive anywhere. drive everywhere.
But I suspect that for many people, other options are so rare that they don’t even think about them when they exist.
bankruptcy law. This is the main reason America has historically had the highest rates of small business growth and entrepreneurship. America is one of the most tolerant countries when it comes to personal and corporate bankruptcies (despite student loans).
By comparison, European countries are much more creditor-friendly, severely discouraging all kinds of risky investments.
imperial unit
(Edit: I’ll omit the former as Fahrenheit and Celsius are better suited for certain scenarios)
Open 24 hours. I was working in Chicago with a colleague from Switzerland who suddenly realized he needed his network cable to configure his mobile router for work the next morning.
I told him I would meet him in the hotel lobby and kick him out to Walmart.
I was pleasantly surprised because he had forgotten about the famous Wal-Mart chain store in America.
marching band. Marching at my school He would have gotten a pelter if he played the flute in the band, but in the US he could be a state hero.
This, although much more common in the United States, is food coloring. When I moved to America from Japan, I was amazed at how colorful their food was.
Americans these days are enthusiastic about organic natural products, so I don’t see it often, but it took me a while to realize that blue raspberries weren’t real.
Root beer and ranch dressing. When I took it to Germany and had a friend drink it, he said that root beer tasted like medicine. She politely tasted the celery dressing and said, “Hmm, interesting,” but their faces were awful.