20 Things Americans ‘Aren’t Ready To Hear’ According To Non-Americans

When you’ve lived in one place for most of your life, the systems that are in place and the way things are done might seem like the right and only way. However, there is a big world out there and everyone takes a different approach.

In a recent Reddit thread, users chimed in to discuss the big and small things that happen in America but are strange in the rest of the world, after someone asked:

“Redditors from foreign countries, what’s something us Americans aren’t ready to hear?”

The responses range from accents and sugar consumption to things like military fetishization and the lack of free healthcare. These answers definitely show how different things are in other parts of the world.

1. Let’s talk about trains

Why don’t you have more trains?

TheGreenJackdaw

2. Food waste

The amount of food you waste is insane.

Commercial_Quarter_6

3. Lobbying

Lobbying is essentially legal bribery.

It baffles me how every elected official is essentially sponsored by a bunch of companies or “movements” that are essentially comporations in disguise.

Also, corporations don’t care about you. At all.

II7sevenII

4. Healthcare

It’s okay to have healthcare not tied to your employment with a massive fat middleman in between.

yongrii

5. Bathroom stalls

American bathroom stalls are exposed as fuck, a grown man could crawl under one of em and the vertical gap has a big enough gap to make full on eye contact with anyone walking by.

CowDeer

6. Inferior food

A lot of your favourite food brands make better versions of their products here. America often gets the short end of the stick.

YodasChick-O-Stick

7. World Series

The world series only happens in the U.S.

Kommonwealth

8. All the sweetness

You all eat too much of sugar.

whtsinthename

9. President

Treating your president like someone you worship is bizarre.

Appropriate_Sun6311

10. Taxes

The way you add tax to everything at the till is mental. Just tell me what it costs on the fricking label!

Sufficient_Vanilla18

11. Houses

Building houses out of cardboard is a bad idea!

StoicDonkey

12. Accents are real

You DO have an accent.

imakeverylittlemoney

13. Tipping

Tipping is rude and unnecessary here.

Mick7s

14. Freedom

When only the rich can access most of what you call freedom, it’s not freedom.

TronKiwi

15. It’s you!

You are the foreigner for me and around 220 countries.

TaikoLeagueReddit

16. English isn’t the only way

The worst part is when they make fun of or belittle foreigners for their accents or incorrect choice of vocabulary when they only speak English and said foreigner speaks 2 or more languages already.

Its_Dizzee

17. The voting system

Your voting system is unfair, obsolete and less democratic than most countries.

Effective_Macaron_23

18. Military

Your fetishization of the military is a little weird.

Stu_Thom4s

19. Pledge Allegiance

If any other country had kids “Pledge Allegiance” every morning at school and play the national anthem before every single sporting event, you’d joke they were as bad as North.

Hallettash

20. More parties!

You guys need more than two major parties. In fact, you need an entire range: left, centre-left, centre-right and right. Democracy means that you need to give the people a better freedom of choice than just choosing a different side of the same coin.

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