People Share 30 Things That They Think Are Normal In Europe But Horrific In America

my house was built in 1677

Favorite metric system quote is by Josh Bazell. “In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. ... Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go f**k yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”

This! When I was a nanny in the US, the family I worked for was always nagging me for using public transport. I never unederstood what the big deal was.

And then we have our beloved bored panda censure... s**t!

Rested and healthy employees = higher productivity. Who'd have thought?

What???

Or, at least partially in Germany, leaves it with a neighbour.

I'd rather not have muddy footprints/ dirt from outside around the house.

They should make this a European thing.

I think they meant: While it is normal for Europeans to speak at least one language other than their mother tongue, Americans are not expected to speak any other language than English.

At least where I live in Germany it’s NOT usual to be naked in parks or bathing naked in crowded places, except they’re designated as nude areas. Topless is tolerated in most urban parks, if you don’t Walk around. Otherwise it’s a "Public nuisance", which is an administrative offense and is punished by a penalty fee.

And yet the conservatives in America literally can't keep their noses out of other people's private parts. They are nasty creepers.

I was very naive and stepped in to a sauma in an all female gym in the US naked only to find all the girls there in bathingsuits.

No! You can't walk around naked in Germany, be naked in parks and swim naked! It's just not true! There are designated areas at beaches or nude beaches. Also the being naked in sauna thing is true

Much less in Latin culture countries. In France it is illegal to be naked in public and people are generally more reluctant to show their body around.

Americans will gladly show you breasts to sell a car or a burger but you can get in trouble with the law for showing a woman breastfeeding on the cover of a family magasine that has a breastfeeding special that month (actually happened a while back, the magasine had to publish a letter saying how sorry they were to have shown something so sexual...). They are the biggest producers of pornography on the planet and yet have some of the worst laws about sexuality and pedophilia and think sexual education is bad... How f****d up or hypocrite do you have to be

Also breastfeeding in public; you can do it anywhere and no-one pays any attention. I did this when I lived in the Netherlands; breastfed on demand at stations, airports, trains, planes, benches, IKEA, restaurants. I never covered up either, always felt too hot. It was SO liberating.

In North America, being caught urinating outside, even if hidden, can get you put on the sex offender list.

This goes only for designated areas (FKK), please don't come here and walk around with your d**k hanging out, you will get arrested.

I once was in a German sauna, naked, and an American mother with two children came in - all in bathing suits. It ended up making ME very uncomfortable, because they gave me the feeling that I was inappropriate.

Sounds like a good idea!

Well clearly I live in the wrong place. I find nothing perverted, embarrassing, shameful nor sexual about just plain nudity.

It is a far healthier attitude if you grow up with it. A problem if you live where it is not. A bit like sex education. The countries that accept it as healthy have far less of the problems that grow out of ignorance. Kids don't get into trouble by trying to learn on their own about the mysteries their parents seem to know too little about.

Well, it is designated nudes' areas to be clear, but if you take a leak somewhere in nature, you won't be charged for indecent exposure or something. A roadside piss, every european has taken ... on a sunday morning, you can even walk across an Autobahn to pee on the mid strip. I did that on the A7, Summer 2001, a dutch guy honked and waved and laughed at me.