This is Why Asians And Americans Can't Live Together! (Eastern vs Western culture differences) 

If you think americans are louder on the phone , try countries from Latin America (Colombia , Venezuela , Mexico , Argentina , Brazil ) it's another level of louder 😂

I grew up in Hungary and live in the UK - we definitely take our shoes off most of the time in Europe!! My friend from Austria also confirms this for her country so I think the not-taking-off-your-shoes thing is def a more American thing

I'm French and I feel that keeping your shoes inside the house depends a lot on the family. In my family, we always take off our shoes at the entry. Shoes inside the house are a big NO for me. We just tolerate them when we have guests for diner and they keep them in the diningroom only.

I'm a Filipino American. The shoe thing tends to vary by household; I keep mine by the door, and always ask if I should keep them on or not when visiting someone else's place for the first time.

I love the contrast among them , east wearing more white and west more black 😊

Americans are in general more used to and less bothered by noise in public places. We’re a bit of a lively culture and so we talk freely most places and accept others talking freely as well. We may even strike up a conversation in a public place (like an elevator) if it’s too quiet. I know many other cultures frown on this, but it’s actually something I missed while living abroad.

It may be not common in US or countries of Europe , but in Latin America, not just Asia , people do wash the rice , each single time

I find it so funny after being in Asia esp Japan where you do not speak on the phone and you are so careful not to make noise. When I come home to Australia its hilarious because the noisiest ppl are the Asian ppl on the phones you can hear echoing right through the train carriage :)

Growing up in the Midwest (U.S.) in the 60's and 70's, the only rice I ate was rice pudding and Rice Krispies cereal. I remember having fried rice once at my aunt's and I hated it. I was 9 or so. Today, it's one of my go-to foods. BTW, I just started washing rice a couple of years ago only after watching K-dramas. Wearing shoes indoors depends on the household, at least in my experience. The houses I grew up in had enclosed porches or attached garages, so we typically took off our shoes before going inside. But guests, who typically entered through the front door, were never asked to take off their shoes, although many would offer.

The Swedish person is doing such a good job at representing Sweden!

Here in Brazil, many older people, in particular, wash the rice, but there are already many who don't, as doctors warn that polished rice should not be washed because, since the grain's husk has been removed, it is unprotected. By washing or soaking it, there is a possibility of losing its nutrients, such as B-complex vitamins, iron, potassium, magnesium, and phosphorus. That white powder is a result of the polishing process, so it's not dirt or a chemical product, but particles from the food itself. Well, here in Brazil, most types of rice go through a sanitation process before packaging and sale. It is recommended to read the instructions on the packaging before preparing the food.

I grew up in a multiracial household. I feel this video so hard 😂. The washing rice. My mom only knew of minute rice before meeting my dad. Also, my dad wearing socks with zori. I still do it and people think it’s weird! But I hate shoes inside. I haven’t been able to fully break my husband of the habit yet 😂

As a Finn I have never washed rice, I cook them basically in the same way in the pot like I do with pasta. I prefer to eat an Uncle Ben's type of parboiled rice with chicken. Sometimes I cook a milk-based rice porridge. The porridge is cooked with short grain starchy rice and served with cinnamon and sugar.

Here in Singapore, we don't sit on the floors too, but we still remove our shoes inside the house. Some may wear indoor slippers like the Japanese, could be due to pet hair in the house or personal preference, but most walk around the house barefooted. We wash our rice several times before cooking. And the used water is re-used to water our potted plants, or wash the floors etc. And we also mostly use toilet paper, but depending on ethnicity cos we're a multi-racial, multi-cultural nation so some use toilet paper, some use water and their hands, some use a short spray hose. But bidets are definitely very rare here. And I'd say dishwashers are one in a million here. Big or small families, we all wash our dishes by hand. There's a preconception that dishwashers are not able to wash the dishes cleanly, at least not as clean as with our hands....lol.

For these kinds of behavioral differences it’s very easy to over generalize. Like, you go to a country and then you se a difference from what you’re used to and ascribe it to that country. But does it apply to the entire country, or maybe just some economic bracket. It could be rural vs city. Is it the country or the entire continent or cost vs far inland, old vs young north vs south. It will depend on the thing.

In my area of America we take our shoes off. My house and friends house was the same. Dishwashers use less water.

