I’m from China and run a small men’s underwear store on Shopify. I want to offer everyday Americans good quality at fair prices.

A well-made pair costs me $2–3 to source. But for a $39 order, I spend about $25 on Facebook, Instagram, or Google ads, plus $12–15 on products and shipping. Almost nothing is left.

I work hard and take home under $1,000 a month. Honestly, I’m anxious and discouraged. I don’t want to sacrifice quality just to cover ad costs.

I want to earn trust, give customers real value, and make a modest living without constantly interrupting people with ads.

Any advice from customers or fellow sellers would mean a lot.

How do you discover and trust small brands?

In the month and a half I’ve been there, I’ve found 3 two-pronged plugs ending up bent from things that in other countries would:

A) Not give way and stay attached firmly

B) Immediately detach and be found unscathed

What’s going on????

Edit: for clarification, I am bending them back to fix them. I’m asking because I’m genuinely confused. Yes I trip and occasionally if not rarely yank at angles, but I do that elsewhere. And they’ve never bent like the ones I’ve seen here.

I've been reading about 19th-century Mormon converts emigrating from tight-knit English parishes to the US, bringing localized surnames with them. While names like Nutter, Penfold, and Sudweeks remain pretty scarce in Great Britain, they expanded rapidly across Utah pioneer family trees.

3 I can think of are Costco, In-N-Out and Trader Joe's

There's plenty of "US beaches suck compared to X country" arguments everywhere.

But why does nobody ever mention the USVI? it's literally American Caribbean. Or am I missing something?

Here in Texas, it’s very common to see things described as “Texas-size” instead of family-size or “party-size.” Do other states do something similar?

I wanted to give some attention here to one of my favorite TV shows of all time even as a Gen Z What’s everyone’s opinion of The Waltons?

If you watched it growing up—or discovered it later—what stayed with you? A favorite character, a particular storyline, or simply the atmosphere?

I’m especially curious whether your opinion changed as you got older. Do you enjoy it more now, or does it feel too sentimental for your taste?

Because I personally believe everybody should give this show a chance if you haven’t seen it. It's one of the best comfort shows out there next to Gilmore girls

And if you’ve never watched it, what impression do you have of it?

I've only ever heard that in movies and shows so I thought it was just something people in films said. I live in Ohio and I've only heard people say "pop", never soda. I've heard people call all types of pop "coke" but idk, that's really rare I think. At least where I live, it is

Edit: Sorry if I upset anyone over asking this! I was drinking a can of pop and someone in my TV show asked for a bottle of Soda which made me make this post. Just curiosity!

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I'm from Poland, and I've noticed a big imbalance: Hollywood dominates European cinemas and streaming, while European films rarely get a wide release in the US. I know subtitles and marketing budgets play a big role, but I don't think the gap reflects quality. Hollywood remade my favorite film, the Swedish A Man Called Ove, as A Man Called Otto, and I personally think the original is better. Meanwhile, Andrzej Wajda's The Promised Land is a cult classic across Europe, but as far as I know it's much less known in the US. What's your experience: how easy is it to find European films where you live, and would you watch more if they were easier to find?

By this I mean how often/how much you text, how long you meet up for dates, how considerate they are early on. I understand that women might be more restraint for safety reasons but the men I’ve gone out with seem very reserved too. This is in NYC.

Is there typically a ‘we don’t owe each other anything’ approach to dating?

I’m from China and recently had a funny misunderstanding on Reddit.

Someone answered a question I posted, and I replied with something like “Oh, thank you for the information 🤣.” I genuinely meant to thank them! In my experience, we often use 🤣 just to express laughter or friendliness, so I didn’t think much of it. But the person thought I was being sarcastic and even assumed I’d downvoted their comment (which I hadn’t). We cleared things up, but now I’m curious. Do Americans generally see 🤣 as sarcastic or rude? Or does it just depend on the context?

I’m still learning these little cultural differences, so I’d love to hear your thoughts!

I know that especially in the really popular sports like College Football and Basketball there are news of star players earning millions through NIL.

And I am curious as to the earning power of other student-athletes in other sports like volleyball, tennis, gymnastics, swimming, etc.

Do you personally know of any college student-athletes, whether friends, family or classmates, who have earned decent money through NIL?

