World Culture

Every country and every culture has their own idioms and sayings that are a bit confusing to anyone who isn’t a native speaker. That said, people love making fun of Americans, and sometimes (many times) we even deserve it. If you’re up for laughing at yourself, here are 13 things Americans say that no one...

The thing about American dialect is that there isn’t just one. America is a pretty big place, with a hugely diverse population, and whose speech, idioms, and vocabulary changes when you cross state lines – never mind from north to south, east to west. If Americans can’t even keep up with their own kitschy phrases,...

Now that the world is opening up again, there are places that most of us can’t wait to return to – places like our favorite coffee shops, which maybe we didn’t realize just how much we would miss when we were told we couldn’t go inside. If you’re heading back, planning to spend time with...

Hollywood has imagined that there might be secrets in or around Mount Rushmore in at least a couple of films, and while some liberties were taken, there is actually a secret lair inside the giant, carved, monument. More than meet’s the eye, if you will. Mount Rushmore is kind of a strange monument, as these...

Let’s just say up front that there are plenty of not-smart (or just naive) people in absolutely every culture around the world. Americans tend to bear the brunt of the jokes online because we’re easy targets….but also because people like these 17 run their mouths online at every opportunity! When you scroll through these jaw-dropping...

A good boss is honestly worth their weight in gold, and sometimes it seems like they’re as rare as a unicorn. The majority of the time we’re happy enough with a middling, mediocre boss – someone who doesn’t cause us any indigestion or make our lives any harder. Then, there are those truly terrible bosses....

It can be super funny to hear what people from other countries know or assume they know about America, or each of her States. As long as everything is in good fun, as it usually is between Brits and Americans, it can also be interesting (and hilariously informative). This guy has been through all 50...

Listen, for most of the Western world, I would say we’re not really taught the geography or details about what happens outside our own borders – and when it comes to the U.S., there are so many states, we really can’t even be bothered to learn about the ones that aren’t particularly interesting or nice...