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What’s totally acceptable and completely normal in one country might get you some funny looks elsewhere. Or, in other words, welcome to Planet Earth where there are loads of different countries and cultures that are bound to blow your mind when you travel.

This time, we’re looking at the differences between the United States and the United Kingdom. Even though both countries have a ‘special relationship’ (not to mention a rocky initial history together), far from everything is the same there. Hopping ‘over the pond’ means traveling a large distance both physically and culturally, too. Like you'd expect when going to any new country when you fly abroad.

Redditor TownImmediate9060 went on r/AskReddit and wanted to find out what’s socially acceptable in the US but would be horrifying in the UK. The thread went viral and the responses made us seriously realize the extent of the differences between the two allies. Check out some of the best answers below and remember to upvote your fave ones, dear Pandas.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Paying more than the price you see on a price tag in a shop due to taxes. WTF just put how much it costs!

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Cashiers being forced to stand... give them a chair you masochists

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Britain continues to use soft power to spread its influence abroad. Its cultural impact is off the charts. Just consider how influential the Harry Potter books, musicians like Ed Sheeran, and football entities like the Premier League really are.

They’re known and respected globally. As such, the UK’s able to draw in plenty of tourists (global pandemic notwithstanding because it’s hit everyone badly) and students from abroad because it remains at the forefront of people’s minds.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Politicians mentioning religion when campaigning

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Hans
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Religion should have no room in politics anywhere. (But for positive values such as grace of charity.)

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New mothers going back to work almost immediately after giving birth, because they don’t have paid maternity leave

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK An $800, four-block ambulance ride.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anything about the so-called American health system is a mystery to the rest of the world.

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However, research shows that the confusion and uncertainty around the long-term effects that Brexit, the UK’s exit from the European Union, will have slightly dampened the country’s influence abroad.

Meanwhile, the British Council found that it’s actually culture, not politics, that deepens the ties between the UK and the US. And it’s culture that’s going to play a vital role in the future of both nations as well.

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That whole thing where American kids pledge their allegiance to the flag. That is completely weird and scarily totalitarian to us Brits.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I refused to do it when I was a kid in the 80s. Got in trouble, was called a commie by another student. I wasn’t making a grand political statement, I was just young enough that I didn’t fully understand the pledge, and when I asked why we did it I was reprimanded. If they wouldn’t tell me why, then I didn’t want to do it. I finally found the compromise of just moving my mouth and saying nothing. You really could get in trouble for not saying it.

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Roland
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dude... Not only brits. Me as a slav this is like.. What the f**k is wrong with you people

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Dorothy Cloud
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do you live here? If not, why should your opinion make a difference one way or another?

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Stannous Flouride
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Originally in included a familiar looking gesture called the "Bellamy salute" that fell out of favor in the 1930s: Students_p...4afc2d.jpg Students_pledging_allegiance_to_the_American_flag_with_the_Bellamy_salute-6087ce04afc2d.jpg

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Vicky Zar
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my... yeah well... some of the things in the US are frighteningly reminiscent of Germany before WWII

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Anna McHugh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How else are they going to indoctrinate children into laying down their lives for a country which never made good on its mission statement?

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Jim Day
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We do it because of you Brits. We are still pissed about 1776. ;)

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Lorelei
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay...STUDENTS HAVE THE RIGHT to NOT say the pledge of allegiance. Okay?!?

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Lunar Bicycle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Absolutely they do, and they always have, but many, many teachers and school districts will do their best to not let you know that. Or at least shame you into saying it.

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Id row
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's more tradition at this point. I remember saying it as a kid and it was just something we did. We didn't think about the meaning of the words at all, no kid does.

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Frank Hayes
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Therein lies the problem. Why are they pledging allegiance when they don’t understand what it means?

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Requiem
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

CANADA does it as well and we have better lives than most other countries and also not war mongers or fascist. try again

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Ian Bayliss
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In England anyone pledging their allegiance to England's flag (the Cross of Saint George). would be arrested as a racist.

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Hanna Grim
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do they not sing God Save the Queen to a picture on the wall in the UK? I'm Canadian and on our military bases kids sing ( or did when I was young) Oh Canada and God Save the Queen at least once a day.

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Mary Peace
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, I grew up in England and still live in England. We only sang God Save the Queen occasionally and never to a picture. I have never seen children doing this, but I don't know about military bases.

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Paul Budhram
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

After realizing that no where else they did this, I completely stopped doing it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Plus, to illustrate further craziness, Texas also has a Pledge to the Texas Flag. I kid you not. We moved here to TX about 3-4 years ago and I substitute teach. Every school day, the students stand to do the U.S. pledge followed by the Texas pledge and then a moment of silence (because prayers are illegal).

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

but some other countries have it too? Its weird to the brits but there are several other countries that have a pledge to their country that kids recite

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Bill Karp
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it was stated to sell flags, and the pledge, gets kids to believe in government, just because.

