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What's weirdest thing about American culture?
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2025
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For me (non-American), it's the age of drinking being higher than the age to own a gun or drive a car.
Well I guess that's not really culture. Okay, maybe this: Expect smiles and the nicest service from retail/customer service workers, who's being paid the lowest and deal with the most amount of bullshit.
Around here, people sort of just expect them to be playing on their phone and not really paying attention to you.
The drinking age is due to America's astronomical rate of drunk driving fatalities. It was so high in the 60s that it was impeding the development of the national highway system, so the federal government cut a deal that if states set their drinking age to 21 they'd get highway funding. I think Louisiana was the last state to have a drinking age of 18, and they also had the reputation for the most poorly maintained roads in america
Huh TIL, i thought it was some law relic inherited from Brits.
Not surprising though
they still do lol, i can be asleep on a car trip and instantly know when we've hit lousiana because of how dramatically the road goes to shit