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11 Culture Shocks That This New Zealander Experienced After Relocating To The US

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Publish Not your original work? Add source We live in a world where a lot of things we learn through books, movies, and the internet. But one of the most common and exciting ways to learn more about other cultures is by traveling. For a lot of people, this became an interesting and eye-opening experience, so a lot of them like to share what they have seen and heard, and compare this experience with how things are run "at home." Bored Panda already covered some of the stories of people who decided to share their cultural shocks, one of these stories you can find here. When people talk about their travels, very often a place they refer to as culturally shocking is the United States. One of the recent is examples is TikTok user Jazz Thornton who started sharing what things she finds weird and different in the US. The woman who is from New Zealand relocated from her country to the United States and has already become viral on TikTok with her funny and entertaining videos. More Info: TikTok This post may include affiliate links. #1

School At 7 30 Am

You'll start school at 7:30 in the morning. Are teenagers functioning at 7:30 in the morning, because where I'm from, we start school at 9 AM every day. That means that you have to get up at like, 6 AM something. I wasn't getting out of bed until like 7:30 AM. Who decided that teenagers work best at 7:30 AM?
notjazzthornton , Lead Beyond Report Final score: 145points POST sofacushionfort sofacushionfort Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago Their parents have to be at work at 8AM 76 76points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2

i Really Wish I Had An Accent

So the other day I was on a conversation with an American, and she looked me in the eyes and goes, 'man, I really wish I had an accent. I just speak normally.' Which I was like, 'ma'am, you do realize that the USA is not a main character, right?' You do have an accent to absolutely everyone who is not American. notjazzthornton , Miguel Discart Report Final score: 144points POST Chef Latte Chef Latte Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I love the U.S BECAUSE one of the reasons that i love it here is that most U.S citizens have an accent. Californians have their own accent, Southern accents, New York and New Jersey accents. I love hearing them all 54 54points reply View More Replies... View more comments #3

It s Really Expensive To Have A Baby In The USA

It cost about $50,000 to birth the baby. These children are putting you in debt. In New Zealand hospitals are completely free. So you could be in there for like four months afterwards and you wouldn't have to pay a thing. We do pay taxes to obviously cover that. notjazzthornton , Sami Keinänen Report Final score: 126points POST Amy Stone-Chandler Amy Stone-Chandler Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I'm so glad I'm Canadian. I'd rather pay .13cents on top of the price tag amount then pay for medical direct. I've had 2 kids. They have had surgeries, I have had several surgeries(disabled) and long term stay admitted to hospital(almost dying twice) all my ultrasounds, MRIs, PET scans, xrays, blood work, infertility treatments, eye exams, ER visits, every single specialist doctor plus every GP visit(including house visits) midwife appointments, at home follow up after delivery..free parental or breastfeeding support etc.. all of it, I wouldn't be able to pay that out of pocket. No matter how much taxes I have paid or will pay in life, it wouldn't come anywhere near the bills that a America charges. Oh and kids have free dental to 25 too. Some cosmetic stuff is covered depending on the cause/effects too 64 64points reply View More Replies... View more comments Jazz is a well-known mental health activist film director and book author. The 26-year-old woman's work is related to spreading awareness and educating people about sensitive mental health problems that many individuals suffer from. For this reason, her and her friend started an organization called Voices of Hope. Jazz tries and enjoys encouraging people to believe in themselves, to have a hope that things will get better. She likes to remind this to people through her videos. #4

The Price That Is Displayed Is Not The Final Price

Like today I went and bought a dress and the price tag that I saw on it when I actually went to go check out, it was like $10 more, because they add tax on after. And then when you're in restaurants and stuff, it's the taxes added and the tipping is added so like nothing is the normal price. Like if that happened to me in New Zealand and I went to pay for something and it was like more than what the price tag was, I'd be like, 'I'm sorry, what?'
notjazzthornton , sylvar Report Final score: 104points POST Sonja Sonja Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Why there is not an option to write at least something like "10 $ + x$ tax = xy price" 25 25points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5

Tipping

Tipping is literally not a thing where I'm from, like, again, America with the unnecessary math. How do I calculate this? What am I supposed to give someone? In New Zealand, the minimum wage is $20. That's for an adult. In America, it's $7.25. Now, keeping in mind that our currency is a lot weaker than America, it equals out to be $14.10 in minimum wage, which is double the minimum wage here. But also do people make more money from tips?
notjazzthornton , Kai Hendry Report Final score: 80points POST BoredHuman BoredHuman Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) Tipping needs to be eliminated. I go to a small coffee shop in Toronto where the woman picks up the tip jar and shakes it while you are paying. To show me hey look at the tip jar. It lasts only a second but it is very off putting. Tipping is getting out of hand. I am already paying for a service. I live on a budget and getting haircuts and takeout coffee should not feel like pressure to tip. Pay a living wage 53 53points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6

