Kulture 2 - Anna Kemeny

I lived in England for nearly 4 years, and I found that the British complained a LOT. It's too rainy, it's too sunny, too hot, too cold, too ________. But when confronted about it, all my friends would go on about how much more positive we are in America and how that's better. So I can definitely relate to the article on how people in Germany complain a lot. But as the article says, there are two versions of every nation, "There's the positive, clean, efficient, functioning country that visitors see -- and there's this incredibly awful place the locals live in -- with no real overlap between the two of them." That's true for pretty much anywhere; you never appreciate the place you live in because you're used to it. You're used to all the quirks of it's cultures, like whether people are direct with each other or interested in specific statistics or whether they like to beat vaguely around the bush. You always appreciate something more when you don't see it or do it everyday.