It's a total tangent, but this reminds me of one of my favorite novels, The Shockwave Rider[1]. It's all about this phenomenon, but dialed up to 11. Honestly, those of us who grew up in the USA long enough ago are basically immigrants now too. This is a very different country than it was 30 years ago. Not only that, but much like India, there is great difference between some of the individual States.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider