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

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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.

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

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

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

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.

And lobby for laws that put more people in jail

Most Americans think they're ridiculous too tbh.

It's so much more than that. It's not that they dont want healthcare, they dont want to pay for SOMEONE ELSE'S healthcare.

Most places use chip-and-pin where they *have* to take the card at the table since you need to enter your PIN. USA credit card banks decided Americans aren't smart enough for chip-and-pin, so we just have chip and an archaic signature.

Yeah, I kinda agree with this one.

This is sad

Add "who is paying their debt while also stopping treatment because they can't continue accruing more debt"

yeah...

i know- you can literally stare someone in the face while they are going to the bathroom

How else can they keep up the illusion that they live in a country worth celebrating?

Different taxes in different states. But yeah.

Work to live, don't live to work.

In China or Japan, it is even worse. They are literally required to worship their boss and their company.

It comes from our long-standing myth of the 'self made man'. Top that with most of us can't afford to take a vacation, so might as well work.

This is why Americans create world changing things like: Facebook, YouTube, McDonalds, Google, Coca Cola, Starbucks, iPhone, Android, Hollywood, Netflix, instagram, Disney, Tesla, SpaceX,Boeing,NASA, Ford, GM, IBM, Dell, NFL, Nike, Jack Daniel, Red Bull, Harley-Davidson, Amazon, Marvel............

I guess generalizing about an entire country is known the world over.

They work too much because they have no choice, the wage is criminally low.

Jesus. The working culture here isn't "toxic" (WTF). It only looks that way compared to slower-moving countries

I work so I can have a roof over my head, heat in the winter and food to eat.

I have no idea if that is real or just in tv shows and series. Tv shows are not real representation of reality. I was always wondering if Americans are that obsessed with work as Hollywood is trying to convince us. In tv series, they literally never go home. And who can work for 72 hours straight and still look super polished? Or work 70 hours a week and not end up in emergency room?

THANK YOU, PILGRIMS & PURITANS! The “if you’re not working you’re bad” Calvinist idea has stuck, even if most of that culture didn’t

I those of us that are in our 30's and younger are learning and beginning to demand that our work not define us, and to have a work/life balance. And boy does it piss the older folks off. No one ever said on their death bed, "boy, I wish I'd spent more time at the office."

And then hearing so much awful stories about toxic bosses, toxic work environments, toxic unemployment rules, and so on.

This.

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OP knows no Americans at all. Watches lot's of telly, though, and believes it to be real.

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I think some young folk don't grasp what working for a living is

we get sooo many ads too; they're literally everywhere and most of them are attack ads with questionable information

it's disgusting the amount of money my school spends on sports, and we're not even remotely a sporty school

the meal in the picture is not an American one.

Yeah in my country, if you don't take your minimum of 5 weeks of holiday per year, it will be scheduled for you. Literally your manager will force you to relax :D.

Yeah it is pretty weird. Why not just say 9th, 10th , 11th, and 12 grade? Seems much more simple. I am going to be in high school next year and I am Indian but I live in America. I am used to saying junior, sophomore, etc. but my mom finds it really confusing. This seems so unnecessary.

I'm good with it being a weekday, but it should be a national holiday

This is a bad policy because everyone comes to work sick so they can still take vacation days.

Way too much religion everywhere and about everything.

It’s very annoying

Already noted. Pay everyone a living working wage (NOT $7.50/hr). Do away with tipping.

This, bigtime.

I live in Canada and one of my friends did a cross-country drive via the USA to take advantage of cheaper gas.

One of the primary concerns of using garbage disposals is that it puts excess strain on local wastewater treatment centers. All of the food solids in the wastewater must be filtered out. Those solids are used to create fertilizer or are sent to landfills.

the UK has limited ad amounts. theyre regulated, so you can only have 12 minutes of ads per hour. obviously in the US im guessing its not the same

I still dont understand why its played. Its a sporting event, a game, nothing more. Im a baseball fan & i can care less about it being played. I want to watch the game.

Can not disagree with that statement

yuppp they taste better for some reason just like a grilled cheese tastes better cut

But, but, but! Don't you want to know what I think?!

That's a bit vague. High schools have lessons across the world, are populated with hormonal teens across the world, have school meals across the world - there's certainly a difference in quality here, but it's not a weird American thing. So, everything else...?

one of the things i missed living 9 years abroad was this right here...i drink a lot of water. only water, but a lot of it and having to ask for refills of water and getting side-eye was something i never got used to.

I'm in the bible belt. Alcohol can be bought 24/6 here (no sales on Sunday) at Walmart but the actual pharmacy is not open at night.

THIN MINTS

It's discrimination to only give crackers to ppl called Graham ):

You can also thank our tragic shadow of a public transportation system and how far we're spread out. In may instances, driving (and therefore parking) is the only option.

thats cause we call it somthing else

There is some sort of debate whether jaywalking is or isn’t frowned upon in Germany - many people believe that the Germans are sticklers for traffic etiquette when it comes to walking across a street on a red light, and, indeed, Germans will stand even when it would be safe to cross - for the sake of setting the right example for any nearby children. So, it might be the same everywhere.

We say "peanut butter and jelly" but it really is jam and that has always bothered me. Jam spreads way better than jelly.

yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ranch

We have ads for prescriptions drugs. They are usually found in magazines.

sounds more sexxy

There are rules where I live: thou shalt not converse with the cashier but thou absolutely shall at the butchers.