“Things In Norway That Are Foreign To Me”: 25 ‘Cultural Shocks’ This American Woman Experienced After Moving To Norway

Yep. Still don't understand why they are surprised over International standards. What also puzzle me is why it is posted on Bored Panda. I mean... This website and its whole admin team is from Europe. Why the focus on US stuff like that?

I am from the USA and I would like to point out that it is a very big country that shares a border with only two other countries. It takes 5 or 6 days to travel from coast to coast in the US, and then you are still in the same country. If you drive that long in most of Europe you will go through multiple countries. Flying is very expensive. So traveling to other countries is not a possibility for most US Americans. I am sorry so many people on this site have such a low opinion of us, but I would like to point out that in the last two presidential elections more people voted against trump than for. But the reason trump got in office the first time is because we are not a direct democracy and we have an electoral college which causes candidates, that did not win the popular vote, to get into office occasionally (happened with Bush #2 also). My point being most of us are not close minded, ignorant a$$holes running around ready to shoot the first thing that moves.

This was one of the dumber BP posts. It is more a demonstration of her narrow sheltered existence. If she's really that culturally naive, she's going to have a hard time adjusting to living abroad.

Agree. Also, some of this stuff happens in different places in the States. This is more of an "I've never lived outside of Chicago and it's my only frame of reference."

A lot of things though are common in America, so...

More accurate: a tiny collection of unsophisticated, most likely quite young Americans find differeces in some aspects of another country.

Tell me about it... I travelled to Canada, many years ago, and had to go through New York on my way to Toronto, and through Chicago on my way back. In Chicago, airport security made me open my suitcase because they thought the adapter for the outlets was suspicious - they had never seen one in their life! I actually had to explain to them that there are multiple different systems with differently shaped outputs and different voltages used worldwide. Thanks to the adapter, I can charge or use any of my appliances anywhere in the world.

yes, there are quite a few who have selected Gambia because it's english-speaking and is the original location of some of the slaves that were taken in the 1700s.

I lived in Africa for two years and I had a lot of culture shock like moments. But they were mainly on the social level. At least west African culture is very different from the US. I personally loved it there. Also, I miss Fufu the food.