45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group

The United States of America is the land of the free and full of opportunities. It is one of the largest economies in the world and it has always amassed people for the life one can create there. But, like every country, it has its own way of functioning and the people living there have their own culture. And if you are also attracted to this country and would like to travel to the United States or you are planning of moving there, you should expect to encounter things you‘ve never seen before or things done differently to what you are used to.

A few days ago, Reddit user Ymij asked people to share some things Americans don‘t realize exist only in the United States. And people had a lot to say. The post got more than 10k answers and Bored Panda gathered a list of some of the most upvoted responses.

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45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group GoFundMe being an acceptable replacement for a health care system

GTrav44 , gofundme Report

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45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Literally being too poor to go to the doctor, but have too much income for any kind of assistance

kaden123drake , Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja Report

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45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Tipping as a wage subsidy. Many countries don’t have tipping and those that do generally tip a small amount for good service.

Also displayed prices not including taxes or other fees.

Impossible-Buy-4090 , Wikimedia Commons Report

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45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Pronouncing corruption as "lobbying"

GSLaaitie , RJA1988 Report

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45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Assuming that everyone on the internet is American until proven otherwise.

Officer_Cat_Fancy_ , Steven Martin Report

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45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group The pledge of allegiance. If you tell people here that in America they make kids stand up and recite some prayer to a flag every single morning, they'll look at you like you just grew a third arm.

emissaryofwinds , USAG- Humphreys Report

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45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group I want to say for-profit prison systems.

These things are f***** up. If the state doesn't keep up the prisoner quota they gotta pay a fine to the company they owns the prison.

So this basically makes them try to keep existing prisoners

downtimeredditor , Molly Haggerty Report

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Pezor Zass 3 years ago

And lobby for laws that put more people in jail

77points

Boredzzz 3 years ago

Also the whole entire system where you can get out of jail on bail. Poor people have to stay in jail for ridiculous periods of time and wait for their case to be processed. People with money may wait out free after posting bail.

15points

F. H. 3 years ago

Many countries have similar systems. In theory, the amount of money needed as bail should be adjusted to the means of the person, but that's just impossible. How can you set an amount for a person that has to live on scraps from day to day or for someone who has so much money that they could pay whatever you ask?

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Id row 3 years ago

This should be higher. For profit prisons are a real life dystopian nightmare.

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Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago

And encourages recidivism! No rehab=more profits.

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Blackheart 3 years ago

Correct. That is wrong.

4points

Elsabeth 3 years ago

Different states that have "private prison" system, absolutely ridiculous! Subpar environment by far, correctional officers half-a$$ed trained, medical care pretty much nil. They all need to be closed down

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Radek Suski 3 years ago

Also private company that makes profit out of prisoners do not have any interest in resocialisation

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Hannah Edwards 3 years ago

Land of the free my a@@.

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Hugo A-niro 3 years ago

The entire system is a mess but private prisons. Are a bad idea

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

This is a fairly recent phenomenon, and aligns with conservative hatred of “big government”, and their efforts at privatization of public services. They are extremely wrongheaded in those efforts, and in the belief in tiny—-or preferably (in the minds of the more extreme amongst them) nonexistent—-government. Because THIS is the kind of f****d up sadism you get. You read that right: Sadism. Might as well call it what it is.

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Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 3 years ago

Modern day slavery.

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EQXL 3 years ago

Here people in prison seem to have more rights than a lot of people not in prison. Not sure that's ideal either.

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NATHAN ENGLANDER 3 years ago

You have no idea what lobbying is don't you

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Aurelia! 3 years ago

AGREED

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Colleen Garland 3 years ago

Many are privately run too. They are nicely over payed.

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Katinka Min 3 years ago

Stalin did something similar: he always wanted a certain amount of prisoners. laws like having to report anybody you knwo for not having the right political attitude helped keeping them full.

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Bruce Douglas 3 years ago

so,e awful conditions,in state prisons maybe more so as funding for not mandatory !

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Manuel Delgado 3 years ago

This is one of Americas' wrongness darkest symptoms.

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Lynn Marie 3 years ago

It's evil.

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Tuesdays Child 3 years ago

It's just as messed up as health care for profit.

