20 interesting observations that I had brought from the States and the Valley
A year and a half ago, I first went to the United States. At that time, it was the realization of my dreams. I'm an IT-person, but because my professional life is somehow connected with the United States. I use a technique invented there, I am following with interest for news from the Valley and the successes of Elon musk. I try to study their culture and understand them, because they sell design software to the West. But the most delicious and rich clients, as we know, come from the States. I'm not even talking about movies, where constantly flashing skyscrapers or disney characters, where I grew up.
In short, while it was very interesting to witness all what I've been looking through the TV screen and monitor.
This year for my trip to the States, I chose a completely different purpose, along with the Directors of IT companies we are going to Road Show for new orders. But it will be a different story. And in this article I will talk about 22x of the most amazing things that I remember from last trip. Went.
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the Cult of the national flag
No. 1. In the US, a lot of American flags. When I went to the American Embassy, I was struck by how many flags on the walls. “Showing,” thought I, as portraits of presidents we have. And, there Fig. Flags of the States themselves as much as at the Embassy. And on flagpoles and on buildings, on tables and on the walls. Even in the subway! Americans really love their flag.
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Cool cops
No. 2. Police in reality behave as in the movies. I always thought that the American police are portrayed in movies willfully cool. Hands on waist, eyes sunglasses, mouth chewing gum, a conversation with a protruding jaw that seemed steeper. So. They really are. ) Not all of course.
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American girls
No. 3. Our girls are prettier. For my taste, of course, but in the U.S. really beautiful girls I have seen in Las Vegas. And they worked there, i.e. after casting. Here.
Girls in Los Angeles
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International
No. 4. During his first trip to the US, I was afraid that I wouldn't want to talk because of the accent. I have a distinct Russian accent. However, arriving in Florida, I realized that this is not a problem because there is live Spanish-speaking Latinos, many of whom know English even worse than me. Some even live for years without knowing English, they have enough Spanish )
Valley even international. Try to find pictures of a native American, not Indian or Asian )
a Regular meetup in Silicon valley. Guess who here was born in America?
On a trip to the Grand Canyon we drove the Spaniard, the money for the ticket we paid the Chinese to enter the territory of the Indians, this all happened in America ) in such a hodgepodge of ethnicities in the US is very tolerant of accent. There's just a indigenous have a little left )
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Contrasts
No. 5. State from state to state are different, and the differences are immediately noticeable to the naked eye. For example, Texans are less thick than Floridians. California more international. In Florida Hispanics so much that English is difficult to hear. In California police officers are seen, and new York all covered with by the police, she's on every corner. (Although it may be due to the fact that the Pope just in time for my trip came.)
No. 6. United States different from Europe. Given the level of income, expecting that will come, everything will be clean, green, well maintained. And, there Fig. There are FL (Orlando, Tampa) is really the same as Germany and well appointed. The roads are clean and without holes. But there is Boston, where the pissing bum in the window shopping centre is one of the passing of the aborigines was not shocked. See, the usual thing.
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conferences & entrepreneurs
No. 7. Topics at business conferences, as well as conversations in the corridors, differ in spirit from ours. The issues discussed are very similar and the topics of their presentations sound about the same with our conferences. But if we have a red thread through all the reports is the same question “Where's the loot?”, in the US it is rather “How to find your calling? What is your passion?”. And with this “passion” all are worn and they face off. And this creates a different, more pleasant environment in which you want to be.
No. 8. In the American conference in the first slides are “about” not taken their business success and regalia to show a photo of you and the kids. IT geeks are a joke, I explain: “If you show a photo with 3 kids, it proves that you have in your life at least 3 times had sex” )
No. 9. Americans love the essence, and therefore easier. If we have conferences, when you mention some person, first calling him a position in America — the essence of his contribution. For example, "Director public relations" and "PR guy". Therefore, the cases often hear that sales guy, teamed up with a product-guy, turned start-up, then they began to look for a strategy-guy, etc.
