13 Things Foreigners Just Can't Get About America

America, you do so many things so well, but what the hell is wrong with you when it comes to these?

1. American toilet bowls = high (and treacherous) waters

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So many non-expecting foreign bottoms get splashed here on a daily basis. Why are toilet bowls here so full?

Coming from the country that invented the light bulb, the airplane, the internet and the iPhone, that's pretty disappointing engineering.

2. Why do some Americans choose to live in miserable climates

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Like this, in Fargo, North Dakota

When they can live in a year-round paradise with the same citizenship

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Like here, in always sunny California.

3. American Police brutality

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Other countries love their law enforcers just like you America, but hey, restrain your police a little.

4. What's with veggies in America?

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According to ABC News, "a low-income family would have to devote 43 to 70 percent of its food budget to fruits and vegetables to meet the 2005 Dietary Guidelines".

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And when you do invest, veggies here are often huge and tasteless. Genetic engineering anyone?

Disclaimer: American corn is unbelievable

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Ask this dog

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Or this kitty

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Or even this enthusiastic porcupine. Keep up the good corn, America.

5. Why (and how) is college $50,000 a year?

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How does it make sense that the average cost of getting a college degree in the US is more than in Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Sweden, France and Canada combined?

You have the best academia in the world, America, solve this.

6. The thing Americans call coffee

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No, Americans, that transparent thing in your plastic cup isn't coffee.

7. Speaking of cups - what's with American serving sizes?

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Sooner or later, all foreigners learn that in America, small means large, and large means GINORMOUS.

8. American geography

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This map cutting Asia in half says it all, America.

But it's still better than how many Americans actually perceive the world

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9. Speaking of which, what's America's issue with Canada?

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Americans talk about their upstairs neighbor as if it was some dump

Though ask anyone else: Canada's awesome

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To us foreigners Canada's basically like America with healthcare, plus they burnt the White House in 1814!

So love your neighbor, America.

10. Which brings us to all the arguing about healthcare. Sup with that?

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How can country as developed as America not have public healthcare?

11. And what's with gun-loving?

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Something about the constitution ensuring armed militia against the British. How is it still relevant again?

12. 21 as the drinking age

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Yeah, right, visit a college campus on a weekend night to see how ridiculous a law that is.

13. Inches, ounces and fahrenheit

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This is an average foreigner trying to understand how cold it is today.

America, for good and for bad - you're exceptional, and we love you

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