10 Easy Ways Foreigners Can Tell You’re American

I went to Europe in 1999. I was faking a British accent within 10 minutes of getting off the plane! I was wearing white pants, a blue ski jacket and red & tan waffle stompers. I might as well have been draped in the stars and stripes. Everyone was in dark, neutral European colors. I looked like a circus walking through Munich in March.

An international survey asked people in other countries what the "dead giveaways" were that someone was American:

• Grandpas wearing baseball caps
• When you meet someone for the first time you ask if they know someone you know from that same general area.
• Calling people "sir" and "ma'am"
• Smiling at strangers or starting conversations with strangers
• Enthusiasm + optimism
• Using the phrase, "Good for you!"
• Being loud in public
• Wearing pajamas to the grocery store
• Buying groceries in bulk
• Using seatbelts
• Tattoos
• Cargo shorts
• Going out to play when it's hot!
• Pronouncing the letter "R" (Sorry Bostonians -- Go F*** Yo'selves)
• Being amazed by anything older than 100 years
• Not in a sour-ass mood all the time
• White tennis shoes

[SOURCE:Reddit]