American culture

It has been almost 2 months since i came here. During the time, i have gone through some extraordinary american style cultures and i think i like them. First of all, what i surprised most is how friendly people are. In Korea, we don't usually say hello to stranger. Of course, we do sometimes, but it does not frequently happen. I think that comes from cultural difference. It's just my assumption. I think in Korea, we usually get respection for people who are older than me. So we tend to act more politely and always try to be careful about our word selection, which makes our conversation a little bit unnatural. We don't usually express ourselves much when we are in conversation with elder people. I think that's the reason why we tend to avoid sudden conversation unconsciously. Some korean might not agree with my opinion because he or she is not like this. But in average, american people are less likely to hestitate to initiate conversation with stranger. Actually i have got a couple of sudden conversation with stranger since i came here and i enjoyed it. And it was good chance for me to practice English. :)

And i think america is one of the fastest countries for everything in the world. For example, when we order food in store, it usually comes out very fast. And i can feel that people even walk fast. But that's not surprising to me because i am sure that Korea also belongs to these fastest countries group. Actually i think korea is a little bit more faster than america, which is weird somehow. This so called 'fast culture' came from America but we are doing more faster than America! I had been in europe about 2 years and they are really slow. Of course there is some benefits we can get by living slowly but for me, i prefer to be quick. My life style already got used to fast style. So i like America!

And it's about american family. Honestly, i don't know much about it but i stayed with one american familly for just one month as a homestaying student. I think they were friendly and nice so i liked it. Maybe, they are not common american family because there are always at least 2~3 international students in their home so i can't make generalization of how american family is from it. 

So this is my general evaluation about american culture. Most of american style is not new for us anymore. Thanks to Globalization, american culture is common in my country. So actually there was nothing special to me. I generally like it and i think i can be part of american citizen without any problem. But what i was less satisfied was the point that i couldn't find more like traditional things in america. We can say that america is multiculture country and that's true. but sometimes, united culture make citizen united. I am interested in other cultures but in America, i couldn't find something like tradition. That was so sad. I Hope that maybe after 500~1000 years later, America will get their own tradition.