First of all, let’s try to avoid American-bashing, and stay respectful to everyone.

I’ll start: for me it’s the tipping culture. Especially nowadays, with the recent post on !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world with the 40% tip, it just seems so weird to me to have to pay extra just so that menu prices can stay low.

  • ValiantDust
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    11 months ago

    I’m always surprised at the huge taboo about nudity. A while ago I read some comments about a Swedish TV show and some people were complaining how unnecessary it was that you could see a guy’s naked butt for a moment. I hadn’t even noticed when watching.
    It’s surprising because at the same time US media is often labelled as (over-)sexualised.
    I know that opinions on nudity also vary a lot across Europe, some might even be very close to opinions on the US. But for me personally it comes as a surprise because there is often controversy about something I wouldn’t even have noticed.

    • Rozaŭtuno
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      1511 months ago

      I guess it comes with being founded by puritans.

      • timicin
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        711 months ago

        the puritans also founded canada and they don’t have the same problems w nudity that we do; so i think it’s much more than puritans.

      • @YaaAsantewaa
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        211 months ago

        the Puritans haven’t been a thing for like over 200 years