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Kristján Magnússon 3 years ago

Hearing that states are sued if they don't supply inmates like they are cattle to the slaughter...

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Theblackdeath757 3 years ago

i didn't know this this sucks

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Leslie Burleson 3 years ago

It's way more corrupt than that . This wasn't something that was common knowledge to Americans until relatively recently

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

And, agreed, for-profit prisons bad. *sigh

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Treessimontrees 3 years ago

Don't forget it's cheap labor too.

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David Retsler 3 years ago

I remember reading a financial report on one of these bullshit companies that ran a handful of prisons. They were upset about the potential decriminalization of marijuana in a state because their cash flow would be hit hard. I dug further and found these assholes spent over $100,000 lobbying against decriminalizing weed.

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My O My 3 years ago

Can somebody please explain: what is a private prison?

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Vicky Zar 3 years ago

Watch this: https://youtu.be/wtV5ev6813I

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Suzy the observer 3 years ago

What a sick, twisted arrangement.

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Leila Noury 3 years ago

Eh we don't care about other people's safety

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Christel Nellemann 3 years ago

Really? Can others confirm this?

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Viviane 3 years ago

I entered the following words ins Google: private prisons us fines quotas. I generally do my own searching because I don't want to wait for a response (which I might never get anyways). I found this particular example: https://eji.org/news/private-prison-quotas-drive-mass-incarceration/

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NATHAN ENGLANDER 3 years ago

And most of the time it's the opposite

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45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Gender reveal parties

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45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group People who angrily DO NOT WANT healthcare.

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#10

45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Having the restaurant take your credit card - in most countries it's considered impolite to disappear with the card as they might write the digits down to charge extra later. Therefore they normally bring a portable terminal to your table so you can keep the card in eyesight and have the (optional) tip actually charged when the card is run and not added after the fact.

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#11

45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group The Imperial System, Fahrenheits, massive ad breaks. I swear i watched US Television once and i nearly had time to go take a s*** before the adbreak ended. And i'm one of those people that play on their phone while on the throne

Pyanez11 , ilovebutter Report

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#12

I am from Europe and I have never seen in supermarkets scooters for people that are so obese they can't walk by themselves.

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#13

45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Medical debt

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#14

45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Waiting like 8 weeks after your elections till the new guy comes in to power is pretty f****** weird

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#15

45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Massive gaps on all sides of toilet cubicle doors, like why even bother with a door at all when people can see through so easily

digitalelise , Victoria_Borodinova Report

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45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Flags. Everywhere

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#17

This may be a shot in the dark but product prices not including tax when they’re displayed? Like if something says it’s $10 and you only have $10, what’s with the surprise tax at the till?

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#18

Your toxic grind working culture. I find that Americans define their entire personality around their profession. It all feels so shallow and hollow way of living. Like I work so I can do the things I enjoy ( pre covid) I don't work because it defines me as a person.

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#19

45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Absurdly long election campaigns. In most countries I've been to election campaigns last a month or two, in the US they seem to go for a full year.

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#20

45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group College sports, people do not care about nor have college sports like we do here.

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#21

45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Food portion sizes... In EU you get food portions you can finish and are generally calculated to be pretty much fill/satisfy you over the entire meal.

When I go to the US I can fill myself up with half of the appetizer

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#22

45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Unused vacation days

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#23

The use of the words junior, sophomore and senior in school. I don't think I have ever heard these outside of an American TV show or movie.

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#24

I can't speak for the whole world, but having elections on a weekday seems crazy to me. We do it in the weekend so that people are off work anyway.

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#25

A single pool of paid time off that you use for both vacation and sick leave. Therefore having to forego vacation to keep a bank of leave just in case you get ill.

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#26

People constantly thanking god for every day occurrences

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#27

Those commercials featuring some sort of drug or medication. With the typical closing where the narrator states "Side effects includes blah blah blah...Discuss with your doctor about blah blah blah"

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#28

Tipping, most other places actually pay their waiters/waitresses and tippings just for extremely good service or rounding up.

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#29

Having to drive everywhere. I'm 27-years-old, not from the US and never learnt to drive. I've also never felt like I needed it.

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158points

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#30

It's pretty funny watching Americans moan over their super-cheap petrol prices. "But we drive everywhere, cars are fundamental to our society". Yep, same here in Australia, too. Your fuel is still incredibly cheap.

