We were born with it and so we got used too it lol. Same as lots of things. Crap weather for example!
I remember the dating company 'love systems' (from the US) wrote a massive piece about US vs UK (we'll call it W Europe though)
I think they pretty much nailed it from memory and were saying all of the things i've always said (as someone from the UK but with family in the US and Canada where i've spent some time, as well as someone who's travelled Europe a fair bit for fun).
I think it's mostly a culture thing in the UK (and of course it varies where you go in the UK. Northern UK will be a lot friendlier) but on the whole, people are taught that 'stranger = danger'. Or it's just considered unusual to chat to randoms in the street or anywhere else, really.
Even shopping in a grocery store in Canada vs the UK is a very different experience. Or waiting at a bus stop! In terms of how people converse (or not!). Spending time in a bar by yourself in the US was bizzarly friendly and also hard to NOT make friends. Complete different experience to being in a bar by yourself in the UK lol.
I think Lovesystems said that, in terms of cold approach, walking up too a girl on the street or even in a bar in the US and saying 'Hi, I'm Jason' and smiling would likely get a 'oh, Hi Jason. I'm Kelly. How are you?' kind of reply. Whereas if you walk up too a girl in the UK and say 'Hi, i'm Jason', she would likely look at you like you are on fire and cross the rode (or walk to the other part of the bar lol).
Exception of course being you are crazy handsome (chad) but we'll assume nobody on this forum is a legit chad lol. They'd never ever have even found a forum like this!
It's probably got worse over the years what with social media and tiktok and feminism and metoo etc, and became more of an almost confrontational reaction a lot of the time.
If these girls happen to be your type and you approach them, i'd wager there's a huge liklihoood you'd get a borderline rude/aggressive reaction from them (unless you happen to be their physical type. All rule of course go out of the window in that situation, largely)
This actually happened as recently as last weekend too a friend of mine who approached a couple of hot young girls in the beer garden and got a mouthful of abuse for his troubles lol. IN my recent new friendsgroup, there is currently a guy from Italy and one from India and both of them talk about how the girls are surprisingly hot (hotter than they figured UK girls are) BUT that they're seemingly impossible to pull and unapproachable and agressive and rude in their reactions etc. I laughed despite knowing there's a lot of truth in it. (ps, Indian friend is really making me want to go too india now! Surprisingly hot girls in his friends circle and he said i'd literally have my pick, mostly due to skin colour i'm assuming haha)
I've always 'dealt' with it by having a thick skin and eating the rejections and just putting in the numbers. There's still SOME hot young girls out there who are friendly and social with strangers. If you approach enough until you ALSO find the girls like that who happen to think you are good looking, then you get laid. It's a massive numbers game. Some guys cant take it. I don't mind.
In recent years i've also discovered the power of social circle game. Something I dismissed for quite a while, but the truth is that basically every guy I know who was punching well out of his league knew the girl for some time, usually from work or school or shared hobby or something like that. I started to change my life slightly so I wasn't ONLY relying on complete cold approach on strangers.
One of the girls i've been banging for a while
She wouldn't have given me a shot from cold approach most likely (in her own words) but since I probably 'just about' met her looks threshold and met her in a work environment being near each other all day, I was able to 'win her over' due to her thinking I was funny, non needy, fun etc. IN other words, the only guys she would make it easy for on cold approach or give them a chance of banging her from cold approach, are guys who look like her idea of a 10/10 handsome
If you expect to be banging super hot 18 year olds with cold approach, you better damn well be young yourself and VERY good looking if you don't want a 99% rejection rate. Your 'game' is completely irrelevant in that situation, tbh. Exception I guess is being famous or having legit 'F you!' money to the point you can impress her by buying her expensive stuff etc in which case you'll do well, but you may aswell just pay for play if you're relying on money tbh