{"id":84623,"date":"2023-11-05T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T10:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/?p=84623"},"modified":"2023-11-05T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T10:37:03","slug":"us-student-reveals-her-biggest-culture-shocks-since-moving-to-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/travel\/us-student-reveals-her-biggest-culture-shocks-since-moving-to-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"US student reveals her biggest culture shocks since moving to Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>US student studying in Wales reveals her biggest culture shocks&#8230; including &#8216;old ladies dying their hair blue&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>An American student in Wales has revealed the biggest culture shocks for her<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The video by @schlond.poofaa has been seen by over 100,000 people in a week<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0I moved to Glasgow from Las Vegas &#8211; these were big culture shocks<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An American student studying at Aberystwyth University has revealed the biggest culture shocks she&#8217;s faced since moving to Wales.<\/p>\n<p>From specific things like old people dyeing their hair fun colours to shopping and greeting people, the TikToker has compiled a long list of the differences she has noticed.<\/p>\n<p>The video by @schlond.poofaa has been seen by over 100,000 people in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p>The student told viewers &#8216;I&#8217;m from\u00a0New Jersey and I live in Wales now and I wanted to talk about some big differences that I&#8217;ve realised&#8217; &#8211; scroll down for her full list.<\/p>\n<p>culture shocks as an american studying in wales #wales #cymru #fyp #fyp\u30b7 #foryou <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/31\/12\/77220417-12692807-image-a-64_1698756934340.jpg\" height=\"1071\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The video by @schlond.poofaa has been seen by over 100,000 people in less than a week<\/p>\n<h2>Old people dyeing their hair fun colours\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>She started the list with something very specific: &#8216;This is a thing with old people that I love\u00a0&#8211; a lot of old ladies here dye their hair pink and purple and blue and I don&#8217;t know why.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I guess it&#8217;s just a little trend for them and I&#8217;m like that is the perfect thing to do with white hair because it&#8217;s a perfect base for that. I find that really really fun.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h2>Everything is less expensive<\/h2>\n<p>The TikToker also found the UK to be a lot cheaper, telling viewers that &#8216;everything is just a little less expensive and I am taking into account the exchange rate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I got a steak right, \u00a33.99 which is roughly five American dollars. I&#8217;m like, that&#8217;s crazy because at a shop back home that would be $10-15.<\/p>\n<p>It was like a good cut so that was crazy to me and very exciting.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h2>The bacon is different<\/h2>\n<p>When it comes to food, bacon is one of the delicacies Brits and Americans do differently.<\/p>\n<p>She explained &#8216;In America, there&#8217;s like Canadian bacon which is a thicker cut of bacon, all bacon here is Canadian bacon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They call what Americans know as bacon, streaky bacon and it&#8217;s just not as popular as what their normal bacon is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was like why is my bacon not crunchy? Is it just like soggy?&#8217;<\/p>\n<h2>Pizza tastes &#8216;really weird&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Sticking to the topic of food, she added that &#8216;pizza here tastes really weird every time I have it, even like Dominoes.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Continuing &#8216;If you don&#8217;t know, New Jersey and New York had a lot of Italian immigrants and we still do so I feel like we have\u00a0 good grasp on certain parts of Italian cuisines.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I haven&#8217;t had like a good pizza here and it&#8217;s really sad to me&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/31\/12\/77220415-12692807-image-a-65_1698756945554.jpg\" height=\"1072\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>An American student studying at Aberystwyth University has revealed the biggest culture shocks she&#8217;s faced since moving to Wales<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0American woman who moved from California to the north of England reveals FOUR huge culture shocks<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/31\/12\/76788969-12692807-An_American_has_taken_to_TikTok_to_share_the_biggest_cultural_di-a-66_1698757177289.jpg\" height=\"487\" width=\"274\"><\/p>\n<h2>Swearing\u00a0\u00a0is more common<\/h2>\n<p>The American has also found that people in the UK swear or &#8216;cuss&#8217; a lot more than they do in the states.<\/p>\n<p>She told viewers &#8216;People here curse to their parents. Obviously not everyone, all of these are very blanket statements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve heard so many people just like curse on the phone to their parents or call their mom the D word and I&#8217;m just like what??&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s crazy. How are you doing that? That was really rude to me?&#8217;<\/p>\n<h2>Grocery stores and &#8216;off-brands&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>A big item on the TikToker&#8217;s list was convenience stores and &#8216;off-brands&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She said &#8216;There is a convenience store near me called CK&#8217;s &#8211; love CK&#8217;s it&#8217;s so inexpensive but walking in is like so weird.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The first few weeks I was here, I was like wow, every store here feels like I&#8217;m in a parallel universe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You know in TV shows they have off-brand versions of things like the pear pad and stuff like that in Victorious, it felt like that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Adding &#8216;Here&#8217;s an example, Walkers crisps, it&#8217;s literally just Lays. This is the Lays logo with a different word. Why bother? Why do that?