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#31

Garbage disposal units in sinks. I've been to nearly 20 countries, and I've never seen one.

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#32

Longer ad breaks in the Muppet Show.

The UK version had two minutes of extra content in every episode due to restrictions on the amount of ads you could play on British TV.

That's 240 minutes of extra Muppet content that most Americans never saw.

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#33

Playing the national anthem before sporting events. There may be a handful of other countries that do, but in much of the world it's only played for international matches.

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134points

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#34

Your identity politics used to be just in America, then it spilled out like a burst sewage pipe.

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#35

Red solo cups. My european cousins asked me if parties in the us really had those red cups.

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#36

45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Bumper stickers. They’re a lot less common in Europe anyway, not sure about the rest of the world.

Random_Machiavelli , dalliedee Report

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#37

45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Nearly everything about their high schools

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#38

45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Free refills at restaurants

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#39

Stores like Wal-Mart where you can buy everything that are open all the time. Groceries, alcohol, plants, medicine, tires, toys...

The first time I went to Germany on a work trip it was a bank holiday and everything was closed.

I live in Jerusalem now and there is a separate store for everything.

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#40

Girl Scout cookies?

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#41

Graham Crackers.

Remember when I picked up a friend's mother and her friend at the airport, fresh from the US. One of them was like 'They don't have Graham crackers here?' I'm like nah mate we have crackers for everyone.

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#42

45 Things That Are Normal In The US, But Seem Bizarre In Other Countries Shared In This Online Group Parking lot size. I’ve been to about 20 different countries, all over the place, and I have never seen a standard Walmart sized parking lot anywhere out of America.

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#43

Buscuits and gravy. This conjures up images of having a plate of cookies smothered in a sauce made from the the meat juices of a roast.

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#44

I wanna say jaywalking. Like, in Europe, you can pretty much cross a road wherever you want but when I visited America there seemed to be this weird sense you were being judged if you walked out into an empty road. Maybe just me idk.

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#45

It always surprises me when someone from another country has never heard of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

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#46

Ranch dressing obsession. The World Series.

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#47

I wasn't aware we and New Zealand, possibly Australia(?) Are the only countries with ads for prescription drugs.

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#48

The fuel-brand Exxon. Throughout the rest of the world, it's known as "Esso." It's only Exxon in the US.

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#49

Small talk among strangers.

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#50

Thanksgiving

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Carrot dude 3 years ago

Here, I'm just going to copy Vunn's comment on a similar post from about a month ago: "Does this really need to be covered once a month?"

43points

Nevits Yibble 3 years ago

Evidently it does. There's an obsession here with this s**t. I've never seen anything like it

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Carrie B 3 years ago

Yes we're all backwards and terrible and we need to be reminded about it a lot, I guess.

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Aroace tiger 3 years ago

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago

Ok next let’s do one of these on other countries, huh?

34points

Vincent Philippart 3 years ago

This! I wanna learn weird things about Bhutan or Estonia.

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Paul Budhram 3 years ago

England or Germany or Italy

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elia 84631 3 years ago

Or Japan - South Korea. They have interesting differences compared to Europe/US.

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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago

The existence of Home Owners Associations. Why would your neighbours have any right to decide whether or not you can grow an edge, build a fence, or paint your shutters ? By the way, why do you never have edges, fences and shutters? Do you not need privacy and sleep too?

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Petra Schaap 3 years ago

they excist in Holland and Belgium too

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CatWoman312 3 years ago (edited)

As an American I want to know why we have to pay a pet deposit and then pay pet rent as well. My cats get out cheap. They refuse to work or pay anything. They sleep for upwards of 16 hours a day and occasionally puke on the floor.. Also why isn’t the pet deposit refundable?

1point

Requiem 3 years ago

happens more with condos and town houses

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Adam Francis 3 years ago

HOA's exist for racism

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Phillip Adams 3 years ago

HOA are mini dictatorships... but then again would you want to live next to that "guy" with a run down house, overgrown yard, trash everywhere, junk cars in the yard? Think your property value would rise or fall living next to that?

