Americans Are Sharing Things They Thought Were Perfectly Normal Until They Realized The Rest Of The World Thinks Otherwise

Every state has its ain unsocial customs, but the quirky norms and chiseled taste phenomenons associated with the United States mightiness conscionable beryllium the astir baffling of each for radical not from there. Redditor ExistingTomorrow1447 asked, "Americans, what's thing you didn't recognize was weird until you talked to non-Americans?" Here's what radical said.

1. "The magnitude of sweetener that's successful our food. Like ALL of our nutrient contains sweetener successful immoderate capacity. I worked with overseas students each summertime successful precocious school, and they ever wondered wherefore our nutrient was truthful sweet. I didn't recognize this was the lawsuit until I traveled and ate astatine restaurants extracurricular the States.

2. "I learned that basal brew is thing galore radical from different countries don't like."

3. "The mode we put our dates. Month, day, year. Most of the satellite arranges it day, month, year."

—Craxin

4. "The information that Halloween arsenic a vacation is SO fashionable present with some kids and adults."

5. "When I moved to Japan, I was shocked that radical would spell to the doc for a cold. To me, it was mean to debar the infirmary astatine each costs unless determination was thing truly superior going on."

6. "Drug testing. I've worked assorted jobs since I was 13 years aged and ne'er adjacent heard astir the conception of cause investigating but for convicted felons coming backmost from detention permission oregon thing similar that. Then I worked successful the US, and my brag was like, 'Well, obviously, I'm gonna person to cause trial you earlier you tin benignant parcels.'

—That_Attempt_7014

7. "Having a garbage disposal successful the room sink."

8. "Requiring cashiers to basal up. It seemed mean erstwhile I lived successful the US, but present that I'm successful Spain and spot cashiers sitting down I wonderment wherefore they can't beryllium portion moving successful the US."

9. "Ranch dressing. Years ago, I was successful Italy, and we recovered a 'cool American' spirit for Pringles. Turns retired it's conscionable ranch."

10. "Drug advertising. I got truthful utilized to filtering retired the broadside effects, I didn't recognize however absurd it each sounds to radical who didn't turn up proceeding them."

—Nubsta5

11. "Figuring retired your taxes. What bash you owe? I don’t know. Does the government? Yes. Will they conscionable archer you? No, spell fig it out, but if you get it wrong, you’re successful trouble."

12. "I didn't announcement however galore flags Americans person astir until I near America. Other countries don't person elephantine nationalist flags astatine their car dealerships."

13. "That tipping is expected and often seen arsenic portion of a worker's salary, but successful galore different countries, work charges are included successful the bill. As a result, tipping successful different countries isn't arsenic communal oregon adjacent expected."

—shakyrealm

14. "I was precocious visiting a person successful different country. When we were chatting, the pledge came up, and each American said it wholly successful unison, down to the breaths. All the non-Americans freaked the heck out."

15. "My Aussie person who visited seemed to beryllium wholly shocked that we had an full aisle dedicated to sugary meal cereals."

16. "I was amazed to recognize however radical from galore different countries hatred the sensation of peanut butter. It's specified a non-controversial spirit here."

—bmcgowan89

17. "That we commencement our week connected Sunday alternatively than Monday."

—poppysox6

18. "The information that Americans devour successful our cars, whether driving oregon conscionable sitting successful the car eating. Several European visitors person commented connected this, truthful it indispensable beryllium strange."

19. "Every clip my extended household visits the US (they unrecorded successful France), they ever petition a travel to Costco/Sam’s Club! They are amazed (and astir apt horrified) astatine each the bulk items that are conscionable for anyone to purchase."

Do you person thing to add? What is thing you ever considered "normal" arsenic an American that you realized different radical find strange? Tell america successful the comments oregon successful this anonymous form.