Negro mostly in media, the real n every person I know of.
It's not that people are racist, just not adjusting to todays standars and still living in the past NSVL.
Most of the older generation have never seen a black person in real life.
About "strange crime", crime rate is very low here.

Talking politics or religion is pretty taboo in the US

tell everyone you meet jesus is not real and nfl is gay

Don't make a disparaging comment regarding anybody's tattoos. It's become a national craze, there are ppl tatted up from head toe, some artistic and some just plain terrible. Keep your opinion to yourself unless you're also into tattoos.

don't wear white socks with your sandals.

This was the topic of its own OOT thread:

http://www.fluentin3months.com/usa-clashes/

Just smile a lot and you'll be fine.

when you say "negro" mostly in media is that implying that they sometimes drop real n-bombs in media?

Not in official news etc, but at some random TV shows yes, including yellow paper media.
People don't drop it to offend, that's just how people here refer to blacks.
It's not even a racist thing and sounds way worse than it actually is.

Maybe bad example, but as same as Thais refer to foreigns as farangs.

Fwiw, in my opinion racism and stereotyping is the most ******ed thing ever.

Which country is this J0hny???

Estonia, all baltics are the same (latvia, lithuania).

People here are friendly towards any race in general (no violence and safe to live for anyone here), it's just a word which goes way back in time and people haven't adjusted. Decades of occupation does it's job.

Here it's just a word and that is all, but try being a black guy in some small russian town or some parts of eastern europe and you will feel what racism really means.
World is evil.

Sry for derail.

To get back on the track I really like to know why people wear shoes inside in US.
I remember my relative came from USA to visit us some years ago, he walked into a room with hes shoes on and everyone was like, "holy ****, no manners at all, you serious?"

don't strike up a conversation at the urinals

Be careful when you joke. Americans dont really get dark humor and they quickly get butthurt and upset. Also stay away from talking about politics...


Ps.: I also dont get wearing shoes inside the house.

Is this true? If it is , you people have no idea what are you missing, because horse burger = goat burger you can get.

I'm french btw. Everyone can go ahead and make jokes I'm ready.

The consensus seems to be that you shouldn't talk of sensitive issue with strangers, that makes sense I guess.

In France, money is kind of taboo. Behind every rich man, there is some sense of guilt, like people wonder "does he really deserve all that money ? what shenanigans did he do to make it work ?" that sort of things. Oh and also, don't show off your expensive belongings but that's probably the same everywhere.

I'm not sure what you mean but I was 19 yo at the time with no experience outside France, grew up listening to US hip hop and TV shows. I had no idea the word was frowned upon.

Noone says "negro" lol. Actual word is "neeger" in Estonian which is translation of your n-word, but has changed meanings in dictionary. Like 20-50 years ago (or whenever US started considering n-word offensive), "neeger" meant n-word, but now it just means African-American. Same word, just changed meaning somehow

Actually in like 2005 they still used "neeger" in news and official things etc, but nowadays just really using black instead. Neeger is still not officially considered offensive or bad word, but I think it will be soon just because it's so similar to n-word.

But no bad intentions using this word whatsoever. It used to mean n-word but nowadays means African-American. Weird sh*t tho

I've never really liked goat.

Ofc noone says negro, I just used it as a translation of neeger.
Didn't know that the meaning has changed nor have I considered it as offensive as it sounds anyway.
But yes, what you said pretty much sums it up what's the case here.

Protip for all foreigners visiting America: make sure to call everyone "buddy".

So what you're saying is that no black people = no crime, right? (Totally joking, in case it's not obvious.)

Seems kinda weird that Estonians would call black people African-Americans and not, say, African-Estonians.

Couple of years ago I was in usa visiting my aunt and at NJ olive garden I had an awkward incident, I guess it's really standard there, but seemed funny.
The waiter simply asked "What can I get you boss?". That just sounded so weird and ridicilous, thought the guy was leveling.

He then refused to accept my estonian passport (legit europe passport like in every other EU country) when I ordered beer and then said that only NJ license and ID is allowed.
Maybe he was just fkn with us, no idea, b/c I had no problem buying beer /hard liquor with my estonian ID-card from any other liquor store.

Americans call the French '...cheese eating surrender monkeys...' as outlined in our most cherished example of life in the USA, the Simpsons.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUjGf2Grrus

lots of good stuff.

and if you want to get stabbed in the neck, throw out the 'n' word as often as you can. Then you will get to experience our health care system if you are still alive.

In the US most people know nothing about women. The key to woman is to exert your dominance. They love that.

One night she comes home and you're naked in the kitchen with nothing but an apron on, cooking chili. Feed it to her out of your hands like a baby bird. Let her know you are attracted to her and you do that by showing her you are the boss.

Word

We don't use a space before punctuation. So knock it off with the " ?" ****.

The word negro/******/whatever variant of "black" from Latin is obviously not going to have the same connotations it does in American English in other languages, not sure why you would expect it to.

You should have been like "don't call me boss, bro."