On social media, people around the world have been talking about the misconceptions they had about the U.S. before visiting.
And there are some amusing ones. Here are some highlights . . .
1. “I thought Americans ate pizza every single Friday.”
2. Someone thought the people would be RUDE . . . but, quote, “I found Americans to be a lot friendlier than I expected. Even in New York, I found people to be extremely friendly, polite, and helpful.”
3. “I was expecting most Americans to be morbidly obese. Then I arrived in Colorado, where 90% of people are fit as hell.”
4. “That there are 50 states . . . not 52. Almost every non-American I know thinks (or thought, at some point) that there are 52 states. I suspect that Hawaii and Alaska might be involved.”
5. “I thought people would actually say ‘yeeehaaaw’ a lot more.”
6. “I didn’t realize those red Solo cups were actually real and that everyone uses them at parties. I thought it was just, like, a thing in movies.”
7. “I knew America was big, but I was wrong thinking I could easily drive from New York to Florida. I just didn’t quite register how far away everything is.”
8. “How unglamorous Los Angeles actually is compared to how it’s depicted in TV shows and movies.” (From the comments, it sounds like this is primarily about Hollywood Boulevard.)
9. “I thought that American beer would be terrible, and they’d only drink Budweiser. The U.S. has so many craft beers, it’s amazing. I went to a bar in Boston that had something like 200 different beers.”
10. “I thought American cuisine revolved around bacon. It was sad to discover this is not actually the case.”
There are also unexpected things they discovered. Like, quote, “I was really weirded out by how high the water was in the toilets.”