I think the shoe thing may also depend on where you live. I live in Alaska and our shoes get gross outside - so it's very common to have a place to take off shoes in the entry - especially if you have an arctic entry - and just wear thick socks or slippers inside. I think it would be cool if we used slippers more though. I'm an American and I always wash my rice. I do speak louder on the phone these days now that I'm older - hearing loss definitely plays a part in that, but I also try to use good manners and not talk in areas with other people.

I have actually seen a bidet in Sweden, my grandparents had one in their house. My grandparents used to be my babysitters and when I was young (4-7), I had no clue what its actual use was, and it was such a convenient height for me (as it is meant for sitting), i used it as my wash basin, it was esier than getting a stool to use the normal basin. I only learned later what its actual use was. I can only say, I think my grandmother had stopped using it by that point, so it was likely very clean, or she hopefully cleaned it before I came over. I never got sick or something like that, so i can presume it was safe, but thinking about it now... yuck.

As a westerner I can't live without my sofa, but I used to sit and lay down on the floor during my childhood. We're almost never in shoes inside the house, even the guest ask if it's okay for them to keep theirs or if we prefer them to take them off. I almost always wash my rice, unless it's already prepared as Alexander mentioned. All the houses and apartments I've been in as a bidet, the small separate ones, or the water pipe that remains there after removing it. Talking loudly on the phone is seen as rude and not mannered, even though they're some annoying people that don't give a d... We all have a dishwasher after 25 - 28. So I guess it depends on the household 🤷😂😂😂

Loved the video! It’s so fascinating to see the differences and similarities between many countries’ cultures. As a country that is built from immigrants from countless nations, every other household here has different habits and traditions. In my home, I keep a basket by the front door for shoes, but I don’t get upset if anyone wants to keep their shoes on. My husband is an amputee, and has a prosthetic leg, so he has to wear his shoes inside to maintain his balance. We just end up sweeping more often. 😅

I live in Germany and dishwasher are common appliances here and they are more efficient as you save more on water and electricity bill. Most sinks have a capacity of ten litres or more and dishwashers uses seven litres when you have a good one .

I'm French from a Cameroonian parents. We had no dishwasher, washed rice and wear slippers at home but sometime we kept our shoes on if we had to quick go back and forth. Guests kept their shoes on too. No bidet. It is only after having Marocain friends that I learn that there is other culture that prefer to use water to clean after using the toilet. Which actually made more sense and I started having a bottle in my bathroom when I lived on my own. I went to a boarding establishment (not school as it was a place for kids who's parents work on a boats and needed their kids scholarised. So they lived there and open their doors to landers as they called us) to get closer to my high school choice. There was a bidet in the shower section. I must have used it once in 3 years😅. It has always puzzled me the use of it. Most commun households don't have one. But at the time I would say it was commun in French bourgeoisie households. In all the toilets around the world I think Thai's are the best ones with the little douchette. I saw it in a drama once. It blowed my mind. I dream to have one install in the UK. I need a house first. And money. Well I still have my water bottle... Raaaagh my reached life 😭

I love how the French guy understands how a microphone works. Drives me insane when people yell into phones.

In Finland, we don’t wear shoes inside. We usually don’t wash rice. We use toiletpaper but also have those little shower-things in every toilet, not separate ones. We are not very loud on the phone. We have a dishwasher but my son is a student and he doesn’t have it. And we have millions of saunas 😄I think that Finnish culture is kind of mix of western and eastern culture.

Taking the shoes off isn't an Asian thing but the norm worldwide including in many Western countries.

Great! Enjoyed it. American of European decent - my family has always removed their shoes. My three sons' friends always remove their shoes. Most of my friends have the same rule in their homes. As to dishwashers, the more dishes there are, the better it is to use the dishwasher - it uses less water/energy. What about the squatty potty? One of our family visited China. Now - who uses two sheets on their beds? It seemed that Sweden has similar sensibilities concerning public/shared spaces to Korea?

Sitting on the floor in the US is uncomfortable cause commonly used materials aren't soft for it and in some social manners, is for children or young people.

