Natural_Born_Cynic wrote: ↑January 9th, 2024, 12:17 pm
Well forgive me, I'm a Northerner from New Jersey. We Northerners think Southerners have the "Southern Hospitality" and people are more laid back and sh*t. I guess not. I hear yeah. Vietnam must've been an eye opening experience for you. So as Colombia.
Same here up North and New York City. New York City is sh*t now because the city accepted too many illegal immigrants and third worlders.
New Yorkers are total assholes at the subway and at the streets and they don't give a sh*t about you.
This short video from 2006, demonstrate the famous New York City Welcome. Still same today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WggbJDMD-QM
LOL, there is zero southern hospitality. That does not exist. At all. I'll explain something. It may seem slower and more peaceful coming from the North to the South. But live down there for over 2 years, and you'll see that people have the same attitude as Northerners, it's just they hide it behind a fakeness a little bit better.
I watched that video above. Obviously Borat does not exist in real life, and he was pestering other people on purpose which made them angry. Someone who has a sense of culture wouldn't go up to strangers randomly and do that.
I was in Manhattan for 1 day and it seemed very anonymous. Like people didn't even notice that I existed when I was walking. I was also in Chicago and that city is similar.
The whole of America sucks. I've had so many awful experiences. You basically find a close friend group and stick with them. The thing I love about Vietnam is that they're very friendly here.
There's something called "reverse culture shock". It's when you return to your home country after living abroad. In 2022, when I came back to America it was the most depressing thing getting off the plane into the Memphis airport. I literally felt my happy spirit from Asia just sink away and this black dark energy hit me when I saw the cold grey sky of Memphis. I looked down from the plane window at all the cars driving around and thought I'm about to go back into hell.