&#8217;\u00a0Walking into a food store is like wow, everything is so different.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>However, one commenter explained &#8216;walkers crisps aren&#8217;t a knockoff brand, that&#8217;s just what Lays is called here. same company!&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another joked &#8216;I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m hearing about CK\u2019s on my fyp&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;No diversity&#8217; in grocery stores\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Following on from the point about grocery stores, she adds that she &#8216;hasn&#8217;t seen a lot of\u00a0 lot of diversity,&#8217; which she finds &#8216;really weird&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She explained &#8216;Back home you&#8217;d be able to go to H-Mart, or there were a lot of Mexican markets near me, or Italian markets, Eastern European markets, a bunch of different stores that you could go to to buy food from a certain cultures cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They don&#8217;t have that here, at least where I live. I live on the west coast of Wales so obviously it&#8217;s not the same as someone living in London.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s weird to me, the international section is very small and they have a little American section which is so cute&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was a culture shock to me, like what do you mean you don&#8217;t have an Asian market or an Italian market?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A Welsh person took to the comments to write &#8216;We do have shops for other cultures! They&#8217;re mainly in bigger cities tho so you won&#8217;t find any here .Cardiff has a lot tho!!!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another viewer said &#8216;I used to live in Texas, I live over in Denbigh now. If you want markets you need to go to the bigger city&#8217;s like Rhyl which has an Oriental section.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>One Brit argued &#8216;you not comparing like with like, go to small town America and you won&#8217;t find any stores but USA&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>I can&#8217;t understand what people say\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>A classic culture shock is always going to be a language, or accent, barrier.<\/p>\n<p>The American explained that she &#8216;can&#8217;t understand what people say sometimes because diction doesn&#8217;t seem to be a big thing here.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Adding &#8216;So like, pronouncing your consonants very well isn&#8217;t a thing as much from what I&#8217;ve experienced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I know people who have the Welsh valleys accent, which I love, but ear is like &#8216;YUR&#8217; and year is also &#8216;YUR&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The amount of words that sound exactly the same, they&#8217;re completely different words sometimes so how do they sound the exact same?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>One Welsh native took to to the comments to defend her accent, writing &#8216;I am from the south wales valleys. Ears and years are definitely different words and pronounced differently&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>There&#8217;s not a culture around greeting people\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h3>List of the biggest culture shocks the TikToker noticed after moving to Wales from New Jersey<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Old people dye their hair fun colours<\/li>\n<li>Everything is less expensive<\/li>\n<li>The bacon is different<\/li>\n<li>Pizza tastes &#8216;really weird&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>More swearing\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Grocery stores have &#8216;off-brands&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;No diversity&#8217; in grocery stores<\/li>\n<li>Not being able to understand what people say<\/li>\n<li>No culture around greeting people<\/li>\n<li>Everybody &#8216;hates&#8217; Liverpool&#8217;\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She also finds Brits to be typcially colder and more &#8216;grumpy than Americans:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When you go into stores people aren&#8217;t like &#8216;Hello, how are you doing today?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s not as much culture around greeting people I was talking about this to my British friends and they said yeah, that&#8217;s because back in America they expect a tip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was like I don&#8217;t tip a cashier, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a common thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve said like &#8216;have a good one&#8217; and &#8216;have a nice day&#8217; and I&#8217;ve had store employees just look at me like &#8216;what are you doing?&#8217; but some of them are also like &#8216;aww thanks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s like a fun surprise to them which is very nice but it&#8217;s strange to me because in America we&#8217;re very friendly. Not many people here are fake friendly, a lot of people are grumpy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>One viewer wrote &#8216;I\u2019m in Cardiff and proper giggling. Everyone really is grumpy\u2026 unless we win a rugby match&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Everybody &#8216;hates&#8217; Liverpool\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Finally, her last point is that allegedly everyone hates Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>She said &#8216;Everybody hates Liverpool for some odd reason, I have no clue, I don&#8217;t have Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I know a scouse person, they&#8217;re great, they&#8217;re wonderful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;People are always like &#8216;I hate the scousers&#8217; stuff like that and I&#8217;m like wow what? I don&#8217;t really get that but it&#8217;s probably because I&#8217;m not a local here.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>One commenter chimed in with &#8216;Love this video! For the Liverpool hate, it might have something to do with the flooding of Tryweryn. 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