I think the Caribbean and some Hispanic households are more similar to east cultures. We have the same attitude towards rice, shoes, family values.

calling it eastern vs western culture doesn't make sense because its a broad sense of direction. If someone says ''are you an easterner?'' a lot of people would be confused like ''what do you mean?'' or ''well it depends on which direction you look at it'' Its better to call it either specifically by the country or by continent with a direction, for example Southeast asian culture and Northwestern european culture

If you’ve lived in China, people answer their phone even in the cinema, and they’ll talk for 10-20 minutes. Not everyone of course… but if the cinema is at least half full, it’s guaranteed that someone will talk on the phone during the movie.

I just realized than in Tanzania 🇹🇿,we do both some as Western countries and some like Eastern countries.I enjoyed watching the video...

I feel like in the USA whether people take off their shoes or use dishwashers depends on location and culture. Here in places where people tend to get snow they are more inclined to remove shoes. Where I grew up people usually only did this if their shoes were muddy. My relatives didn’t have carpet expect maybe in the living room/parlor which was generally only used for guests. We don’t usually enter our homes through our front doors and we hang out in the den/family room.

For the record , we Hispanics ALWAYS wash the rice lol it's a must!

When I was in China for a few months I was told they take their shoes off was because the streets were very dirty and they didn't want that dirt getting into the house. It was quite obvious after a while when you see the cars and the mud and grime they picked up from the streets just how bad it was in places. But also your shoes were always muddy which you just couldn't avoid.

Im from norway and i could feel the swedish girl cringe on most of these because our countries are so similar... also i agree in our house we will get yelled at so hard by our mom if we dont take off our shoes so we wear slippers

Whether you wash the rice depends on what type of rice it is. I have 4 types of rice at home, one of them shouldn't be washed and also doesn't have to be washed. The other three do, and how many washes they require differ as well.

Did you notice what participant always waited to hear everyone else first, and spoke last, often using the fewer words, too?

One thing not brought up in this video, Im old school Korean, every of my own Korean friends and relatives all do not go ahead and start eating before their elders...that includes when you go for an untouched side dishes you offer it first to those elders

In Poland you don't wear shoes inside (and when you're a guest there's whole ritual: you come in, start taking off your shoes, the host says you don't have to, you insist, they insist, you take off your shoes and they give you slippers they had prepared for you - like it's rude not to say that you don't have to while you actually should take off your shoes, we just try to be nice xD). I don't know about others but in my family we always wash rice (until the water isn't white). We have a bidet and I think it's pretty common (at least when I talked to other people most of them had it), but it's more of an addition to paper for hygiene, it's definitely not a replacement of it. Phones - it really depends on the person xD My Dad is super loud on the phone but the rest of us try to be quiet, maybe not whispering but still. And for sure we always leave the room or walk a little further away to talk on the phone - it's a bit rude to just do that while sitting with other people. Dishwasher is a mix - what would be more economic at the moment. P.S. And I forgot about sitting - we usually sit on chairs or sofas but many times in more informal friends meetings, like youth or students, we just sat on the floor even when there was space on chairs and sofas. A fun video, it's interesting to see how many things are mixed depending on the country or the household. It also kind of confirms that we're in the middle between East and West with our customs :D

Please Awesome World, can you make the subtitles in a font style that is darker? It is hard for me to see from my TV :( I don't want to watch only on my phone.

As always, it's so hard to generalize Americans because our country is so vast and diverse - not near as homogenous, so stereotyping by one person on a panel is just almost always not indicative of the majority.

Most rice sold in Europe is pre-washed, and stored in airtight containers. So you don't have to wash it. Same way that you probably don't sift the flour before using it, for example.

Black America's wah they rice at least 3 o 4 tmes and their meat in lemon and sour orange it depends on what meat you are cooking is how you will clean it and wash it with.

American here. I grew up in a household that did not take their shoes off at the door, but as soon as I got my own place, I started because it definitely keeps my floors cleaner. I also built my house with a dishwasher, though I'm a single person; I batch cook and freeze, so I have a lot of dirty pots and pans once a week. One thing I have noticed in Korean kitchens is a clothes washing machine. Americans do not have washing machines in their kitchens. We put them in a separate room, down in the basement, out in the garage, but never in the kitchen. Except me. I have a washing machine in my kitchen. I also have a bidet attachment on my toilet! And I don't speak loudly on my phone in public because if I can help it, I don't even answer my phone.

