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03-13-2018, 10:02 PM
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(03-13-2018, 09:03 PM)Richtea Wrote: Hows life in the US?
Very different from Israel, I felt like Americans are superficial with their fake smiles and friendliness and the imperial system was confusing af for me. Whenever I go to a restaurant, supermarket, any place really people smile at me especially the employees. At the beginning I felt like they're plotting something or want something from me. Or whenever I go to some places that has a lot of people and engage in conversations they overly smile at you, way too friendly and sometimes I felt they flirt with me. American sugarcoat everything, answers, questions and comments, not straight forward at all like we do, if you ask something and expect for an answer, we just answer your question and they call it "blunt" or "rude" behaviour. The queues here have a lot of space, I cut queues multiple times without even noticing, compared to Israel our queues get into personal space to the point we even push each other. Americans can be naive in certain subjects. The security in festivals, malls, schools or any public place is shocking, it's horrible, criminals/madmen/terrorists can come simply come in and do what they want. The idea of having a health insurance to insure your health instead of having a universal health and health care isn't a human right here but a privilege is shocking, in Israel health care is a human right. The tipping culture was ridiculous, you just can't get away without tipping. Everything is big here, cars, houses, food, drinks. Prices doesn't include taxes, so when you buy something for a price they get increased with taxes. When I first came here, in the restaurants, the waitresses or waiters comes to the tables and pour drink in my glass without even asking and interrupted me. Nearly all of the doors of every commercial place don't have automatic doors, so I ended up thinking that it's closed and left but they were actually opened and I had to manually open. In Israel, nearly every place even small corner shops have automatic doors, no such thing as pull or push doors, we are a very high tech society and country and we have pride in it.
But once you get used to living here, you will understand the norm and customs here and why are things here are like this.