On this topic small case:
When I first went to the conference, the question "What are you doing?" my self-presentation was: "We are a design Studio specialized in the field of IT. Do everything what is displayed on the screen: icons, websites, interfaces, splashy, logos, etc. in a Complex closed graphical needs of software developers or it-services". And somewhere in the middle of the interlocutor fell asleep ) And then one American summarized: "A-Ah, okay, you UI guys?". In short, I now seem that we are the UI guys... )
No. 10. we Have assumed that the Internet is a lot of the young. If you look at the participants in any online gatherings, courses infobusiness, etc. — people 25-40. In the US it is not present. For example, I was very surprised by this grandfather, who come along with me to learn Internet marketing
His feet are not normally wear, but he came to learn Internet marketing, Carl! And what did you achieve?
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Confidence
No. 11. In America not worried securety credit card number. If we have on the cards is the chip, pin, CVV code, USA, if you want to buy something, they give you a piece of paper where you fill in all the details of the credit card, immediately give the goods, and then manually charge your credit card.
the order Form. He enter all the data cards so we can write off as much as you want.
And no one cares about two things:
One side of the transaction, giving the CVV, provides the opportunity to deduct any money from your card, but not as much as agreed.
And the other side of the transaction gives the goods without checking the accuracy of the data. In fact, nothing prevents to fill in the questionnaire to the left data to get the goods and disappear.
I suspect that the Americans don't even think these options are possible. Not to scare the kids... )
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Fat men and food traditions
No. 12. In the US, not so much frankly fat people. Honestly, I expected more from “the most fat nation in the world.” Probably a lot of full and plump, and frankly a little fatty.
But if there are massive, it is Massive with a capital letter! For example, in Universal Studio, we saw a girl who is so fat that already runs itself and goes on a small electromachine-wheelchair. However, she was not embarrassed that her butt would not fit on the seat and spread around the edges, and in the yard +32. She has one hand holding the steering wheel and the other stuff down a Turkey leg the size of a ham.
Americans are very “politically correct” to the morbidly obese. So they are all big and with the stock. A few examples:
— During a trip to the Grand Canyon one of the stops was the village in wild West style. It was possible to try on the coffin for themselves.
why do you think guys like in the pictures in this “coffin” is three fold? )
Only in American amusement parks at the entrance to roller coasters are “probes”seat.
So as not to embarrass myself on the hill, in front sit in the chair, check, will converge if the belts on your belly.
Who rode the roller coaster will understand: there fastening with a large margin. But in the US there are those for whom this reserve is not enough. Therefore, it is possible to come, sit down and check out what you will close the belts!
For example, a regular double room in the U.S. it's not like we have 2 beds 90*200 and 2 King Size beds. King Size is a double bed, but larger. In a double room 4 our average person will fit easily. (Swingers can easily save on hotels ))
In hotels Americans care not only about the big popah, and even younger children. And it's cool )
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Transport and roads
No. 13. Private conversation on public transport. I've always wondered why in the teen Comedy the ultimate dream for a teenager in 16 years, it is your own car. We all absolutely fine, you can do public transport and a car is more useful for trips outside the city or like a status thing (say, the most wealthy people in the traffic jams of Moscow ;) ). In Europe, all the same, only humanly and conveniently: if it says the bus is at 17:53, it is exactly at this time and will not +-15 minutes from us.
Now, in the US it is not so.
The first bus message is not developed at all. For example, to from our hotel in Orlando drive from Disneyland on the bus, we would have to spend 2.5 hours according to the calculations of Google! This same journey by car 15-20 minutes. In Silicon Valley buses are not present at all. Or a car or Uber. All.
Second, everything is so far away, too far to walk. Supermarket in 3 minute walk from home for me seems the same, and there — a rarity.
Consequently, for teenager own car, even a beater, means that now on a date with a girl, you can go yourself, not a folder asking to throw ). And I understand why he wants a car.
Generally in the US the car is a pretty big problem. There is even a separate series, “Adam ruins everything” about it: https://carambatv.ru/mcelroy/adam_3_auto/
For the sake of justice I want to say that in Boston and in new York it's all good and you can without a car. This is another coin in a piggy Bank differences of the States from each other.
No. 14. Because the machine for the American Must Have, their interchanges are just too damn big. I've always wondered, how can a need such a complicated interchange:
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It turns out that may be needed )
No. 15. I never forgot where I parked my car... Before it went to the United States. Parking there is so huge that it is a real problem. There is even a special smartphone app, where you out of the car, put a GPS point on the map, and back, the GPS Navigator allows you to go back to the same place ) by the Way, before a trip to the US sooo I recommend to download such. Seriously.
