would LOVE to know full details to the culture difference bestie when you've got the time because I'm kinda just a sucker for that. also. were we too nice for you tell me more about that
here we gooooo here's a rundown of the top things that were really jarring to me as a brit in america!
kinda dumb that i feel the need to say this but ive been burned before: americans, if you're going to send me shit about this list, please first reread what you've typed and ask yourself 'am i addressing this person as an actual real life adult that not only has experienced both countries she speaks about but also has perfectly functioning social skills that allow her to navigate what is and isn't a culture difference, or am i talking to her like a condescending little prick?' this includes messages like 'americans aren't actually ___, we're just ___ which clearly went over your head as a silly foreigner :)' do u understand how condescending messages like that are as the person who was there? this list is me saying what was strange to me AS A BRIT IN AMERICA. it is a comparison, not an objective statement of something ive decided is a fact about your culture. im not writing this so people can try and like. educate me on all the things i missed because america was just soooo complex. okay? stunning
you guys were SO nice like i think the best way i can contextualise this for an american is that the first time i felt actually comfortable (not that i was uncomfortable otherwise but i mean in a social sense) was when we were in new york city. no one looked at me no one wanted to talk to me people were shouting and being rude to each other it was just like home <3 the way americans are friendly is just so intense and it took me a good while to stop being so bowled over by it. like if you met someone one time they'd try and hug you and i found that very very strange
americans generally talk about their feelings a lot more and i dont even mean just from the people i interacted with bc that very well might have been because i just got on well with them so we were talking honestly, but even on commercials and things you guys talk about mental illnesses and such like it's a grocery shop whereas in england there's still very much a stiff upper lip culture about that kind of thing
you guys do speak louder. like objectively even 'quiet' americans were louder than most brits and would be glared at in public if we were in england just bc of the volume they were speaking at. you also inflect more. again i think this is another thing that boils down to americans being very bright and intense while the english are renowned for not wanting anyone to look at them ever. like a bug under a rock
FREE REFILLS!! i have not shut up about this but if you order a coffee somewhere then you have in fact ordered UNLIMITED COFFEE. the first time a waitress leaned over me to fill my coffee up i flinched away from her bc i was like what in god's name are you doing
if you try and make a hot drink in america then you are taking your life in your hands. you have to filter the water, find whatever apparatus this specific house uses to boil water, remind yourself that americans have a vendetta against milk so you have to use creamer which is 'exactly like milk' but 'you wouldnt drink it like milk' so what the fuck is going on there, and then by the time everything's done you want to go out back to curl up and die like an old dog. dont get me started on tea
one thing i thought was cute is that you guys say 'come get in the AC' the same way we would say 'come get out of the rain' like that's such a cute little human thing i think
AC itself is such a godsend but me not being used to it was kind of baffling to americans. boom's brother asked me what my ideal AC temp was at home and i just. looked at him bc i didnt even know where to start with that
it took me WEEKS to stop trying to get in the driver's side of the car
american ignorance is a very real very frustrating thing. 'whats that thing they do in europe-' idk bc ive never been to all of europe. 'when i went to europe-' where in europe. it is a continent. i got asked if we have fireworks in europe. bonfire night is older than the founding of america. there's just a genuine belief amongst americans that they're not even AWARE of (because it would be smart, nice americans that i genuinely liked saying these things) that america is the most elite country in the world and is the only place to have certain things
speaking of the european thing with americans, the fact that 'travelling to europe' is typically a bragging right over there and is seen as quite an upper class thing is very interesting. a lot of the times people would be bragging TO ME and it would go over my head bc id be like 'well anyone can go to spain'. i feel like shagaluf would give americans an aneurysm
the sheer size of america never truly registered with me until i was there like i cannot wrap my head around it. the uk can fit in lake michigan 4 times. you guys have cargo ships on lakes. the roads just go straight for miles and miles and miles. you have every environment and weather possible. literally obsessed
capitalism is actually way more intense in america. like yeah it makes sense america is thee capitalist country but i guess i thought because i was coming from a western capitalist country myself that it wouldnt change much. but like. billboards on roads. adverts while you pump gas. there is someone selling u something everywhere u look
