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Is there as great of a guide as this for the US? I'm an American citizen (by birth) but have many friends that want to move over for work here and I am a horrib

• tlb 12y ago
  I would like a book, Introduction to American Society. While there are thousands of books addressing some slice or theme, I don't know of a single-volume overview.
  • ianmcgowan 12y ago
    That would be a tough book to write. As a (still) English citizen living in the US for 25 years, the thing that amazes me is how varied everything is. It's less homogeneous than anywhere I've lived or visited, taken as a whole. Can you compare SF to Fort Wayne, NY to Toledo or Chicago to Tallahassee in any meaningful way?
    • eastbayjake 12y ago
      Someone on HN previously posted "Which of the 11 American nations do you live in?" And while I don't agree with all of these -- Dallas and Austin are certainly not "Greater Appalachia" and probably deserve some kind of Texas "nation" of their own like "Tidewater" -- it's certainly true that "American Society" has many distinct parts. (Moving from Colorado to Connecticut to Mississippi felt like living abroad in three separate countries.) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/08/which-of-the-11-american-nations-do-you-live-in/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/08/wh...
• markolschesky 12y ago
  It's not exactly a guide about our work culture, but "Xenophobe's Guide to the Americans" does a pretty good job at succinctly describing some of our cultural quirks. http://www.xenophobes.com/the-americans/ http://www.xenophobes.com/the-americans/
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