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If you unrecorded successful the US, you mightiness deliberation that the mode we bash things present is "normal," but speech to anyone who wasn't calved and raised present astir our mundane habits and behaviors, and you'll larn that that's not precisely true.
2. "Being precise attached to their assemblage oregon university. People deterioration their assemblage merchandise, decorate licence plates with the name, and are truthful into the full assemblage sports civilization good aft they've graduated. It’s fascinating."
3. "Leaving newborn babies successful daycare each time and being expected to spell backmost to moving full-time a fewer weeks aft giving birth."
4. "All of the advertisements for pharmaceutical drugs. The ads ever archer the user to 'tell your doc if you person ________.' Wouldn’t your doc already know?!"
5. "Putting their beingness communicative successful stickers connected the backmost of their cars."
"You mean you're not blessed to perceive astir strangers' governmental opinions oregon their kids' grant rotation achievements?"
6. "Drinking beverage with your meal. I retrieve seeing that successful a edifice present successful Berlin. It was successful the evening, and everyone was having vino oregon brew with their dinner, but 1 person, identifiable arsenic a US-American by his near manus sitting successful his lap, a shot headdress connected his head, and drinking a solid of beverage with his steak. I volition ne'er hide this bizarre image."
—u/Mahaleit
7. "Not adding the taxes to the terms that's displayed for immoderate fixed goods oregon services. How hard is it to amusement the terms you really person to pay???"
—u/justinecn
8. "All of their insubstantial wealth being the aforesaid size and color! Even with cleanable eyesight, however overmuch harder is that?!"
9. "Americans are the lone ones I've ever seen who volition sexualize truthful galore things and benignant of beryllium obsessed with enactment portion besides being freaked retired erstwhile they spot a bare body, similar astatine the formation oregon something. They won't beryllium successful a sauna naked, wholly non-sexually, but they volition conscionable openly sexualize mundane things. Like, they'll person their buttcheeks hanging retired astatine the mall, but amusement a nipple, and they freak out. It's truthful strange."
—u/JohnCavil
10. "Leaving buying carts you conscionable utilized successful the mediate of the parking lot. The implicit savagery of it."
11. "Donating wealth to the governmental vocation of billionaires. 'Please donate for my reelection!' You're worthy $2.5 billion, and you're trying to get wealth from idiosyncratic trying to prevention $0.30 connected groceries. Donate yourself, f—face."
12. "When talking astir radical from precocious school/college, Americans often notation to them by their afloat name. So, if 2 radical who didn't spell to the aforesaid HS/college were talking, 1 of them mightiness say, 'Brad Stevens was into sportfishing backmost successful college,' adjacent though the different idiosyncratic has nary hint who the peculiar adjacent Brad is."
13. "One oddity (I truly don't cognize overmuch astir American habits) is the opposition betwixt a seemingly large request for 'home safety' (shotgun successful the bedroom, etc.), but past you physique beforehand doors that a random punk tin footwear in. Good luck trying to footwear successful doors successful Europe. The lone happening you'll execute is getting your ft broken."
—u/DiniMere
14. "American churches are wild. The religion services successful the US are similar 30-45 minutes of euphony (basically similar a concert), past 5 minutes of announcements, an hour-long impassioned sermon, and past a 15 infinitesimal change call."
—u/Stumpy3196
15. "Inflated occupation titles. The British institution that I enactment for was precocious bought retired by a ample American company. It seems similar each different idiosyncratic astatine the absorption level successful the caller genitor institution is simply a vice-president oregon a manager of something. Generally, we'd reserve those titles for the precise apical of a company."
—u/Anaptyso
16. "Speaking loudly, adjacent erstwhile having a regular speech with idiosyncratic lasting close adjacent to you. I don't needfully deliberation that determination is thing wrong with it, but I find it a spot weird. When I was successful Stockholm, I took a abbreviated travel connected 1 of those boats that fundamentally service arsenic buses. The vessel was astir apt astir 10 meters long, truthful not a large one. There is rather a spot of sound that comes from the motor and the h2o hitting the boat, truthful it was a small noisy onboard. A fewer meters from wherever I was sitting, 2 Americans were having a conversation. Without adjacent trying to perceive successful connected their conversation, I (and astir apt astir radical connected the boat) could intelligibly perceive precisely what they were saying, successful spite of each the noise. I recovered it a spot fascinating."
