WHAT’S THE THING THAT SHOCKED YOU IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY?

It’s summer, and people are traveling. Reddit.com asked, What was something that shocked you when you visited a foreign country? Some of the responses:
– Tokyo feels quiet. There’s road noise, and the occasional music leaking out of a shop, but people talk under their voices with each other.
– In India, there was a road that crossed the runway. After the plane landed trucks, cars, bikes, animals and people flooded across it.
– There’s no cheese in China.
– Middle age and old men openly reading porn mags on the trains in Tokyo.
– The roads outside Hanoi. 8 lane highways with maybe 3 cars every mile. Felt like the end of the world.
– Beer on tap at the breakfast buffet in Prague, Czech Republic.
* One thing that shocked me: You know those drone strikes we do on other countries? It turns out the people over there hate them.
* I thought they’d be honored to get bombed by the good old USA.
* I was surprised by how few dentists there must be in England.
* Foreigners used to be skinnier than us, but they’re catching up.
* It bothers me that other countries’ money always looks cooler than ours.
* Sometimes the coins even have holes in the middle. We would never make our money that fun.
* The surprising thing about France is that I spoke some high school French and nobody knew what the hell I was talking about.
* I visited some countries in the Middle East and I was shocked that the Clinton Foundation would take money from these people.
* PHONE TOPIC: What shocked you the most when you visited a foreign country?