Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?

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Well I've just read every comment on this thread and I'm relieved to realize that our recitation of our National Pledge of Allegience at every opportunity is in-fact seen as totally normal.

It is not, but it's also hard to notice as a tourist. I've learnt that from here

I only really saw that in grade school. And it was a Red Scare thing. Super culty, but so is all the McCarthy stuff.

Do you ?

At a point I was travelling a lot to the US, the only time I heard the national anthem was before a Rodeo in Texas, and I never saw someone reciting the "pledge of allegience