I live in Germany now and people here are downright rude compared to Texas. If they see a woman struggling to get her luggage onto a train they stare and think "stupid bitch, why did she pack her bags so heavy". Its a really "me" based culture over here, funny because thats what the US is critized as being. But at Texas A&M the old ways are not dead. Ladies are walked around campus at night, more often than not when a lady gets onto the bus to go around campus, 90% of the men stand up and offer her their seat, she has her choice and men will give you a funny look if you dont stand up. I might not have been taught how to do things the right way at home, but Texas A&M and Texas as a state taught me how it ought to be and Im quite happy to have been "learned".

BTW my wife is a German and she prefers it in Texas as well .. not the heat, not the flat land, not the pollution or lack of trees .. but she does like the friendly people and that you dont have to push and shove to go shopping.