Random Thread - Anything Goes
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Not all of this is correct.
#2 - I actually see this more in Nicaragua than in the US. Lots of countries have the weird "flags everywhere" thing.
#3 - yeah that is nuts, BUT taxes is generally well known wherever you are and is nearly always 6-8%. You are not surprised by how much things are when you go to pay.
#4 - Tipping is hard anywhere you are not used to equally. Americans feel exactly the same why in Europe as Europeans feel in America.
#16 - I've really never been somewhere that wasn't friendly.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Not all of this is correct.
#2 - I actually see this more in Nicaragua than in the US. Lots of countries have the weird "flags everywhere" thing.
#3 - yeah that is nuts, BUT taxes is generally well known wherever you are and is nearly always 6-8%. You are not surprised by how much things are when you go to pay.
#4 - Tipping is hard anywhere you are not used to equally. Americans feel exactly the same why in Europe as Europeans feel in America.
#16 - I've really never been somewhere that wasn't friendly.
#19, no one is ever required to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Don't worry as an American having kids chant it at school is just as creepy to me as it is to you.
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@coliver said:
#19, no one is ever required to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Lots of people are required to say it. Legally most public school kids are protected from it, but only public school kids. Sadly the laws often don't have protection for private school kids.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
#19, no one is ever required to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Lots of people are required to say it. Legally most public school kids are protected from it, but only public school kids. Sadly the laws often don't have protection for private school kids.
That's interesting. I could have sworn it was a universal right to not say it, outside of the military and government.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
#19, no one is ever required to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Lots of people are required to say it. Legally most public school kids are protected from it, but only public school kids. Sadly the laws often don't have protection for private school kids.
That's interesting. I could have sworn it was a universal right to not say it, outside of the military and government.
The law protects kids from the government forcing them to do it, more or less. But there isn't a specific "protect kids from the pledge" law, which would actually be a little weird. But there needs to be one much like in Germany. They recognized some of these things as being dangerous on a case by case bases (like having a Nazi political party) and simply made them illegal.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
#19, no one is ever required to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Lots of people are required to say it. Legally most public school kids are protected from it, but only public school kids. Sadly the laws often don't have protection for private school kids.
That's interesting. I could have sworn it was a universal right to not say it, outside of the military and government.
The law protects kids from the government forcing them to do it, more or less. But there isn't a specific "protect kids from the pledge" law, which would actually be a little weird. But there needs to be one much like in Germany. They recognized some of these things as being dangerous on a case by case bases (like having a Nazi political party) and simply made them illegal.
I realized it wasn't a law, I thought it was a court decision though. Either way it is a step in the right direction (in my opinion)... needs to keep going forward.
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@scottalanmiller said:
#4 - Tipping is hard anywhere you are not used to equally. Americans feel exactly the same why in Europe as Europeans feel in America.
I'm not sure I agree with this. It's pretty easy for an American to stop tipping once they realize it's not required or even normal.
But Europeans would have to stay mindful to a process they rarely do to follow the customs when they are in the US.
That said, on one hand I really like the simplicity that is the European system - the price you see on the menu is the price, you are expected to pay zero more (in either taxes or tip). But at the same time, I see the though process behind "if they give me good service, I'll give them a good tip" The screwball here is that since waitressing has the substandard minimum wage, tips are even expected by the government to bring the wage at least to typical minimum wage levels.
