How about just black? 🤨

What a lovely thing to be identified by!

i can walk very confidently in the wrong direction also. Believe me, you don't have to be an American to do that.

The use of “ma’am” is somewhat more typical of a specific region of the US (the Southeast, mostly). “Thank you for your time” is a pretty common sentiment throughout the US.

Yes it is. I hate it. (I have sound sensitivity)

Unfortunately, you always hear them before you see them.

Use your *indoor* voice

Always wonder why people talk out loud in public places. Like anyone cares what you have to say? Or like anyone needs to know what you are saying.. keep it private!

Indeed. They shout too much as if they wanted people to know they are around.

A lot of Americans simply do not have an inside voice. They yell all the time. It's the first thing I noticed when I moved to the US.

You can always tell the Americans in a restaurant, even in a very noisy one full of families, you can hear their entire conversation from the other side of the room.

It is seen as disrespectful to talk on your phone on the bus in South Korea x

Went to Thailand, in the coach from a destination to another there were mainly locals with a few tourists. It was very quiet so we didn't talk either. At one point i whispered to my friend something, a lady next to us turned to us and asked us to keep quiet. I think you're not supposed to talk in busses in Thailand. Though I do appreciate the calm travel experience and respect it now.

"Please calm down" lol

Americans ARE LOUD, even when being sotto voice.

It is. I can always tell a group of Americans based on their volume. Like y'all don't need to shout when you're right next to each other

To be fair, I find most tourists for some reason increase their volumes when visiting another place. It happens with everyone, doesn't matter the nationality. Like I have heard german and japanese tourists literally shouting during conversations in their native tongue just because they are abroad.

Most Americans have no inside voice.

I agree, no one wants to hear your whole conversation 9 rows back from you. . .!

Interesting. I've been to Seoul and they were pretty loud talkers themselves so...

I was in Rome on a city bus when a large American (I assume!) family boarded. As we bumped along the cobblestone streets, the grandpa, in a VERY loud voice, said, "these bumps are knocking my hemorrhoids out!" Geez...

Yes it is. 99% of Americans I've met are too loud.

The US might be going deaf, I can't even watch a movie in theaters without bringing earphones to dampen the noise

Absolutely.

It is also more habitually more rude and dismissive, so frequently using scornful, critical tones.

Yep- too loud.

Same thing happened to me in Sweden...my friend and I hadn’t seen each other for a year, and our dates told us over and over that we laughed too, talked too loud, generally acted too happy! So American!

I guess there’s a kind of volume map on the world. By my experience there are countries who’s citizens are enjoyable quietly in public, and some whose people are loud (happily or rambling, both). We here in my country are also closer to the loud side of the map, and I guess I I’d end up in a mental hospital if I’d dare to ask somebody in the bus "please calm down". Absolutely unthinkable.

Depends on the person. People are always telling me to speak up, but my sister and her husband can be heard the next state over when they talk.

You've got to be kidding me, Koreans speak LOUDLY.

i always had this trouble with my Serbian relatives. I'd constantly be asking them why they were all shouting at eachother and they'd look shocked "we're just having a conversation!"

It's like, read the room Americans! No one cares how excited you are! Especially in groups. Need to have more social/spatial awareness right? Stop being all "ME ME ME, IM SPECIAL AND EXCITED!! WHOOOHOO!! AMERICA!!!!"

This is hilarious. I've been in Korea for over a decade and 9 of the 10 loudest people I've seen on public transportation has been older Koreans. I watched an old man tell a 20 something woman to quiet down on her phone, she was already almost whispering. Then less than one minute later, a middle aged woman next to him answered her phone, yell-speaking her whole convo. He didn't say a word, just closed his eyes and steadily ignored her. I have seen that happen a lot. Most etiquette corrections are just power flexes, in my experience.

you haven't been to Spain.

Maybe that person was heart of hearing…come on

I always tell my American friends: "Here two kinds of people cross the street: the fast and the flat."

I don't believe this. Italian people are smiling, too. I guess it was your clothes and mouvement manners and that your friend wanted to be kind with you.

That is sad since the US has such a long diverse native culture. I'm from Europe so I'm used to old buildings (the entirely insignificant church in my village is over 600 years old and it's church #4 in its place), and I'm not particularly interested in native American art and culture personally, but I find it rather sad that these people's long history and rich culture is just ... not seen as history. America has thousands of years of history, it just wasn't European for the longest time. /steps off soapbox

Pretty normal in Australia.

I'm not American and I would do the same.

Love the phonetic skill on this one!

I was in grade school in the 70s in the US. We, for a whole year I think, were FINALLY switching to the metric system with the rest of the world. I don’t know why we stopped. It's idiocy I agree. I tell my kids about it. I rebel and use that side of the ruler because it's easier for me.

I usually reply with "Oh, ok. I'm from Harestua". I've always seen it as them thinking everybody knows where Baltimore or Seattle is, when I usually have no idea UwU

"free t-shirts from events"? you should know we BUY those to support the artist or event - and they ain't cheap!

It's not only a thing of USA people. I life in a touristic city and people from all nationalities, even those steretyped as more introverted, do.

Smaller, but healthier and natural!

This is mostly because you can (and sometimes have to) drive thousands of miles to visit places or people, "gas" is super, super cheap, and the roads are often scenic. You try driving 1000 miles in England and you'll either be in the sea, or going in circles

That's not only US-Americans, but stoners all over the world :D