Americans through the eyes of a Russian girl: 50 controversial facts
'27.01.2019'
Source: marya-iskysnica.livejournal.com
A Russian girl living in the USA is sharing interesting facts ...
1. Even if you buy one banana in a supermarket, they will put it in a plastic bag or paper bag. And maybe even two. As a result, a huge amount of both is constantly accumulating in houses, writes marya_iskysnica.livejournal.com.
2. If you ask an American where he comes from, he will first tell you what state or city he was born in, even if he was taken out of it in infancy and he never went there again. In addition, Americans love to list what percentage of what nationality is present in their pedigree.
3. You can return almost everything bought back to the store, saying that this “did not fit you.” You will get back either money or a loan to buy. I personally saw one woman dragging a huge bag filled with used cosmetics without a receipt and received $ 300.
4. Unusually developed system of intermediary or squealing. For example, if a sign “Smoking is prohibited” hangs in a public place and someone starts to smoke, none of the visitors will personally make a remark to the smoker. They will complain to the manager.
5. Bouquets of flowers are sold for a penny in all supermarkets, but men rarely give them to women. A bouquet brought on a date will induce the girl to think that the guy is a loser and is desperately trying to win her favor.
6. Americans are incredible workaholics. If you arrive at the office at 6 in the morning or stay up at work until midnight, no one will appreciate it. This is how many people work.
7. If you want to make someone feel very guilty and apologize to you, suffice it to say that his words or deed touched your feelings. “Hurt someone's feelings” is a very serious misconduct in the United States.
8. Americans know how to make money on the most incredible and even idiotic idea. One, seeing dentures in the dentist’s office, blinded crooked teeth in plastic houses to scare his friends and became a millionaire, putting this production on stream.
9. Americans are not taken to meet on the street. If someone approached you, get ready to hear a foreign accent.
10. Americans consider potato chips as part of the dish as a side dish, like Russians, for example, fried potatoes.
11. The Russian dish aspic makes Americans wonder, or rather, carefully hidden disgust. Jelly here can only be sweet.
12. In America, the concept of "no prophet in his own country" does not exist. Americans are proud and trumpeting at all angles if their compatriots succeed abroad. In the same way, they make a fuss if someone from theirs got into trouble in abroad.
13. In the American army, not only do they pay well and provide numerous benefits, the parents themselves send their teenagers there to “turn them into men.” The result is usually very impressive.
14. To sue any company for a completely idiotic reason is a favorite way of income for Americans and resembles national sport. Sometimes a person is involved in a collective court by chance: I received a piece of paper by mail several times asking to confirm my desire to participate in a collective court and receive compensation.
It turns out that someone did not like the purchase (or service) and he decided to sue, as well as use another hundred or five hundred people, who bought the goods there at about the same time. The irony is that the lawyers earn real money on this, because they get a percentage of each person involved, and they will send you twenty bucks divided by one hundred or five hundred people.
15. American girls are very independent and confident from an early age. It is difficult to imagine a young American woman who is trying to get the parents or others around her to obedient behavior. Famous Russian remark: “Well, you're a girl” has no equivalent here. Appearance and especially thinness here are on the first and all other places.
16. American boys will do everything they can to make a girlfriend as early as possible: it doesn't matter how many boyfriends you have and whether you succeed in sports — if you don't have a girlfriend, you're a loser. When you have a girlfriend, your buddies automatically assume that you are sleeping with her (which does not necessarily correspond to reality), which means that they are incredibly cool.
17. Until recently, at the checkout, the buyer was asked for his zip code to find out where else it would be possible to build another supermarket, but someone sued - and now companies are forbidden to learn such personal information.
18. American husbands often repeat the saying “A happy wife is a happy life,” hinting at the fact that you should not argue and argue with your wife, it’s better to agree right away, you still lose. American fathers without objection get a credit card when their daughters want to buy something or spend a day in the salon. Fathers are much more strict with their sons, and in general, they refer to the boys — the friends of their daughters — with great distrust.
19. While traveling to other countries, Americans never try to learn a local language. They do not understand why the French refuse to accept their order in English, believing that they just show off and create unnecessary problems. The whole world already speaks English, what's the problem?
20. Americans are not interested in foreign films and celebrities. Only when a European star moves to the United States can newspapers write something about her, but otherwise the Americans are completely indifferent to foreigners.
21. Living with parents or relatives is not accepted here and happens only if the person has no money at all. But a huge number of Americans rent their house rooms or rent houses with perfect strangers, whom they found on the ads. There are cases when lonely people take lodgers in order not only to save money, but also to avoid loneliness.
22. Americans go crazy about pets and often treat them better than their family members. The hostess of the house can not bother cooking dinner for children and her husband, while zatarivayas with a variety of canned food and mixtures for a dog or cat.
23. If you do something with your own hands, no matter how crooked and oblique it will be, Americans will admire and advise you to start your own business. To loudly applaud a home-grown singer, even if he has a bear ear, is in the order of things. Therefore, the screens often show off in complete confidence of their talent indescribable mediocrity.