On the dishwasher thing, I feel called out. Like, my whole family just washes the dishes with water (mostly cold) and then just puts it in the dishwasher, I hope I'm not the only one doing this..

🇫🇷 *1:15** I've been taught to take my shoes off when I come into my house...* 🤷🏼‍♂

The thing is... not every Western country is like this... In Italy we don't usually keep our shoes in the house. And we wash the rice... like, my grandma used rice water to wash her face lol And we actually have bidet and everyone uses it (not just women). So... probably Italy is the Asian country of Europe? haha

I want to officially thank the French guy, I was prepared to make a war libel here about the right use ot bidet and use of it by Italian, but he explained it so well... Thanks cousin!

In Switzerland and Italy almost everyone takes off their shoes outside, in my experience.

Most Chinese people change into indoor shoes when they go in the house, slippers mostly. I think going barefoot is just some thing you don’t do like drinking cold water

The Philippines and China are the odd ones in Asia as far as Chairs and shoes in the house, the point in washing rice is to get all the dirt that the grains were exposed to, coming from the rice industry myself I recommend people at least wash it once, oh and I told my American relatives to use the bidet as it is a life changer to slaves of the paper but they were stubborn, if they only knew how good it felt and how clean it would be vis a vis toilet paper.

Why the world thinks that Americans are only from the USA?... Seriously, the countries of North and South America are American 1. Asia = Asians 2. Europe = Europeans 3. African = Africans 4. North America = North Americans (Americans) 5. South America = South Americans (Americans)

I am from the USA and I don't allow shoes in my home. It's not common for the people I know so they see me as weird when I freak out if they walk in with them. When I travel back to USA I won't take my shoes off inside if hey don't implement the "no shoe" policy. I'm grossed out by the filth that is carried in to the home from the streets. 😂 When I moved to Mexico dishwashers are uncommon so I got used to washing everything by hand now. When I visit my mother back in the USA she always tells me to put things in the dishwasher. I find it a waste of energy, water and money. I rarely speak on my cell and if I need to in a public space, I speak in a low level.

American white girl, here, age 53. I was taught that with bleached white rice all of the nutrients are taken out and they add a coating of nutrients back to the rice, and directions on the bag would say do not wash rice, because that would take all the nutrients out. I used to cook rice in a covered pan, but now we bought a rice cooker and we do wash our rice. I like it better because it’s sticky, and we make a lot of Asian food at home. I do prefer the flavor and nutrition in brown or wild rice, but I haven’t seen those varieties in Asian cooking. Also, I have very flat feet and bad ankles, so walking without good arch support is not easy for me. I’m a total shoe wearer in the house, but I have different shoes for in the house than for outside, and this may be age-related, but I NEVER sit on the floor. ( I might have a hard time getting back up again)😂However I would never judge anyone else for doing things differently. My family members take off their shoes at the door usually, because they work in a dirty factory. I think it’s a poor assumption that Asians and Westerners can’t live together. We all just need to learn to accept differences in the way others do things. And we need to abide the house rules wherever we go for the sake of peace.❤

I only use the dishwasher, unless I'm hand washing something like a pan or something that requires hand washing only. The dishwasher uses hardly any soap, less than 3 gallons of water, saves time and cost less than 20 cent per load which I run 3 times a week on average. I've actually ran the dishwasher without soap and just the heat and water pressure alone clean everything spotless 😂😂😂

As a Pole we 100% take our shoes off at home. there's no way you're wearing them I'd say those stereotypes of "western = white" culture is just... american influence but then u go to europe n every country is sooooo different

I don't know anyone who wears their outside shoes also inside. I'm from Switzerland (not the same country as Sweden 😂)

Niki please visit sweden.. not only aurora but there are many more beautiful places you would find😊 Sweden is really beautiful.

9:22 But nowadays Technology is growing higher I like dishwash machine But in india 🇮🇳, I used dishwash liquid for cleaning all utensils, and even my mom was also cleaning all utensils. It's manually hardworking.

Burmese people are pretty loud, whereas Chinese people are often, but not always, quieter on the phone. Sometimes I find myself matching the volume of my conversations with the volume that other people use, whether in person or on the phone.

