‘Non-Americans, what was the biggest culture shock when you came to the US?’ – 23 proper eye-openers

13.

‘Food portions are just gigantic compared to Europe, also their weird obsession for trucks.’
halkito

14.

‘Announcing the intention of asking a question was weird to me.

“I have a question … what ..’?”
“Excuse me , question… where is ..?”
“Ehhh question … how many … ”

‘And my own personal favourite the simple “Question. Why ..?”
MediocreEquipment457

15.

‘As an American who recently drove through the south WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE ADVERTISEMENTS ON THE GAS PUMPS AND WHY ARE THEY YELLING!? But really I just want to get my gas and maybe a donut at 7am I don’t want to learn about the latest tik tok trend at 100db.’
aliendepict

16.

‘When we first arrived, and I walked up to a soda machine. We never had those, and I think I drank 10-15 refills of coke before my parents started yelling at me. UNLIMITED SODA ARE YOU KIDDING ME WTF.’
Lord_Disagree

17.

‘Food advertising EVERYWHERE.’
UnAccomplished_Pea26

18.

‘The huge packaging units in the supermarket … Everything just biiig.’
pillemille

19.

‘The different kinds of flavors for beverages. I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of options.
Just so you guys know,I enjoyed having multiple options, until I came to the US I had no idea I liked Blue Raspberry flavored soda and I found out that I liked to mix different kinds of sodas from the fountain and make a cocktail soda occasionally.

‘Also, I like how you guys have a shit ton of flavors for your alcohol. I liked a lot of them but to be honest I didn’t enjoy the whipped cream flavored stuff.’
howwouldiknow–

20.

‘Not really a shock but one thing that really surprised me was the sheer amount of flags. It was like almost every building had an American flag. Here in Belgium, if I see a house with a national flag I assume there’s some kind of sport event going on that I didn’t know about.’
Conocoryphe

21.

‘I was walking down the street and there were some road workers doing something a bit ahead. When I got near them, one of them approached me and super kindly asked me to cross to the other side, halted the traffic so I could cross and wished me a nice day as I went along.

‘In my country they would’ve probably heckled at me for not crossing, and I would’ve told them to go fuck themselves for not signaling things properly as I walked in the middle of the street potentially getting hit by a car.’
madkeepz

22.

‘No sidewalks, not everywhere, but outside of major cities, you often literally can’t walk between places safely.’
rioting-pacifist

23.

‘Spray cheese. I was not ready.’
ItsACaragor

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