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There’s nothing wrong with being weird.

Originally, weird used to mean ‘having the power to control destiny’ and later ‘unearthly’. In a sense, the term has a positive meaning and should be treated as such. After all, folks tend to gravitate towards unique things more than the same ol-same ol; being weird makes folks seem more authentic and empowering; above all else, it fuels creativity and leads to a more unorthodox approach to problem-solving.

But, somewhere along the way, the idea of being weird got skewed by humanity’s ignorance and so here we are—burning bridges and building walls when it should actually be the other way around. And so here we are, seeing yet another thread discussing the weird aspects of American culture.

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50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture How they pretend to be Christian while doing the exact opposite of what Jesus would do in every situation.

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    Also we are so focused on women (people) getting pregnant and having babies that we take away their bodily autonomy and try to restrict birth control but then we don't provide maternity leave/pay (in some situations) or childcare benefits so mom has to go to work to pay for food and childcare but then when she can't afford the childcare and has to stay home we also don't want to give her snap benefits or free lunches for the kid because then she's leaching off the system , you guys I just can't with this backward a*s country and their hatred for women and mothers in particular. Sorry for the run on sentence but it irks the p**s out of me.

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    Guilt is put on the consumer, not the corporations.

    The customer has to tip because servers don’t make a livable wage. The customer has to recycle and watch their carbon footprint because the environment is deteriorating. The customer has to eat better because cows are being slaughtered and chickens are trapped in cages.

    100% of the world’s problems are caused by giant corporations, not the average person.

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    Recently, the r/AskReddit community brought up (again) the question of the weirdest things about American culture. The post garnered 1,800 upvotes and generated a discussion consisting of 3,200 comments before being taken down by the moderators.

    These days, it’s become quite a common question to discuss online. In fact, it’s so common that Bored Panda has covered it on a number of occasions, mostly from the perspective of what folks from outside the US find weird about the global superpower.

    And that last term is key here—global superpower. Some speculate it to be the key as to why there are so many discussions revolving around America out there. And it doesn’t seem to matter what aspect of it is: culture, psychology, sociology, political or religious climate. Anything goes.
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    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture We're fine with whatever level of violence and gore you want to put on TV, as long as there aren't any female nipples showing!!

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    As an outsider (UK) I think all the right wing Christians are weird as f**k.

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    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture I’m from America but I think our pharmaceutical ads are really f*****g weird and annoying

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    General curiosity and human flaws aside, the idea behind America being a point of discussion in a lot of places can be traced back to just how influential its culture is on the rest of the world. Following World War II, the US promised “to build a new world,” one that functions as a huge global village of organizations that would unite nations and thus push back any ideas of conflict. This in turn meant that any idea of kicking your neighbor in the shins would essentially mean you’re shooting yourself in the foot. And nobody likes that.

    A lot of the world thus agreed to it—who would be against things like freedom and free flow of information and culture? Soon after everything from news agencies to Hollywood studios to the rock and roll scene started seeping to the rest of the world. Some call it coca-colonization or Americanization.
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    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture We make the most dimwitted people among us our leaders.

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    #8

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture Celebrating a holiday to give thanks for the things in life you already have, and then the next day fighting people over a new appliance for a 25% discount.

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    #9

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture The number of people who are willing to blindly vote for a candidate that obviously does not have their best interests in mind.

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    But it came with a drawback of sorts. The US has led the world into creating a kind of Western culture on an economic, cultural, and even political level. However, while it exported so much, it imported very little, creating a one-way street without reciprocity. Think visa regulations, educational exchanges and the like. Becoming the center of the world naturally started drawing discussions about the elephant in the room.

    The weirdness factor is another point of attraction. As mentioned previously, being weird ain’t a bad thing—being weird makes you unique, helps you stand out and, in the words of Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, “sameness is not worth following”. Weirdness brings out creativity and authenticity in humans, and it also triggers something in others that makes them come closer.

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    #10

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture Gun culture and the Second Amendment

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    #11

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture For a country built off the backs of slaves and immigrants, there is so much hatred toward immigrants.

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    #12

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture Health Insurance yet we still have crappy healthcare. 591$ a month WTF! That’s more then my car payment and insurance.

