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Is this because American people genuinely think that 2 weeks a year for vacation is good enough, because of a culture of ambition, or simply because of the grip of employers is too strong to take the risk of asking for longer vacations (i.e. very cheap to fire people compared to other countries)?

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It's just a cultural norm. There are strong economic and political and historical reasons why the cultural norm exists, but the fish doesn't see the water. From the point of view of an American, it's just "normal".

I know in Seattle its even more culturally tolerated because we get so little sun year-round and you gotta binge in the peak summer month.

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