American Language

Americans tend to be independent and keep things from one another. There are rarely relationships in which one person (or friend) knows every single thing about another. Americans are quick to push people away by either being too clingy or too distant. We struggle to find a middle ground, which is what we all desperately need. "Friends" are sometimes seen as just someone one has had a conversation with once or twice. This lowers the standard and expectations of true, close friends because there is nothing to distinguish someone you spend every day with and give everything to, as opposed to someone you vaguely know.