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GirlFriday 3 years ago

Home Owners Associations are in place to insure the property value and safety of the community. If you do not want to adhere top the rules, then live in a community without them. I live in a community with an HOA with rules that make it difficult for children to live here. I love it and gladly pay extra each month so that my community is neat, clean, roads are in good repair, I have privacy, and property value has almost doubled in the last 11 years.

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WiTchY_WoMaN 3 years ago (edited)

I mean, a lot of this stuff makes sense, but I feel like some of this stuff was just put on here in a desperate scramble to find anything wrong with America. Like bumper stickers? Ranch dressing? College sports? Is there something wrong with these things??

13points

Sneeze 3 years ago

I feel a lot of these are just to attack Americans... like OKAY I KNOW WE HAVE A SHITTY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM BUT I CAN"T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT SO STOP SHOVING IT IN MY FACE! I was looking for some interesting things but its just a bunch of people attacking us.

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ivan bolitekurac 3 years ago (edited)

So we are back to #usabad on bp.I really missed those stories.Pls tell us the story about health system and schooling debts once again,i didn't get it the first 3000 times.

12points

Brobro McDuderson 3 years ago

Time for the weekly “US bashing” thread from Bored Panda. Got it out the way early this week 👍.

11points

Lili 3 years ago (edited)

Today I realize that the US propaganda system is even more than some communist countries. I'm from a Communist (socialist?? I'm not sure) country and my god I rarely see patriotism and pride shoved onto our faces like that everyday everywhere. The US is like a free country living under a blanket.

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Javiera Gotelli 3 years ago

The oxymoron of presenting themselves as the land of the free while being forced to worship the flag/anthem and pledge allegiance, just like dictators (of any kind, they're all bad) did to the countries they destroyed.

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s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago

Not an American, but if Americans are a 'race', some of these could be considered racist. Also rather petty. Why not some articles here about Euro quirks? Eating snails, killing whales, or killing bulls in public, for funsies; weensie little countries, some with fancy, expensive, useless monarchies; giving kids booze; extreme chauvinism vs.multiculturalism and tolerance; getting into wars and relying on the U.S. and Canada to send their young men and women over to die getting much of Europe out of harm's way. Etc.

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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago (edited)

I do not think it is racist nor petty, those are just facts which people have the right to judge as weird or not in comparison to what they are used to. But I think your suggestion about Europe could be a good idea. By the way, I have been living in Burgundy for my entire life, and I have never seen anyone eating snails. Killing whales is more a Japanese thing. Monarchies are absolutely not useless and are less expensive than republics. And the US (which relied on good king Louis XVI's army to gain its independence from Britain which had founded it) and Canada (which would not exist if France and Britain had not created it) decided to get involved with these wars by their own will, earning our eternal gratitude.

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Nevits Yibble 3 years ago

You left out paying a tithe to a church. That's just f****d up

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Gyro Pilot 3 years ago

I remember the elders recounting how their families in America sent packages of food and clothes after the war and these made an enormous difference. But damn the yanks today, right, for having the temerity to serve large soft drinks and for having different norms. Yeesh...

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Emily Raskauskas 3 years ago

A handful of these apply to Canada as well

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Thank you for pointing that out!

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Elizabeth Molloy 3 years ago

Guns.

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Paul Mitchell 3 years ago

.. and shouting people seems pretty normal.

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Louloubelle 3 years ago

A lot of the things here I agree with. Healthcare, tipping, etc. By why does the rest of the world care what words we use, or why measurement system? How is it affecting them? It's just another reason for the rest of the world to bash America. And I'm not a particular patriot, but while our government sucks, the people here are great (trump supporters excluded).

5points

Christel Nellemann 3 years ago

Hehe don’t take it to heart, most of this really is just laughing at different (thus “weird” ) customs, like girl scout cookies or meassurements . Ofc there are flocks of wonderful americans. And i believe most of europeans like lots of things aboyt the Usa, just see how many non americans speak american. And many have been genuinly worried about ordinary americans during these ever more testing times. And the crazy division and growing poverty. Wish you luck and better times from Denmark .

