‘USA vs. Italy Culture Shocks’: American Moves To Italy, Shares The Biggest Cultural Differences She’s Noticed

If you dont want it than they wont bring it

Super rude actually!

Eating is not just put food down your throat. You sit, you relax, you talk with others...

Wait, in the USA, they bring it when they see that you are done eating? I've been at a restaurant for about 6-7 hours and had 2 meals there and lots of drinks because we were just hanging out with friends

thats actually pretty polite ngl. this way they dont just *assume* you're finished

It's not free - it's taxpayer-funded. Like schools, infrastructure, defence, fire/rescue, etc. It's cheaper that way, and easier to access, train for, maintain and improve. 74 nations do this, all of the top 30, with one exception. That one exception has allowed for-profit insurance companies to kneel on the public's neck for decades.

The healthcare system is America is terrible. I am diabetic and insulin has seen the greatest rise in cost over the last 20 years. The ACA provided low premiums but very high deductibles. Meaning you basically have close to the same you would pay with a high premium anyway. Affordable healthcare and socialized medicine are great if you do not have a chronic illness. With that everyone needs to get over this impression about socialized medicine being “free”. This is not at all a comparison like the US knows wtf it is doing, because it doesn’t. But most developed countries with socialized medicine; do not pay 100% of costs, people still get private healthcare because of this, they have strict policies on services provided to immigrants in their countries to control costs, deal with much smaller populations leading to lower costs overall, coverage for coverage for chronic illness in many countries depend on your country of origin while you are there and so forth. Then there is medicine...

But the USA thinks the rest of the world is odd...

Yeah, "free" healthcare. All the health care workers work pro bono. In America, we have free public schools! I am not defending the American health care *system*, which I think is something close to a mess. But no country anywhere has FREE healthcare.

Four weeks of paid vacation is pretty low in European terms. Many employees get 25 days, some even 30. And sick leave is also several weeks (in fact, if you get sick on holidays, it will count as sick leave and you will get your holiday days back).

Im turning 42 and only just found out that the vacation pay (6% after 6 years) wasnt actually money being put aside from my pay cheques. The company was adding it on. I get 3 weeks vacation after 6 years; but now in October theyll be adding it to every cheque instead of putting it aside. Im in Canada

I've been getting that in the USA for many years now

That’s amazing! I thought I was awesome when I worked up to 3 weeks off!:)

30 days in Germany, weekends not included. So basically 6 weeks

You mean that government actually is out to HELP people?

My friend gets a 100 eur voucher every month for gluten intolerance and he can't possibly spend all of it, so he tries to make his friends eat his gluten free pasta... No thanks!

This is brilliant! I don't have it in my country but I wished I did. I have a lot of food problems and I know I cost my parents a lot of money buying specialist food

cry's in American celiac's disease

I don’t really get this one. I mean ok, but I wouldn’t say America doesn’t care about your life because you don’t get gluten free vouchers. Also if a doctor diagnosis you with celiac it would of course make sense to stay away from gluten. But having been in the service industry I can tell you gluten intolerance is one of the conditions that many people say they have that really don’t.

I never really liked that system. It is true that the students learn a lot in depth the subjects that they need for their trade. But at least in belgium there is a lot of prejudices for kids who chose paths that are considered "easy" (like building or hairdresser). Also kids at 13 are way too young to know what they want. I would find better a mix system, where kids until 16yo study together (with some optative subjects) and then in the last two years they focus on their specialisation.

I think there's more to this "choice" than the child choosing by themselves. If it's like the system in my homeland, the teachers, parents and child together decide which academic stream/specialism is best suited to the student's abilities and interests.

Yes, we hae 5 years of elementary school, 3 of (so called) "medium school", and the you can pick 5 years high school which will give you access to college, which only 2 of those (called classical and scientific) will only give you access to university. Nothing good for a job if that’s your wish. At my times there were also shorter high schools of 3 and 4 years but didn’t give access to university. The 3 years but the are also of 2, are called professional school and they literally give you what’s needed to go working in a factory.

I'm not sure I would trust my 13 year old self to make the best choice. Is that really how it works?

I feel this will sell a lot of kids short. I've still no idea what I want to do.

green screen made me do a double take

There's absolutely nothing wrong with screw cap wine bottles. Some of the world's best wines come in such bottles and according to wine specialists (e.g. James Suckling) there's nothing wrong with this type. It might work even better for certain types of wine. ^^

I think she forgot to put the bottle in her hand in the first pic...

They're not nearly as likely to slam down a bottle of something and then throw the bottle at passing cars as we are in the USA

Yeah, some people are weird and rude... they smile and stuff...

Isn't that just paid vacation?

Also in Spain. It is the law

this makes me want to move to italy