Re:Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy...
by mkaziz on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:16PM
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Disagree. As an immigrant to the US, I see many cultural norms that the US has (at scale, despite heterogeneous population) that were bizarrely foreign to me, but that I (and other immigrants like me) quickly picked up on and developed.
Examples:
(good) giving pedestrians right of way when driving, stopping at stop signs, holding the door open for people
(bad) empty small talk conversations used to fill silences with casual acquaintances.
Examples: (good) giving pedestrians right of way when driving, stopping at stop signs, holding the door open for people (bad) empty small talk conversations used to fill silences with casual acquaintances.