As a non-American, what American things do you find strange or confusing?

[ATenderLad]

OK, now it’s my turn to ask a question. Every time I’ve ever spoken to an American who grew up gaming on a PC, they were always from the Midwest. A lot of them didn’t have dedicated gaming consoles, and didn’t even know anyone who did! So, for any Americans reading this, my question to you:

In the U.S., do you feel that console gaming was more of a coastal thing up until recently? If you’re from middle America, were you and your friends predominantly playing games on PC? I’d love to hear your thoughts — I’m really curious about this!

It's funny, my first thought went to the mass rise of suburbs in new neighborhoods with power grids throughout the southwest, part of the population shift that led to the blowout for Reagan...buuuuut without going to some galaxy brain thesis, the most likely answer is simply folks in sparser areas didn't always have stores with the new toys in stock, but a PC used for work could double for gaming in a household.

 

[Momo Momomo]

OK, now it’s my turn to ask a question. Every time I’ve ever spoken to an American who grew up gaming on a PC, they were always from the Midwest. A lot of them didn’t have dedicated gaming consoles, and didn’t even know anyone who did! So, for any Americans reading this, my question to you:

In the U.S., do you feel that console gaming was more of a coastal thing up until recently? If you’re from middle America, were you and your friends predominantly playing games on PC? I’d love to hear your thoughts — I’m really curious about this!

interesting, ive never thought about it tbh. i grew up all over. but i grew up with nintendo consoles and PC gaming. my dad was into computers so we always had one. i cant think of a reason why it would have ever been regional beyond:
1. where broadband was available first in the 90s
2. in wealthier areas (pcs have always been much more expensive than consoles here)
3. areas with a lot of tech workers (washington state in particular)

as far as i can figure, the the association between midwest and pc gaming is either a coincidence, or its just that there were more people online from an earlier age in the midwest because the midwest is stupid boring, lol

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There seems to be an aversion towards public services which seems odd. No funding for leech programs like public health! But yeah, let's give good pal Musk a few hundred million cuz why not, dude's funny. Also, the obsession with guns. And for a country that has "United" in the name... it ain't shown as quite united.

By the way, we call 'mericans "estadounidenses" so... "unitedstatians" ? Cuz America is a big place with many countries.

But going for strange and confusing.... Trump.

genuinely sorry to the rest of the world that we continue to be a country with global influence while fucking up so bad over and over. its honestly very embarrassing.

 

[Ikagura]

By the way, we call 'mericans "estadounidenses" so... "unitedstatians" ? Cuz America is a big place with many countries.

Unistatians?

What's the issue with still calling US citizens American? Although I would agree that technically Canadians and Mexicans are also Americans since it's a continent but that's just semantics.

If we wanted to be even more pedantic the actual Americans here are the natives which are scarcely around and used to be called Indians because of a certainly confused Christopher (who seemingly never saw any actual indians before).

 

[KrossX]

I'm used to it in english but when talking about US news in spanish I often say "ameri... estadounidense" adjusting mid-word. It ends up feeling odd, strange... confusing at times, like with the billion/trillion scale.

 

[xXmayaXx]

Not having uniforms in schools, also the whole summer camp thing, i couldn't imagine a worse way to spend my vacations on

The uniforms are more of a private school/reform school thing and summer camp is for rich/middle class parents who don't want to/ can't take care of their kids so they ship em' off to daycare and camps. Some camps are cool though, I never stayed at any sleep away ones but there was this Lake camp I went to for a week as a kid and did a lot of outdoor stuff like sailing and swimming.

A lot of people in my country (including myself, lol) don't know how to drive, either. You can blame the existence of public transport for that.

If anything, I've gotten the impression that most American adults have a driving license.

We have to drive, for instance I don't live in a City. I live in a suburban town with a main road, lots of car washes and repair shops, a couple plazas and tons of neighborhoods crammed on top of each other and in each other. There is absolutely ZERO public transport, if you do not have a vehicle you are SOL. My car was totaled last week whilst sitting out front cause some woman crashed into it and I just sat in my house the whole week unable to do anything cause I had no form of transportation until her insurance finally lent me a rental.

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

I don't know, everything and everyone seems confusing to me no matter the place they are from.
Nothingness and existence are really strange things.
At least i can laugh at it until i vomit profusely.

 

[Ikagura]

I still remember when a woman told she was from York and they got confused because she didn't have a New York accent.


It was the Old York in UK.