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    It’s akin to the allure of scary and disgusting things: disgusting things capture and retain people’s attention more effectively. It’s one of many of evolution’s tricks to help us stay away from harmful stuff. But it’s one that folks can enjoy, despite the very obvious deterrent that is ew, that’s disgusting, kill it with fire. But you’d watch that fire with awe. Humans are weird.

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    And so it all perpetuates itself: we talk about the elephant in the room and we talk about weird things because we can’t but talk about it. If anything, it provides insight into the other. And from an educational standpoint, understanding the other only increases our chances of understand the world. Oh, and surviving. Can’t forget about that.
    #13

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture In all things: Money before people.

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    #14

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture Tipping. For everything. For the smallest things. For people simply doing their jobs.

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    Being puritanical about sexual themes but glorifying violence in media

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    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture Being able to fight and die for your country before being allowed to purchase and drink a beer. I hate alcohol, and I didn't serve, but still, this is pretty silly, and I think it actually contributes to alcoholism by making it taboo (and therefore cool) in your teen years.

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    #17

    From a foreign perspective - guns. Every country has them but it like seems like a religion in the US.

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    #18

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture Absurd costs for medications and even routine doctor visits.

    Everyone just shrugs, like paying $600 for a 30 day supply of pills is normal.

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    #19

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture All the celebraty worship that we engage in by far.

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    #20

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture People b***h about roads being bad, schools being bad, etc but then vote down levies to fund them.

    Also wanting everyone to have decent healthcare coverage that doesn't cost a fortune somehow makes you an evil communist.

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    #21

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture The poor are obese. In most other countries when you see abject poverty you can see people starving with their ribs poking out

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    #22

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture Giant truck culture.

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    #23

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture that showing blood and gore to children is simply entertainment but a women’s breast is taboo

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    #24

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture The size of food portion given in restaurants.

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    #25

    Sugar in everything

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    They think the world revolves around what's going on in America

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    We shoot ourselves in the foot with who we elect, acting like were free when it's really just a corporate tyranny and not democracy.

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    #28

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture We banned most cigarette advertising decades ago. But I cannot watch a football game with out seeing every alcohol ad a million times.

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    #29

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture Bragging about working ourselves to death

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    Misunderstanding their own history.

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    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture Making 14 year olds famous “actors” and “singers” and, if they’re girls, immediately sexualising them.

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    How we have such a stigma around sex and can't show nudity on TV, yet there's this total acceptance of brutal violence. My fiancé is Dutch and the relationship with sex in the Netherlands seems *so* much more open and healthy, whereas they aren't as desensitized to violence. Makes much more sense to me.

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    #33

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture The fascination with college sports.

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    #34

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture Simultaneously over sensitive and violent.

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    Television ads for prescription medication

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    #36

    Infant male circumcision. Only 30% of males are circumcised on the planet. The vast majority of that percentage is religious circumcision. Most of the rest is tribal practices. America is this sole weird country that on a large scale just randomly does it and no one can really say why.

    I remember when I was a kid and learned that the penis naturally comes with a foreskin and all the penises I’ve seen in my life were operated on. It felt like my own country was this weird foreign place I no longer understood.

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The doctor that popularised widespread circumcision in the US marketed it as a way to prevent masturbation in teenage boys. It's broad usage therefore has religious origins. Once it became widespread other parents didn't want their kid to be the odd one out and and hospitals found they could charge some more money for it. Cue flawed studies to try and back up the hygiene aspect which when replicated outside the US were not valid.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The worst things in America and the world all have religious origins.

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This. Mutilating baby boys in the first weeks of their life, cruelty and human right issue if you I ask me

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Make it illegal until the age of 18 years (for non medical). Let people decide themselves and stop cutting on healthy babi penises.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A quote from a man who for medical reasons had a circumcision when he was 30... " I wish to GOD my parents would have done this when I was an infant". Said to my brother who shared a hospital room.

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Honestly this one makes me sad, can you imagine if we mutilated our little girls? But somehow it’s okay to mutilate our little boys!!!!