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Tom Spade
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even as a child I faked it. I'm an individual, not a herd member. It also conflicts with my basic spiritual principles. I'll not pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth, nor to a government. I do pledge however, to be a decent and moral person, to help my neighbors, and to not break too many laws of the place I live. The only real exception is cannabis of course. I still can't figure out how the State is victimized by person's enjoying some fine bud. Yet, they persist in purveying this erroneous view.

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Dorothy Cloud
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you want to live here, why not? NO one has to live here. Many come here illegally and want all the perks for free. Heaven forbid they have to pledge allegiance to us!!!

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Robert Robi Z
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do they really think that will teach children anything but the pledge itself?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now be of COVID I don’t even do it I just turn my camera off and do something else sense I’m a virtual

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Susan Egan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And if you try to not do it. Ooo even getting rid of the practice is met with horror. I don't know why it's still a thing here.

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backatya
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not every country is going to be the same. Don't be Butt hurt Brits just because we are patriotic about our country and got free from England

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J Sauires
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Before posting such comments at least learn: 1) the difference between Brits (British) and English, and 2.) The American War of Independence is important to the US but irrelevant to Britons.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's rarely done anymore. And most people here don't understand America is not a Democracy, it's a Republic. A fact stated in the Pledge of Allegiance. Maybe if more knew and recited the Pledge, we'd know more about who is actually against us and who supports us.

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GC Rovario-Cole
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of the reasons I object to kids pledging allegiance is because nobody has told them what the word means. Define allegiance before direction people to pledge it.

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Pym Sparshott
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm Canadian, went to school in the States at age 11 for 6 months, they MADE me pledge the Allegiance, knowing I wasn't American, knowing I was going home soon. I was outraged, but young and timid.

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Angelica H.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always thought it was strange that my teachers made me say the same words everyday, at the same time as everyone else...

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Tim Haight
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was totally normal in grade school So was reading a bible verse before class starts. When I was in the air force we also had the national anthem before movies, we saluted the flag when it went up in the morning and in the evening when it went down.

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Leslie Burleson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They don't really do it any more . I grew up going to school on military bases , so it was normal for us . I think it's important to focus on patriotism

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J Sauires
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Patriotism is a short distance to nationalism and instilling the false belief of superiority over other nationalities.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my school they don't force us to recite the pledge if we don't want to.

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Paul Davis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a kid, if we mumbled or left out the "under God" part we would get sent to the principal's office for paddling.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It weirds out plenty of Americans, too. I just did it automatically in school, but looking back - wow.

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Smitin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is pledging allegiance to the flag any different than singing God Save the Queen?

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Pete
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the UK, we probably sing God Save the Queen about once a year. Not every time we go to school!

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Nic Dudley
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yea. And it is not even a pledge to allegiance to America...it is "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America"...allegiance to a piece of fabric...I was always confused about this and thought it was stupid but as a kid you just assume adults know what they are talking about. yea, wrong!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

America is the free-est country ever! NoW StAnd uP aNd PlEdGe aLLeGiAnce oR ELSE!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LOL no one knows what we're saying.....we just do it. I think it's a promise of loyalty and to respect the flag; but not sure no one is

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I stand but don't say it because its an animate object and people think i'm weird.

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TexasWoman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm American and I agree with you: there's no sense in the pledge of allegiance

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David Beaulieu
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, makes much more sense to sing a song about your earthly representation of God, the Queen. Shocking that our children would pledge themselves to America, when we could just ask "God" to save our "Insert inbred descendent of warlord here".

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate that pledge. It should be thrown out of school and saved for actual gatherings, like congress, I dunno

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

TBH it's weird enough learning the Lords Prayer in UK primary schools (but comes in handy for funerals later). The whole pledge/flag nonsense that goes on over the pond is completely baffling.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait... you actually have to learn and recite the Lord's Prayer in school? That is more baffling to me than the pledge/flag thing.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hilarious coming from the totalitarian government from which we won our independence. Doh!

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Ben Dover
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok, but youre not American so why would you like it? were not expecting you to!

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CatWoman312
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is just propaganda. The only times kids do this is when they’re learning about it. This is not something we do regularly

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's not true. When I was in elementary school and in my current middle school we recited it every morning.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Overworking. It's rewarded and encouraged in the U.S., but during my time in the U.K. my colleagues were horrified by the long hours and lack of holidays that was the norm in the U.S.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What an awful soulless place. And I'm guessing the only reason they give them what looks like expensive chairs is so they don't get sued for workplace injury.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Greeters in supermarkets. Just feels fake.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are greeters real? I thought the Simpson's was exaggerating. I guess in a country so massive, you gta find a way to stand out? Still seems weird tho

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“Culture and history were the two top rated factors contributing to the UK’s attractiveness among American respondents, with 43% identifying ‘cultural and historic attractions’ as a major draw and 42% identifying ‘history,’” the British Council explains what it discovered in its research.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Driving everywhere.

In the UK it's perfectly normal to have your kid walk to school and walking to the shops to do your shopping.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This varies in the US too. In most cities it's normal not to have a car, but not in places where most people don't live within walking distance to anything.

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Offering full-time employees anything less than 28 days of paid holidays per year - it's not only socially unacceptable - it's illegal!