American Portion Sizes

So I'm on week two here and I discovered very early on that a lot of your portion sizes, like, the large is a very large. I'm not used to it where I'm from. So, I was like, was this so big? So tonight, right? I was like okay, I'm going to get a small. This is what I got tonight. Please, is someone pranking me? This is the size of my palm. This is my noodle box.
notjazzthornton , Konrad Summers Report Final score: 77points POST Claire Stanfield Claire Stanfield Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago It's wild and depends on the restaurant. If you want big portions you can eat for days, BBQ and those Greek family restaurants serve absurd amounts of food for the price you'll spend. Chain restaurants vary widely. 24 24points reply View More Replies... View more comments #7

Dogs In Stores

So you're telling me that here in America, you can bring your dogs into stores with you? Like, guys yesterday I was at H&M, right? And it was like four dogs in the store. I am so here for it. This is not a thing that we see in New Zealand and I need it. As long as I can pet all of the dogs. notjazzthornton , Bennilover Report Final score: 76points POST Requiem Requiem Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago NOPE, you need to have a Certified service dog and YES you can be questioned on wether your Chihuahua is an actual service dog. A pet store is the exception to the No regular dogs rule 34 34points reply View More Replies... View more comments The woman also uploads goofy and lighthearted content on her TikTok platform. One of these is related to her relocation to the United States. In her TikToks, the woman doesn't hide her surprise at how different some of the things in the US are. It might seem that some of these things are already well known. Not knowing how to tip waiters in a restaurant and having to pay for having a baby at the hospital are only a couple of these examples. The woman also shared some of the lesser known facts about when American kids start their school day and that people are allowed to bring their dogs to stores. Which one of these things do you find weird? Or maybe you know something that wasn't shared on this list? Don't forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below! #8

Scam Calls

I got an American number not too long ago and on the day that I did I had like four scam calls in one day. And now they just- every day, multiple times a day, is just scam calls. I think in New Zealand I got like one scam call every two months.
notjazzthornton , Sascha Kohlmann Report Final score: 71points POST Requiem Requiem Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago all scam calls in Canada and the US come from other countries 23 23points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #9

Burger And Sandwich

Can someone please explain to me why they call this a burger, but they call this a sandwich. If it's beef it's a burger. If it's chicken, it's a sandwich, but they're both in a bun. notjazzthornton Report Final score: 63points POST sofacushionfort sofacushionfort Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago Ground beef is called hamburger. In the 30’s it was called a hamburger sandwich, but then it was shortened. 44 44points reply View More Replies... View more comments #10

Biscuits And Gravy

All I'm imagining right now is that kind of thing. That beautiful biscuit cover in meat sauce. It just looks nasty. notjazzthornton , Michael Kmak Report Final score: 45points POST NoneYa41 NoneYa41 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago There is no 'wrong' terminology when it varies by country. 15 15points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11

