Food!

Americans are the fast food people! I heard that a lot, but I did not know why American like the fast food so much, so I read and asked the people about it. Time is a part of the American culture. Americans eat fast foods a lot because they do not have much time to spend it on foods. Also, the kind of food does not have high value for them. They want just a good food to make them live. As a result, there is a statistic said that the United States has the biggest percent of fat people. Also, a lot of Americans live alone without their family especially the students in the university, so they don’t have time to cook or to clean after cooking. They prefer to eat outside or order food from restaurants, and this point happened to me a lot when I come to the United States. I finished my classes in the afternoon, so there is not much time to cook and to do my homework. I only cook on the weekend, which is the opposite in Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia, I was eating what my mom cooks everyday; I had eaten fast food only in the weekend. Fast food restaurants are not popular in Saudi, but people sometimes go to them to change the routine. Saudis like fancy foods, and they spend a lot of money on foods. We have in Saudi Arabia a huge diversity of foods, because people do not like to eat the same food every day. I really miss the food in Saudi because I cannot find it here in the United States.

Hospital

Every time I go to hospital in Saudi Arabia I spend at least two hours waiting to see the doctor. Even if the hospital is not busy, you will wait for a long time. However, The hospitals always busy and their service are too bad because they do the same thing for all the patients. Also, the employee’s treat the patients like if they work to them. For example, they will ignore you and shot out at you. However, I have gone to the hospital in the United States more than four times. The longer time that I spent it in the hospital is one and a half hour; they provided anything that I need. Moreover, when I went to do my surgery, everything was ready. Their work was professional because they were sure that everything was ok. Also, after the surgery they were calling me and checking if everything goes well. On other hand, doctors Saudi Arabia are not qualified because few of them are graduated from good schools. Most of the doctors are not Saudis because most of the Saudi prefer to be engineers because they will have a lot of money, and they will study only five years. In the United State all the doctors are qualified and they are expert. This is because there is many people want to be doctors and they study very hard to be successful. Also, the hospitals will chose only the good doctors, so they should be good to get a job. Finally, I hope hospitals in Saudi Arabia to improve and be like the United State or better.   

Culture Differences

 

Being on time is something very important in the United States. Before I came I heard about that, but I did not imagine how they are strict on it. Being on time does not mean only that you have schedule and you can come on time. However it is represent how the person is respectful, organized, and punctual. In the first semester our coordinator, Matt, really was upset from us because we were always late, and we thought that was ok, however he told us that was rude, and it is mean that you do not respect and care about that person who meet. It is important for every American, especially since the concept of time plays such a great role in American culture. In addition, The work ethic in the United State concepts the time is money. However, in Saudi they say that if the people do well never matter if they came late or on time.  Moreover, when you have a dinner with an American friend you should be at least five minutes earlier, because my American friend told me that if you are on time, you are late. Also, you should say how long the dinner will take because they have other thing to do. In Saudi is the opposite, because if you come earlier it is rude. When we have dinner, we used to do not put exactly time, but we tell invitees approximately time, they come around this time. Finally, I tautly agree with the American and their culture that the time is very significant and sometimes it is more important than the money. This is because if time has gone, it will not come back.