New to America USA, how do you socialize and meet new people?
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New to America USA, how do you socialize and meet new people? - Lemmy.world
I recently moved to the USA, from the middle east. My English is pretty good,
and I don’t have a lot of trouble communicating with people at work or in
stores. I also don’t know anyone here at all, outside of work. All my family is
still back in Gaza, and I’ve been here over a year now, and still feel cut off
from American people and culture. How do you make friends and socialize here?
How do I learn more about America and Americans culture? I know a bit about
history, but not much about anything else.
I don’t drink or go to bars, for religious reasons. I have joined a couple of
clubs based on hobbies, but still feel disconnected. I’m not sure how you
socialize or meet new people here, in my family everyone came around your house
all the times of the day, and here it seems like neighbors just stick to
themselves. I don’t want to bug people or anoy them if that is not the customs
here. Also, what are your favorite parts of American culture and history? So far
I have enjoyed Nascar and monster trucks very much, and studying mathematics.
If you figure it out, let us know. My kids keep asking me the same thing. I dont know how to do that now because things have changed so much since I was young and meeting people.
It is very sad for me too see this. America was always held up as an example to me, as a giant melting pot of different cultures and classes, where women and queer and minority people and everyone could be friends alongside everyone. I don’t know what changed , or if that was just a dream. It seems like people just stick with the people and cultures they know and grew up with here, for the most part. Still much better rights for me than in Gaza, maybe it just " grass is perfect on the other side of fence, until you get there." kind of thing.
You fell for the propaganda
It is very funny to me when young Americans complain about rich people. Almost all of you have a few solid meals a day, often hot food with meat. You have clean water all over the place, and you can even waste it to flush toilets and make fountains. You drive expensive cars, ( yes, even the ones you call cheap,) buy new phones and computers. And then you complain that your air conditioned apartment could be a mansion, that your car could be a Ferrari, that your stable, clean job of sitting at a computer could just be you sitting at home. That you college degree you bought cost too much, and no one told you it took money to get fair treatment. All because those rich people above you don’t care about you and just want to make money for themselves. So far this is the main thing I do not like about the USA.
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