What would be a culture shock if someone from another country visited your country?

[LaureenVO]

I will start:

1. Coffee shops in my country aren't for coffee. It's for weed and it's completely normal.

2. My country has more bikes than people. On average everyone has 1,5 bikes. I personally have one, but my mom has two and some people I know have three.

3. In my country kids of age 10 need to do a bicycle exam. You will ride around town on your own bike without an adult. You have to do a specific route and you will be rated on your traffic skills. It's a must.

[KostasKouvalis]

Some popular ones are,

1. That someone would actually go out in public dressed like this...

2. That in some states, you can legally walk around with a machine gun

3. That you can get jailed for letting your kid walk home from school alone, but not for shop lifting or car jacking.

4. How sensitive some people are about our nation's flag/anthem

[LaureenVO]

Omg these are absolutely crazy! Would not happen in my country for sure haha

[Blunky]

The US is so vastly different depending on which state you go to.

I guess for my state:
Shrooms are legal
Almost everyone is armed with either a knife or a gun
It's a heavily religious state
People drive like wild animals here
There's a very large military population here
Drunken idiots on e-scooters everywhere

[LaureenVO]

Whatttt. Guns are illegal in my country and it's also illegal to carry a knife with you. Almost nobody is armed here on the street.
We have a small military lol.
And we aren't as religious, but some parts are.

[Blunky]

Yeah, I'm in the midwest mountains. I bought my house here because it's a lot more outdoorsy but mountain people are just weird people in general. They're very aloof lol.

[LaureenVO]

Hahaha it sounds like a movie

[Blunky]

There's been quite a few movies filmed here, a lot of which are silly comedies. I think they just followed people around here and their behavior was so bizarre they made movies out of it lol.

[LaureenVO]

Hahha that must be it!

[Abbycado]

In the US, it be a huge culture shock to foreigners at the moment, and not in a good way.

They have a high risk of being detained for the smallest thing.

[LaureenVO]

Yess it was on the news! My country currently advises against going to the US. It's ridiculous what's going on tbh. Like I get it that you have to be strict at an airport, but detaining someone over the smallest human mistakes?

[Abbycado]

I would not visit. Even Americans (LEGAL CITIZENS) have been detained. It is a sad state of affairs.

[Abbycado]

For what it's worth, @Valdemort is from the same country as you. She is coming to the state I live in this summer.

She will be detained as well, shackled in my bedroom. 🫢

I'm so kidding lmfao. I just had to. XD

[Valdemort]

You're kidding? 🥺

[Abbycado]

https://i.postimg.cc/7Yvf9SHT/IMG-1649.gif

[Valdemort]

[WellBye]

Where do I begin... Some of us are having a picnic in the cemetery.

[LaureenVO]

No but wait, that sounds really nice for some reason.

[KostasKouvalis]

Why do I actually believe that? 😂

[KostasKouvalis]

Do people actually play Russian Roulette in your country? 🤣

[WellBye]

@Star_Namer This gives me ideas for my exercise program

[WellBye]

@KostasKouvalis It is known that officers dueled in the past, but it was never a common game in society. Only 6 years old Russians play it with their nerf guns lol.

[AI Opinion]

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[LaureenVO]

AI influencer? Crazy

[DryGermanGuy]

- German is actually not yelled or spoken angrily, just because you saw that in a WW2 movie.
- People drink their alcohol outside, even as young as 14 and it is legal. Your country’s laws do not apply.
- There are a number of public places where you will see completely nude people, not just in saunas.

[LaureenVO]

- I know haha. We are neighbours! I'm from the Netherlands, so our language is just as 'angrily' lol.
- We also drink from age 14/15, but it's not legal until 18 lol.
- We have that aswell! Naked beaches and stuff

[DryGermanGuy]

Oh yeah, our countries and cultures are quite similar. I can read 80-90% of Dutch texts. Just don’t expect sympathy during football cups! 😬😬😬

[LaureenVO]

Yeah I can also read/listen to 80% of German. And I'm sorry but... Dutch people make jokes about you guys all the time haha. We still love our German friends though! Like siblings

[AviatorTom]

Space and size of things.

In my career, I often worked with people from England, who visited the US. They often told me they were impressed with how big things are in the US: food servings, houses, cars, etc. and how much open space there is, compared to their home country.

[LaureenVO]

Yesss! Everything is like 10 times bigger in the US!

[Akashrangwani1997]

Weddings here are celebrated with much fanfare and almost 6 to 7 years of earning of a common man can be spent in one go

[LaureenVO]

Wow that's insane!

[Akashrangwani1997]

Yup that is

[glennos89]

You are dutch 💯

[LaureenVO]

Absolutely!

[glennos89]

Welkom bij de club haha 💪🏼🙏🏼

[beefcakebradybatson]

Probably.