I keep seeing controversial posts about parents/couples asking strangers to move on a plane so they can sit with their families and the response is always "they should have paid extra to select their seats."

I've flown a lot with my husband, both domestic in Australia and internationally and every time we've booked both tickets at once we've always been seated together by default, never chosen our seats we just let the airline pick. Paying extra for seat selection is usually to guarantee a specific seat like window or front of plane, emergency exit, etc.

I saw a parent on TikTok say they booked their tickets together but were still assigned separate seats, and people said its still expected to pay extra to sit together which is wild to me. Is this really a thing for US airlines?

On a recent AITA about a teenager wearing pjs to school, was surprised how many adults in the comments said they wear pjs out the house all day. Around me, you’d only occasionally see pjs late at night at the supermarket, never during the day.

So if you do wear pjs out, do you get changed into clean pjs and if so, why pjs and not other loungewear?

I’m from the UK and have travelled to the US several times, visiting California, Nevada, Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland.

Back home, I’m used to bank transfers without worrying much about which service someone uses. In the US, with Venmo, CashApp, PayPal and Zelle, I’m curious:

Do you have to ask people which app they use before paying them?

Is getting someone’s username or payment link a hassle?

Have you ever been unsure whether someone still uses an old payment account?

Do you use multiple apps because different friends prefer different ones?

I’m curious whether this is genuinely annoying or just something you get used to. What’s your experience?

I don’t live in the US but in Asia, and from the internet I have an impression that all that Americans eat is beef, and steak, and beef hamburgers, followed by maybe chicken, while pork is not much eaten at all.

While here in Vietnam my country, pork is most commonly eaten, then followed by chicken or fishes or anything else before beef because beef is very expensive here and not very commonly eaten unless it’s a treat or a special day

I’m not an native English speaker, and I don’t live in the US or any western countries where people speak English but in Asia, but I do surf Reddit a lot and I mainly play online games with people over there in the US and we talk with each other.

I notice they texted and called me using “dawg”, “hey dawg”, “nice, dawg” a lot. I feel like it’s the same version of “bro”, or ”hey bro.” I find that expression cute

But I wonder if I could use the same expression, “dawg”, “hey dawg” to a stranger English speaking person in real life I meet like the way people use ”bro”

Example: Get a job, build up enough savings in a couple of years (ie 30k) quit and travel for a year or so, come back, find a job and repeat.

I have heard of people whose parents – for ideological or religious reasons – never recorded their child's birth with the government. I am wondering how they were able to navigate the modern world subsequently.

In many Asian countries, it is normal for people to address other strangers in public as grandpa, grandma, brother, sister, aunty or uncle.

For example, if an old lady is struggling to cross a road, we may say 'Grandma, do you need help to cross the road?'

Or if we see a middle-age man who is working in a shop, we may ask 'Uncle, do you sell fruits here?'

Or if we see a young lady drop her purse while walking, we may call her 'Sister, you have dropped your purse.'

But I think this custom is not practised in USA (America).

I am curious to know how Americans feel if they addressed like that in public.

Will you dislike it if strangers address you as grandpa, grandma, brother, sister, aunty or uncle?

I recently learned that the vast majority of Cajuns and Louisianans with French last names are overwhelmingly monolingual English speakers today. ​Why did Louisiana French disappear so quickly over just a few generations, whereas Quebec managed to preserve French as its primary language? What political, social, or historical factors caused such a dramatic difference in language survival between the two regions?

Here in the EU it's fairly common for a kid to be into traffic signs (like you could be with country flags, exotic animals, car labels or pokémon). And a big part of it is learning to distinguish between them and learn their meaning, just like with flags or car brands. But american signs are primarily text-based, aren't they? Like, with fewer pictographic symbols compared to EU. Are kids interested in your traffic signs?

I'm from Southeast Asia, in almost every restaurant after you ordered something from the menu, you are supposed to just accept the food in whatever condition when it arrives at your table, quickly finish it and leave the place for the next patron.

My first time visiting the US, I was actually surprised when the waiter checked up on me not once, but twice after the food arrived at my table. Is that just a courtesy call like when someone ask you 'How's your day?' even though he is not really genuinely interested about your day, or am I really entitled to requesting a re-do of my dish if it's not to my liking and not be seen rude doing so?