• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    regions of the USA also are vastly different in this way. i’m from the northeast and its’ offensive to randomly talk to people, but in the south or west it’s considered offensive not to. the only people who will randomly talk to you are either mentally ill, or sales people.

    i lived on the west coast for a couple of years and it was so fucking weird there.

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      19 hours ago

      Visited the American Northeast as a Swedish person. Dude at Chic-fil-A asked me how my day was. I’m like “whaaaat?” Great sandwich though but I still think about that young man’s pep.

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        Finns are like „hold my beer”: Neighbours stand at the same bus stop for years on the way to work without exchanging a single word.

        I remember also being in Tromsø and getting a little book about the do’s and don’ts in Norway. One piece of advice in it stuck with me: only speak when you actually have something worth saying.

        Love the North and the Nordics.