• Hazmatastic@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Im a US American, how much time do you have? There is almost no aspect of my culture I wouldn’t trade for another. Music I’ll keep but everything else… meh

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      15 days ago

      I quite often feel americans show a lot of interest in new people they meet. If I tell something about myself usually they think its ‘amazing’ or ‘wonderful’, ask questions, not often steer the conversation to themselves. I think thats a quite nice cultural thing you have.

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      14 days ago

      Travelers from elsewhere report Americans are unusually friendly and kind to strangers; very approachable. There’s much more of a guarded or even competitive vibe, elsewhere. Anglo North America is also a very smiley culture (as in polite smiles). You can like or dislike that, but Thailand is as well, and they advertise it as a selling point.

      All the things people like about developed countries in general apply - it’s hard being gay in, say, Africa. Obviously the trends in the US aren’t great, but there’s a long way to go down.