24. Americans are not very superstitious. Besides knocking on wood, I cannot remember a single superstition. Hikes to fortunetellers and fortune tellers are mainly expatriates. But one and all believe in the Apocalypse and the existence of UFOs.
25. Higher education in the United States is considered the key to a successful career. At the same time, the majority of billionaires and truly wealthy people either never crossed the college threshold or earned their money on something to which their diploma has nothing to do. Graduates of pre-retirement universities pay loans for studies and await old age with fear.
26. Americans consider a lost day if they have bad hair and are generally very sensitive to haircuts. They can walk in sweatpants and a T-shirt, but with a beautiful hairstyle on high-quality colored and very well-groomed hair.
27. Work as a service staff is not considered shameful. But gardening is performed only by Hispanics. The worst thing you can do for your reputation is to use government assistance.
28. Americans love to read and buy a huge number of books every year. At the same time, the majority of people cannot correctly write half the words of the English language and does not know the meaning of the other half. It is not uncommon for professors in class to write something on the board and they are corrected by students. Errors in spelling are not considered a cause for embarrassment.
29. The worst structure in the United States is not the police or the courts, but the tax authorities. The defaulter will get out of the ground and the guard will come concrete. Although the police also do not play - to get out of the fine on the road will not work. Maybe if you are a pretty woman.
30. Americans do not hesitate to talk about the bed and the anatomical structure of both women and men, as if it were a conversation about the weather. All non-destructive designations of sexual characteristics have long been a part of everyday speech, and the discussion of menstruation, members, vaginas, and sexual acts is quietly proceeding from TV screens. Also, for some unknown reason, “asshole” is always duplicated on television, but “bitch” or “son of a bitch” is not.
31. In America, there are bars and clubs only for African Americans. Only for whites have I not seen and, most likely, such a bar will often have to change the glass in their windows.
32. Feast marked only narrow family holidays and dinners in the White House. In all other cases, the meeting is likely to take place either in a bar or restaurant, or at home there will be a buffet and no toast.
33. Americans do not write congratulatory poems for birthdays and holidays. The store bought a postcard for the occasion with the text already prepared, signed and presented most often without a gift. The most popular birthday greeting is “Happy Birthday!”.
34. Open disagree and say "no" Americans do not like. Refusing, they will most likely say "yes, maybe, maybe." It is necessary to get used to reading these signals and not to insist or not accidentally accept “maybe” as consent.
35. Americans remember the school with dislike, and some with hatred. Constant clashes between teenagers, jokes between girls. Constant competitions, who has more money, who is better dressed and who has a better boyfriend (girlfriend).
36. Americans travel very rarely. Canada and Mexico are not even considered “abroad”. Those who have rested in France are considered to have seen the world.
37. Bargaining in America is not accepted, but if you find any defect in the product, you can get a discount. Sometimes 50%.
38. Cars drive everything and even driving stereotypes exist:
- If there is a car in front - Asian;
- If there is a car in front with included turns - pensioner;
- If you are overtaken with tinted windows - Iranian or Russian;
- If there are 25 people sitting in the car - Mexicans;
- If the music rumbles and the car doors shake - African American.
39. It is very easy to register and open your business - there is no particular paperwork on your way.
40. Americans do not take offense at all when someone speaks negatively about their country. They will even agree that their president is laughing at the hens, the democracy is not real and that all over the world they are laughed at or hated. At the same time, almost no one would think to try to emigrate somewhere.
41. According to an incredibly popular site where you can order a letter from Santa for your child, his office is in Texas. This is another example of the entrepreneurial spirit of Americans - someone thought up writing Santa's wishes on beautiful paper and selling them for 10 bucks. The founder’s annual income is in millions.
42. Enjoying a leisurely lunch in the middle of the working day is not a typical picture for the United States, and it is unrealistic to soak a quarter of an hour. Mostly people grab sandwiches and eat them at their desk.
43. Taking pictures for Playboy Magazine is not considered shameful. Putting your naked photos from the back, made at home is a shame.
44. Americans love to sell their junk, posting ads for sale and exposing old things, furniture and anything at the garages. People are buying up - only the noise is worth it.
45. Losing weight in the United States is considered an achievement more important than success in business. If any fat businessman with his millions loses weight to normal size, more will be said about this than about his business.
46. All modern houses and apartments are designed with mandatory built-in wardrobes. Usually they have sliding doors that can be replaced with mirrored for an additional fee.
47. A frequent picture - the children of rich parents work in Starbucks. Parents' money is not considered an automatic inheritance of children, and the latter often make their way on their own, relying on their education and acquaintances of their parents, but not on their money.
48. Couples - an aged woman and a young man - have become commonplace.
49. To cry in a public place is not accepted. Swearing loudly on the phone, discussing intimate details - very often.
50. Americans can easily part with friends and just as easily find new ones. It is not customary to ask friends for money, salt, or help with their children.
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