I have a budget of about $100- $150 and would like making a gift about handmade american art. Would be great if the shop offers gift cards or supports a cause in the US. Thank you!

Plz include your state! These always interest me, they are usually so much more than face value and are usually pretty bipartisan compared to the main votes.

I live in MA this year we have:

Open primary (not ranked choice voting)

Same day registration

Repeal weed legalization

Uphold unique state (possibly unconstitutional) gun laws (this one is will pass with flying colors but is waaaaay more than face value, I learned a lot about this one)

I know it's not even near perfect since my childhood I have been obsessed with owning a ranch in usa i want americans to rate this dish and tell me what I can add i couldn't add sausage and eggs due to religious reasons but I tried my best to mimic what a normal cowboy would eat

I know that most Americans do not live in easy walking or biking distance to a butcher, baker and greengrocer, and prefer to do one large visit in their car. How do you keep your food fresh for the ride home if you are in a hot state? Do you bring freezer bags? A cooler? Something else I have not heard of?

I'm not American, and varsity jackets have always looked iconic to me, but I've never understood how people there actually feel about them.

A few questions:

1. Did you get one in high school or college? Do you still have it or wear it?
2. Is it something you earn (sports, band, academics), or do people just buy them?
3. If you ordered a custom one, what went wrong? Sizing, patches, colours, the wait, the price?
4. Do adults wear them casually, or would that look strange?

I’m very curious about that, and I think about 95% of Americans do this and not only old men but also adults and teenager, whether it is a story or highlights collections, is there a reason for that?

What prompted me to ask was this post by Dan Orlovsky about losing his brother-in-law and asking for donations to his sister’s GoFundMe account.

I just don’t understand how he’s not mortified to post this. I would feel like I failed a sibling if I couldn’t be there for my sister during such horrible time, including financially. People in the comments are defending him and saying that he has his own family and expenses. So even if it’s just 2-3 months of his salary the general public should finance this instead?

I remember when an American coworker (we worked in Europe and were getting paid really well) set up a GoFundMe for her birthday and wrote something along the lines of ‘oh, we have two houses full of stuff, so we’re collecting money for experiences instead’ or something like that and I was mortified for her. Why would you feel entitled to other people giving you more money? Why can’t you be grateful and donate money in honor of your birthday instead?

Don’t get me wrong, I would resort to GoFundMe if we were talking about a desperate, life-or-death situation, but I feel like Americans throw it around like confetti for any reason whatsoever and I’m having a major case of Fremdschämen when I see most of these campaigns floating around. Am I wrong to feel this way?

Hello. Firstly, I am sorry that my English is not great. I am an independent Japanese language teacher and have been working for a while. My students are mainly adults, and there are some teenagers and children. I am thinking to create my own website, but the problem is that I am not so comfortable showing my face or picture in public. I have been teaching online using video calls. Meeting my students in a video call or discussing in a video call with people is okay for me, but it is just not so comfortable showing my picture of myself. Would it be less attractive if I create and have a website of my tutoring but without my photo? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

example when I bought my laptop from an official acer store , the salesman himself installed a pirated MS office for free

I’m Arab and I can agree that Indians/Arabs have distinct differences from East Asians (Chinese/Korean/Viet/Filipino, etc) despite being from the same continent. The reason we aren’t considered Asian is bc East Asian immigrants came to America first. Same goes for why North Africans in the US aren’t called “African-American.” I know that racial terms aren’t always literal/accurate despite geography, but I’m here to talk about it. No, I’m not saying that Indians/Arabs aren’t from the continent of Asia, I’m just pointing out that literal meanings aren’t always used. Think of idioms that don’t make sense, (ex: “break the ice”) that’s the same idea.

hello, i’d like to see my friends in Texas and was ready to book flights and stuff however i just found out that a ESTA exists? do I HAVE to have this or is it only for long stays like a visa, im only staying for a week so this just seems so unnecessary to me, thank you in advance

Do people in the US not wear red that much for Christmas? 😭 I’m looking for Christmas outfit inspo, but I barely see any red outfits on Pinterest or TikTok. Is red not as popular there?

Hi everyone! I am from the Netherlands and I've recently had a discussion regarding workplace culture. I have a friend from the US who has pretty much only worked white-collar jobs. When he moved here he experienced massive culture shock, primarily regarding workplace culture.

