9 Bizarrely Awkward American Questions That Baffle the Rest of the World!

Ever asked a stranger what they do for a living in a foreign country? Get ready to laugh… and maybe cringe. Here’s what Americans get hilariously wrong abroad, and what NOT to say next time.

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1. “So, What Do You Do?”

When I first moved abroad, I thought asking “What do you do?” was just good ol’ American small talk.

Little did I know, this innocent question can sound like prying into someone’s tax returns.

I’ll never forget asking it at a dinner in Ukraine.

A young guy sitting across from me just stared, narrowing his eyes like I’d demanded his deepest secrets.

He eventually muttered, “I do… business.” And that was it.

This, of course, only made me more curious. “Oh! What kind of business?”

I asked with a friendly smile, thinking I’d broken…