Word differences!!

General words---- American words

Cinema ---- Movie
Z ( Alphabet)--- Zee ( pronounced)
Drawing room--- Living room

Policeman--- Cop
Canteen--- Cafeteria
Sleeping-- Nap
Shopping Complex--- Mall
Bye--- Later
Toilet--- Restroom
Waste--- Trash

Some facts

Unlike Bangladesh, in US the T.V. channels can't be tuned according to your wish. For e.g. ESPN will come on channel 39 for everybody, you can't change it. This is applied according to your area and the cable company.

The date is written as, MM/ DD/ YY i.e. Month/ Date/ Year.

Don't call a black person a "Negro" or "Black", it is always polite to call them "African Americans". Also never call an "American Indian" as a "Red Indian", they get very offended.

US is divided into 4 time zones. Depending on the zone, your time will differ from any other zone state.

Disneyland

Disneyland is an American theme park located in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company. Disneyland has the most cumulative attendance of any theme park in the world, with close to 600 million guests since July 18th 1955. In 2009, 15.9 million people visited the park making it the second most visited park in the World during that calendar year.

Times Square

Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan, a borough of New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47 Streets. The Times Square area consists of the blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from east to west and West 40th and West 53rd Streets from south to north, making up the western part of the commercial area of Midtown Manhattan.

The Empire State

The Empire State Building is a 102 story landmark Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York, The Empire State. It stood as the world’s tallest building for more than forty years, from its completion in 1931 until construction of the World Trade Center. But after the destruction of the world Trade Center in 2001, once again it became the tallest building in New York City.

The Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon is a steep sided gorge carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park, o ne of the first national parks in the United States.

The Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1, it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Martin County. It is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and United States.

Capitol Hill

Capitol Hill, aside from being a metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington D.C, stretching easterly in front of the U.S. capitol along wide avenues. It is one of the oldest residential communities in Washington, and with roughly 35,000 people in just under two square miles, it is also one of the most densely populated.

The Niagara Falls

The Niagara Falls is voluminous waterfalls on the Niagara River, Straddling the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S state of New York. The falls are 17 miles north- northwest of Buffalo, New York and 75 miles south- southeast of Toronto, Ontario, between the twin cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New York.

The Hollywood Sign

The Hollywood Sign is a famous landmark in the Hollywood Hills area of Mount Lee in Los Angeles, California, spelling out the name of the area in 45 foot tall white letters. It was created as an advertisement in 1923. The sign makes frequent appearances in popular culture, particularly in establishing shots for films and television programs set in or around Hollywood.

The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty officially titled Liberty Enlightening the world is a monument commemorating the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence given to the United Stated by the people of France to represent the friendship between the two countries established during the American Revolution. It represent a woman wearing a stola, a radiant crown and sandals, trampling a broken chain, carrying a torch in her raised right hand and a tabular ansata, where the date of the Declaration of Independence is inscribed, in her left arm.

Beauty of U.S.

USA is the land of the free and the home of the brave. There are so many beautiful places which is a part of great tourist attractions in the world. Some of its names are given below:

Sports

Sports in the United States are an important part of the United States culture. However, the sporting culture of the U.S is different from that of many other countries. Compares to any other nation, Americans prefer a unique set of sports. For example, soccer, the most popular sport in the world, is not as popular in the U.S compared to the four most team sports- namely baseball, American football, basketball and ice hockey.

Dress code

Americans dress code is well known to whole world. Their dress is not that much different but they way they wear it contains some specialty. Mostly girl’s wear jeans with tops may be with the snicker shoes or with high heels. And guys do have various kinds of styles as different ways. Some can be hip-hop; some may be emo’s and so on. In the work place men’s are required to wear light-colored collared shirt, a matching necktie, and formal leather shoes. For the women they can wear jeans, casual pants, shirts, T-shirts, blouses, skirts, trousers, dresses, shorts, sweater sets, and blazers. For any casual party women can wear long dresses.

Religion(part 2)

Multicultural heritage as well as those founded within the country, and have led the United States to become the most religiously diverse country in the worldThe majority of Americans identify themselves as Christians (76%), while non-Christian religions (including Buddhism , Hinduism, Judaism , and others) collectively make up about 4% of the adult population. Another 15% of the adult population identified as having no religious affiliation. According to the American Religious Identification Survey, religious belief varies considerably across the country: 59% of Americans living in Western states (the "Uncharted") report a belief in God, yet in the South (the "Bible Belt") the figure is as high as 86%.

Religion

Religion in the United States is remarkable both in its high adherence level compared to other developed countries as well as its diversity. The First Amendment to the country's Constitution prevents the government from having any authority in religion, and guarantees a majority of Americans report that religion plays a "very important" role in their lives, a proportion unusual among developed nations, though similar to other nations in the Americas. The free exercise of religion.

Family

The American family structure is considered a traditional family support system involving two married individuals providing care and stability for their biological offspring. However, this two-parent, nuclear family has become less prevalent, and alternative family forms have become more common. The family is created at birth. And establishes ties across generations. Those generations, the extended family of aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins, can hold significant emotional and economic roles for the nuclear family.

Black Friday

Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. The term dates back to at least 1966, although its usage was primarily on the East coast. The term has become more common in other parts of the country since 200. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but as many workers have the day off as part of the Thanksgiving holiday, this increases the number of potential shoppers.

Easter Sunday

Easter is the central religious feast in the Christian liturgical year to Christian scripture; Jesus was resurrected from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion. Some Christians celebrate this resurrection on Easter Day or Easter Sunday, two days after Good Friday and three days after Maundy Thursday. Relatively newer elements such as the Easter Bunny and Easter egg hunts have become part of the holiday's modern celebrations, and those aspects are often celebrated by many Christians and non-Christians alike. There are also some Christian denominations who do not celebrate Easter.

