[ SECRET POST #4147 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4147 ⌋

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[Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, 1941]


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[Teen Wolf]


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[The Three Investigators]


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[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]


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[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]


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[Silver Bullet]









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Comments

Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe someone here can explain. :)

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Forever #1: That they always wear shoes in the house!!!

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[type_wild]

This

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, and that they don't find all those almost-threatening Christian billboards along their highways as horrifically creepy as I do.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

But... we don't

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[kaijinscendre]

Depends on the household. Some do, some don't. I wear my shoes in my house but...I also own a broom and vacuum. So I have the ability to clean my floors. Also, I am not running around in the mud or anything so they don't get that dirty.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Okay. For starters, when you're talking about an entire country with a population of 300+ million people, there is no "always" for anything. No one in my family wears shoes inside the house. I can't think of a single person I know personally who does that. In summer, I'm barefoot. In winter, I wear socks and slippers for warmth.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Since most of the commenters so far are contrarians, I'm an American and I do this all the time. My dad and most of my relatives on his side do too. It's gross when I stop to think about it, tracking shit from the outside, but it's too ingrained in me now. XD

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[philstar22]

I never wear shoes inside. My parents do, but they both have specifically indoor shoes. My dad stubs his toes all the time when he's not wearing shoes, and my mom is paranoid about worms and such.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

As others have said, not everyone wears shoes in their house. I kick them off as soon as I come home and I also take them off when I go to a close friend's house. However, I keep them on when I'm visiting someone I don't know or am not very close to.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[analise]

For the record, generally in the Southeast US and also in Hawaii it's pretty common to take your shoes off when you enter the house. My family (Mississippi) always had a big pile of shoes by the door because it was expected you'd take them off.

When I moved to Hawaii I noticed even when looking at houses with the realtor we'd take our shoes off before entering, when I had people come in and do work on my kitchen and ceiling fans the guys took their shoes off, pretty much every house has some kind of thing by the door for people to put their shoes, a condo I stayed in for a couple of nights on Kauai had something for people's shoes, as did a B&B I stayed in on the Big Island. So yeah, it's a big cultural thing here. (Of course, there's a heavy Asian influence so that probably has something to do with it.)

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

chiming in to say that in the Midwest you NEVER wear shoes in the house. Winter is gross and anyone who tracks salt, mud, and slush on my carpets will be destroyed.

like, I can see from the Canadian's example that formal parties might be an exception, but I've also never gone to a formal party. even our Halloween parties, when shoes might make the costume, shoes stay off. dirt and wet do not get spread in the house.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

No, not true. Northern Midwesterners definitely do not. Minnesotan here, and I had no idea other areas of the country did this until I moved to a coast. It's sure not normal where I'm from.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

guns
and science denying

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

I'd hoped people would be sensible enough to distinguish between "things that some Americans do" and "American culture". :(

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Those are less general truths of American society, and more the property of intransigient political minorities with disproportionate amounts of political power for various reasons

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

the science denying comes with large parts of the country being extremely religious. churches don't pay taxes in this country so they're like big businesses raking in the money from whomever they can brainwash.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

So, once upon a time people who had settled in America decided they needed to rise up against the government who was taxing them unfairly and form their own government. It ended up in a revolution, which worked. When the new government formed, they decided it was vitally important that if there was need to rise up again, people had the guns to do it. It has become more entrenched and some people are hugely dogmatic about it. And in a way it's kind of a final check on governmental power. It was there at the very start, with the formation of government and citizen rights. Some people absolutely see it as a founding principle (though a lot of people sort of ignore the well regulated militia part). And some people just really like guns. And enough people who vote or have influence are gun owners, which is why they aren't regulated the way they should be. Some gun owners do believe in more regulation, but not enough or they might believe in one type and not another.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

1. Your healthcare system.

If I get cancer and I'm poor, do I just quietly die because I can't afford treatment?
Does my family lose their house paying for it?

Why are there not riots in the streets!?



2. I ate reeces peanut butter cups once and it was neither chocolate nor peanut butter. It was brown candle wax and gritty tasteless gunk. EXPLAIN.



3. Your meal portion sizes that are big enough for a family and your family size portions that no family should consume ever. Why is your soft drink size small the same as our large. Why.



4. Guns.



5. TRUMP.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Does my family lose their house paying for it?

Traditionally, yes.

It's somewhat hard to explain how all of this came about, but the basic principles are, one, America has an extremely well-developed, entrenched, and powerful upper class which has been making concerted efforts to destroy the social safety net and capitalize and exploit every part of society for 38 years. Two, racism is deeply embedded in American society and generally gets leveraged for popular support for those policies across the board. There's a lot of other stuff to say here but those are the big 2.

2. I ate reeces peanut butter cups once and it was neither chocolate nor peanut butter. It was brown candle wax and gritty tasteless gunk. EXPLAIN.

The chocolate is bad, I'll grant you that, but the peanut butter is delicious. It's not actually peanut butter, just think of it as a weird peanut butter fudge or something. But it's better delivered in Reese's Pieces.

3. Your meal portion sizes that are big enough for a family and your family size portions that no family should consume ever. Why is your soft drink size small the same as our large. Why.

Food is good, we have a lot of it, capitalism

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[greghousesgf]

Trader Joe makes a better peanut butter cup
lots of Americans are on diets
lots of us hate trump's guts and didn't vote for him

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

- "I'll pray for you" and general Christian sentiments seem to be big in America, or some parts of America? I find that puzzling, it's quite odd where I come from to be very overt with your religion.

- Do American's eat turkey at Christmas AND Thanksgiving??

- And the general, lots of guns and no healthcare thing.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

The overreliance on cars. It feels like there's very little chance to walk anywhere or ride a bike in many cities.

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Why are Americans so fat? Has obesity become the new normal?

Re: Non-Americans, what do you find puzzling about American culture?

[(Anonymous)]

Workaholism, especially in corporate America. You have nonexistent vacation days. Your maternity policies suck worse than many third world nations'. And all of this nonsense is touted as something to be proud of.

Four years of college, two years of grad school, plus a couple more working in consulting had me believing that quaffing a coffee for lunch and pulling consecutive all-nighters meant I was succeeding in life. It took moving to the other side of the world for me to realize that, no, I was just brainwashed and depressed.