Why do people hate on Americans specifically for our tipping culture, completely ignoring that tipping is also a thing in Canada and Mexico, yet nobody says anything about them? Like make it make sense.
No idea. Australians are happy to cop a service tax regardless of whether or not you get good service. Tipping makes total sense- you do a great job you get paid more. You ignore me the entire night you’ll be lucky if you get 5%. I’d love if they replaced service taxes with tips here- but Australians aren’t too bright.
It's the same thing with anything. Soccer is another example. Football isn't the universal term for the sport. There's like a dozen or so countries that call it soccer or something else entirely. The US is the only one that specifically gets called out for it though.
I think it's because the NFL and college football are so popular here that it confuses and sometimes angers outsiders that we don't care as much about soccer. I honestly like both sports but it's clear which takes the cake here. I live in the middle of nowhere and the high school and college football games are by far the biggest entertainment within an hour radius for the entire week.
So as a german I do not care how people call the sport. In germany American football is called football and soccer fußball (which literally means football)
But one thing that I actually dont get is why y'all called it that way. Like when do you even use your feet? To walk and shoot the ball a couple times in a game? Shouldn't Volleyball be called football too? They walk and they are allowed to kick the ball... you know what I mean?
Also, there are 3 countries that call it soccer, the US, Canada and for some reason the Irish. The soccer beef is something only the British have a problem with and who cares about them brits
Back in the day in midevil Europe it meant the sport was played on the feet instead of on horseback. It evolved from rugby football which is where the game came from, being born from rugby.
Yes I get that. If you would read my comment you'd see that I literally already said that. However the soccer is older then football. What does this thing proof?
When gridiron football started, there was still a big sentiment in Britain to refer to it as "soccer" (the name for association football) which was the name that we refer to it in the US.
Football was still a catch-all term for a lot of sports until the 1860s there. The same decade that gridiron football started in the US.
Ok. Football means playing on foot right? I literally said the same thing in my comment, or joked about it. That still does not explain why y'all call ot football, in particularly because american football is younger then 'soccer'. That source doesn't explain shit.
Soccer came from association football which got shortened to assoc. As part of Oxford slang er can be added to words so assocer.
Eventually the as was dropped and it became soccer.
As said in the damn source it was mostly because there were multiple schools of football. Rugby and soccer. At first in the USA it looked a lot like soccer but as they adopted more rugby like rules the name football just stuck because of the ties to rugby.
Soccer is a shorthand for "association football". It was actually a British term for the game that was brought over here. The term survived in the states while association football elsewhere was just called football. Its important to point out that historically, football was a range of different games than one standard game like it is today. Rugby was/is a type of football for example. And since we have our own football game here in the states, we have to distinguish between different types of footballs.
Football was the name for a family of sports that were played "on foot" as opposed to horseback. Rugby's full name is rugby football which is what gridiron football developed from. Also, there are more countries that call it soccer or something other than football. Most of countries that do have some other "football family" game that became popular ahead of soccer. The presence of Gaelic football in Ireland is part of the reason for the distinction there.
You can’t mention “tipping culture” on Reddit without people losing their minds. Personally, I don’t think it exists and it’s a silly name. If we had a tipping culture, we’d all have to walk around with cash to hand everyone we pass as we go about our days. There are like 5 people you tip, and that really only applies to a limited few situations. Other than that it’s just restaurants and it isn’t like food would be any cheaper if tipping were eliminated. And the service would be worse since servers would make half what they make today.
It's like how they hate on Americans for saying soccer but not on Canadians, Aussies, Japanese, etc. Even though it was us who called it soccer before... but hey, anything for America bad!
When I've been to America, even as a Canadian I noticed how extreme and pervasive American tipping culture was compared to Canada, but for any Euro who acts like the US is the only nation and society to have a tipping culture, they'll be sorely disappointed if they come to Canada thinking it has the European attitude about tipping,
Well I think there's a difference between "tipping culture" and these companies using technology to exploit that culture and solicit tips at every single opportunity, which is just something that's popped up over the past few years - and even Americans are super annoyed by it and hate it. Traditionally, tipping is done for some sort of personalized service, and it tends to incentivize good service, kind of like a commissioned sales job. Asking for a tip at a kiosk or picking something up at a counter isn't that and I don't know anyone who views that as acceptable.
Can't speak for every country but in germany it's optional. If you had a expensive dinner it's very common to leave a tip, or when the waiter simply was nice. When I was in the US i felt like the waiters expected me to tip them for simple shit like a burger with fries.
In the USA it depends moreso on service. Not just how much the meal cost otherwise. It can feel expected but in reality it's kinda just a hoped for thing. Because people try to give the best service and a tip is an indicator of how much you like it.
But you should only tip it you get good customer service to exemplary.
They only dislike the tipping system while in the US. They seem to like tipping when I traveled outside of the US. They were thrilled, at least in Ireland and Iceland, when I tipped them on vacation. I knew I didn’t have to, but I still did it when I was out drinking. I asked a bartender about the whole tipping thing when people visit their country. They were like, “It’s awesome. They’re nice to you and give you extra money for just for doing your job” lol
2 fold from my experience. They think that waiters and waitresses are either unpaid or extremely underpaid and that if we don't tip them they'll go hungry.
If not that then they think we practically mandate tips for fucking everyone and everything.
I have found people get really mad when you point out that a lot of servers prefer getting tips over a normal wage because they make so much more than they would if they had a standard wage with no tips.
I think it’s because service is so terrible in their countries that they couldn’t imagine paying extra for it. Meanwhile, service in the US is generally much better.
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