When Americans pack their bags and venture beyond familiar borders, they often discover just how different life can be elsewhere. The comfort of predictable social norms, familiar customs, and shared ...

One thing Americans can agree on is that America is an extremely diverse country. Each state has its own personality, traditions, and customs, so if you're traveling from one state to another, you're ...

An American woman who now lives in the UK has said the biggest shock she had was discovering there's something starkly ...

1."In the UK, shots are measured for alcoholic beverages. It’s all done by machines, so there's no going over one shot per drink." 2."In Germany, the grocery checkout clerks basically work at ...

I can understand Meghan McCain’s criticism of first-term President Trump given the shots he took at her famous father, John McCain. Some of them were well deserved, like his vote saving Obamacare. But ...

A man from Germany who moved to the U.S. with his American wife faced what he called “work culture shock” from the lack of PTO. In a Reddit post, he complained that he couldn’t find a job that offered ...

While I was traveling around the Iberian Peninsula last year, Spain was receiving some bad press back on the other side of the Atlantic – as an object lesson in how not to do things. I did not spent ...

This week on Polygon, we’re looking at how cultural differences affect media in a special issue called Culture Shock. From text localization to character design, religious considerations to censorship ...