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

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

I'm honestly shocked that foreigners think we're so friendly and nice I genuinely assumed people were just like that in most places

I feel bad for any European that thinks they can go on expeditions in New York, Florida, and California in the same day while traveling in a car 😂

I‘m Austrian and I‘ve been to many places in the US within many years. It was funny and true what you said about a European in America in the video.
The sizes 😲
The service 😍
The tipping 🤪
The public transport 🧐
The patriotism 🇦🇹🇺🇸
The friendliness 🥰
The food 👌
The freedom 🤠
Some strange customs 😳
Great sports 🙃
Great shopping 🥳
Great museums 🤓
I love your country!

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

When I lived in France for a few months 30 years ago, one of my reverse culture shocks was our size. Good grief we are big people. As much as I learned to appreciate other cultures from living abroad, it made me more proud to be American.
I do think we are getting less friendly now though, which is sad.

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.

I'll never forget when I took one of my good friends back home to the US for the first time and he was so shocked (in a good way) at how many strangers made small talk with us. I've found the extraversion and confidence that lots of Americans have can be very useful abroad (even if it rubs some people the wrong way), it will instantly make you the life of the party

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.

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

I’ve been to the US many times and it is all true! Many people don’t like the USA because of politics, but don’t let it fool you, people. America is a great country and Americans are a great people, it is impossible not to fall in love with them! God Bless America and thanks for the video! Hoping to visit this amazing nation again as soon as possible! 🇧🇷❤️🇺🇸

I'm a US American and one activity highly recommend when visiting is try to find and attend a Native American Pow Wow. We have 574 federally recognized tribes, all over the country. Many of them, also called the First Nations, hold pow wows the public is welcome to attend. You can see dancing, native regalia dress, music, crafts, food and hear stories. It's a wonderful educational opportunity that probably not many Europeans get the chance to experience!

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.

the size difference is incomprehandable, as a European. I was in Tucson, Arizona last year and had to go to Salt Lake City, Utah for a family emergency. my first thought was ; "I'll just rent a car and drive, it can't be longer than Amsterdam - Paris!"
until I checked and saw it was over 11 hours, 775 miles. way too long for me to drive on my own in a foreign country!
the sales tax is very frustrating when visiting the US for the first time. when looking at something in a store, I see it like "oh, it's $45, so it's like €45 after taxes gets added"
I could write a book about those differences, being a 25y/o Dutch woman, having American relatives.

I'm a Korean American but I go to Thailand every year for two months at a time. One thing that always shocks people is when I tell them that there are a lot of poor and homeless people in America. Everyone assumes it's just this country where there is absoloutley nothing to do with poverty.

I had German exchange students. Free soda refills always amazed them. ☺️

If you are visiting the US, please pay Missouri a visit! We are rarely visited because we are in the middle of the state and are landlocked. Trust me, everyone here in so friendly to tourists because we barley get any! We will help you around the state, give you some advice, because we LOVE helping. Just, think about visiting us. We are lonely :)

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.

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.

Im new to your channel from Sweden and honestly love how you can joke about yourself thank you. One good thing about americans is how talk friendly they are one of the reason why I want to visit the US.