Culture shock! bzzzt!

[kikimm]

Well, if I was my dad, I'd probably say....In Europe, people have manners.

I dunno if I've ever had that sort of thing on my own, though. I've never been out of America either. :D Oh; it isn't really appropriate for here, but recently I learned about something funny and painful-sounding that Arabs do. Eek.

A friend of mine told me that in...either Korea or China, I believe, that when people greet each other when they're out and about in the morning, and instead of saying "good morning!" I think they say "Have you eaten?" And they don't expect you to answer them.

[o_O]

BoB kept going on an on about some sort of Kiwi burger with beetroot and I was all, "eww!" and he was all, "it's really good!" and I was all, "it's still ew!" and he was all, "you've never even tried it!" and I was all, "but wtf beetroot??"

Yeah. I guess it was sort of a culture shock to realize that New Zealand folk eat beetroot.

New Zealand folk don't really eat beetroot, that's just Daniel.
The Kiwiburger was delicious without beetroot though.

[snacks]

This isn't really a "culture shock", but having lived on the East Coast for oh, a considerable amount of time my move to California has been pretty "shocking" to say the least.

People (not all but some i've run into, to save myself a WERE NOT ALL LIKE THAT later on) seem to be on some distant planet or something.