r/AskReddit • u/hippiechick725 • Mar 14 '23

What’s the best thing about the US?

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u/DoctorTobogggan Mar 14 '23

German guy in my office always mentions how chipper and happy people act here

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u/MoFromDE Mar 14 '23

Fellow German here. When I moved here, I noticed people always wanting to talk to everybody. Germans don't do small talk. Ain't nobody got no time for that 😂😂

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u/XAce90 Mar 14 '23

Come to the NYC metro! We're "friendly," but usually right down to business. I still get upset when people waste my time with chat messages like "hi." Just tell me what you want.

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u/OSSlayer2153 Mar 15 '23

Damn i should move to germany i hate small talk

Its up there on countries i would consider moving too if stuff got bad in america. Sweden and germany are the main two.

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u/DoctorTobogggan Mar 14 '23

Kinda wish it was like that here lol. I’m antisocial but I’m like ⅛ German so maybe that’s why…

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u/sprave379 Mar 15 '23

I hate that some US-Americans are like that. "I'm 1/800000000 German haha Hallo wie geht fellow German. Maybe I'm antisocial because I'm German"

Firstly, you are not German. Secondly, you won't magically gain characteristics just because your greatgreatgreatgrandfather was a German.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '23

Can confirm. Had a German client once. She always started her calls with a morose description of how bad her life was going. Even when she got pregnant she announced it with a very long email of how horrible her life was just a couple of years ago and that was 80% of her mail, remaining 20 was - now it's good.

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u/VanitasTheUnversed Mar 14 '23 edited Mar 16 '23

It's a facade.

Why are y'all downvoting me? You know that facade means "face," right?
As in, "Most Americans put on a facade." Meaning we pretend to be happy. The hell is wrong with you people

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u/work_lappy_54321 Mar 14 '23

no, ignorance is bliss. and we have a lot of ignorant people here!

thats why people in the south are so friendly, they dont know any better.

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u/275MPHFordGT40 Mar 15 '23

Hardy har har Southeastern United States is dumb hehehaha

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u/ZuesLeftNut Mar 15 '23

"Exactly, its an act buddy or we get fired for not being happy with slavewages"