USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.
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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa??
like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.Easy: school shootings, together with politician denial about the causes of this, guns, and lack of regulation for who owns them, make owning guns easier than getting a driver's license.
Super sad, but here we are.
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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa??
like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.Monoculture. I live in Canada, and it's pretty rare for a person, and especially a group, to have only one culture they draw from to firm their habits and identity. Even immigrants have their home and whatever mishmash of a culture their work ends up with. Its somewhat easy to tell travelers apart from residents by them having a discernible accent. If I can tell your accent is Irish, and not just some combination of Irish, British and Ukrainian, then your not here permanently.
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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa??
like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.Large, pristine pickups
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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa??
like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.Cheating on your spouse with someone at the company julefrokost (christmas work thing).
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https://cphpost.dk/2016-12-07/news/a-shocking-affair-danes-lead-european-infidelity-charts/
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I haven't seen anyone using parasols/umbrellas when it's too sunny in UK, but it's pretty common in Korea. I don't think I've seen them in Europe in general either. No idea for anywhere else to be honest.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Seen it in the Caribbean, I expect it's plenty common in places where the sun is a deadly laser.
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I haven't seen anyone using parasols/umbrellas when it's too sunny in UK, but it's pretty common in Korea. I don't think I've seen them in Europe in general either. No idea for anywhere else to be honest.
East and Southeast Asia in general. Umbrellas are not just for rain, but protection from the sun as well.
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I haven't seen anyone using parasols/umbrellas when it's too sunny in UK, but it's pretty common in Korea. I don't think I've seen them in Europe in general either. No idea for anywhere else to be honest.
when it's too sunny in UK
lol
Is that the British term for âit stopped raining for five secondsâ?
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Bagged milk
the upper-midwestern u.s. lost their bagged milk when kwiktrip quit selling it that way a few years back.
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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa??
like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.wrote last edited by [email protected]The societal problems if the US has been covered by others, but here are some culture shock ones I've experienced, in no particular order:
- still use personal checks
- put down knife after cutting your food, move fork to dominant hand
- drive through everything, including alcohol purchases
- horse and buggy on highway
- doorknobs instead of handles
- almost everyone has air conditioning, so doors and windows stay closed in summer
- double hung windows
- carry water bottles everywhere
- gas stoves and ovens are by far more popular than electric by a good margin
- in sink garbage disposals
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Bagged milk
Lots of countries have bagged milk
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Bagged milk
Bonjour, mon aime.
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I haven't seen anyone using parasols/umbrellas when it's too sunny in UK, but it's pretty common in Korea. I don't think I've seen them in Europe in general either. No idea for anywhere else to be honest.
That's also due to the still very widespread asian beauty ideal of white/pale skin.
We europeans used to idolize that too, if you look at old paintings and portraits the women have porcelain skin almost every time, because it meant you were of high enough status and wealth to not labor in the sun as the well tanned peasantry.
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Apparently Germany is one of the few (the only? Who knows) country to prefer carbonated water.
You have 2 neighbors where it's basically a public good.
I saw a guy in a park in Milan at almost midnight filling up a few 5 liter bottles from the carbonated water station. He clearly lived across the street and just...needed to bathe in fizzy water right then? No idea. But it's not just you all.
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Easy: school shootings, together with politician denial about the causes of this, guns, and lack of regulation for who owns them, make owning guns easier than getting a driver's license.
Super sad, but here we are.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The police kills more people every year than the amount of people killed in mass shootings since 1983. They also repeatedly ignore reports of people who go on to commit school shootings.
You should look into common sense pig control. I think that would save more lives than just being hysterical about AR-15s.
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Southern Europe here where the sun is also a deadly laser. Only parasols you can see are held by Asian tourists. Most people don't even wear sunscreen.
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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa??
like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.Civilians openly carrying handguns
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Monoculture. I live in Canada, and it's pretty rare for a person, and especially a group, to have only one culture they draw from to firm their habits and identity. Even immigrants have their home and whatever mishmash of a culture their work ends up with. Its somewhat easy to tell travelers apart from residents by them having a discernible accent. If I can tell your accent is Irish, and not just some combination of Irish, British and Ukrainian, then your not here permanently.
And honestly that's what I love about Canada and why we are the best country in the world. We're a mosaic rather than a melting pot. Each culture that comes here contributes something to the Canadian Zeitgeist that gets disseminated to everyone else, like spicing up an otherwise boring W.A.S.P existence.
When my family moved here from Portugal, they managed an apartment building in order to have a place to live while my father worked construction and my mother was a housekeeper. (Yeah...yeah...I know...it doesn't get any more Portuguese than that)
Anyway, I was just a toddler and the family was immediately befriended by the older Ukrainian lady next door and we soon became a part of her extended family for everything from christmas to birthdays, etc. My first memories are of toddling down the hall in my pjamas first thing in the morning to "Auntie Anne's" apartment. She was more my grandmother than my biological grandmothers who lived in Portugal at the time.
Through them, we learned kaiser. My mother learned how to make peirogies, cabbage rolls, etc...
We are without a doubt the most Ukrainian Portuguese family to have ever existed and I love it.
Sorry...got nostalgic there for a moment. Auntie Anne passed away decades ago and I still think about her sometimes.
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The societal problems if the US has been covered by others, but here are some culture shock ones I've experienced, in no particular order:
- still use personal checks
- put down knife after cutting your food, move fork to dominant hand
- drive through everything, including alcohol purchases
- horse and buggy on highway
- doorknobs instead of handles
- almost everyone has air conditioning, so doors and windows stay closed in summer
- double hung windows
- carry water bottles everywhere
- gas stoves and ovens are by far more popular than electric by a good margin
- in sink garbage disposals
almost everyone has air conditioning, so doors and windows stay closed in summer
When you walk outside and are practically swimming in the humidity that ac is a godsend. My windows mostly stay closed so I don't drown/suffocate lol
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The police kills more people every year than the amount of people killed in mass shootings since 1983. They also repeatedly ignore reports of people who go on to commit school shootings.
You should look into common sense pig control. I think that would save more lives than just being hysterical about AR-15s.
2024
Police- 1270
Mass shootings- 500ish (actually a down year)
While I agree we need police reform, let's be accurate.
Both problems need extensive work.
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Easy: school shootings, together with politician denial about the causes of this, guns, and lack of regulation for who owns them, make owning guns easier than getting a driver's license.
Super sad, but here we are.
That was my first thought too.
