Well while multinational capitalism is near universal, I did find some of the attitudes in the states directed towards work rather scary.
For example, my lady's brother and his wife currently are working 7 days a week 9 hours a day because the company they work for have decided as much.
They go along with it because between receiving money and the need to retain the job to have health insurance, there isn't really a choice, yet for a first world country that sort of record is a little ridiculous. I've even heard of cases of literal contempt for anyone without job or money and the assumption that if someone is poor it is because they themselves are lazy or deficient or (in worst cases), actively sinful.
I'll also say The states is probably the only country where religion is actually used by the wealthy to reinforce the idea that they have a right to their stupidly opulent life styles, and the rather hypocritical attitude that a person o inherits lots of money and then uses it to get more money is actively entitled to what they receive (someone recently became president of the country using that mantra).
Religion in general in America tends to be far more overt, far more extreme and indeed often tied to political or economic assumptions.
Of course this is not to say that there aren't! people in America who are actively spiritual or seak a connection with God, indeed meeting those people is quite refreshing, (I'm married to one for a start), however the general schema of "wealth=success=god loves me" type of is rather scary.
In general the problem I found with a lot of things in America is everything! is taken to extremes.
In some cases this is not such a bad thing, for example when it's a matter of politeness or courtesy. however this can produce rather uncomfortable attitudes, in religion, in politics, and economically and professionally as well, and I'm afraid given the current political situation over there this is probably going to increase, particularly because a lot of those attitudes are not so much reasoned as arrived at basically by default.
Some of the stories my lady's has told me about her family's attitudes have been very scary indeed, both at how they arrive at such attitudes, (eg fox news, local church), and because they tend to assume such attitudes are! the truth no matter what and don't even wish to engage with anything that criticises them.
it actually drives my lady up the wall, particularly because a lot of the unassumed, conservative rhetoric tends to have a very Christian bias, and as a Christian herself who believes in things like use of brain and being decent to people, she finds the use of "Christianity" as effectively an economic and political buzword most enfuriating.
It's not just in terms of right and left wing, or christian vs everything else that the states tends to be polarized. Gender relations are far more formal, eg, men hunt and watch sport and make things in their sheds women talk about children and weddings and flowers, indeed one thing I noticed in the states was that almost on a cultural level men tended to be far quieter unless discussing a very specific interest.
Similarly, I noticed racial sterriotypes tended to be a little more exaggerated, dark skinnned is Black!!!!! with a capital black, anyone who is Irish is more irish than the irish, even in terms of gamers and such, anyone who is a geek! is a super super geek!
Indeed I did rather wonder if someone like a good friend of mine who is a of both progressive rock, nihilistic philosophy, seriously hard line science fiction and! rugby and cricket would be quite as common in the states.
I would've lived in America with my lady (Hell I'd live in the Kongo, on the moon or at the bottom of the sea I had to to be with her), however two things which would have worried me about being there full time as opposed to the couple of months I spent over there are firstly getting around (since the states is very spread out, it's assumed that everyone! has a car and public transport seemed less easily arrangeable and less efficient), and secondly alternative people to interact with and things to actually do! over there socially.
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)