17 cultural clashes this European had in America

dottie · 2013-11-08T22:40:53+00:00

thought this was interesting... personally speaking, there is some correlation between the annoyances he lists and the general anxieties i experience (the way-oversensitive PC atmosphere- god forbid saying the wrong thing, pressure to fake it, competitiveness, inundation of ads/consumerism, poor...

Started by dottie · Nov 8, 2013 · 42 replies

MikeyC Nov 10, 2013 at 2:27 PM #41 Report

BlackPuma said: ↑
We've got 21% sales tax where I live. To make matters worse, that's in Euro's. :/

That's outrageous. 😮

BlackPuma Nov 10, 2013 at 3:14 PM #42 Report

MikeyC said: ↑
That's outrageous. 😮

It's pretty silly.

It's almost cheaper to buy from the US or Japan if it wasn't for the shipping costs, and customs intercepts. Last time when I thought I had an overseas bargain, customs STILL had me pay the local taxes for it and it ended up costing a fortune.

Silatuyok Nov 10, 2013 at 3:59 PM #43 Report

vickiekitties said: ↑
I'm just glad to have been born in a place where I have access to clean drinking water, without roving rape gangs and what not. There are much worse places to be.

Good point.

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