" The reverence of calling an ambulance or go to the emergency room . "
As I’m sure many other Americans know, America has some problems — and many of them are uniquely American. Recently, Redditoru/GoddessMelrosseasked those in the Reddit community to share the"very American" problemsthat aren’t normal in other countries, and some of these might be eye-opening:
1.“Getting time off. Two weeks of time off in America feels like a lot. In other countries, people can get a month off with no issue, it seems like.”
2.“Drug tests at entry-level jobs.”
— Hapalion22
" Credit confirmation as well . "
— gnark
3.“That you can lose your job without warning or notice. You can just get thrown out of the workplace you’ve been working at for years, without even a grace period to look for a new job. Not only are you out of a job, but you also lose your benefits. Basically, you have no rights and no safety. Only the rich seem to get severance packages here.”
— LovingFitness81
4.“School lunch debt. In a sane country, we would just say, ‘Hm, the cost to feed every kid is trivial. Let’s just get rid of any means testing and offer it to everyone who wants it.’ But, of course, we’re hyper-concerned about poor people getting the tiniest bit of help that they ‘don’t deserve,’ while we wave away huge subsidies to rich people as just normal and natural.”
5.“A for-profit prison system. There is a reason people have to go to jail for 20 years for weed, and it’s not because it’s ‘wrong.'”
— zimzimmzimma
6.“Prescription drug commercials.”
— SuggestionBoxX
7.“The fear of calling an ambulance or going to the emergency room.”
8.“Doing your taxes is a whole project.”
— ExternalTree1949
9.“Extremely intrusive HOAs (homeowner associations). Just the idea of not being free to do as I please on my own property (within reason) seems ridiculous to me.”
— Iwasjustryingtologin
10.“Active shooter drills for kids in school and bullet-proof backpacks.”
— SugarInvestigator
11.“Entitlement, and this thing where Americans think the world revolves around the US and everyone else doesn’t matter. I remember once when someone asked me, a non-American, what my plans were for the Fourth of July. I was confused, but the person who asked me thought that everyone in the world celebrated the holiday. I don’t know what to blame: complete lack of logic or a horrible education system.”
12.“How Americans work so much without receiving any real holiday time.”
— stevieblackstar
13.“Medical bankruptcy.”
— prajnadhyana
" Yeah , the amount of GoFundMe fundraisers mass make just to afford workaday life aesculapian shit is wild . "
— dr_van_nostren
14.“Being required to pay a fortune to be in someone else’s wedding party. Bridesmaids are forced to buy a dress of the bride’s choosing and pay for bachelorette vacations, bridal showers, and gifts. In other nations, paying for the bridesmaids is a wedding cost for the couple and their families. You also give gifts to the bridesmaids to thank them for their support — not the other way around.”
15.“Cities that aren’t walkable.”
— cuntyewest
16.“Harmful chemicals in foods.”
— The_Grim_0ne
17.“Cars generally being your only form of transportation in America.”
18.“I feel like religion, particularly Christianity, in America is a uniquely American issue. American Evangelical Christianity is basically antithetical to the purported values of Christianity as practiced in other places. Americans seem particularly inclined to demonize the poor and downtrodden while equating righteousness with the rich. American religion is hostile, cruel, cult-like, and weaponized.”
— teaux
19.Lastly: “Twelve weeks of maternity leave is considered generous, and only certain companies offer it. And I can’t believe that some parents without any sort of paid leave have to go back to work a few days after their baby is born. We have the option of 12 or 18 months of maternity leave here in Canada.”
observe : Some submission have been blue-pencil for distance and/or clarity .
