去美國之後，有哪些事讓你吃驚？

Q: What facts about the United States do foreigners not believe until they come to America?
問：有哪些事情是外國人沒去美國之前不會相信的？

獲得9.2k好評的答案@ Aniruddh Chaturvedi

Everyone is highly private about their accomplishments and failures. Someone's performance in any field is their performance alone. This is different compared to India where people flaunt their Riches and share their accomplishments with everybody else.
每個人不會公開自己的成就和失敗。別人在任何領域的成績都只是自己的成績。這和印度相比就不一樣，在那裏人們都會炫耀他們的財富，會告訴每個人自己的成就。

Rich people are thin/ well maintained, poor people are fat. This stems from the fact that cheap food is fatty, rich people don't eat cheap food — they tend to eat either home-cooked food which is expensive or eat at expensive / healthy places. Unfortunately, it is expensive to be healthy in America.
富人很瘦/保養很好，而窮人很胖。這個道理源於現實——因爲廉價食品含油脂多，而富人不吃廉價食品——他們一般吃自己家裏做的食品（這些食品很貴）或者在有高價健康食品的地方吃飯。不幸的是，在美國，健康是昂貴的。

Fat people are not respected much in society. Being fat often has the same connotations as being irresponsible towards your body. If you're thin (and tall, but not as much), people will respect you a lot more and treat you better. You will also receive better customer service if you're well maintained. This extends my previous point which mentioned that if you're thin, you're statistically likely to be rich. Reason why I know this is that I went down from being 210lbs to 148-150lbs. The way people started treating me when I was thin was generally way better than the way I was treated when I was fat. As a small example, the Starbucks baristas were much nicer to me and made me drinks with more care.
胖子在社會上不太受尊重，因爲肥胖通常就暗示你對自己的身體不負責任。如果你很瘦（而且很高，但又不是特別瘦，特別高），人們就會更尊重你，對你更好。如果你保養得好，你就會受到更好地客戶服務。這個道理就是我之前提到過的“如果你很瘦，那你一般來說就比較富裕”的延伸。我是在我從210磅減到148-150磅的時候明白這個道理的。我瘦的時候比我胖的時候受到的對待要好得多，舉個簡單的例子，星巴克裏的咖啡員對我就比之前好得多，做飲料的時候也更用心。

Almost every single person in America has access to basic food, clothing, water and sanitation. I haven't been to states like Louisiana and cities like Detroit, but from what I can tell, nobody is scrambling for the basic necessities required for sustenance.
在美國，幾乎每個人都能得到基本的食物、衣服、水和公共衛生。我還沒去過路易斯安那之類的州以及底特律之類的城市，但是在我看來，沒有人需要爲了維持生計、爲了基礎的生活必需品拼死拼活。

Americans waste a lot of food. It is very easy to buy in bulk because it's so much cheaper and as a result a lot of wastage occurs.
美國人浪費了非常多的食物。因爲太便宜所以大家都會大量購買，結果就是大量食物被浪費。

Obsession with coffee — Starbucks, Dunkin' etc is crowded with office-goers and students every morning. I don't understand why they can't drink or make coffee before leaving for work. Such a waste of money! ($5/day * 5days / week * 52weeks/year)!
對咖啡非常癡迷——每天早上星巴克和康恩都樂等店裏都擠滿了上班族和學生。我不明白他們爲什麼不在上班前去喝或者製作咖啡。太浪費錢了（5美元/天*5天/周*52周/年）！