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AMERICANS VERSUS FOREIGNERS: What foreigners like and dislike most about America?!
22-Closing schools and establishments and sending home
government employees, each time it snows or gets very hot.
To foreigner, this is absurd. In many foreign countries, when it snows
or gets very cold almost all the time, like in Russia, Finland,
Scandinavia, snows and cold weather are not a major inconvenience. In
foreign countries where hot weather is part of the living folklore,
shops, institutions and governments keep up running their business as
usual.
23-Expensive auto repair bills on European cars.
24-Many American women who were the “ensemble” of very
tight blue jeans and jogging shoes.
To foreigners, nothing is more “far from elegance” than wearing
jogging shoes in public. What they dislike most, is when women who are
working in offices and government buildings bring to work, in their
bags and purses, “those shoes”, later to wear them when they get out.
25-The one-night-stand.
26-Very few Americans speak foreign languages.
They dislike that. More so, when they meet American foreign service
senior officials abroad who totally ignore their language. This is
why, sometimes, when American tourists visiting a foreign country,
stop a native in the street to ask for direction, they get the wrong
one, on purpose!!
27-Schedule C appointees in the federal government.
28-The president of the
United States allowing members of the media and TV REPORTERS TO ASK
HIM ALL KINDS OF QUESTIONS, during a foreign dignitary or head of
state visit to The White House.
29-American women being picked up in a fish market.
30-American married men who answer “In Search Of” ads.
31-American married men cruising supermarkets between
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32-Best looking American men in cosmopolitan cities are gay.
33-Faceless/opinion-less American politicians and
directors of federal agencies.
34-American lawyers “retainer” fees.
Other forms and
agreements on and about lawyers fees payments are considered.
“Retainer” is not customary in many foreign countries
35-American lawyers who advertise on TV
and promise you to “get you all what you deserve under the law” and
falsely pretend “ you don’t pay us a thing until you get your
money”. The truth is, that very few Americans know that lawyers in
almost 99.99% of foreign countries are forbidden by law and by
virtue of the ethical code of the bar association, to publicly
advertise. Lawyers abroad do not advertise. It is considered
unethical and even illegal.
37-Abbreviations and shortenings of name and
sentences.
For instance, greeting a bishop “Hey Bish!” or asking your sister to
wait for you becomes “One sec, siss!”. They don’t like it.
Particularly the Arabs and the Latinos. I can understand that.
Particularly, when lovely Latin gentlemen have very long names
such as Jorge Emanuel Fernando de Cordoba de Malaga de La Cruz de
La After Tomorrow”. Look who is talking?
MOI ?
With
a name as long as mine;
Maximillien de La
Croix de Lafayette, son of Charles Louis Philippes Bernard de La…de
La…de La… !!!, any
way.
I understand what
they are talking about, even though, I was born confused with an
ugly face.
38-How could possibly, the budget of the wealthiest
nation on earth (USA) be in deficit ?
They become to worry about the Dollars they bought or foreign
currencies they have recently exchanged or hid undress the mattress.
39-American folks standing in lines on the sidewalk
waiting to have a glimpse or a glance at famous people, royalties
(Late Princess Di, for example) or movie stars!!
41-TV weather people predictions:
When in his or her forecast, the TV weatherperson or meteorologist
predicts a “50 percent possibility of showers”. What drives
foreigners crazy is when the weatherperson say “and the degree is 50
at the airport”. They are confused. They are mad. They scream: “For
God’s sake, who lives at the airport?”. Boy, you have to admit, they
are funny. They are mad too!
42-The price tags
on goods, merchandise and items in stores, supermarkets and
particularly on big items like cars, such as :”$19.999” instead of
$20.000. This drives them crazy!! More: NEXT |
