To Americans, the United States is home, no matter how noisy, dramatic or completely strange it might be from time to time. To foreigners, it’s just a place where all the TV and movie stereotypes are living and breathing.
When asked to share something unexpected about their country that would take non-Americans aback, here’s what some Americans had to say:
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