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Bragging about how expensive something was.

In the US "this is a $100 shirt" ...smug face

In the UK "can you believe I got this whole suit for £25!" ...smug face

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Despite some of the more superficial cultural differences between the US and the UK, both nations appear to care about pretty much the same issues.

“The research showed a high degree of shared concern about global issues among young people in both countries with poverty, extremism/terrorism, and climate change as the top factors chosen by young people in both the US and UK,” the British Council found. “The research suggests the relationship between the two countries is at root a cultural as much as a political phenomenon, and viewed in those terms it is indeed special.”

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Labelling the winner of a sports tournament that only your country plays as ‘World Champions’

Calling Football ‘Soccer’

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We're not the only ones doing that. No one seems to blink at the audacity of the Miss Universe beauty contest, where Earth seems to win every time.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK A rubber in England is not the same as a rubber in the US.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the UK, a durex is (or used to be) a condom. In Australia, it's sticky tape. Best not to get them confused.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Gaps in bathroom stalls

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Ironically, the actual term ‘special relationship’ sees very little use in the US, primarily being a British way of categorizing the tight bonds between the two nations. However, this doesn’t change the fact that both countries are very much skipping along arm-in-arm, primarily admiring each other’s cultural output (leaving politics a secondary concern).

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Making tea in a microwave.

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When my Brit friends were visiting, they were horrified when the waiter took their credit card to swipe back at the terminal. This made them REALLY uncomfortable.

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Cutting lines for things, I’ve seen some people when going to Disney world trying to cut lines for random reasons. Queueing in the uk is like our national sport

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Redditor TownImmediate9060’s thread about the differences between the US and the UK was a roaring success. It got more than 67.7k upvotes in just over a week. What’s more, the thread got over 51k comments which just goes to show that the OP hit the nail on the head and chose a niche topic that plenty of folks were interested in.

The thread also got over 300 awards, proving that TownImmediate9060’s fellow Reddit users really appreciated them asking the question in the first place.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK My (British) partner & I (American) were in London, running late to meet our friends. Just as we get to the tube station, I see our train has just pulled in; we haul ass across platform and I yell, “HOLD THE DOOR.” Someone does, we make the train, I don’t see a problem. My partner, by contrast, is mortified. This was 4-5 years ago & he is still mortified. Apparently we were meant to just...let the train leave? Without us?? & wait for the next one???

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On the tube, there's absolutely no reason to "hold the door". The next one will be in in a few minutes, and you will just be a little late. By holding, everyone on the train will be late, and there is actually a possibility that it travels down the line, delaying several trains.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Asking new neighbors, "Have you found a church yet?"

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Huge portion sizes. Kids meal in U.S is like a adult meal in U.K.

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What’s your opinion about the relationship between the US and the UK, dear Readers? What, in your opinion, makes this relationship between the two special? What do you think are the main cultural differences between Americans and Brits? Let us know what you think in the comment section below. We’d absolutely love to get your take on this, especially if you’re currently living in the US or the UK.

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I was in Japan once and there was a vending machine selling beer outside my hotel room.

So, being British, I bought a can and went to the elevator where I shared an excruciating couple of minutes with two American business men. They were horrified at my early day drinking, and I at their willingness to express this.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's particularly wrong with day drinking? I mean, night won't reduce your drunkenness

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As a Brit in the US, this is a fun one!

Pharmaceutical adverts on the TV are still weird af to me

The length and frequency of commercial breaks in general on TV is shocking

Low hanging fruit, but anything relating to child beauty pageants just makes me feel physically sick

Here's a nice one: taking 20+ minutes to help a complete stranger who is struggling with something. The amount of times a total stranger has stopped to assist me or someone I know? Y'all really make my heart melt!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This happens in the UK too. I am a woman and I traveled by train with a suitcase too heavy for me to lift and always some lovely man immediately assisted me with getting on and off.

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Addressing a stranger as ‘Sir’

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To me, this sounds like a good style. How would you address a stranger in the UK?

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30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK Responding to work emails while on leave/vacation.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I fear this one may be culturally appropriated - I'm in the UK and have worked for people who have done this, and been "encouraged" to do this myself. I have offered once (but that was because it was a big, serious project, and my time off was looking after the MIL's house for two days and I was BORED!)

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Chanting the acronym of your country at any given opportunity.

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I don’t know how common it actually is there, but going fucking wild at the cinema during a hugely popular film like Avengers: Endgame or a Star Wars film. There’s a bunch of videos on YouTube of the audience reactions to various big franchise films and I don’t know how anybody lasts more than a few minutes in that room.

When I saw The Force Awakens, like two people half-heartedly cheered when the title screen came up and then someone immediately told them to shut up.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While talking about american cinemas, why don't they have seat reservation? In Sweden, we book in advance, choosing our seats by how many we are, where the screen is and availability.

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Refuse a drink to a grown-ass taxpaying 20 year old

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can legally buy a gun and hold a hunting license, I can legally get married, vote, make medical decisions, have a mortgage and go to an adult prison for legal infringements but cant enjoy a cold beer on a Saturday afternoon.

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