Hoesung, you are correct about us older guys and being hard of hearing. I have a friend who leaves his cell on the restaurant table and will answer it on speaker and talk loudly, everybody looks at him, me and the other guys at the table just smile. During covid there was a toilet paper shortage so I installed a Bidet, there great, I wouldn't go back, Sorry Charmin. lol. A Chinese lady works at a business we guys use and she is so good looking a dishwasher wouldn't make a difference. Phew! Good discussion.

I also wash rice but that powder contains b vitamins ( mostly b2)...

Lumping America and Europe together is not the best idea....

10:02 Yeah, it's very cost of dishwasher machine

08:20 In Germany, we don't make phone calls in elevators or subways either. However, only because our mobile network does not work there and Wifi is still a foreign word in many areas.

in norway you will also get a dishwasher with the house or apartment.

i don't know for other place but in Switzerland most people don't wear their shoes inside, as for me i like to sit on the floor but in switzerland perhaps because of the floor material and absence of heating floor you won't sit on it unless there is a carpet

I live in Texas and taking shoes off in the house is a mostly a must. Shoes are allowed downstairs but we’d rather they keep it off. If you have a 2 story house shoes are never allowed on upstairs.

I live in Australia and young Aussies are very loud in public transports such as trains and trams.

No chemical things for the italian rice and the bidet must be used after toilette paper, not instead🤨

In New Zealand its normal go outside and inside the house barefoot, no shoes needed!

Ayo, olaenman-iya Shannon. It's always nice seeing her in Awesome World.

What? Most Europeans do NOT wear shoes indoors, I've never met one who does

In france TGV there is sign who ask to pass phone call from between the wagon. Problem is the tourist when they are not in their country it's like if they feel more powerfull so they forget been polite or are talk loudly etc :/ For the shoes inside i think it's more becose we rug it on a doormat and then walk on floor tile (but it's more common to see no shoe when it's wooden floor) (in my home it's shoes on when you enter but if you go upstair it's wooden floor so no shoes) we don't get snow or mud on our shoes here, i put out my shoes when it's raining there yes becose rug it on the doormat is not enought that make mark everywhere if i let it🤣. On that point china is not so different of europe i think

One thing I noticed was also the differences in humor/jokes/sarcasm. When they talk about washing the rice, and the girl says "it's just seasoning" and the other girl says the same thing, the westerners all laugh about it, but the Asians don't really laugh at all. (Could be a language barrier as well).

When it comes to the first one at least, I should probably comment as a person from Britain🇬🇧, seeing as there isn’t one among the speakers here, but we actually do take our shoes off the vast majority of the time when we are inside. Obviously it can depend upon households, how some people have been raised and even sometimes how old the person is (kids are,es likely to care after all and AREN’T beaten over the head for it). But For the vast majority of my life, especially in clean houses, we almost always take our shoes off. I don’t know if this is just us among the other European countries, or whether I’ve just had the privilege of being among people who actually do that, but it seems that in Western Europe, some households do the same, although it doesn’t seem that as many do it as Britain does… and it seems Sweden as well.👍🏼

i am greek so i will say what is happening here: 1) we wear shoes indoors but a few families put their shoes outside of their home 2) there is not that stuff of cleaning the rice 3) we all use dishwasher 4) we speak loudly on the phone . 5) we use toilet paper

in Mexico we also wash the rice too, i say this because America is a whole continent with many countries is not only U.S.A

Wearing shoes in our household is no, we even consider stepping on books and paper is bad because that is where we get our knowledge from...Come from a heavily traditional south Asian household...We did in fact have a dishwasher growing up in Canada, but we never used it : / it kept all the extra dishes in lol...To be honest though, I like cleaning the dishes myself though, at least that way I can always make sure it is 100000% clean lol....that is a personal preference.

My mom's Thai and I was right beside her while she was on a call Let's just say she burst my eardrums

I'm from Canada & the shoe thing is true

Jamaican - Canadian, shoes off for both J - wash rice, C - instant rice, yuk C - dishwashers if you have them, J - most only retiring returnees have them C & J - bidet mostly no, very luxury Phones depends on location C usually not in public but it depends, J use rates restrict long conversation so it's more income dependent but yeah we're loud

The reason that the Chinese girl mentioned that subways and elevators ask people not to talk on their phone is because of a government campaign to increase general “civility” the reason is because it’s really common for people to talk on their phone on the train, bus, elevator etc

7:36 What about other countries using phone calling ?