Spray Cheese

This does not exist where I'm from. I've been told to eat it only with Ritz crackers so you have put your thumb on it. notjazzthornton Report Final score: 39points POST Nikki Sevven Nikki Sevven Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago 56yo American, and I've never, ever seen anyone eat spray cheese. 35 35points reply View More Replies... View more comments Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add New Image Add Your Photo To This List Please use high-res photos without watermarks Upload Photo Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB. Not your original work? Add source Publish Change image Upload Photo Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB. Upload Upload Edit Image Error occurred when generating embed. Please check link and try again. Render conversation
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Now it's just tiktok and reddit reposts... 41 41points reply Load More Replies... Angelar Angelar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) with outrage baiting titles. 5 5points reply More Thinking Needed More Thinking Needed Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago And it is all done to generate social discord and divide people. And god forbid you have a conservative POV. 3 3points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago Since conservative equals discriminatory and hateful in most cases it is logical to not be happy about it in an international site. You conservatives would hate most of us for being foreing 1 1point reply Josy Bannon Josy Bannon Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Whats a POV? 1 1point reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago Point of view 2 2points reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago There is no conservative POV. There’s not a single actual conservative platform besides reactions to progressive platforms. And prejudice. 0 0points reply Johnnie Johnnie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago With unnecessary political opinion bullshit in the comments. -2 -2points reply Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Honestly i found out that this site is Lithuanian quite recently! I was pretty sure it's American 6 6points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago Right? I wish that there was more content about other countries in the world. Like cultural shocks from a migrant from Ecuador in Norway 4 4points reply Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) That would be very interesting! (Hey BP we are giving ideas over here) 0 0points reply Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I want to know more about Lithuania, they could make an article for us to learn about where the bored panda him/herself comes from :) 4 4points reply David Andrews David Andrews Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago To be fair, it's because stories like this get comments and votes. Doesn't matter if it's positive or negative, interactions drive the creation of more pages with a similar theme. If people didn't read or ignored these types of pages, they would soon stop creating them 3 3points reply Aeon Flux Aeon Flux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago These lists always say the same things too. 1 1point reply Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago How many more of these posts? We've read similar many many times! Was hoping for something different to be told but no! All the same 21 21points reply Transat Transat Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago If at least once in a while it was about another country than the US 7 7points reply Load More Replies... Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yes that would be interesting because we had too many from US! I'd like to see more cultural shocks from different countries 4 4points reply Jos Tiguidou Jos Tiguidou Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Be careful what you wish for. Next will be how AMERICANS react to stuff in Japan. Or Korea. Or my God look at how weird those Australians are?? 2 2points reply Margaret Weaver Margaret Weaver Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Honestly who cares? They're insular, of course they have culture shocks, they don't know what culture is. You know the yoghurt joke right? Unlike americans if you leave yoghurt alone for 200 yrs it will develop a culture? I was born there and I promise you it's absolutely true. The closest thing they have to culture is the civil war and the alamo. Since 11/9 one could call the Patriot Act their culture I suppose. I'd like to see old cultures meeting. Italians in Thailand. Babushka in Rome. That sort of thing. -1 -1point reply Angelar Angelar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yes please. 0 0points reply Margaret Weaver Margaret Weaver Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago It does feel like low hanging fruit, doesn't it? On the other hand, they do SO many things SO wrong, that it's important to keep highlighting those things and teaching our children that recreational rudeness and avarice are wrong. -1 -1point reply Troux Troux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago TIL: USA portion sizes are larger than average. Did you know that? Aren't you shocked by this new discovery? /s 3 3points reply Don't Look Don't Look Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. I don't even bother clicking on the post. I wait for at least one comment and click on that. -4 -4points reply Leo Domitrix Leo Domitrix Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Can I point out that all of New Zealand fits into the US 37 times, so, yeah, we have variations across the US even some Americans will never see in person. Get. Over. It. Can we now see cute animals, artwork, and maybe Brutus & Pixie comics to get both? 9 9points reply Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Screenshot...214952.jpg 3 3points reply Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I would love to see America. Bit I don't know how I could find the time and money to see it all, because as you say it is enormous, and therefore there's a broad range of terrains/accents/different ways of doing things/cultures. I will follow this response with a fun picture for you 2 2points reply Anita Pickle Anita Pickle Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Almost all Americans have not been able to see most of America. There are people that go their entire lives without even seeing the ocean, either Pacific, Atlantic or the Gulf. 3 3points reply Margaret Weaver Margaret Weaver Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I wuv Bwutus so much <3 1 1point reply KatHat KatHat Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago America has spent decades yelling at everyone else about how they're the best country in the world. You don't get to prance around being obnoxious and then say "get over it". And yeah, maybe you didn't do that personally, but enough do. And anyone can write on Bored Panda, as they always tell us, so get going on your cute animals, artwork, and comics post. Be the change you wish to see, yada yada. -3 -3points reply Ray Martin Ray Martin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Yeah, you're bigger, but we're a thousand times better to make up for it. -5 -5points reply John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Right. And I'm the Pope. 3 3points reply Ray Martin Ray Martin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) Well, Pope John, it's time you got off your a**e and did something useful with the countless billions hoarded by the Vatican, instead of dicking around on Bored Panda. -2 -2points reply John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I need to cure you of your delusions of superiority first. 