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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 10:00 AM and 4:30 PM. |
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!! |
