13 Things That Americans Do That The Rest Of The World Just Finds Bizarre
1. Driving everywhere
2. Being able to buy anything you want at Wal-Mart
3. Price tags
4. America's weird version of puritanism
Of course, the original survey is from Reddit, which many people find bizarre too. 
more at link...
http://www.businessinsider.com/things-americans-do-that-seem-just-bizarre-to-the-outside-world-2013-5
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We’ve accepted NFL Cheerleaders and NBA Dance Teams, but do hockey and baseball need them?
http://www.thesportsbank.net/sidelineprincesses/baseball-hockey-cheerleaders-521/
I would have pulled out a map, and shown them how to read it, paying close attention to the scale portion 
(In fact, it might be a good idea for me to keep a US map handy, just to educate Americans brought up on GPS devices 
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You gotta convert it into metric. 1,300 km.
No, wait, that's not right either.
1.300km
We use a comma, they use a period to divide groups of a thousand. 
.... reading this I was reminded of the Mad Men portrayal of people smoking in the office in the early 60's ... almost chain smoking. Well now it's coffee. I had a manager like that, would have her sleeved Starfux cup everywhere she went and if she happened to not have time, or was between doses, look out - she was a fucking terror. Got to the point that she started to get their cardboard carafe's ever morning to keep at her desk and have her toadies bring her coffee during meetings.
I think she would have gone into shock and DT's if she went more than 2 hours without mainlining it.
I never drank it, never liked the taste, so totally don't understand the obsession. 
One of the local high schools used to specialize in recruiting players from around the country, and even won the national tournament once or twice.
I can't say for sure whether the entrance ceremony for a school ("Nyuugaku-shiki" is any more important than the graduation ceremony ("Sotsugyouo-shiki" . But I can say that high school final exams aren't really that important-- what's more important are the college entrance exams. Most students are restricted to one choice for a national (public) university (which is usually cheaper), but they can take as many tests as they want for private schools (sometimes costing $500 per test). But yes, once they get into college, then they can often breeze, if their subjects aren't too demanding. However, science and technology departments can be pretty tough, and of course medical school is quite rigorous.
I suppose I'm still a bit too close to the US as usually "The Rest of the World" means outside NA. Anyway one thing that the right wing IS right about is that it's popular to diss/hate the US. I don't like to agree with anything the right says but it's true, it's popular to dislike the US, in many cases because they are the largest, loudest, richest country in the world. Where the right is wrong is that there are MANY very good reasons not to like the US as everyone in this thread and the link posted in the OP agree upon. However I think many of the points in that link are silly and or bullshit, no offence intended to the OP, and seem like the kind of inarticulate shallow jabs at the US you see too much of, more for the sake of disliking the US than anything else. Many of these quips are also off the mark and are a distaste for global consumerism run amok, something that almost all western democracies share a large part of the blame for, and not the US specifically.
1. This is a problem for all countries with a wealthy populous spread out over a large geographic area. The US HAS indeed spearheaded the suburbia movement that made this 10x worse though, I'll give you that!
2. More a jab at global consumerism than the US in general. I've been to Europe and while they don't have Wallmarts exactly they have their own form of big box stores. They just don't realize it as much, Carefour, IKEA.
3. Huh? How is this a point?
4. I'll give you this, the US has a fucked up puritan moral foundation that is ruining a generation of kids.
5. Huh? Not a point that anyone thinks about. Again goes to mass consumerism and there are thousands of similar examples in other countries.
6. Huh? Again who cares, every country has their own flavours.
7. Huh? Have you seen Italian network TV?
8. Americans are indeed crazy patriotic to the point of sickness. But you'd be surprised how damn patriotic almost every country is. I can't think of a singly country where people don't fly their flag proudly. It's just that in other countries their flags are more about US(as in we) US US. Where the american flag often takes on connotations of ME, NOT YOU, ME, NOT YOU!!
9. Huh? Again consumerism, not US centric, and this is everywhere now. EVERYWHERE!
10. As others said this is more a college sports thing, which is unique to American culture.
11. Yeah I guess prom means more in the US than elsewhere, but I don't really think people find it bizarre.
12. This is a wealth thing and not so much american. It's pretty big in Asia.
13. Ok I'll give you this, we do find this bizzare 
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OK now onto what I think most people ACTUALLY find bizarre and the points that I think actually matter.
1. America thinks it's #1. But it's only really #1 in gun violence, incarceration rates, etc...
2. How is it that the US, richest country in the world, can't pay for some form of single payer healthcare, or something equivalent, when almost every other westernized democracy has.
3. How can a single country spend $680 Billion a year on their military, 40% of the world's total!!
4. How can said country in #3 have such horrible poverty and social benefits problems while spending such sums on their military!?
5. How can a country be so fucking divided as to STILL be the land of promise and freedom to millions of immigrants, many of whom sing the praises of the US more than its own citizens, yet have a large portion of their population living in the 18th centre in terms of race relations?
6. How can the richest country in the world come dead last year after year in countless measures of education?
7. How does a country elect someone like Bush? Then REELECT him!?
8. How can it possibly be that being uneducated is seen as a positive character trait by so many, not a negative one?
Etc.. etc...
These are the issues that REALLY baffle us outside the US, not most of the stuff in the link
You have to. We're small and have a quite good public transportation system that works (most of the times, unless there's a mountain coming down on the tracks/streets.) If you live in one of the big cities here, you probably don't even need a car to begin with.
We have super stores, where you can buy everything in one place as well. Except guns. That's a tad bit more regulated here. I had to fill out a weapon permit for one of my last Birthday gifts - which was a replica of a Navy 1851 Colt. Had to send in copies of my passport, etc.
In certain stores, we have that here as well.
Okay, you got me there. I guess people would faint visiting a newspaper stand here. Or just walking along the shore of the local lake. No big deal. Also full sex ed in schools 'n stuff, with free condoms. The agony!
Hey, I'm Swiss. And lactose intolerant. I'm happy if you like it, though. Okay, I admit, I love Fondue. It comes with a price, but I'm willing to pay.
We, in our household, do import pumpkin spices from the US. But pumpkin soup is no stranger here.
Oh yeah?
?version=1242546185Uhhh. There's a Chniese flag sported next to a Swiss flag in one of the holiday homes here. But you don't see them on cars, bikes or such, usually. But at the yards. Patriotism is a worldwide spread virus.
Can't say much about it, because I haven't seen it. But taking your bottle of water everywhere, yes. I'm guilty of that, too.
Yes, happens here, too. Usually, you just hang your diplomas on the wall and be done with it. No rings, special handshakes, etc. that I know off.
Okay, that doesn't happen here. There's no prom (although I guess some are pushing it, like Valentine's Day, Halloween and stuff.) Mostly, at the end of your school, you go on a vacation together, London, Paris, or New York City.
Ohh, it's coming here. Kneel before Tom Cruise, your Xenu-Overteeth, errm Overlord.
We don't have massive fights between religion and races. Some try to stir it up, but it doesn't work well. We have four official languages, we have a truly French part as well as a truly Italian part next to the German part. We don't have a President like you have (agreed, we have one for a year who kind of represents the Federation,) but seven members from diverse political parties to resemble the Federal Council, acting as Head Of State. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Switzerland
We have health-care, social welfare systems, and no student loans.
And it's not perfect, so I'd be rather shy on calling one's country 'the best.'