Do You Know What Life Would Be Like If You Lived In Another Country?

We eat a great variety of foods. In many cities, there are hundreds of restaurants to choose from. (300+ in Lubbock- that is almost enough to eat at a different restaurant everyday of the year!) There is no one item that is consistently eaten by Americans.

Most people eat rice at least twice a day. Pizza is topped with squid and seaweed.

Caribou meat is very popular. They also enjoy fiddleheads, which are tender shots of fern.

In fine restaurants, they serve GRUBS!

It can be snowing in the north and at the same time warm and sunny in the south while raining on the west coast. There are all kinds of natural disasters: tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, and floods. (But not usually!)

The weather is generally very hot and dry or warm and wet. There is not much of a winter. The weather is generally cold (Like fall or winter year around) There is not much of a summer. The weather is generally desert like. (HOT and DRY) There is no winter.

We enjoy the freedom to do and be anything we desire. There is one national language- English

They still have social classes. People of different classes do not often mix. I Professional etc occupations II Managerial and Technical occupations III Skilled occupations (N) non-manual (M) manual IV Partly-skilled occupations V Unskilled occupations

In many cities, families are fined if they have more than one child. $

They have two national languages: English and French. (Students learn both)

We go to school Monday through Friday 8:00am to 3:00pm. (7 hours and 15 minutes) School lasts for approximately 180 days. Summer break is almost three months long. Some states have a test taken each year by certain grade levels. (TAKS)

They go to school 240 days a year. (That’s 2 months longer than America) School is Monday through Friday and a half day on Saturday They only have a six week vacation for summer. Students must pass a test to pass to the next grade.

Students take a test at age 16. The test determines whether they are to continue in school or take a job. (Only ¼ of students continue their schooling)

They go to school from 8:00am to 5:00pm six days a week. Some children in the countryside have to walk 3 hours to school.

We have many choices of places to live in this world. You may not have been the one to make the decision but someone in your family did. I admit, I shared with you only the oddest things I could find about these countries, but doesn’t it make you proud of this country we call home? So, why are you glad that you live in the United States of America?