-In Germany, you don't wear shoes indoors. This stereotype does not apply to all western countries -Every household in Spain has a bidet. -In Germany people speak very softly on the phone and normally you don't use the phone on trains or buses. Unfortunately, the new generation is becoming more and more naughty and more and more young people disturb train journeys with loud phone calls

The first time I ever cooked rice I knew to wash it and this is as a child. I mean I put it in the water and saw that the water turned cloudy and I was like, oh no. I would later find out that was right from both my stepdad and my dad who were cooks. Well my strepdad is a chef. And both of them told me that it was right to wash the rice. So maybe it's a you thing. The girl said... it's a difference between white and Hispanic people etc... I'm not Hispanic but like I said most of the black Americans I know wash their rice except for the younger and much older generations. So maybe it's the younger generation who just weren't taught how to properly "adult." Bidets: I have been in houses as a child; people in my family who had a bidet. It wasn't a bougie thing, they weren't rich, and most not even middle class. Even in my house now we gave one. Not to tell people we have a bidet. Rather because we understand why it's used. And my husband wanted one so... And as for the dishwasher... I didn't even see a dishwasher until I was sixteen and it wasn't even in my house. I didn't have one until I was grown and didn't use it b/c I wasn't used to it. It wasn't until I was a married woman and had owned a house of my own that I used one regularly. Even now my husband gets frustrated because I tend to (what he thinks of as) wash the dishes before I put them in the dishwasher. But this is because that's how I was raised. I was raised know how to wash and iron my own clothes. How to hang and dry laundry and how to properly fold. And how to wash by hand at that. I was raised to know how to do many things that young people today just don't know. So theses are some serious misconceptions. She should say it as an individual. Not that all or even most Americans are like her.

I live in Canada...if I dare forget to take off my shoes...I am DEAD (mamma used to scold me on this one 😂😂)...Canada has a 4 season climate so during winter, spring and fall? Lots of mud\dirt...that explains why

Abut washing the rice. In Italy rice is used a lot in Northern Italy. In the past it was customary washing the rice, my grandma did washed it from impurities, but she was from the center Italy. In recent times this process became useless, rice "life" is traced from the origin to the tabletop and comes "clean", in packages. But... the most important reason we didn't wash the rice is that if you wash it you clean it from starch powder and because of that your risotto will not be good, it will be less creamy. But when I do rice in the Asian way, I wash it 7 times.

I live in a very mainly English speaking area and in some houses people prefer you to take off your shoes and some don’t really care that much.

As a Swede, I have heard of Americans and Spaniards having this thing for keeping shoes on, but is this really the norm for most Western countries? All I know is that Sweden and Czechia definitely don't. Anyways, time to see if rice here in Sweden is prewashed or not, because I had no idea about it and it would be a shock for me if it ends up not being prewashed. Only time I've seen a bidet was in my grandparents house in Czechia, and only for their top floor. I'm now slightly grossed out to say that I thought it was a foot wash until... a minute ago? Never used it, thankfully. Now, the one I am most certainly confused about... What's wrong with using the washing machine? 0_o

Most European countries you don't wear shoes inside lol. When it comes to "Western" countries doing that its mostly just Americans (primarily white Americans I'm sure)

he is speaking facts. i am a swede living in italy and our house has 2 bidets and every house ive been to here have bidets

Except for birthdays and when people have guests I really don't see people having shoes inside the house in Norway.

All people in USA white and Hispanic does wash the rice. Americans wipe their feet off at the door. We will take our shoes off if they are dirty. We don’t sit on the floor. I would not be able to get up from the floor. We clean our floors constantly.

Since 2020 and the big toilet paper crisis more American homes are using every day. But they are more portable and attached to the toilet. They don’t usually come separated into another separate feature

🇺🇸 Ive considered implementing a no shoes rule in my household but considering the amount of dirt my dogs bring in on their paws from the outside, I don't really see the point. I have to clean the floors constantly anyway. Also, "use a bidet" is actually on my bucket list. 😂

the fact their using kuumarfamily is making me a Malaysian happy

In japan 🇯🇵 and singapore 🇸🇬, they have discipline for phone calling

Dishwasher is expensive, but it lowers the water bill. So in the long run is saves money.

4:53 the couple that were shown the Asian guy was indian for sure😅 😂😂😂😂