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The Home owner association thing is so incredibly backwards and reactionary, I get the impression Crusader Kings 3 is just a white middle class neighborhood simulator 2022 or something.

The typical white middle-high income suburban experience of living in a McMansion and having to drive 45-60 minutes on a 10 lane highway just to buy a 6-pack of beer or something. If someone told me "you can come and live here for free" I'd still reject(it would be my last choice) because it just sounds like misery. I'd prefer decent housing anywhere else.

Troop worship. I thought it was exaggerated until I visited a few years back and when we landed in NY the pilot thanked the troops for their service.

As an American it's our advertisements for lawyers. There are lawyers who specialize in such specific disputes and become household names for it. Like a law firm in my city specializes specifically in being hit by an 18-wheeler, becoming disabled, missing work, and then your job not paying you disability.

There's one lawyer in the city near my hometown who specializes specifically in bodies from the local cemetery flooding into your front yard. America is a land of such poor maintenance that a core feature of our culture is that every large business will have years long court battles over something horrible they did, like selling food with poison in it or knocking someone's house over by accident. And private lawyers do advertisements for their services with butt rock music

The American relationship with food. It's insanely expensive, but portion sizes are insane, the regulation of what can go into it seems to be built around shoehorning as much sugar or corn into all of it as if the health drawbacks are part of the plan, and so much gets wasted while almost the entire population is either morbidly obese or malnourished. Food deserts exist in large swaths of the country. Things are being further deregulated because conspiracy theories drive more political change to food systems than science. Grocery stores are filled with dozens of options for a narrow range of types of food. There's food dye in almost everything. There are too many preservatives in almost everything. There are non-food chemicals in almost everything.

Then there's the packaging. Bananas come in shrink wrap. Peppers come cellophaned to styrofoam planks. Cookies come with multiple layers of plastic packaging. Meat is weighed after it's packed onto waterlogged sponges on styrofoam planks, wrapped in more cellophane that's covered in stickers. Everything is partnered with toy brands, movies, games, cartoons. You can't buy a reasonable amount of anything, and the prices are still going up.

Of course it extends to TV, which other countries have, but in the US, even the food shows with the same hosts that the UK has are focused around being an asshole instead of the food itself, or it's about the contestants' personalities, drama on the set, or stoking rivalries. It's a competition instead of pursuit of better food.

My interactions with AES (actually existing seppos) are blissfully few. The fake positivity is exhausting though, so I'd probably say that

For me (non-American), it's the age of drinking being higher than the age to own a gun or drive a car.

Well I guess that's not really culture. Okay, maybe this: Expect smiles and the nicest service from retail/customer service workers, who's being paid the lowest and deal with the most amount of bullshit.

Around here, people sort of just expect them to be playing on their phone and not really paying attention to you.

And then Americans go "yeah so they did it back then but they wouldn't do it nowwwwww!

To me is the obsession with soda, I've heard americans say the don't like water because they "don't like the taste" so they have to be drinking soda. In fairness I think it was ethan klein so

America tells you that the only things worth knowing are those that can be known. America is wrong.

psychotic jacking off about "tha trooooooooops"
every yankee troop, past and present, should be put against the wall and shot
none of their supposed "expertise" is useful at all
their training relies on having complete logistical/aerial/etc. superiority to the point where an individual yankkkeee soldier is more useless that a random prole in a combat situation
like genuinely, any dipshit who goes to the range with their ar-15 once-a-monh will be a better shot than 90% of yankkkkee troops

I remember as a teen going to the states after 9/11 and tons of Americans after finding out I was from Canada grilling me on whether we were going to join them in the war or not. I wasn’t even old enough to vote. They were very aggressive about it sometimes, and at least passive aggressive at best. It was real culture shock for me.

Also what is with Americans and loving show tunes? Like I get they’re tourist areas but the show tunes thing is so fucking weird in the south.

And then every time I point and say LOOK I TOLD YOU SO I am told "man you are living in the past this is all in our history we have to worry about TODAY"

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