A huge cultural difference between Canada and U.S.
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A huge cultural difference between Canada and U.S. is this:
Americans start conversations with strangers.
Every time an American starts a conversation with me, I’m flabbergasted. That simply doesn’t happen in Vancouver—unless they’re hitting on me or trying to assess whether I’m a threat.
But in the U.S. random strangers start talking to me—someone they’ve never met—about the wildest things. -
A huge cultural difference between Canada and U.S. is this:
Americans start conversations with strangers.
Every time an American starts a conversation with me, I’m flabbergasted. That simply doesn’t happen in Vancouver—unless they’re hitting on me or trying to assess whether I’m a threat.
But in the U.S. random strangers start talking to me—someone they’ve never met—about the wildest things.@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org in fairness this (at least in my limited experience) is more of a Midwest-east coast thing.
On the west coast where I grew up, this penchant to approach and talk about … anything was highly bizarre. -
A huge cultural difference between Canada and U.S. is this:
Americans start conversations with strangers.
Every time an American starts a conversation with me, I’m flabbergasted. That simply doesn’t happen in Vancouver—unless they’re hitting on me or trying to assess whether I’m a threat.
But in the U.S. random strangers start talking to me—someone they’ve never met—about the wildest things.Wild, people talk to me with an alarming frequency. Maybe Haligonians are just uncomfortably chatty.
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