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Never refuse food or gifts. It's not necessarily an offense if you refuse, but I know a lot of Americans that love to share. Me included. I love making southern food dishes for people that never eaten it. My my black-eyed peas and cornbread is something I think everyone should try
As someone with dietary issues I hate this, everyone trying to force insane things down my throat 'its goodwholesomehonemade! You have to try it!' And its some oil, grease and salt mess that'll leave a vie ltaste my mouth and upset my stomach for days.
'I just know you'll love....' no, no you don't. People that I politetly try to explain I have a delicate stomach to but they but still pout and try to push are the worst - I don't want to argue but also I don't want the next two days ruined.
Spoken like someone who's never had my cornbread lol
What makes you think it's the best place on Earth?
There are countries with free health care and free higher education. Thus, the best place on Earth would be one of those places. USA is not one of those places.
How long will you be here? Are you driving or flying? Come, visit everywhere, see it all! Most of the bad things you see on the news are isolated events. Do use some common sense, especially at night, and do a quick Internet search on higher crime areas of the cities you're visiting. If you see an area with hotels that are much cheaper than other areas, there's probably a reason. Many cities have lemmy communities or subs on r/ and can help you with specifics. People who tell you to avoid all red states are just spreading fear.
ok thank you very much. i am flying to visit my boyfriend/fiancé who lives there
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excuse me?? why do you think so?
It's hard to think of any one particular thing that you should avoid doing. A lot of things for tourists in big tourist areas like Las Vegas are deliberately over-priced, but a lot of those things are exactly what you go there for. Show tickets, tours and all that kind of thing are often over inflated if you sign up right on the Las Vegas Strip for instance, so shop around and see if you can do better. If you're traveling in the Southwest around Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Texas / etc It's going to be HOT this time of year so dress appropriately and stay hydrated! Everyone seems to want to make this about healthcare and so on, but every place on earth has problems and if this is where you choose to travel then more power to you and I hope you have a great time!
The biggest do's and dont's will be related to driving. For example, do use your turn signals when making a turn while driving, and don't randomly park in peoples' driveways.
well we do that in mexico too so that's understandable!! thank you!!
It depends on where you go. NYC has a whole lot of norms and expectations that aren't true for a small town in Ohio, for example.
"i'm from mexico"
Racists are going to treat you poorly through most of the Southern states.
Your best bet is to look at political maps like this:
Avoid the red states.
Even in the blue states, avoid the red parts of blue states:
On the other hand, you're far more likely to encounter fellow Spanish language speakers in some of the southern red states like Texas and Florida. So I wouldn't necessarily write off any given state so quickly like that.
Those are also the states that are trying to pass laws that let themselves pull over any Latino looking person so they can check their papers.
Trust me, the color of a state is not going to indicate whether someone is racist or not. In fact, most states are going to be non-racist. Meanwhile, Vermont, which is my own state, is the bluest state in the US, yet people in Vermont are going to be the most likely state to bombard you with questions about where you're from.
Tell me you've never been to the south without telling me.
I dearly loved Memphis, but I'd never suggest someone from Mexico go there.