Brits and Americans might be famous for having a special relationship, but that adjective doesn’t always have positive connotations. In fact, social media would make it seem like the two nationalities have very little in common at all. If one recent argument about Chinese takeout is to go by, many people aren’t interested in accepting …
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‘Go live in a country that pays service workers a livable wage’: Europeans and Americans Debate The Validity of American Tipping Culture
Tipping culture in America is pretty straightforward. If you’re eating at a sit-down restaurant, it’s expected that you tip your waiter 20% of the cost of your meal in total. This system is in place because paying servers far less than the minimum wage is legal and common, with restaurant owners assuming most of their …
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Chef Starts Ferocious Debate About Flavor After Being Accused of Not Seasoning Food
When it comes to eating for pleasure, flavor is the one of the most important factors for enjoying the experience. However, the way in which things are flavored can be a contentious topic. One man’s feast is another man’s straight in the trash can, and the frequent internet arguments we see about food are living …
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Frustrated Workers Discuss The Dismal State of Paid Time Off in America
We spend the majority of our lives working and rarely get time off. Once the period of our life where we get summer vacation is over, the era of having long stretches of carefree time with little to no responsibilities rarely happens again. There’s something so valuable about having time to rest and relax without …
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Workers Discuss The Dismal State of Paid Time Off in America
We spend the majority of our lives working and rarely get time off. Once the period of our life where we get summer vacation is over, the era of having long stretches of carefree time with little to no responsibilities rarely happens again. There’s something so valuable about having time to rest and relax without …
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People Share Things That are Weird in America, But Normal in the Rest of the World
The United States is a country that has to do things its own way. I remember in elementary school we had a unit on measuring temperature, and my teacher showed us a map of countries that use Celsius compared with the countries that use Fahrenheit. The only countries that used Fahrenheit at the time were …
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People Observe Things That Are Uniquely American in Interesting Thread
As an American who recently moved to the United Kingdom, a lot of the funny observations in this amusing Reddit thread about uniquely American things really resonated with me. For example, when someone asks me where I’m from, my first instinct is to say, «well I grew up in California, but I just moved from …
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Latina Tiktoker Shows the Difference Between Asking Her Mexican Mom or American Dad if She Can Go Out at Night
‘She said it’s okay’
Slovakian Watches Video About American Suburbs, Poses Some Amusing Questions
No matter what our nationality, many of us get a certain image in their head when it comes to the land of the free. Alongside all the stereotypes about cars, guns, and obesity, a lot of us associate the U.S. with its sprawling expanse of green grass suburbs. From TV shows to memes, they spend …
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Weird Movie Reviews That Are As Amusing As They Are Worrisome
There are few things out there that divide opinion more than the average movie. Something about forcing our ever-shrinking attention spans into focusing on a single piece of media for ninety minutes or more really brings out everybody’s artistic sensibilities. This has propelled the popularity of Letterboxd, the social media site for talking about movies. …
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