Im from Melbourne, Australia and some time ago accidentally walked into Starbucks thinking it was another coffee chains store.

Anyway , I ordered a “Small” flat white and was amazed when they gave me what looked like a small bucket of coffee. Far bigger than any other “small” flat white I had EVER bought ANYWHERE.

What is it with American sized portions ??

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I specially like the darker one in the background behind the redhead.

And Israeli girls, no matter where they pop up, are the hottest girls on the planet, hands down. Thanks for the reaffirmation.

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in america everyone rushes home to watch american idol or csi..

As for the india story…

I know a guy who went to India for about a month and he came back fucked in the head… so maybe its possible..

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Yeah, culture shock doesn’t come right away from traveling, but I get that when I go back to Brazil, every time I have been back since I first came as a foreign student back in 95…

Did you go to the supermarket in Brazil? Not only they offer a highly extensive selection of fruits and veggies (don’t even get me started on the awesomeness of our fruits…), but it’s cheap. Here in the US it really is expensive to eat healthy, and also obesity is much more accepted. While in Brazil I’m fat, and cannot buy pants that fit me, here I’m so called “average” — how sad is that? (Though of course, I was much much thinner when I lived in Brazil, since I used to eat a lot healthier…)

Oh, and the Dutch’s girlfriend really IS full of shit… It’s like Brazilians that spend a month here than go back to Brazil acting like they forgot how to speak Portuguese. Give me a break.

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Not just chubby, mind, and not just mildly harsh on the eyes. I mean normal, attractive, trim American males sitting with mackerel-faced beached whales.

Only in America, my friends.

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the stigma for being fat must return. nothing motivates like a good public shaming. plus, all those fat chicks are artifically raising the selling prices of the remaining thin chicks.

i want to tell that dutch guy to dump his gf. she probably had a fling with an exotic local.

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Also on the fat stigma thing–> Have you seen the size of a SMALL drink at the movies? Its incredible how large our portions are. Its also disgusting.

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That said, the girl who stayed in India for a month IS full of shit. One month is not even the time you need to begin to understand a new place.
And a white chick wearing a Sari after 1 month in India is just plain ridiculous, it’s like “let’s play indian girlie, wow !”
Or maybe that was the first time she escaped from her parents’ basement.

Correct me if I am wrong, but you have lived in the DC area your whole life, right? Some of these comments, particularly about people reading books called “Making Globalization Work” on the Metro and everybody having blackberrys may only be unique to this area and the rest of Blue State America. Your next trip should be a cross country trip across America; you should move to a tiny town in the middle of Texas or Oklahoma or something, and learn about what life in middle America is like.

Reverse culture shock is real and will knock you on your ass…it just takes a few weeks to kick in.

I lived overseas for several years, and had a very hard time adjusting to being home. For example, Bluetooths came into style while I was gone. For the longest time, I just thought DC had more crazy people and they were dressing a heck of a lot better.

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You don’t have culture shock because you didn’t get the real experience. You went somewhere for a party (in addition to sleeping in strange beds and learning to surf), basically moving the party from DC to the streets of Rio. If, on the other hand, you had gone to Brazil to live with a local tribe, eating their staples and, say, guzzling down raw liver, then you’d experience something entirely. We used to find earthen bee-hives and eat the honey off the honey-comb (as a treat). Try that for a few months and you won’t look at Graham crackers with “honey” the same.

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