Well I have lived in Massachusetts all of my life. I have never referred to anyone as a yankee that was not a member of that baseball team. I’ve always thought of people from Maine as “Mainers.”
Tea around here is served hot in a tiny pot with a little bag. Iced Tea is served cold with a slice of lemon stuck on the edge of the glass.
When I’m done eating I tend to stack the plates or at least move them towards the edge of the table. I guess I don’t eat in fancy enough restaurants and most people would revile me if I did since I have two children under 3. I like to keep my silverware if there will be a next course since we usually lose some to the gremlins under the table and it is always nice to have replacements available. I also rarely eat at places with linen napkins but I have never laid a napkin in my lap in my life. I just wasn’t raised right I guess.
Also I do cut with the knife in my right hand and switch the fork to my right to eat. Yeah it is awkward but natural all at the same time.
I studied 3 languages besides English in school (French, Latin and Spanish) but since I never used them outside of school I did not become proficient in them and couldn’t do much with them today.
I have only been to one country besides my own. Canada. I have never gone so far north that they did not take American money in their businesses. I can see where tourists who had not travelled before could be confused.
When I started dating my now husband his whole family went to the gun club and shot in leagues! I had never imagined people did such a thing. My FIL has an interesting collection of firearms - he collects them like some people collect stamps. I won’t say we get shot at all the time around here but I am aware that people do carry guns and not necessarily for protection. In high school the kid in the locker next to mine had a gun hanging inside his locker door and he dealt drugs from his locker.
I got the impression that most other countries hate Americans because generally the news shows people telling us to go away as they don’t want us involved in whatever is happening in their country. Not that I blame them - I don’t make up our foreign policy though and I don’t have the ear of anyone who does so what am I supposed to do? Please don’t tell me vote either as you’ve already read about the electoral college in the above posts.
I have no idea why we have such strange rules about sex in movies. Last I heard was because all the violence and explosions and blood you see are all fake buy sex is real. That made no sense to me either. Many people attribute the attitudes about sex to the puritans but I suspect it is more the bible belt influence. Just look at Texas - more than 6 vibrators is intent to distribute. Since when did vibrators become drugs? Our drug laws are equally idiotic.
I’ve often wondered what it must be like to live so close to so many other countries and have your neighbors speak so many different languages. We get caught up in our own culture so much because we have to go so far to get away from it.
Oh and gas is cheap for us comparitively. I think there was a MPSISM thread about what gas costs where you live. Also many people do think SUVs are safer and some just like them. Personally I suffer from the syndrome where I think my car is 5 times as big as it is so I couldn’t drive anything bigger than the minivan I already think is too big but with two car seats those sliding side doors are a godsend. We do also spend a lot of time in our cars. My husband used to commute an hour and a half one way each day - I never cared much about what my car was like until I had to drive more than a mile to work each day.
Oh and Arnrie for Governor? Only in California 
Awww, come on, I can’t be the only one who has heard the “yankees suck” song every year when the world series approaches.