Parking in Universal Studio in Orlando. The frame was placed approximately one-tenth! places.
No. 16. In the United States is not usual for us road signs. Instead of using so hot my favorite icons (who knows what I do, he will understand )), they write the text, all that can write. And the very thoughts that are written on the sign, very effective for me. For example, under the traffic light says “cost” of running a red light. And here is the sign that in a small town, we saw:
do you think a sign will make you go quieter, or our standard circle with the number 60?
No. 17. Roads in the United States quality and is equipped with reflective elements on the asphalt. Causing night the road itself can be seen very far away and seem to go on the runway.
the road at Night can see very far due to reflectors
No. 18. you'll be advertising in the subway. If we advertise loans, where to eat, how to get rid of alcoholism and the evil eye, they have new Boobs )
No. 19. what-What, but the underground is better. All “our” metro station where I was (Kiev, Kharkov, Minsk, Moscow) on the head better than the subway in new York. We have a cleaner, more interesting and understandable.
For example, the usual form of the walls of the subway in new York
No. 20. People in the subway are strange in rush hour. If the train arrives, the doors open and there are already people, those on the platform just look at it. Doors close, train leaves, and waiting for the next. I specifically do not write “filled the car” because in my view 4 people at the door and space for standing in the center of the car I can not give a “full wagon”. 50 percent... But no one shouts “everybody gasped” or “Che became complete in the middle”, just waiting for the next.
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Memory and shows
No. 21. Americans honor the memory. Don't know how this idea more correctly formulated, but after walking through the museums, I feel that Americans have a different attitude to significant events. Instead of “destroy the hard-hitting” and “forget about the little things”, Americans follow the rule “create a Museum and make money on it” )
For example, take place in Ukraine “revolution gdnet”. With main street demolished the monument to Lenin. A frenzied crowd ran with hammers and smashed it on Souvenirs. Some of them you can buy on ebay. It is now possible to show in the Museum? It is because of this attitude in our historical museums so boring. What is interesting to the child, if half of the exhibition's photographs, the form, of the letter someone there someone there? Boring!
An example from the United States. After closing the program “the Shuttle”, produced shuttles were not needed. Instead of destroying them were taken to space museums throughout the country. The Shuttle Atlantis brought the space Museum at Cape Canaveral and made a separate hall dedicated to him. First, you tell the story of the Shuttle, tell how it was created, what challenges were to demonstrate the things the astronauts and the climax: solemn music do you see yourself Shuttle. The real, not the layout. The one that really was in space! Cool?
Logical behavior, isn't it? What happened to our snow? Not pathetic plywood likeness that Moscow is, and that flew in the KOMOS? Significant historical event of the planetary scale, and where is he now? Googling for fun...
No. 22. In the US, show love and respect to this notion different from ours. We all live usually, when you want fun, go to a special fun place for a concert, which is now fashionable to call was the “show”.
In the US, try the element of the show to bring in ordinary life and those who know how to do it, very appreciate.
For example here in Texas sell cows:
www.facebook.com/RelaxVideoFun/videos/1354579581272578/
But as a small businessman advertises his business: www.facebook.com/vancoachlimoman/videos/10153406697895933/
As he explained to me his behavior: “not interesting, boring business, they all want show” ). About the same treshachok in all seriousness sometimes played on TV as an advertisement )
Museums are also trying to add exhibits to a show. For example, in the same space Museum there is a room command center, which was used in the moment when the Americans launched a spacecraft to the moon. Instead of just putting this room and put a sign with the description, they hang the screen over it and start the movie about this event. We see the commander on the screen, which gives the order, and in this room illuminated the place where he stood at that moment. He says, “Sergeant Adams, to start the countdown”, and we see highlighted the workplace of the Adams and the snap switches, which he was pushing at that moment. And so interactively all procedure of a missile launch is displayed on the screen and in the command center, in front of you. Interesting.
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epilogue
USA — is a diverse and interesting country. It is worth to go there at least once to see all that anyway see through the screens of the devices.
I couldn't resist not to go to the States again. If you are interested — went together.
One friend told me: “After the 5th trip to the States cease to amaze and become quite ordinary.” So I have at least another 4 trips to the moment when I stop, like a child, surprised the country.
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