10 Japanese Travel Tips for Visiting America With the help of Google Translate (and an ability to interpret completely random sentence structure), an American can find out what kind of advice the Japanese give to their own countrymen on how to handle the peculiarities of American culture. Here are some things to look out for if you are visiting America from Japan. 1. In Japan, each person eating gets as many individual dishes as needed for the meal. 2. In Japan, hip hop clothes are considered stylish. 3. Manners with cars in America are really damn good. 4. In the U.S., they do not have a sense of superiority if they are able to drink a large amount. 5. In America, whether you are a student, working person, or housewife, you carefully make room for leisure time, weekdays and weekends. See Also: 4 Russian Travel Tips for Visiting America 6. If you put your bent middle and index fingers of both hands in the air, you are making finger quotation marks. 7. See Also: 11 French Travel Tips for Visiting America 8. Cashiers are slow. 9. 10.
4 Russian Travel Tips for Visiting America As an American, you can find volumes of travel books instructing you how to behave when you visit other countries—which seemingly innocent hand gestures are vulgar in Romania, for example, or how close you can stand to a Japanese businessman. But what about when foreigners visit our country? It’s not easy to find out what the non-English speaking world thinks of us, as it is another unique peculiarity of Americans that most only speak one language. 1. Short Version: Don’t worry about gifts. “Gifts: Americans do not expect them. I’d just like to say, I would love a samovar. 2. The short version: American women are a little uptight. “US etiquette prohibits flirting with a woman who is not your girlfriend or wife. It’s weird how one nation’s flirting is another nation’s motivation to use pepper spray. See Also: 10 Japanese Travel Tips for Visiting America 3. Short Version: Americans are delicate buttercups by Russian standards, so be gentle. 4.
11 French Travel Tips for Visiting America The Internet is full of French travelers who've experienced the United States and have things to say about the strange ways of Americans. With the help of Google Translate, Americans can get a peek at these revelations. We know that there are no doubt many Flossers who can translate French better than Google can (though probably not as hilariously), and we welcome any additional information in the comments. 1. Our custom is to kiss before, during, and after each social encounter, with 1, 2, 3, or 4 kisses. 2. A passerby stumbles and sprawls in the street, an old lady can barely control Brutus at the end of a leash, a small tricycle driver loses control of his vehicle. See Also: 4 Russian Travel Tips for Visiting America 3. Americans eat and drink anything and at any time of the day: in the street, in a meeting at work, in the car, on the subway, in the elevator, the movies ... 4. 5. Crossing the road as a pedestrian is not always easy, you often have to wait for ages. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.