[ 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

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)]

At my house, we do turkey for Thanksgiving and ham for Christmas, but some people like turkey and have it for both.

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

[greghousesgf]

I hate "I'll pray for you" when it sounds like a threat. I'm an atheist and I get that A LOT.
My family ate turkey at Thanksgiving and other things at Xmas.

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

[(Anonymous)]

Turkey is something that you have to eat at Thanksgiving, and a thing that you can eat at Christmas if you want to.

I mean, you don't have to eat it at Thanksgiving if you really don't want to, no one's forcing you. But it's much, much, much more expected and traditional at Thanksgiving, whereas at Christmas it's just something that people like.

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

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, the overt religion thing is a weird part of the culture, but most people don't even realize other countries don't have this. I'm an atheist so I never say it, but even when I was younger, it just seemed like a condescending thing to say to someone.

Turkey for Thanksgiving is very traditional, but Christmas isn't necessarily a turkey holiday. There's a lot more variety in Christmas foods.

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

[(Anonymous)]

My family wasn’t religious except for my paternal grandmother, who was very Catholic and never said things like “I’ll pray for you.” It’s rare that I hear stuff like that, but it always makes me boggle when I do.

We always ate turkey on both holidays (and celebrated Chistmas thanks to cultural inertia and Catholic grandma).

My dad owned guns, but I never saw them. I found a bullet in the garage once when I was a kid.

My dad had a union job and later so did my mom, so I was on their health care plan until I turned 23, and then was without healthcare until I was 30 and a) Obamacare kicked in and b) six months after I got healthcare through Obamacare, I landed a benefitted union job.

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

[analise]

My family does turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas a lot. I don't live in my hometown anymore and I don't often go home for Thanksgiving (prefer to use my leave days to stay longer at Christmas) and I was REALLY disappointed one year when I came home and there was no turkey at Christmas!!! It's pretty the only time of year I get turkey like that. Sadface.

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

[(Anonymous)]

- organized religion is a big business in the US. saying you'll pray for someone sounds like an easy way of doing nothing.

- my family has turkey for thanksgiving and ham for xmas

- guns are big business. healthcare doesn't benefit rich people so we don't have it.

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

[(Anonymous)]

I find the "I'll pray for you" thing pretty uncomfortable. Like, it doesn't actually do anything. Maybe it's different for people who have a lot of faith.

My family eats turkey and ham for Thanksgiving, but we have tamales for Christmas.

About the guns and crappy healthcare, well . . . IDK honestly.

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

[(Anonymous)]

Turkey at Christmas is just not an American thing. People may do it, but it's not a common tradition like in the UK (or turkey at Thanksgiving in the US).

I'm not sure why eating turkey twice is so weird. I cook with ground turkey all the time and lots of people do ham for both Christmas and Easter.

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

[(Anonymous)]

I think the Christianity thing is changing very slowly, but yeah, overall this is still a far more religious and Christian country than most other 1st world countries. What's weird is that the majority of people who identify as Christian don't actively practice. They don't attend church regularly (as opposed to showing up on holidays), they've likely never read much of the Bible, they're probably shaky on the exact stances of whatever denomination they're closest so. But they believe in God and are nominally Christian and this is due in big part to the fact that even non-practicing Christians regard being Christian as a good trait to have. They believe that it's a sign you're a good person.

So the "I'll pray for you" is to many people a super good way of saying, "I'm sorry for what happened to you/what you're going through" and the anon who said it's the easiest way of signaling that you're a good person but not actually doing anything isn't wrong.