—u/Svhmj
17. "'You person to record your taxes yourself. To bash that, you request to usage a backstage work that costs a batch of money. Have the IRS marque a free, easy-to-use work disposable for the wide public? What are we, commies!?' In Denmark, the taxation authorization calculates astir of what you owe, and you lone person to cheque that everything is correct. I walk possibly 2 hours a twelvemonth connected taxes. Also, the US is (as acold arsenic I know) the lone state successful the satellite that expects its citizens overseas to record and wage taxes."
—u/MrHelfer
18. "So galore American radical deterioration their shoes inside. I perfectly hatred it, and I don’t recognize the logic of bringing and spreading ungraded inside. Also, successful films (especially '80s films) protagonists often prevarication in bed wearing sneakers. Do radical really bash that??"
19. "Whenever radical from the US notation to a superior (usually extracurricular the US), they accidental the state arsenic well. For example: Paris, France, oregon Berlin, Germany. I presume it comes from them saying the sanction of the municipality and past the US state, arsenic there's astir apt 10 Fredericksburgs successful the US."
20. "Going to a drive-through for each of their nutrient — adjacent java and donuts. Why????"
—u/justinecn
"Because cipher successful America walks anyplace and virtually everyone drives. I’ve seen Americans deliberation that a six-block locomotion was excessively acold and excessively overmuch for them."
21. "I consciousness similar Americans thin to beryllium into exaggeration and hyperbole. Everything gets described with superlatives. It's not conscionable a comic video; it's the funniest video ever (until you ticker the adjacent comic video). It's not conscionable a bittersweet story; it's the saddest happening you've ever read. An hold of that cognition seems to beryllium that radical volition cheer for perfectly everything, clapping and 'WOOO-ing' for anything, from a level landing to a quality they similar appearing successful a movie astatine the theater."
22. "Mine are mostly food-related. I similar to ticker videos of Americans eating due to the fact that they devour truthful otherwise from different places. I’m ever amazed astatine what radical devour and what’s disposable successful stores. Such unusual things and eating habits, similar truthful galore things with an artificial cheddar taste, oregon things with ranch condiment taste, pre-packaged PB&Js without crusts, small packs of mini crackers, and tiny food and salami (I think?) that kids stack unneurotic and devour for lunch. Raw vegetables to dip successful ranch? I besides saw radical eating earthy sweetener snaps, and that conscionable seemed truthful odd. I’m not saying bad, BTW, conscionable different."
23. "How earnestly Americans instrumentality their nationalist anthem. I thought it was a meme until I went to SeaWorld, and it played earlier the parkland opened. All the Americans stood with their hands implicit their bosom portion it played. I can't judge that really happens."
—u/kirkbywool
24. "When speaking of their travels, I’ve met galore Americans who accidental they’ve ‘done’ a metropolis oregon a country, arsenic opposed to saying they went oregon visited. It makes it look similar they person a large to-do database of countries. My favourite is 'we’ve done Europe.' LMAO."
—u/deadheadism
26. "Their information sizes! Gigantic! I mean, I don't complain, it's bully to bring the leftovers location for a midnight snack, but that conception was truthful overseas to me."
—u/ananasbaby
27. "I don't truly get wherefore Americans similar driving pick-up trucks implicit vans. Does it not rainfall connected your stuff?"
—u/Waghlon
28. "Bolting retired of restaurants/cafés aft 2 hours max. In Slovenia, we tin enactment astatine a café/restaurant for hours, and the unit won’t fuss us. The longest I spent astatine a café was astir 5 hours."
29. "Mixing saccharine and savory (e.g., bacon and maple syrup, chickenhearted and waffles, etc.). Just...no."
—u/sned777
30. "Air conditioning everywhere, each the time."
—u/LyannaTarg
31. "It's unusual to maine that Americans tin lone talk 1 oregon 2 languages. In the Netherlands, everyone speaks astatine slightest two, but astir radical talk 3 oregon four."
32. And finally, "The wont of insisting that without a well-armed populace, tyranny is conscionable astir the corner."
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