Saying “how are you?” when we mean “hello”
When a store clerk or acquaintance in America asks, “How are you doing?” they aren’t actually looking for an answer. Instead, it’s meant as a simple greeting, similar to “Hi there!” A European, on the other hand, “will launch into a monologue about their health and wellbeing and ask [how are you?] right back and expect an answer,” Sophie-Claire Hoeller wrote for The Independent.
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4 thoughts on “15 ”Normal” Things in the U.S. That Weird Out the Rest of the World”
What a hype story>a NON story.
I get carded at Walgreens, And I am 89 years! I guess I look like I am 15?
Snarky tone. Geesh- us Americans are crap…we should be just like the Europeans0 as if Europe is a monolith—-
I wasted time on this garbage? This and anti-American sentiment? I’m impressed…not.