In the Netherlands it's quite common to go for drinks after the day has ended (excluding Monday). We call that a "borrel". He was flabbergasted when learning about the ritual, he told me he usually just clocked out and left to go home.

That seems so cold to me. I am very good friends with my colleagues and we regularly meet up to just talk about life or other stuff.

How do you guys manage officie relationships. Are you good friends with your colleagues or do you just have a couple of people who you like?

Thanks for reading!

I feel like earning more in America doesn’t always mean getting ahead. A raise helps, but when groceries, rent, insurance, and utilities also go up, there may be little extra left to save.

What concerns me most is how people whose pay hasn’t increased are managing.

Compared with last year, are you actually better off financially, or just earning more and spending more? And based on what you’re seeing lately, do you expect things to get easier?

I’m from the UK and have travelled to the US many times - California, Nevada, Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland.

Back home, I’m used to bank transfers without worrying much about which service someone uses. In the US, with Venmo, CashApp, PayPal and Zelle, I’m curious:

Do you have to ask people which app they use before paying them?

Is getting someone’s username or payment link a hassle?

Have you ever been unsure whether someone still uses an old payment account?

Do you use multiple apps because different friends prefer different ones?

I’m curious whether this is genuinely annoying or just something you get used to. What’s your experience with the whole process?

People in Scotland say it particularly in the North. To tarry, meaning to wait or to loiter or to move slowly. Example "take the second path to get home, and don't tarry!".

Recently saw a post from an American saying that some of the words that we use in scots are a bit old-fashioned sounding in US English and mentioned tarry as an example.

Was trying in my head to picture an American saying something like "do not tarry on the road" and it DOES sound a bit old fashioned (like something out of a historical drama about the American revolution) when I imagine it 😆

Basically I thought I would just ask! Is it a word that anyone uses a normal conversation? Is it considered old fashioned or formal? Would people still get what you meant? I also wondered if there's maybe a certain dialects that still use it? Southerners maybe?

Edit should add it's not a suuuuper common word here but wouldn't be considered strange if you said it, particularly in the Highlands.

Cheers everyone!

I am currently in an Air B‘n‘B with my family and other friends of my family. This morning my son and I got up early and started making breakfast for everyone, eggs and bacon and stuff. Our friend who‘s visiting from the States came down and while we were still busy in the kitchen preparing stuff like drinks and plates and cleaning up, the American just sat down at the table, put some eggs and bacon on her plate and started eating. The other people were just getting ready in the bathroom or getting dressed. Even the two of us, who cooked, hadn’t started eating yet. We knew it was going to be another 10mins max before everyone was ready. In my culture it is considered rude not to wait for everyone to at least sit down at the table, usually even until everyone has food on their plates. Is this a known rule in the US too or is it normal to just start eating whenever you’re ready no matter what the rest of the party is doing. Even in restaurants people will wait until the server brought everyone’s food out before they start eating in my culture. I don’t mean to judge, I am aware that different cultures have different customs and I think she wasn’t trying to be rude but it appeared to me like that.

As a Russian, it’s interesting what’s your biggest problem in life rn?

As a South Asian immigrant, I’ve become increasingly withdrawn over the past few years because of the amount of anti-immigrant rhetoric and racism I’ve encountered online, especially on Reddit.

What’s strange is that my real-life experiences with Americans, including conservatives, have been overwhelmingly positive. People have generally been welcoming, friendly, and respectful.

Yet the constant negativity online started affecting me. I became hesitant to post on Reddit or even strike up conversations with strangers unless they spoke first. Not because anyone had necessarily mistreated me in person, but because I started fearing that the hostility I saw online reflected how people actually felt about immigrants like me.

The past few years have been emotionally exhausting. It’s unsettling when a country you’ve come to call home suddenly feels less welcoming, even if that feeling comes primarily from what you encounter online.

Recently, amid reports of disruptions to Russian bot networks and disinformation operations, I’ve noticed what seems like a decline in hateful rhetoric. I can’t say whether the two are connected, but it’s made me question how much of the hostility online is genuine versus artificially amplified.

I know racism exists, and I’m not suggesting bots are responsible for all of it. But social media can make a vocal minority appear much larger than it actually is.

So I’m genuinely curious: Has anti-immigrant sentiment among Americans increased as dramatically as Reddit makes it seem, or have bots, trolls, and coordinated campaigns distorted our perception of public opinion?

Because my experiences with Americans in real life tell a very different story from what I’ve been seeing online.