45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group

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So they do not mind paying for another person's care as long as they chose whom? Again, quite insane.

It's disgusting that Americans have to beg to get medical help. A national health service is pretty much the same, removes the need for medical insurance and costs a lot less

As an American, this is pretty sad.

Im so glad that isn't an issue in tje uk

THIS! I remember a time that my dad had gotten laid off and my mum was dealing with health issues. They were simply down on their luck and filed for food stamps. Due to their Canadian pension they only qualified for $18 in food stamps a month and made too much to have health insurance, just adding to the health issues.

Stop legalized bribery, aka lobbying, and stop giving lawmakers health insurance with the job and make them pay like the rest of us and watch how fast the system gets overhauled.

My husband recently lost his job. He worked there for 15 years and when he filed for unemployment, they turned him down because he has "underlying medical conditions that prevent him from working" and "unemployment is for people capable of work". 🤦🏻‍♀️

but trump ruined it

You can also be too poor to qualify for health insurance. If you make below the federal poverty income you are not eligible to buy insurance on the Health Insurance Marketplace. (Well, you can, but would get no subsidies, so your premium would be over $2,000 per month.) So, if you live in a Republican-run state that does not extend Medicaid to adults, you can't have insurance at all, even if you could have afforded a small premium on the marketplace. I was in this situation for years. Fortunately, now live in a blue state.

This! Pay everyone a living wage and do away with tips!

In my family we always tip the pizza delivery person but idk about take-out

Having to rely on generosity to make a living is inhuman. Pay everyone a living wage.

ONLY IN 'MURICA

I say pay a living wage, which will cover slow shifts, but still tip if the service is excellent. I mean, mail carriers and doormen (what’s the gender neutral form of this?) make a decent wage, but it’s still good form tip them at Christmas when they’ve served you well all year.

Oh, we Germans kinda do that, too, actually 😅

This happens in MANY if not all countries....

Another reason we don't have socialized healthcare - we have a system of legalized bribery and insurance companies have endless deep pockets.

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Lobbying need not to be corruption in the first place. It simply means that a group is reaching out to politicians in order to start a legal change. But of course there is a difference between a citizen organization trying to solve some social issue and mafiozos trying to legalize their shady businesses. In czech republic it is usually the latter, so this is not US-specific thing.

Everything in American-English too rather than British-English. things that are translated from almost any other language into American-English rather than British-English regardless of the subject matter

Its annoying because everything I see on the internet is mostly American or something and a lot of the people are too, it's hard to find Australian things.

There was a huge fight on an international teacher page on Facebook. A woman who clearly stated she was in Croatia posted a pic of her teaching her students math in a creative way of acting out the problem. She was dressed in what they took to be an offensive Native American outfit. American teachers relentlessly attacked her first cultural appropriation. This was a case of applying American opinions to a person in a different culture! How hypocritical can you be! I contacted her and apologized for their rudeness. Turns out her outfit was bought by her husband when he was working in America! She had no idea about it other than she found it to be beautiful. Several Native American teachers even told her it was not offensive to them, and still white teachers attacked her. The whole comment section was shut down.

Told to "s**t off" because I'm not American when I comment, eh...one, US is really close to us and everything they do affects us, so I have a right to an opinion

I was raised on the Canadian border and think in metric, and other things... My mom's family is not from US. I often feel like what is "standard" in the US is just weird.

We’d call that indoctrination in the UK. I remember speaking with an elderly Italian man who was a child when Mussolini came to power. He told me they were forced to do similar things at school.

It is really weird how people here are trained from a young age to be proud of something that isn’t an accomplishment they made.. yay! You happen to have been randomly born on this piece of ground.. now be proud of your non-accomplishment and exclusionary.

And they declare that the USA, which was formed on the basis of freedom of religion, is "One nation, under God", which wasn't even added to the pledge until the 1950's even though many people think it was always there.

Ugh, I used to do that at my kindergarten. I remember a lot of kids (including me) skipping the part about God because we didn't believe in that.

For the record (in case anyone is interested in facts), schools cannot "make kids stand up and recite some prayer to the flag." The Supreme Court has held that it's an unconstitutional infringement of one's right to freedom of expression under the First Amendment to force a student in a public school to recite the pledge or even stand; schools can be held liable if they punish a student for not doing so. In my school there were lots of kids who didn't recite/stand and it was no big deal. So calm down with the "indoctrination"/North Korea talk...

And lobby for laws that put more people in jail

This should be higher. For profit prisons are a real life dystopian nightmare.

Correct. That is wrong.