The most popular social network is SNAPCHAT! Not Instagram, not Facebook, but Snapchat. And when you ask what they are taking photos of every time, they answer: «Everything!!». When did the Snapchat trend pass for us? In 2015?

For American students, it's normal to take a gap year. People even admire it, saying "good for you, you want to earn money/go traveling." Back home, they would look at you with a confused face and ask if you're having problems.

There is no buckwheat. Like, nowhere. That very "weight loss" product that could have saved every third American from obesity is missing. Time to start a business and import it from Belarus!

Almost everyone works from the age of 16. It's not common to be a burden on your parents.

Apologies. Either they are so cultured, or they are genuinely ashamed, or it's just a habit – Americans are constantly apologizing. It gets to the point where you're just walking down a hallway that easily fits two people, but they act like they're afraid of bumping into you and start apologizing. Sometimes it's very cute, and sometimes you wonder if you did something wrong.

Just like in the UK, they use different units of measurement here: pounds instead of kilograms; miles instead of kilometers. And when, say, you're driving a car, the speedometer shows 40, and you're racing at the speed of a cheetah, you immediately remember that you are in the USA!