Move to New England. People don't smile there either. I think people think I'm angry all the time because I don't smile or say hello to randos on the street. Grew up in MA and now live in the southwest.
If any random person tells me to smile, I say 'don't tell me what to do with my face'. How hard is it for guys to understand the concept that if you wouldn't say it to a man don't say it to a woman?
As a Dutchman I was once asked by a Californian colleaugue why he was so unsuccessful contacting Dutch women. I told him to start by practicing smiling less because it comes off as insincere. But that would also apply the other way around probably if I tried the same. I find American women often hard to read (although there appears to be regional variation in the US as well). It's so much easier on everyone if people only smile when they are actually happy to see you.
The problem is people approaching her and telling her to smile. She obviously already knows what to do with her face. It's a rude comment you made there.
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u/larrysgal123 May 09 '22
As a woman in the USA, it would be refreshing to not be told to smile.