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never actually knew what it was before now, but I remember a long, long time ago I’m pretty sure I remember my younger brother being circumcised and I thought it had to do with health or something

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are rare instances where it needs to be done for a medical condition. But mostly it's done for religious, tradition or cosmetic reasons.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I get the voices against circumcision, but hear me out, please. I worked at a daycare many years ago. I worked with the 1-year-olds, 99% of them in diapers. I would come in after naptime change diapers and continue with these kids until their parents picked them up in the evening. So I get this one boy up on the changing table and take off his soiled diaper and think I see a cotton ball stuck to the end of his uncircumcised penis. I tried to gently wipe it away with a baby wipe. Nope, that wasn't a cotton ball it was either a bacterial or yeast infection so terribly bad inside the foreskin that it was blooming out. Of course, I immediately called in my manager for her to see and take the reins on dealing with the parents. I was barely 18 at the time. What I was told after the fact: Mom and Dad were in the middle of a horrific divorce, fighting over all 3 boys. Dad didn't know that that area needed to be cleaned differently than his own circumcised self and all 3 boys ...

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Parents should look after their children. Some won't, that's for sure. But circumcision of baby boys kills some and mutilates others. Hear me out, please: why subject baby boys to the risk of death just because some parents aren't adequately educated? Isn't it better to put effort into educating parents rather than subjecting baby boys to the risks of circumcision?

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have never understood (beside the obvious greed to charge for it) how a doctor can be ok with amputating healthy tissue as a supposedly "preventative measure". I've never heard of this excuse being applied to any other healthy tissue in the body.

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    1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah in other countries people fight to get female genital mutilism out of their system and it will take so long. I am always glad I grew up without these genital mutilism habits being normal. But male genital mutilation should also not be normal. It should only be done in case there is a medical reason in my opinion.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This. Why is this a thing in the US and not even a religious one?

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    as a european i always found this practice so bizarre and it had been shocking for me since i heard about it for the first time. id never let anybody do anything with my baby unless it was for serious health reasons and it was inevitable. even if it's a routine operation there are risks on many levels

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why it's legal anywhere under any circumstances to cut part of a baby's body off unnecessarily, I cannot comprehend. This is something that should be very much with the consent of the person who has sovereignty over that body, i.e. the person who lives inside it, when they are old enough to make that decision. Rituals for someone older are a very different thing to being done to a newborn.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They used to say it helped prevent prostate cancer but I believe that's been disproven

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And when you know HOW it's been done... Child abuse within the first hour of its life!!

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably goes back to when the Israelites/Jews were given the command to circumcise their babies. Somehow over the centuries leaders of Christendom pick upon that and applied circumcision to them.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That wouldn't explain why the USA are the only (christian) country where it's so widespread

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Didn't 'God' create us in his own image? Why did he create us with a foreskin if he wanted us to remove it? oh, sorry, only certain people who believe certain parts of his 'Word'.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just as a reminder, even more horrific genital mutilation is done daily in nearly every country in the world to intersex infants born with ambiguous genitalia. Entirely unnecessary medically, it's done solely for cosmetic purposes, sometimes without even parental consent (not that that's sufficient excuse to mutilate an infant's genitals, mind, but doctors do at least get consent from parents before performing circumcision; ambiguous genitalia apparently makes you subhuman and unworthy of even that much in many cultures).

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I understand this viewpoint, but I still find uncircumcised penises revolting.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, and apparently it started in the Victorian days as a punishment for young boys being caught m@$turb@t!ing. It was thought the lack of foreskin would make it too painful, but as we all know, that clearly wasn't the case. Later on, doctors started realizing they could profit on it, that's apparently how it took off (I learned all this when I researched it, due to bring a Dane living in the US with a Nigerian wanting our children getting snipped. Thankfully we had daughters.........

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was born in 1964. Hospitals then would automatically circumcise babies unless specifically told not to. At the time it was believed to help men keep themselves clean and reduce the chance of infections later in life.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The custom is based on the idea that males without foreskins can keep themselves cleaner. This was a big issue during war times and gradually became a custom and medically advised procedure.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's supposed to make it healthier for the baby by making it easier to keep clean. I wasn't asked if I wanted my son circumcised, they just did it.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's performing a medical procedure without your permission - that's not okay. It's also so very simple to keep clean. If that's the only reason, time to stop it.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    isn't it mostly due to the Jewish population with their religious rites etc (a bris) I believe it's called

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Question is our men who are circumcised happy with it? More feeling sexually? Or women happier with it?

