What was your biggest culture shock as a European living in the USA?
欧洲人住在美国最大的文化冲击是什么?
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I stayed in California for a while, specifically in ‘Silicon Valley’ and the biggest culture shock to me was the huge disparity of wealth in the San Francisco area.
我在加州待过一段时间,具体说是在硅谷,对我来说最大的文化冲击就是旧金山地区巨大的贫富差距。
As someone coming from a country whose homelessness is amongst the highest in the U.K., I still couldn’t believe the sheer volume of homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area.
我来自流浪人口位居首位的英国,但仍然对旧金山湾区的流浪人数之多感到难以置信。
On the other side of all this homelessness, I saw frivolous wealth. 20–30 year olds with more money than they knew what to do with. All of them were in the software development sector and across the board, all of them behaved like “The Valley” was one big youth club that they were a part of. Money meant nothing to most of the people I met.
和这些流浪人群形成鲜明对比的是轻浮的财富。20-30岁的年轻人钱太多都不知道怎么花,他们都在软件开发部门工作,而且他们所有人都表现得好像硅谷就是个大的年轻人俱乐部,而他们就是其中一员。对我所见到的大部分人来说钱都不算什么。
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