What Makes America Different From The Rest Of The World

Terminal Updated on Baronial 15, 2019 by

Nosotros've been traveling the world for almost iii years now and recently wrote a story for Huffington Post that asked "how is America dissimilar from the rest of the earth?" That story struck a chord among readers who suggested more than areas that set America autonomously.Here are another differences with America that travel has revealed:

Football vs. soccer — First of all, Americans can't fifty-fifty figure out what to call the almost popular sport in the earth. Somehow American football, where simply the punter and kicker actually put their human foot on the ball, came to be chosen football game while the sport where athletes mostly use their feet is chosen soccer. Despite American kids starting play in organized soccer leagues in the pre-natal phase of their lives, America still isn't too skilful at soccer. That doesn't stop the country from watching the sport for a calendar week every four years during the Earth Cup. That is of course until America gets ousted from the tournament all the same once again with a country whose population is the size of Pittsburgh.

Guns — Other than Heart Eastern cities undergoing a revolution where it seems similar half the population is armed with AK-47s, America leads the world in gun ownership. It seems odd in a land that is relatively rubber but in that location are an estimated 300 million guns floating around the U.Due south. Since just about xxx per centum of Americans own guns, those who do then are heavily armed. In a foreign twist, the land with the tertiary highest rate of gun ownership is Switzerland, which could explain how all those holes got in their cheese.

Road trips — We've road-tripped on six continents and America is the best country on earth to hop into a car and explore. From former Route 66 to the Loneliest Road in America in Nevada, there are some fantastic spots to feel vintage America. You can even sleep in a wigwam along the mode.

Window screens — Americans dearest throwing open the windows and letting in some fresh air. They tin do this secure in the knowledge that they will non become an instant meal for mosquitoes and other flying critters. Non so in the rest of the world where window and door screens have yet to make an advent. Nosotros frequently wonder why this is so. Someone out at that place who is more entrepreneurial than nosotros could make a fortune selling screens to Europeans and others, or mayhap they prefer sitting indoors swatting at flies. Nosotros certainly know that Americans don't.

Whole chicken in a can — Nosotros've seen canned lamb tongues in New Zealand and things we couldn't pronounce in Southeast Asia, merely what other state would have the absolute ingenuity to come up with not only chicken in a can merely a whole chicken? Somehow this 1 will brand united states of america sing the National Anthem but a little chip louder come this 4th of July.

Peanut butter & ketchup — Americans consume the majority of the earth's peanut butter and ketchup. (No, not at the same time.) Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are an American treat that is misunderstood in the residual of the earth. We fifty-fifty saw an ad on a bus in Sydney, Australia mocking Americans for eating PB&J sandwiches, which is rich coming from a country that considers Vegemite to be a major food grouping. As for ketchup, it actually does make simply virtually everything better, well except for my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Big meals — American-sized portions are just that, the size of this vast country. From the Middle Attack Grill in Las Vegas (where people over 350 pounds eat gratuitous) to all-you-can-possibly-eat buffets, we know how to load upward our gullets. When it comes to the nigh obese countries, America is #one. (Followed surprisingly by Cathay.)

Cheap gas — Nosotros dear our big cars and nosotros dear our inexpensive gas. Even though gas is relatively cheap in America, it's the one item that causes major news alerts when the cost goes up. Perhaps that'south because every intersection with a gas station has the price posted prominently as opposed to say, a gallon of milk, which virtually people couldn't tell y'all what it costs. By the way, the cost of milk goes up also but that doesn't seem to cause a major gasp in the collective psyche when information technology does.

Travel to Cuba — Nosotros've traveled to North korea only somehow every bit Americans not named Beyonce and Jay Z, we are non allowed to hop a airplane and visit Cuba, a country only 90 miles from our shores. Americans may only visit Republic of cuba as part of an organized "educational" tour only are not permitted to leave the grouping and explore on their own. We've had this embargo on the country since 1960 to rid the land of the Castro authorities. I don't think it's worked.

Clothes dryers — It's a known fact that on a per capita footing Americans use a major chunk of the world's free energy. Xc-8 pct of this departure is probably due to clothes dryers, which are rarely found in the rest of the world. Oh they exist, simply dryers overseas seem to simply tumble the clothes around for hours and promise the moisture but tires out and gives upward.

What other differences have you noted betwixt America and the balance of the earth?

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