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Lisa T 3 years ago

I’ve always wondered about this orange plastic containers you get prescription drugs in. Like you see in a US movie inside a medicine cabinet, it’s full of those orange containers. How easy would it be to take the wrong tablet? In Australia, our prescription medication comes in packets with the name of it written large on the box, each medication has a unique box

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

The orange prescription bottles are not always orange. Also, they're labeled. Contrary to overseas opinions, yes, Americans can read! :-D

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angie but who cares 3 years ago

oh my another post about the us all voicing so diffrent things like the healthcare

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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago

Sigh, yet another listicle about how uncouth, unruly, and quirky the United States is in comparison to other countries around the world (this is coming from a Scot). Look at those crazy Americans guzzling their ranch dressing. Every country has problems and odd quirks. Why can't we celebrate the unique foods, celebrations, history, etc. of other countries instead of pointing out differences?

3points

Christel Nellemann 3 years ago

Oh my, most series tv and films, loads of cultural stuff does exactly that , celebrate Us . Maybe because US is so dominant culturally, and we also get affected by their politics, we can joke about odd quirks, or the bad stuff like healtcare for the few.

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Mark Fuller 3 years ago

I do like visiting the states. It's our most common holiday destination. But bloody funny to see that the things we think are odd, stupid or offensive are seen the same by so many others!

3points

Mike Mader 3 years ago

Wow, you mean the United States of America is different than other countries!?. Who would have thought!

2points

KT 3 years ago

I really miss driving down to America. Hope this covid ordeal can end sooner than later and i can get back to travelling in USA

2points

Paul Budhram 3 years ago

Not maternity leave... unless I missed something?

2points

Anony Mouse 3 years ago

Can we do another country next time? Between BP and Buzzfeed I see America get crapped on at least once a week. Bathroom stalls. Tipping. Drug commercials. The Pledge. We get it. We suck. Do another country - ask the Pandas what we think is weird about somewhere else.

2points

Allan Hedges 3 years ago

Don't forget! Without the US, Europe would all be speaking German;)

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birdie asf 3 years ago

we would ALL be speaking German if the Axis Powers had won. and while your statement is partially true, the US would have been screwed without its allies.

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Carrie B 3 years ago

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Paul Z. 3 years ago

O,sugar everything. "Coffee" from Styrofoam cups. Stir with a straw. Straws in every f*****g drink...pfff

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Simon 3 years ago

I see a lot of these 'stories' on here and it's a bit sad that there seems to be a constant digging out of the USA. Yes, we all know about healthcare system, OTT nationalism, gun laws etc etc. but why not focus on what's cool? I'm not from the US but there is so much to love about the country and many people in it. A great place.

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Requiem 3 years ago

Im in Canada and I get 3 weeks now of unpaid vacation (I get vacation pay that builds up at 6% every payday) I didnt use any last year and its now gone and cant use 6 weeks this year. People with salaries are forced to take their vacation days before the end of the year so they dont get wasted. (being paid the same as if they were at work)

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Milan 3 years ago

Being gossipy. When i walking down the streets, where are more people in one place i constantly hear from people around who talking: "and she was like" "and he was like" "she was like he was like" "he she he she" like many and many times :D :D

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birdie asf 3 years ago

that's just a person thing? there are people like that EVERYWHERE.

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Plontest 3 years ago

“Online group” panda it’s called Reddit.

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Jane Alexander 3 years ago

Yes, all the bizzarre things being done in this country by all the bizzarre people that came here From Your Country!

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CatWoman312 3 years ago (edited)

I think it’s weird the British eat baked beans for breakfast and put gravy on everything. So yeah this is my if we have to question the US then we get to question the weird things in other countries too.

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Phillip Adams 3 years ago

Yet in Canada you wait months for a CT scan or specialist appointment... In the US, people go to Canada for prescription drugs, but Canadians who can afford it come here for surgeries... yet let's bash America because nobody remembers "county hospitals" and when you shared a room or were kept in a ward with 10 or more other patients.

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Christel Nellemann 3 years ago

To my knowledge, canadian research doctors in hearings) canadians do not flock to surgeries in the Us. At all.

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Stephanie Hewitt 3 years ago

I'd add, the way they ID everyone, even adults, when. You buy alcohol, even if you're just with someone who's buying it. Weird.

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MarionHood 3 years ago

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James016 3 years ago

Not being able to pronounce the name Craig. It comes out as Creg

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BookCrazyTeen 3 years ago

I’ve been waiting for one of these posts

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birdie asf 3 years ago

there's like a million you don't even have to look it's one of bp's favorite topics

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Vincent Philippart 3 years ago

You have love and respect for a piece of fabric??