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United Sates. Traditionally, Thanksgiving is associated with giving thanks to God for the Harvest and expressing gratitude. While historically religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular holiday.

Halloween

Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints, but is today largely a secular celebration.
Halloween activities include trick or treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, carving jack o lanterns, ghost tours, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, pranks, telling scary stories and watching horror films.

Christmas Day

Christmas Day is a holiday held on December 25 to commemorate the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity. The date is not known to be the actual birth date of Jesus, and may have initially been chosen to correspond with either the day exactly nine months after some early Christians believed Jesus had been conceived. Christmas is central to the Christmas and holiday season, and in Christianity marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days.

New Year Eve

New Year's Day is the first day of the year. On the modern Gregorian calendar, it is celebrated on January 1.It is a public holiday, often celebrated with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts. January 1 on the Julian calendar corresponds to January 14 on the Gregorian calendar, and it is on that date that followers of some of the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the New Year. In Western Christianity New Year's Day, January 1, is the eighth day of Christmas.

HappY HoliDays

The United States does not have national holidays in the sense of days on which all employees in the U.S. receive a day free from work and all business is halted. The U.S. Federal government can only recognize national holidays that pertain to its own employees; it is at the discretion of each state or local jurisdiction to determine official holiday schedules. There are eleven such "Federal holidays", ten annual and one quadrennial holiday.
Some of the holidays are given below:

Weather

Unites states contains 50 different states. And each of them has different kinds of temperatures. As some of the states has less than 0F temperature. On the other hand some of the states have like 120F. Changes of the weather place an important role for changing people’s lifestyle.
The current weather of 50 states is given below:

Some facts

1. At most of the American airports, luggage carrier trolleys are not free of charge. You will have to pay a nominal charge of 25 cents to 1 dollar.
2. For crossing roads there will be buttons provided on the signal post, which have to be pressed in order to get the "Walk signal".
3. In public local transport buses, there is no ticket conductor. Also in some places you won't get any formal tickets for travelling, unless you want a day pass.You need to make a stop request to the driver, by pulling the bell string.
4. In local public bus, you need to drop the fare into a cash-box by the driver's side. (Don't give it to the driver). Dollar bills will go in the machine and coins into the drop box. Always carry the exact fare, since there is no provision to get back the change.** Remember: Whatever you put in the cash box, if extra, is gone. Maximum driver can do is, to give you that much worth tickets, but not the money.

5. Most of the Gas Stations (Petrol Pumps) are self serviced, i.e. you need to fill it up yourself. And all machines are equipped to pay by credit cards

Food

Foods can carry any ones lifestyle. You guys can think that how? Well I believe that everysingle thing with whom any person is related can verify their lifestyle. So why not foods? American foods are well known because most of its foods are the part of junk food. And obviously we all love junk foods. Such as pizzas, hamburger, cheese burger, different kinds of pie, nachos, hotdog and so many other cuisines.

Education System

Americans have different kinds of education system. As their starting institution is pre-kindergarten. And then kindergarten. After that it contains elementary school from class 1 to class 5. And then middle school contains class 6 to class 8. From class 9-12 it is high school. But in high school that called din different names. Such as 9-refresher, 10- sophomore 11- Junior, 12- Senior. They have the graduation system after passing the senior year as getting diploma from high school and also middle school. Over there they use the term college as university level. It usually contains four years.

Friends

Friends

Well obviously friends are one of the most important parts of our life. Most of the time we pass our leisure time with our best buddies. You may ask how life style have link with FRIENDS???????? I believe that they do have links with anybody’s lifestyle. As like how they do fun with their friends can draw a picture of their lifestyle with their friends. So most of the Americans pass their joyful time with their pals by ice scatting, mountain hiking, going shopping, movies, parties ( as it is a very common scenario in US), swimming, or just being hanging out in anyone’s house or any fast food.

Word differences!!

There are some general words which have different meaning in US. So there are some simple differences between general words and american words. Check this out:
General Words-American Words
Chemist/ Medical store-Drugstore/ pharmacy
Good name-First name
Family name/ Surname-Last name
Rubber-Eraser
Cold drink-Soda
Curd-Yogurt
Biscuit-Cookies
Toffee-Candy
Football-Soccer
Rugby-Football
Dustbin-Trash can

Marriage

Marriage is one of the most important parts of the society. And as I said that lifestyle is nothing but the way a person lives so marriage can be a part of any people’s lifestyle. Americans have different kind of marriage styles. Well according to their religion most of the marriage is being held by Christian way. Beside that they also have Muslim, Hindus and Baddish ways of marriage. As traditional they have Hawaiian marriage and African American marriage.

Language

English is the most common language in the united States. Though the U.S. federal government has no official language, English is considered in practice but not necessarily ordinated by law, because of its wdespread use. English has been given official status by 30 of the 50 state government.
The use of the English in the U.S was inherited from British colonization. The first wave of the English speaking settlers arrieved in North America in the 17th centure. During that time, there were also speakers of Spanish, French, Dutch, German Swedissh, Iriss and so on. Without this they have kind of difference in their language with different accents.

American Lifestyle

Lifestyle means how people live. People from different country have different kinds of lifestyle. Over here I am going to discuss about the American’s lifestyle. Obviously their lifestyle is way different than ours.

Lifestyle, it includes every single thing which is part of their life. It could be their language, food, behavior, social life as a part of family, friends, educational institutions, festivals, dress code, sports and so on.