AttackFormation
Master Don Juan
For years now I've wondered whether things really are "different" in other places or if it like I think it is, is just vacation-tinted glasses.
Almost anywhere people from this country go, they tell me it's so much more socially open and warm in other countries. Americans are easy to talk to and social. Chilean girls flirt with you. Thailanders go out to meet people and have fun together with everyone and aren't so insular or pretentious. Africans are really chill and hospitable people. Immigrants tell me about the women here - they are cold and unfeminine. You get the point. The only things people do like about Sweden is the relatively well-oiled society like free university, relatively good quality food, relative ease of dealing with authorities and such. Everyone agrees that this place is socially cold (until it's time to pretend otherwise, like when you're going out clubbing).
I specifically feel like I don't live in a culture where you are supposed to do stuff like flirt or socialise with people who aren't in your clique or as we would say, "social circle". Like I can be as extroverted as I want to with girls I know, but girls who are strangers don't even look at me when I try to make eye contact.
My question is have you guys experienced any real social differences between countries? are these people dreaming? In Sweden it's very popular to think that this place is basically the abyssal zone of the social ocean. It's funny to me when I read sites like Happierabroad that describe the exact same things I identify here as being the case in America, yet people from here say America is socially warmer (though this thread is about the phenomenon in general, not any particular country).
Almost anywhere people from this country go, they tell me it's so much more socially open and warm in other countries. Americans are easy to talk to and social. Chilean girls flirt with you. Thailanders go out to meet people and have fun together with everyone and aren't so insular or pretentious. Africans are really chill and hospitable people. Immigrants tell me about the women here - they are cold and unfeminine. You get the point. The only things people do like about Sweden is the relatively well-oiled society like free university, relatively good quality food, relative ease of dealing with authorities and such. Everyone agrees that this place is socially cold (until it's time to pretend otherwise, like when you're going out clubbing).
I specifically feel like I don't live in a culture where you are supposed to do stuff like flirt or socialise with people who aren't in your clique or as we would say, "social circle". Like I can be as extroverted as I want to with girls I know, but girls who are strangers don't even look at me when I try to make eye contact.
My question is have you guys experienced any real social differences between countries? are these people dreaming? In Sweden it's very popular to think that this place is basically the abyssal zone of the social ocean. It's funny to me when I read sites like Happierabroad that describe the exact same things I identify here as being the case in America, yet people from here say America is socially warmer (though this thread is about the phenomenon in general, not any particular country).
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