tipping was so hard 😭 i knowwww it's necessary i understand the econ behind it all but i was so stressed all the time because of it 😭
YOUR STARBUCKS IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN OURS
i knew i was going to have to change the way i spoke in america bc of obvious things (my accent isnt The British Accent that americans recognise, i use a lot of slang etc) but it surprised me just how much i had to change. like by the end of it i wasnt using any slang and i was enunciating every letter because i was just so tired of saying something just for boom to have to literally translate bc like? it was no fault of theirs or mine or even the person i was talking to but it just made me feel Weird and Odd and most surprising of all was that it made me feel stupid? and i guess that's bc i get a lot of shit for my accent over here too so im oversensitive to it but ive never properly felt more like a foreigner in a different country than i did trying to talk to americans
sarcasm. im just. like the running joke is that americans dont get sarcasm and id have actually preferred that i think bc what instead happened is you guys have AMERICAN sarcasm and it just. made no fucking sense to me at all. i literally did not get american humour even slightly it was probably my biggest thing when i was over there like i literally felt like entire conversations were going over my head. british humour is very dry so not only did i not get american humour but sometimes MY humour would be misinterpreted as well and the entire thing was just very strange lol
RIGHT ON RED????? RED MEANS STOP???? WHAT ARE YOU DOING????
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Ever sit and think about the time difference and how “Program-cycles” is essentially “Dog-years”? How someone could be thousands of cycles old, maybe more and that translates to like five years old in our time- that’s a exaggeration but you know what I mean.
Even more considering how they have a loose grasp on how our time works considering computers do have a clock/date system. Our time moves slowly and we essentially live forever in their eyes, it’s interesting.
Prime example- Clu would be thousands of cycles old but is only 27. Same age as Sam. Same age as a young someone so many years ago…
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Not a lot of people will like me saying this, but if the website you're telling all your queer buddies to migrate to does not allow sex work, pornography, and kink, it is an inherently unsafe and rocky website for queer people to exist in and will ultimately kick us out first
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I'd like to remind people that Web 2.0 != big social media sites. Web 2.0 includes social media, but there's a stage that's being missed.
Web 1.0 refers to the earliest stages of the Internet as we know it. Static pages without much capacity for end user interaction. This stage is reasonably well understood, and not the topic I want to discuss today.
Proto-Web 2.0 was basically just Web 1.0, but with comment sections. You know, the ancestor of Disquis. "User-generated content" as a supplement to static Web 1.0 stuff.
Then there were things like BBCode forums. These were little websites where communities with a common interest gather to talk about them. Websites built around "user-generated content" as a core feature. Some (including forums I spent a lot of time on in high school like Bay12 and GitP) are forums bolted to the side of "static" content like opinion pieces or indie video game projects; others are just forums.
(There's also stuff like wikis and 4chan which I think operate on roughly the same wavelength, but I don't have much experience with them. Aside from reading wikis, of course.)
Then there's the social media we all know and loathe today—centralized, algorithm-heavy, data-hungry, monolithic. They dominate the modern web for a whole host of economic reasons I don't really want to get into, and are what most people mean when they say Web 2.0.
And those people are wrong. Not just because they're using a word wrong; that's something I can usually tolerate, unless that word is "literally". They're wrong because they make criticisms of "Web 2.0" that only apply to the social media giants.
This is especially frustrating to me because of the Web 3.0 crowd. They talk about how their decentralized blockchain nonsense will solve all the problems of centralized social media platforms, because they do things that pre-social-media Web 2.0 managed to somehow pull off without the overhead of a public append-only database that requires you to burn a few gigajoules of electricity for each entry. Obfuscating the existence of decentralized online communities which didn't need to be bolted onto an NFT scam gives Web 3.0 grifters a scrap of legitimacy, which is far more than they deserve.
Also, BBCode forums are great and I think more people should use them...in part because I agree with many Web 2.0 haters' criticisms of big social media sites. Simplifying Internet history to "ARPAnet, Geocities, Facebook" ignores whole swathes of web history that should be remembered—both for their own sake and for ours.
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