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Javiera Gotelli 3 years ago

Two countries? Learn some geography, please.

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Carrot dude 3 years ago

Here, I'm just going to copy Vunn's comment on a similar post from about a month ago: "Does this really need to be covered once a month?"

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Nevits Yibble 3 years ago

Evidently it does. There's an obsession here with this s**t. I've never seen anything like it

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Carrie B 3 years ago

Yes we're all backwards and terrible and we need to be reminded about it a lot, I guess.

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Logic and Reason 3 years ago

Ok next let’s do one of these on other countries, huh?

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Vincent Philippart 3 years ago

This! I wanna learn weird things about Bhutan or Estonia.

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Paul Budhram 3 years ago

England or Germany or Italy

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elia 84631 3 years ago

Or Japan - South Korea. They have interesting differences compared to Europe/US.

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Ryan Deschanel 3 years ago

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Petra Schaap 3 years ago

they excist in Holland and Belgium too

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Requiem 3 years ago

happens more with condos and town houses

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Adam Francis 3 years ago

HOA's exist for racism

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GirlFriday 3 years ago

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ivan bolitekurac 3 years ago (edited)

So we are back to #usabad on bp.I really missed those stories.Pls tell us the story about health system and schooling debts once again,i didn't get it the first 3000 times.

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Brobro McDuderson 3 years ago

Time for the weekly “US bashing” thread from Bored Panda. Got it out the way early this week 👍.

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Lili 3 years ago (edited)

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Nevits Yibble 3 years ago

You left out paying a tithe to a church. That's just f****d up

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Gyro Pilot 3 years ago

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Emily Raskauskas 3 years ago

A handful of these apply to Canada as well

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Thank you for pointing that out!

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Elizabeth Molloy 3 years ago

Guns.

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Paul Mitchell 3 years ago

.. and shouting people seems pretty normal.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

The orange prescription bottles are not always orange. Also, they're labeled. Contrary to overseas opinions, yes, Americans can read! :-D

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angie but who cares 3 years ago

oh my another post about the us all voicing so diffrent things like the healthcare

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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago

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Mark Fuller 3 years ago

I do like visiting the states. It's our most common holiday destination. But bloody funny to see that the things we think are odd, stupid or offensive are seen the same by so many others!

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Mike Mader 3 years ago

Wow, you mean the United States of America is different than other countries!?. Who would have thought!

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KT 3 years ago

I really miss driving down to America. Hope this covid ordeal can end sooner than later and i can get back to travelling in USA

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Paul Budhram 3 years ago

Not maternity leave... unless I missed something?

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Anony Mouse 3 years ago

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Allan Hedges 3 years ago

Don't forget! Without the US, Europe would all be speaking German;)

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birdie asf 3 years ago

we would ALL be speaking German if the Axis Powers had won. and while your statement is partially true, the US would have been screwed without its allies.

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Paul Z. 3 years ago

O,sugar everything. "Coffee" from Styrofoam cups. Stir with a straw. Straws in every f*****g drink...pfff

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Simon 3 years ago

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birdie asf 3 years ago

that's just a person thing? there are people like that EVERYWHERE.

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Plontest 3 years ago

“Online group” panda it’s called Reddit.

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Jane Alexander 3 years ago

Yes, all the bizzarre things being done in this country by all the bizzarre people that came here From Your Country!

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CatWoman312 3 years ago (edited)

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Christel Nellemann 3 years ago

To my knowledge, canadian research doctors in hearings) canadians do not flock to surgeries in the Us. At all.

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Stephanie Hewitt 3 years ago

I'd add, the way they ID everyone, even adults, when. You buy alcohol, even if you're just with someone who's buying it. Weird.

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James016 3 years ago

Not being able to pronounce the name Craig. It comes out as Creg

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BookCrazyTeen 3 years ago

I’ve been waiting for one of these posts

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birdie asf 3 years ago

there's like a million you don't even have to look it's one of bp's favorite topics

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Vincent Philippart 3 years ago

You have love and respect for a piece of fabric??

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Two countries? Learn some geography, please.

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