20 American summer traditions that foreigners will never understand
When the mercury draws up, the Americans become weird.
Made: Americans love summer. (If you need to convince,Here are 30 definitive reasons why she is really the best season.) We went to the beach, at the pool and kick with a hand-refrigerated drink, the summer is the time of the year we leave down, ditch a few layers of clothes, and Just enjoy ourselves. But for the millions of foreign tourists who visit our country every summer, the season can reveal apparently disturbed behavior.
For example: summer camp, super soakers and gets stuck? Yes, these do not really exist in Europe. And if you think the baseball is the largest summer sport in the world, you have not even pay attention to the FIFA World Cup. In this document, we have collected the 20 traditions and practices of the 20 strangest, strangest, the most avitional and practices of our country. Read and see how much you will participate in the coming months. And for more than a strangeness of the Americans, do not missThe 30 things you make that foreigners find super weird.
1 Shipping of children to summer camp
The summer camp is a rite of passage for children in the United States, whether they are their school, their religious organization or another community group. It's here when many are far from their parents for the first time and where they try all canoe-kayaking canoes with other haliferous campers. But while the summer camp is the subject of so many films, it's not something that people abroad have a lot of experience with. And if you want to see how much our camping traditions are really commendable, check out the20 Fool summer camps that really exist.
2 Go to the fairs
Breeding competitions, butter sculptures, all fried; There are few more American things than the county or state fairs. Every place gives its own twists to this summer tradition honored at the time - their specialty is perhaps that the specialty is Jumbo Turkey's legs or a particularly delicious funnel cake - but you can count on the essentials being there and Pretends totally bizarre to foreign visitors. And if you find yourself at a carnival this summer, brush yourself on the20 things you should ever do at a summer fairy.
3 Play with frisbees
At the beach, in the park, in the middle of the suburban streets. Yes, it's hard to avoid Frisbee players during the summer. Invented in New England or in the south of California (according to which you believe), these flying drives are omnipresent in warm weather and could cause confusion in visitors who are not used to seeing them everywhere.
4 Play Golf Frisbee
This activity is even more American than a simple frisbee draw. Although technically invented in Canada, this combination of golf and frisbee is a distinctly American hobby. You know: coming with stupid and heavy ways to experience the outdoors, rather than just taking flora and fauna, like those of other countries could. And for more than foreigners think of Americans, check these20 countries that hate tourists in the United States.
5 Play the flag
Another outdoor hobby that you are not likely to see many people who play outside the United States, this competition to be done and fly over the other team - sneak through trees and on Hills and fields - is the militarism of how only one American game can be.
6 Play with extreme water pistols
Speaking of militarism, we transformed the simple water pistol collection into a complete arsenal on H2O, with super shakers who pull water hundreds of feet, attach to the airflowers, poach to our back and provoke All kinds of pool chairs. Why settle for a water pistol when you can have watercannon?
7 Baseball, and all that concerns
Few summer traditions are also emotional and nostalgic for Americans to go to the ball game. And all the most American sports, baseball hits strangers as particularly strange, with its complex statistics, a slow moving play room and strange memories. While the rest of the world haunting by the FIFA World Cup (Y'ykow: "Soccer"), it is difficult for them to understand how Americans can also be captivated by baseball.
8 Eat hot dogs
The Germans have their Bratwurst. Italians have their soft sausage. But the humble hot dog is unique American, with its soft bun, bisvy of suitable condiments and armada of far-bladed iterations - from the dog Chile to the dog wrapped in bacon, covered with pineapple. Oh, and do not forget the "mysterious" ingredients. It is both simpler than traditional European sausages and more on the top.
9 Put ketchup on fundamentally everything
Speaking of Hot Dogs, the tradition of Ketchup on them - and hamburgers and, for at least one eminent American (spoke of the president), Steak-is particularly confused to foreigners. They rarely share the Americans' love affair with the sweet tomato filling will have a meaning. Of course, each country has its bizarre condiments, but few sauces have ubiquity like ketchup in the states in the summer.
10 Put a cool whip on all the rest
Of the entire variety of fresh fruit salad desserts, Americans break the fresh whisk when mercury increases and did not consist in finding all kinds of ways to integrate it with picnics and barbecues. Not enough whipped cream, not enough heavy cream, its obviously strange consistency is contrary to something many foreigners encountered - and that's exactly what makes it special.
11 Drive-in
Of course, there are not so many training theaters that there was once, but you can still meet parkings adorned on the outside of many big cities. It's a fun way to take a movie when the weather is nice, but something totally strange to those of other cultures, where cars are not as central to national identity.
12 Singing the national anthem
Whether he is heard during the events of the Independence Day or baseball summer games, foreigners are more likely to meet "the star banner" during the summer than at any other time of the year. And the full-throat adjustment, with unpredictable sip, almost impossible to sing, sounds very strange to unusual ears and is not as hooked as the "national anthem" abroad by any other than Radiohead, out of their legendaryChild a LP.
13 Look at giant fireworks
The jewel of the crown of all 4e July Celebration is the display of extravagant fireworks. Although many other countries love fireworks, you can count on the United States to become larger, stronger and more bombastic - and more Hoo-rah patriotic-than any other country.
14 Freedom
Celebrating Independence Day also leads to many Americans speaking of our "freedom", not just our British overlays 242 years ago, but the hard-earned freedoms we appreciate - as if the people of all Other countries remain under intolerable restrictions.
15 Blow the ice ratio to the beverage out of the water
Everyone loves a cold drink in summer. But it's really only people from the US who seem to prefer their more "ice cream with a small margarita" than "Margarita with a small ice cream". Venture everywhere abroad, for example, and you will be in a hurry to find dolling restaurants of ice water.
16 Turn the AC on the maximum
Like ice, air conditioning is not a foreign concept for foreigners visiting the United States, it's just howa lot air conditioning that we seem to love. Stores with film cinemas with metro cars, Americans may jerk off the CA so high that you often need an extra layer to be inside. It's almost as if we do not just want to be comfortable - we want to master the climate.
17 Shiny
It is not that other crops are more robust than the Americans, but they do not quite see the attraction to head towards the outdoors with every possible convenience and each convenience of the interior. Similar to our love of air conditioning, our camping approach usually involves overeating, with fancy cooking facilities, comfortable furnishings and a tent that looks more like a luxury hotel - aiming not to be simply comfortable, but to mock from the very idea of discomfort. .
18 Eating
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19 Giant slurs
Ah, sweet and frozen goodness of a 7 eleven slurpee. Whether your flavor is the cherry, the coke or one of the odd rotation options that the convenience store introduces each season, you are required to buy one that is much larger than you will never do. It is probably physically impossible to finish a bucket of 32 ounces of this drink before it is melted and liquefied, but we love our big drinks.
20 Look for porch swings
Nothing says summer like a quiet hanging on the porch, swaying and lazily descending on a wooden porch swing. Although the United States is not the only place you are likely to find these jumps, they proliferate here like anywhere and more than any other country, we can spend the most time per capita hanging on our porches. For more summer, check these20 tips for a less sweat summer.
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