A LinkedIn software designer named Aniruddh Chaturvedi moved to the US from India in 2011.

In an email to Business Insider, Chaturvedi listed what he found to be the most surprising things about American culture.

They include a love of road trips, the price of soda, and Americans' tendency to display the US flag everywhere.

Sometimes you don't realize what makes your country unique until you hear it from an outsider.

Aniruddh Chaturvedi, a senior software designer at LinkedIn, came to the US from India in 2011 and was immediately surprised by certain aspects of American culture. He now lives in California.

In a Quora post, Chaturvedi explained what he found most surprising about the US, drawn from his experience at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and from his time working at various Silicon Valley tech companies. He emailed additional thoughts to Business Insider.

Here are the highlights, from the apparent high integrity of American students to the outrageously low price of soda: