Friday, May 30, 2014
European Culture
Getting use to the amount of smoking in the Netherlands is a hard thing to do. Cigarettes are defiantly a part of the lifestyle here and it seems as though no one is offended by the smoke. Not that smoking doesn't happen in America, but we are not use to it in the quantities that are present here. At a young age the children here are exposed to the large amount of smoking that happens on the street comers or the outside restaurants. Not only are cigarettes abundant, but the presence of marijuana is out in the open and not frowned upon here. Being Americans this is a slight culture shock to us, and most of us tend to stare as we walk by the coffee shops. Smoking is defiantly a larger part of the culture here then what we are use to.
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I diffidently noticed this culture difference too. It shocks me that they are so open to smoking even though they know the consequence's - Nicolette
ReplyDeleteIt is a bit odd when people are smoking next to you, sometimes they try to keep the smoke away from other people but other times they just blow it right into your face.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, we should recognize that it was not long ago in the US that smoking was well-accepted. It seems that the taxing approach our country took was the most effective approach to hindering the proliferation of smoking.
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