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's not the question. The question is "how much harm does it do to baby boys?" Some are permanently mutilated by the procedure. Some die from it. It's an unjustified surgical operation with serious risks attached and needs to be stopped.

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are also many relative indications for circumcision, including the prevention of penile and cervical cancer, the prevention of sexually transmitted infection, particularly HIV, and the prevention of urinary tract infection. Two trials demonstrated that male circumcision reduces the risk of acquiring genital herpes by 28% to 34%

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    Because uncircumcised is unhealthy and stinks. And it looks ugly

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    1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not unhealthy, nor does it stink. Except a guy doesn't clean himself down there

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    I honestly don't care. Probably because I don't think about baby d**k

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    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture Glorifying politicians. Apparently, we believe their lies every time.

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    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture The commercialism of everything. Everything is an ad. Everything is to get you to buy something.

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    #39

    Tipping. America is one of the only countries where tipping a large percentage of a bill at a restaurant is not only accepted but, if you don’t tip the waiter around 20% or whatever, you’ll get shamed for it. And even beyond that, tipping is now starting to creep into, for example, tip jars at pick-up counters where there’s no wait staff and tip jars at some retail outlets and such.

    It’s a weird, uniquely American custom that as I recall started around the Great Depression with rich patrons tipping wait staff to get seats or food more quickly. Then the restaurant owners realized they could get away with paying the waiters next to nothing and letting them live primarily on tips, and ever since then there’s been a constant assumption in the US that whatever you get charged on the menu you just add the 20% or so to what you pay. It started as a total scam to underpay employees and employees to avoid paying taxes on cash tips and it just continues mainly due to social inertia to this day.

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    #40

    Cheese in a spray can

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    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture Sending photos of yourselves as a Christmas card

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    #42

    The "temporarily down on your luck millionaire" mindset that allows people to politically support millionaire and billionaire politicians who do not represent their interests. More like -we're all one hospital visit away by cause of a serious accident to being millions in debt.

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    #43

    14-16 to get a job, drive, and take college courses

    18 to vote, buy certain legal drugs, and join the military

    19 to buy tobacco and be exempt from most curfews

    21 to buy alcohol

    23 to rent a car and book a hotel room

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    #44

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture The fact Americans forget how freaking huge and populated America is. Which means living in different areas and states can mean a completely different lifestyle, cultures, priorities, and issues but no one wants to think about that when they can’t figure out why they have different viewpoints.

    Also how they exaggerate opposing viewpoints instead of just being realistic. But I think that’s human nature, not USA.

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    #45

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture The dichotomy between the love and hate for the rich/elite.

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    #46

    What you do as profession being a personality or making it a big deal. Our pride of self-independence (or faux self-independence, really - other cultures create “meaning” together, are more willing to help others. US Americans are highly competitive and believe in making your own meaning (probably, hence, acting like your job is a way bigger deal than it is or getting “lost in work” to not have to examine your life.) Our views on masculinity. There is a lot of research that guilt is largely US American. And finger pointing - probably both going back to our “independence.” Something either has to be our fault and burden or squarely aimed at someone else…vs accepting the totality of life and relationships and circumstances.

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    #47

    We love getting our free refills and love the drive throughs for food and drink.

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    #48

    American here: Americans who despise everything about america.. Somehow we are the most racist, misogynist, terrible poverty hating nation in the world whose human rights have not improved since "bad thing example from 100 years ago". This opinion being largely held by middle class white people.

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    #49

    Being anti-American.

    I'm not saying you need to tattoo the flag on your calf, or ride a bald eagle to work or anything. But a lot of Americans lately are so anti-American, they're basically foaming at the mouth for their own country to fail. I can't understand that viewpoint, I want the country to improve and I think it can. But I also acknowledge that currently, it's still a pretty damn good place to live despite its flaws.

    Idk, I just dont understand that pessimistic view, it doesn't help anything or anyone to wish failure on a nation you're part of. Millions are trying to get here right now to make their lives better. Check your privilege.

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    #50

    50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture The most American thing seems to be hating America.

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