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if you lived in the USA you'd be a dick.
German culture is a lot more chill. germans leave people alone generally. Americans can't help but get in your face.
I lived in Germany a couple of times and it was glorious because nobody ever talked to me. In the USA people just come up to you and start talking. It's so weird.
I’m from the USA and I wasn’t a dick there, either. I don’t know why you’d assume I would be, especially as I said that I’m not the stereotypical American. I definitely don’t approach strangers to start conversations and when they do it with me, I respond politely and in a friendly way, but don’t try to drive the conversation into any divisive areas (or really anywhere at all, I try to let conversations with strangers whom I’m not planning a get to know die out as quickly as possible while maintaining friendliness).