It's crazy to think how different we view other countries and their cultures. In other countries, people are greeted differently, there's a different meaning to what it's like to have a get together, there's a different meaning of having fun in general. We as Americans with a different mentality and culture of greeting people with a handshake or even just saying 'sup' are our greetings, and having a get together is usually a party of only one certain age group and very mixed type of people involved, and having fun in general is facebook and being with friends so, when we go to these other countries, yes we are blessed and thankful to be in such a country but yet we are all so quick to judge their culture. If we see two men giving kiss on the cheeks while shaking hands as a greeting, we automatically think whoa did that really just happened? How are men comfortable like that? We don't realize that there is no country that has a perfect culture where nothing weird will ever happen. We assume that America has the best culture and everything we do is 'perfect' and 'not weird'. Just imagine how these other countries think as well. We are outsiders no matter where we go. We are always going to be exposed to different types of cultures. I think most people will agree that we are one of the most diverse country since we have so many different ethnic groups surrounding us, but that's what makes America America. Others probably won't see what we see normal, as being normal.
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