Reflections on the US from people who moved here

[redfox]

I just loved reading this! So many amazing perspectives.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/michael-koh/2013/11/16-people-on-things-they-couldnt-believe-about-america-until-they-moved-here/

[catherine]

Very, very fun to read! Don't have time to read it all now, but I'm coming back for more. It's really interesting to get the outsider's POV--even though a lot of it I'm not surprised by.

[Lainey]

thanks, redfox. Another one from a friend from India, whose parents visited him here in the U.S. He took them on a car trip to see the sights and they were amazed at the endless smooth roads in our interstate highway system.

[Tussiemussies]

This was fun and interesting to read. Thanks for posting it, I shared it with some family members...chris

[rose]

Thanks. That was fun. Reminded me of when I was in Europe in the 1970's and talking to some young men. They couldn't believe there we didn't know gangsters and that there weren't gangsters on all the street. Movies!

[puglogic]

I will never forget the young Indian man who stayed with a colleague and I in the 90's. We laid out a spread of oatmeal, fruit, nuts, and a little crock of brown sugar for breakfast.

He leaned over to me, pointing to the brown sugar, and asked quietly, "Is that.....cocaine?"

Apparently we all did cocaine in the 90's in the U.S. I was flabbergasted, but it just goes to show the power of the media if you have no life-events to contradict what it feeds you.

[SteveinMN]

Imagine the stereotypes we have about other places we've never visited...

[mira]

The inability to transfer funds electronically between banks baffles me.

[redfox]

Imagine the stereotypes we have about other places we've never visited...

Absolutely!