America! You’ve seen it on TV, in the movies, you think you know the USA but you really don’t until you live there. I’ve seen a few of these articles floating about it but usually written from an American point of view, for example an American might move to a small European country and write about it, or perhaps an American might even visit Brazil and write about the strange accents and the wildlife. That kind of makes sense, because after all the USA is a very populous and very vocal country. But I thought it might be interesting to write about what it’s like living in American society in the foreign perspective. Here are the things that surprised the foreign by living in the USA.

Matt Edwards from Australia had the first impression about the politeness of the American people very suspect when a waitress treated him very well calling him ‘darling’. After walk around in places that people not receive tips for the good treatment he figured out that Americans are one million of times more kind compared to his folks. “In Australia, or at least in Sydney, a stranger that talks to people randomly is safely (and sadly) assumed to be insane, or annoying. In America everyone talks to you. It’s the norm. I love that” said Matt.

Alex Gallichotte (he doesn’t tell in his blog where he is from) who grew up to diplomatic parents and lived in six different countries, believes that American people tend to be more honest about addmiting their weaknesses, “In fact, this is probably the only country I’ve been in where self-criticism is seen as a necessary rite of humility, and as a means of finding a true balanced opinion. Not many nations are willing or capable of admitting their flaws.”

To the Director of the Museum of Family History Steven Lasky the experience of the Jewish immigrants in the US is not what they imagined from their native land. He tells that many can soon find out that the streets were not really paved with gold the way they thought before. “They would discover that if they were to succeed in the ‘golden land’ and create a better life for themselves and their family, they would have to work very hard.”

If you are considering coming over here and having the experience of living in America you should first search out the viewpoint from different nations about what it’s really like to live here. After all the difficulties that I’d faced in America I can say that is a privilege to live in a free country where you can have your own beliefs,  have the right of free expression, and be free to go back and forth. As you can see this is a free country and it's worth the effort to be here... God bless America!