Seeing annoying things in your mother culture

[Amhara 460]

Hello everyone,

 

I had a job where there were a looot of naturalized US citizens and I would talk to them about their experience immigrating and how they coped to get an idea of what my husband would face when he came to the US.  One interesting thing I found was that they would go back and find something about their mother culture that people did (and often them themselves) that they currently find annoying or aggravating after being in the US for a longer time.

 

Sure, there are a lot of things that immigrants dislike in America, but there are interesting things they enjoy.  One of my coworkers says her mother loves visiting the US so she can wear shirts and jeans!  Little things like that is very interesting!  My husband seems to be getting to that point.  I can't tell because there are things he has always disliked about some of his mother culture's habits, such as the way people are nosy (will sit next to you and look at your phone, or will take your phone and start looking through it).

 

Anyone want to share their experience on what they found annoying back home after immigrating to the US?

[TBoneTX 46,122]

Mrs. T-B. mentioned one example.  In the U.S., if a shelf-sticker in a store advertises one price but a higher price rings up on the register, and you discover it after you've paid, you can tell the cashier or a manager or the service desk, and the lower price will be honored.  In Ecuador, there is no recourse -- the store staff will shrug their shoulders.

 

More generally, Mrs. T-B. has found that she can stand Ecu less and less upon each successive visit.  She observed, "When you stay at a [specific unnamed low-priced budget U.S. motel chain], you're satisfied, because that's all you know.  But when you've experienced the Sheraton, then you see how big the difference is, and you can never go back to the cheap one."  This refers to being satisfied with Ecu (with many nice aspects, but still firmly a third-world country) in comparison with the U.S.