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30 People Share What "Work Ethics" Are Like In Different Countries

And the big surprise is, nothing, absolutely nothing bad happens if you don't check your emails.

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30 People Share What "Work Ethics" Are Like In Different Countries

And the big surprise is, nothing, absolutely nothing bad happens if you don't check your emails.

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40 Pics Of Cats In Places They Shouldn’t Be, But They Are Because They Can, Shared By This Twitter Account

Left the guinea pig cage door open for a hot second while I went to another room to grab something. I came back to this. https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG_6176-b-60904830c8c8d.jpg

40 Pics Of Cats In Places They Shouldn’t Be, But They Are Because They Can, Shared By This Twitter Account

Cat version of ripped jeans

40 Pics Of Cats In Places They Shouldn’t Be, But They Are Because They Can, Shared By This Twitter Account

Automatically set with the "purrrr" ringtone

40 Pics Of Cats In Places They Shouldn’t Be, But They Are Because They Can, Shared By This Twitter Account

"They said there was a mousie over here!"

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40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

I got morbidly curious and looked up the obesity rate in the United States which is 36.2% for the year 2021. Yikes....

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

I once had a waiter literally sit down at my table with me and talk to me because I was eating alone and he was apparently concerned I was sad or something. I'm never sad when I'm alone. Only when someone interrupts my peaceful aloneness.

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

I live in the Netherlands, I don't agree with this. Obesity here isn't that accepted, finding clothes is impossible not to mention the way you're treated if you happen to be big.

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

So socks that were in the shoes are germ ridden and shoes that were walking through the streets, parks, subways are what, sterile?

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This Town Has A Sign War Going On Between Many Businesses And It's Entertaining The Locals (20 Pics)

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

I'm on disability, my husband works at Walmart. we qualify for $3 in food stamps, Employee discount is NOT extended to food at Walmart. I can't pay for anything not on the dollar menu

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

I am European/ Dutch so maybe a naive question. Why doesn’t (state or federal) government invest more in active forms of transport like walking or cycling? If you want to fight obesity (and health related problems because of it) this would a relatively simple solution.

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

I had a 12 hour flight squashed up against the window. I couldn't move as the man beside me was HUGE and his legs and butt were half in my space. Worst flight of my life...especially when I needed to go to the loo. I asked to be moved, but plane completely full. Then he had the loudest snore I have ever heard in my life.

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

It's called brain washing

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

pledges for flags are dumb, and if you want to have one so bad, then don't force people to say it!

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

they don't mean it... these are not your new friends. But I would prefer this to the attitude you get from a grumpy Dutch waiter, indifferent German sales clerk, or an obnoxious French cab driver...

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

It always makes me wonder how much dog poop is in the average American carpet.

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

My boyfriend stayed in the US once, in a state capital, and his impression was pretty much the same as OP's. The hotel he stayed at was directly at the street - no side walk, and there was a huge road with even more lanes in the post and no safe way to cross it. The place he wanted to go by foot was just about a kilometer away, but it seemed impossible to get there other than by car.

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

Yeah, but that's what makes it scary is that it's so passively accepted. How many German patriots said those exact same words when asked why they worked at the concentration camps? "We only did it because we were supposed to, none of us liked it... etc."

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

That's easy. There is sugar in everything

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

It's our conspiracy to fatten up the world...

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

My impression is that American patriotism is mostly based on lies, though. Based on the nonsense the self proclaimed 'patriots' keep spouting. It's fine to cheer on your team in the olympics - it's not so great to be blind to the many faults and atrocities committed by your nation.

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

I'd rather have quality, not quantity.

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

Years ago I was in the middle seat of a Southwest Airlines flight from PHX to OKC between two women who were more than 300 lbs. each. Brutal.

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

...respect democracy and justice... Ha!

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

As a Soldier, it always made me feel uncomfortable, when people said things like that, or looked at you like you were a hero. It was my profession, and one that I chose, so to be treated like a rock star made me feel very weird and conspicuous. I sometimes felt like it was over compensation for how Vietnam Vets were treated when they came home.

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

There is a middle ground between rudeness and being overly friendly, you know.

40 Foreigners That Visited The US Reveal What Was The Biggest Culture Shock For Them

When I moved to the U.S. to live with my wife, which was several years ago, I also wanted to go shopping on foot. That was what I was used to at home in Germany. My wife then advised me not to do it, precisely because almost no one does it in the USA. Even more so, people who walk are viewed with suspicion. Often they are even controlled by the police. Precisely because simply no one is on foot. Of course, this may vary somewhat depending on where you are. In this case, it was in Atlanta. In small towns, it will supposedly be somewhat different.

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Having to say the ”Pledge of allegiance“ every single day, not gonna lie I found that really strange because it kinda gave off North Korea vibes to me, that’s just something that would be unheard of in German schools

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People wear shoes inside their homes. So strange.

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When I was a young child I went on holiday to Florida. I remember going to a museum and seeing a ‘non guns’ sign at the entrance. My mum has to explain to young me that in the US people regularly carried guns around, which blew my mind. Still does today.