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⌈ Secret Post #2501 ⌋

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[American Horror Story]

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[Beverly Hills, 90210]

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[Homeland]

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[Skins]

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[Signs]

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[Downton Abbey]

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[Epic Rap Battles of History]

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[Mass Effect]

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[orange is the new black]

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[The Swapper]

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[Rune Factory 4]

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[Skyrim]

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I lived in the US for two years when I was about 7-8, so my memories are a little fuzzy and second-hand, but here we go.

1. Your candy. Goddammit America. Some of your candy is fantastic, but even good things can be taken too far! I can remember my little 7-year-old self looking at the insanely sugery cereals with marshmellows and frosting and just going NOPE. The sheer overwhelming amount of your junk food and what was in it blew my mind.

2. Your cheese is orange. WHY. Actually, I could be here all day about your food, like how gigantic your portions were and how having a salad as a main meal was unheard of in the town we lived in. And why your pies only had fruit, not meat. And why you called scones 'biscuits' and had them with gravy.

3. I was a little bit biased, considering that I had grown up in small mining towns, but what blew me away was how BIG everything was. Your shopping centres, your stadiums, your cities, your theme parks, everything. was. HUGE. I'd say Australia is only recently starting to catch up.

4. The US flag was everywhere. In front of homes and businesses and schools, on bumper stickers, on merchandise, on posters, to the point that my sister and I would make counting games on road trips. In comparison, I can't remember the last time I've seen an Australian flag that wasn't in front of a memorial or government building. Heck, I don't think the school down the street has one.

5. How religion was such a big deal and apparently everyone's business. In Australia, someone's religion is a personal thing that you only ask about if you know them well, and it's considered rude and nosey to just straight-up ask someone. So my parents were very weirded out when people would casually ask what church they went to.

6. And related to that, church-going. Going to church every Sunday was a big thing to the point that saying that us saying that we DON'T go to church was considered weird (and worse, considering that some people stopped talking to us). In Australia only the super-religious go to church every week; most people only go on Christmas and Easter.

7. The sheer amount of homeless people. We have homeless people in Australia, sure, but when we visited big US cities there were just endless streets of them. I remember being so upset that I started crying because I'd already given away all my change but there were still so many.

8. GUNS. My god. Guns and hunting. Here in Australia, only people like farmers and policemen have guns, and hunting is only doing things like culling over-populated kangaroos and feral animals. In the US there was this massive culture of shooting for sport and recreation, to the point that taking your kids off shooting in the mountains was a perfectly normal family outing. People would even have their guns mounted on the walls. To say that we found this a little intimidating was an understatement. (Not to mention the states we visited that had concealed carry laws. To think that any person around you could have a gun ... eeesh.)

Yes to all your points!

The religion thing was also baffling because in my country there is a strict separation between state and church (or religion) and most people are non-believers anyway.

An interesting tidbit about American gun culture and hunting (and I'm actually a fairly avid recreational shooter) is that quite a bit of hunted meat (venison, elk, etc.) actually has a fairly high percentage of lead in it, because there is so. much. shooting. on American public lands. It's a real problem. For this reason, I'd rather buy farm-raised venison than hunt it myself.

SA

Also just noticed your username. In conjunction with the gun comment, that's pretty amusing, lol.

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