Visit USA - 10 Culture Shocks Foreign Tourists Have When They Visit America

Visiting the United States of America Can Be an Awe Inspiring Fun Time, from the friendly people to the amazing sights, but it can also be shockingly crazy as well when you see the amount of food you get at restaurants and free refills until you have soda coming out of your eyes! Whether visiting the Statue of Liberty in New York City or wandering the Grand Canyon and gambling in Las Vegas to having family fun traveling and visiting Disney World in Florida, there are many things that will SHOCK a tourists when they visit the US. This is our list of 10 things that shock tourists when they visit America.
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[brookethomas]

this guys makes me, an American, want to travel to America

[sammypotatosalad]

For amy tourists: do not be offended if someone addresses you as sir or ma'am. In a lot of the Southern US, it's a mutual expression of friendliness and respect.

[nahtan]

Texans are the biggest buyers of our own souvenirs

[harrisonenyeart]

Can we just appreciate he filmed this whole video across the entire country!!

[tsriftsal]

like .01% of Americans eat spray cheese on a regular basis.

[patsimmons]

I'm from Germany and the friendlyness and the service of the americans shocked me at first. I was not used to it, but i loved it instantly.

[rickmuller]

I travelled USA for 1 month. I gained 10 kilos because I ate burgers and desert pies for breakfast lunch and dinner. Best food is in the Southern States (Tennessee, texas etc)

[wta]

About the portion sizes: most Americans don't actually eat the giant portions in one sitting. It's very common to take about half of the meal home and eat it as leftovers for lunch the next day.

[ITIsFunnyDamnIT]

An THANK YOU for addressing the friendliness of the people here, I see so many comments from Europeans saying we are all fake friendly, and it's simply not true. We say hi or Hello to random strangers when we make eye contact with them because that's how many of us were raised and because we feel it never hurts to be polite to someone.

[zazollo]

"Don't think every American just goes to McDonald's and gets fattened up, that's just me" 😂😂

[MrShitfire]

Dont sell us short on the metric system. We use it all the time when it comes to drugs

[madtingz]

I love how you treat every country equally, giving the good and bad stuff and explaining very well for tourists! Love your channel.

[EmergencyDrawings]

"People from the USA are extremely nice"
Yeah.
Until you get on the roads.

[mazzalnx]

I've visited the U.S. for two weeks and tried to pack into schedule as much as I could. Most of the people I met were absolutely lovely. You could trace my travel route as a rough triangle from MD, to OH, then NC. In these two weeks, I did not have a single meal twice on any restaurant or restaurant chain, and I'm certain I didn't even scratch the surface on the variety you can find there. Root beer is awesome. I brought some on the trip home and my friends said it tasted like toothpaste but **** them. I drove, I flew (man, Southwest pilots are actually rally pilots on the tarmac, they taxi 800% faster than any other airline I've flown, the planes even lean), I walked, I petted awesome doggos, I stayed at actual people's homes as a guest, I read up on legislation and courtesy well beforehand. The thing that caught me the MOST off-guard was being yelled at when walking into a Five Guys restaurant. I know it was a welcome, but geez, that could give any lone tourist a heart attack! (I was alone that day...)

Hate the tipping system but tipped fairly everywhere I went, even hotel staff I never got to see (left them thank-you notes and weird international chocolate, as well as the tip, for the cleaners). The hardest part was actually getting $5 and $1 bills to actually be able to tip! Nobody seemed to have change, haha. Twenties seemed to be the norm. I only saw a SINGLE $10 note and didn't even use it -- I keep it to this day, as some sort of pink unicorn...

OH LORD, THE COINS DON'T HAVE ANY NUMBERS ON THEM, WHAT SORT OF INSANITY IS THIS?!

Tag price vs. taxed price? Meh... You kind of just get used to it, I guess. I did.

A server in a restaurant asked for my ID when buying alcohol. I didn't carry my passport on me for fear of losing it or being robbed (yeah, habit forms when you live in a violent country) so I was only carrying my own country's driver's license and the geneva International Driver's Licence thingy (which is all you technically need to legally drive in the US if you're from a member country in that agreement)... Our driver's licenses are printed in PAPER and the server was just befuzzled, the DOB wasn't even in the normal US format. He paused for a second looking at it, then simply said "holy hell I'll just start counterfeiting these and get rich!" -- it was just a laugh for my friends and everyone around.

"Free" nachos, ice water and salsa upon arrival at a Mexican restaurant also slightly scared me. I was on a tight budget. That kind of thing is DEFINITELY charged in my country and EXPENSIVE, to boot. At special occasions I do indulge on some Ciabattas + Olive oil as an appetizer, but that costs about US$10 where I live. Bread and oil. And that's when they don't charge it per person on the table...

Seeing Vodka being sold in Walgreens in OH also looked pretty bizarre. Found it while looking for non-freezing washer fluid for my rental car. SO MUCH SALT ON THE ROADS. Then again, it probably kept me alive and not-upside-down in the middle of winter. My country never goes under freezing temperatures so we just stick plain water in there. People with older cars also just stick plain tap water on their radiator system... Rusts everything to hell...

On cars. Everything's automatic and it felt like driving a Playstation instead of a car. Damn I miss being allowed to turn on a red traffic light to this day. It's such common sense. Even the Brits (calling on Clarkson here) admit it! But. My friend was absolutely shocked at me when I didn't STOP at a stop sign in a suburban, empty, deserted area. I'm a very careful driver that never speeds or does anything reckless, but that was just unacceptable! She yelled at me! I *did* read about driving rules there, but hey... We have red stop signs in my country. But they basically mean 'yield with extra caution' -- if noone's coming the other way, just coast right through! NO COP here would ever give you trouble for that.

Sorry for the long rant! Have an imaginary banana.

[zachsapp]

Who else here is from America watching this

[sadiemcnabb]

And when you're in Texas, you can drive one direction for 24 hours and still be in fucking Texas.

[zkbrhodas]

10 things that will shock you:
10: - tasers

[Sheerspeechcraft]

It's weird how I enjoy this and I'm American.

[lishafairbairn]

As an American I was shocked when I went to Europe and we never got ice with our drinks! In the US you almost always have ice in every drink.
Also, you can't go anywhere without seeing an American flag. On my 30 minute drive to school I see probably about 40+ flags. I was stopped at a stoplight once and decided to count the flags I could see. I counted 6. They are everywhere.

Also, to anyone thinking about visiting the US, come visit the Midwest! Everyone overlooks us, but we have some amazing things to see! The North Shore of Lake Superior, Duluth and its lift bridge, the Twin Cities, Wisconsin dells, the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN (largest mall in America), the Mississippi's source in Itasca state park, Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota and the black hills, the Badlands, the list goes on and on. Plus, we are really friendly!

[mennis]

I went to a cheap breakfast restaurant in the US once and the craziest thing to me was that fast food is truly fast food in the US. You get your food, you eat your food and then you leave. There's no like sitting around or enjoying your time after your food because there's other people waiting outside for a spot in the restaurant.