2 2points reply Load More Comments POST Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago It gets boring how usa centric this web located in EUROPE is. 33 33points reply RoseTheMad RoseTheMad Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I remember back when Bored Panda used to focus on creative stuff, like artists, and the like. Now it's just tiktok and reddit reposts... 41 41points reply Load More Replies... Angelar Angelar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) with outrage baiting titles. 5 5points reply More Thinking Needed More Thinking Needed Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago And it is all done to generate social discord and divide people. And god forbid you have a conservative POV. 3 3points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago Since conservative equals discriminatory and hateful in most cases it is logical to not be happy about it in an international site. You conservatives would hate most of us for being foreing 1 1point reply Josy Bannon Josy Bannon Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Whats a POV? 1 1point reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago Point of view 2 2points reply Mewton’s Third Paw Mewton’s Third Paw Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago There is no conservative POV. There’s not a single actual conservative platform besides reactions to progressive platforms. And prejudice. 0 0points reply Johnnie Johnnie Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago With unnecessary political opinion bullshit in the comments. -2 -2points reply Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Honestly i found out that this site is Lithuanian quite recently! I was pretty sure it's American 6 6points reply Ozacoter Ozacoter Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago Right? I wish that there was more content about other countries in the world. Like cultural shocks from a migrant from Ecuador in Norway 4 4points reply Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago (edited) That would be very interesting! (Hey BP we are giving ideas over here) 0 0points reply Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I want to know more about Lithuania, they could make an article for us to learn about where the bored panda him/herself comes from :) 4 4points reply David Andrews David Andrews Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago To be fair, it's because stories like this get comments and votes. Doesn't matter if it's positive or negative, interactions drive the creation of more pages with a similar theme. If people didn't read or ignored these types of pages, they would soon stop creating them 3 3points reply Aeon Flux Aeon Flux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago These lists always say the same things too. 1 1point reply Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago How many more of these posts? We've read similar many many times! Was hoping for something different to be told but no! All the same 21 21points reply Transat Transat Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago If at least once in a while it was about another country than the US 7 7points reply Load More Replies... Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yes that would be interesting because we had too many from US! I'd like to see more cultural shocks from different countries 4 4points reply Jos Tiguidou Jos Tiguidou Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Be careful what you wish for. Next will be how AMERICANS react to stuff in Japan. Or Korea. Or my God look at how weird those Australians are?? 2 2points reply Margaret Weaver Margaret Weaver Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago Honestly who cares? They're insular, of course they have culture shocks, they don't know what culture is. You know the yoghurt joke right? Unlike americans if you leave yoghurt alone for 200 yrs it will develop a culture? I was born there and I promise you it's absolutely true. The closest thing they have to culture is the civil war and the alamo. Since 11/9 one could call the Patriot Act their culture I suppose. I'd like to see old cultures meeting. Italians in Thailand. Babushka in Rome. That sort of thing. -1 -1point reply Angelar Angelar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Yes please. 0 0points reply Margaret Weaver Margaret Weaver Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago It does feel like low hanging fruit, doesn't it? On the other hand, they do SO many things SO wrong, that it's important to keep highlighting those things and teaching our children that recreational rudeness and avarice are wrong. -1 -1point reply Troux Troux Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 11 months ago TIL: USA portion sizes are larger than average. Did you know that? Aren't you shocked by this new discovery? /s 3 3points reply Don't Look Don't Look Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. I don't even bother clicking on the post. I wait for at least one comment and click on that. -4 -4points reply Leo Domitrix Leo Domitrix Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Can I point out that all of New Zealand fits into the US 37 times, so, yeah, we have variations across the US even some Americans will never see in person. Get. Over. It. Can we now see cute animals, artwork, and maybe Brutus & Pixie comics to get both? 9 9points reply Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Screenshot...214952.jpg 3 3points reply Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago I would love to see America. Bit I don't know how I could find the time and money to see it all, because as you say it is enormous, and therefore there's a broad range of terrains/accents/different ways of doing things/cultures. I will follow this response with a fun picture for you 2 2points reply Anita Pickle Anita Pickle Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Almost all Americans have not been able to see most of America. There are people that go their entire lives without even seeing the ocean, either Pacific, Atlantic or the Gulf. 3 3points reply Margaret Weaver Margaret Weaver Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 10 months ago I wuv Bwutus so much <3 1 1point reply KatHat KatHat Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago America has spent decades yelling at everyone else about how they're the best country in the world. You don't get to prance around being obnoxious and then say "get over it". And yeah, maybe you didn't do that personally, but enough do. And anyone can write on Bored Panda, as they always tell us, so get going on your cute animals, artwork, and comics post. Be the change you wish to see, yada yada. -3 -3points reply Ray Martin Ray Martin Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. Yeah, you're bigger, but we're a thousand times better to make up for it. -5 -5points reply John Baker John Baker Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 months ago Right. 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