USA is a great country and fastest growing economy.
Americans are popular for their lifestyle and fashion.
They are scoring the number 1 position in the style trends and technology.
But, there are few things which Americans do not like to do.
Life Science facts made a list of 10 things which Americans do not like at all.
10.
90% of Americans don't like to cook
For some Americans, going out to dinner is a treat, planned and budgeted for.
For others, it's just another Tuesday night.
In the Harvard Business Review, researcher Eddie Yoon shares data he's gathered over
two decades working as a consultant for consumer packaged goods companies.
Early in Yoon's career, he conducted a survey that determined that Americans fell into one
of three groups: • 15 percent said they love to cook
• 50 percent said they hate to cook • 35 percent are ambivalent about cooking
When Yoon conducted the same survey 15 years later, the percentages had changed.
Only 10 percent of consumers professed a love of cooking, while 45 percent said they outright
hated it and 45 percent were on the fence.
9.
Americans are lazy and complacent
Americans Blow $27.8 Billion a Year by Being Lazy.
The headline grabbed my attention: "Americans have become lazy and it's hurting the economy."
People were furious years ago when George W. Bush correctly surmised that immigrants
"do jobs that Americans won't do."
CNN Money said laziness isn't just about not wanting to work.
It's also about not taking risks, changing routines, switching jobs, starting businesses,
going to school, getting training, picking up skills, moving around the country, expanding
your network, and getting out of your comfort zone.
In the industrial Midwest, unemployed factory workers don't want to relocate as much as
they want the factory to reopen.
The generations of today — including the Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials
— don't always like to roll the dice as much as the World War II generation did.
We prefer safe bets, and we like it when opportunities come to us on a silver platter.
Even the definition of the American dream has changed.
Wealth and materialism are out, safety and security are in.
8.
Americans don't have kettles…and people can't handle it
GO into any British kitchen and you'll find an electric kettle sitting there alongside
the cooker, microwave, and toaster.
But it seems the same can't be said across the pond.
It appears a growing number of Americans don't own an electric kettle with some not even
knowing they actually exist - and it's all down to their hot drink of choice.
Tea-loving Brits need to flick on the kettle and brew up at a moments notice while Americans
prefer coffee as their top drop so have opted for drip machines instead or just microwave
water if it needs to be hot.
And of the few that do own kettles in the States, many tend to be the kind you heat
on the stove, which has apparently led to some meltdowns.
But news that many Americans don't own the appliance has sent people into a frenzy and
they took to Twitter to stay how stunned they were.
7.
Two-thirds of Americans don't like Donald Trump
A majority of Americans do not approve of how President Trump uses his favorite social
media platform.
The ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 67% of Americans disapprove of the president's
use of Twitter.
Those surveyed were also more likely to associate negative words with Trump's tweets:
• 68% said the tweets were inappropriate • 65% said the tweets were insulting
• 52% said the tweets were dangerous They were less likely to associate positive
words with his tweets: • 21% said the tweets were refreshing
• 41% said the tweets were interesting • 36% said the tweets were effective
The poll surveyed a random sampling of 1,001 adults around the country from July 10-13.
It has an error margin of 3.5%.
Per the poll, 35% Democrats, 23% Republicans and 35% independents were surveyed.
6.
Americans hate their jobs
With the U.S. economy on solid footing, American workers may be feeling better about their
career prospects, but most aren't thrilled with their actual jobs.
In fact, two-thirds are disengaged at work, or worse, according to a new Gallup study
on the American workplace.
Of the country's approximately 100 million full-time employees, 51 percent aren't engaged
at work -- meaning they feel no real connection to their jobs, and thus they tend to do the
bare minimum.
Another 16 percent are "actively disengaged" -- they resent their jobs, tend to gripe to
co-workers and drag down office morale as a result.
5.
Americans Hate Android And Love Apple
Why do Americans overwhelmingly prefer iPhone when the rest of the world has overwhelmingly
embraced Android?
The numbers tell an incredible story.
Worldwide, Android has 75% market share in smartphones, versus 15% for Apple, according
to IDC.
But in the United States, the iPhone still rules, accounting for 63% of smartphone sales
at Verizon and an amazing 84% of smartphone sales at AT&T.
In Asia, affluent young buyers are dropping the iPhone and turning to Android devices,
particularly those made by Samsung.
One marketing manager in Bangkok says Apple products have become like Louis Vuitton handbags,
something that once was considered luxe but now is commonplace.
But here in the States Android still lags far behind, even though, to my mind, the top
Android phones like the Google/LG Nexus 4 and Samsung Galaxy S3 (my primary smartphone)
are at least as good as the iPhone.
Apple is an American company, and Americans like to root for the home team.
Part of it also might be that Apple's lawsuits against Android phone makers have been an
effective form of marketing, creating the impression that Apple's rivals are a bunch
of Asian cloners – a message that resonates with many Americans.
But Apple and its cheerleaders in the States don't just criticize Android phones; they
also criticize Android users, depicting them as low-class people who are uneducated, poor,
cheap and too lacking in "taste" (a favorite Apple fanboy word) to pay for an Apple product
and instead willing to settle for a low-price knockoff.
4.
America so afraid to take a vacation
In 2016, the number of unused vacation days in the US reached a 40-year high.
Researchers at Oxford Economics hired by the US Travel Association put the numbers at about
169m days, equivalent to $52.4bn in lost benefits.
The main culprit?
America's workaholic culture.
It's not that Americans do not want a vacation – it's that they are afraid to take it.
Currently, on average, each US worker fails to use about five paid vacation days a year.
As unused vacation days reach a record high, a number of employers are trying to take a
different approach to paid vacations, helping create a movement for employees to reclaim
their personal time.
Another survey of 1,005 Americans, conducted last year, found that just 15% of Americans
planned to take a real vacation in 2014.
That same survey found that 33% of Americans couldn't afford a vacation, 30% were too
busy and that 22% were going to take a short vacation over a summer weekend.
3.
Americans don't really like the media much
Just 24 percent of Americans said they regard "the news media" as "moral," but that
number jumps to 53 percent for the media they consume often.
17 percent of Americans said they found "the news media" in general to be "very accurate,"
but asked specifically about the outlets they relied on for news, that number doubled to
34 percent.
2.
Americans Don't Want To Befriend a Transgender Person
A new YouGov survey reveals that a quarter of Americans say they wouldn't be friends
with a transgender person.
Fewer than a fifth would date one.
Why the lack of acceptance?
A full 27 percent of American adults on a recent YouGov survey said no.
Even fewer—less than 20 percent—said they would be open to dating a transgender person.
YouGov survey didn't just examine American misconceptions about transgender people in
the abstract; they asked probing questions about personal interactions with transgender
people as well.
Four percent of Americans had been on a date with a transgender person in the last year.
But just over a quarter of respondents said they would not tell anyone if they had sex
with a transgender person.
That quarter includes 38 percent of respondents who identify as "completely male" and
21 percent of "completely female" respondents.
1.
Americans don't like sharing roof with their partners
Americans are less likely to share a roof with a partner than they were a decade ago.
Whereas 39% of all US adults lived without a partner or spouse in 2007, that number has
risen to 42% in 2017.
The dropping marriage rate is large enough to tip the scales, despite an opposing trend:
Unmarried adults are still more likely to live with a romantic partner than before.
These trends ring especially true for those under 35: About 61% of them are "unpartnered,"
versus 56% a decade ago.
"Unpartnered" people may include couples who live apart, single parents or people who live
with their parents.
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