This might not be exactly the kind of thing you’re asking, but – as an English speaker (and American) – it always surprises me just how universal the word “okay” is.
That surprises me as well. Also “taxi.” And there are very few languages where the word for “tea” isn’t etymologically related to either “te,” “cha,” or “chai.”
Belarusian living in Bulgaria. To my huge surprise I miss the affordability and quality of banking services and cellphone providers. Local food while delicious is also very fat compared to what I’m used to.
In the US I’ll say littering. Some areas have available trash receptacles well-placed, but that’s few and far between, and some of those places don’t have good systems in place to collect that trash.
But even with that, I get pretty bent out of shape at the amount of littering in nature areas. Families tend to be the worst at this for some reason. Into the mountains to do some sledding, well see someone has left broken, busted plastic sleds and foodstuffs behind. A river? Sandals, swimsuits, broken chairs, foodstuffs. The Forrest for camping? Busted equipmemt, sleeping bags, foodstuffs.
Now, it less common in that not everyone is doing it, but more common in that I usually see at least one example of this at every nature site I go to.
German and Japanese, though of late, Malay as well. The first two because many interesting tech articles are in those two languages (watching anime unsubbed in the latter would be a nice bonus too), and Malay because it'd be helpful for work and volunteering.
the almost cultish consumption of coca cola. in northern indiana we have a fair amount of “authentic” and “american” mexican restaurants. almost all of them serve coca cola in a glass bottle from mexico. it tastes so much better than the plastic bottle/can american coca cola
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