USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.
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Large-scale evacuations because of unexploded WW2 ordinance.
That’s every country in central Europe I think
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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.Trucks driving down the street yelling commercial promos at you through loud speakers. Annoying af
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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
Ive never even been to the US but a big one for me is the lack of electric kettles. Theyre in basically every home here in the UK.
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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.Yellow school buses, apparently.
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Ive never even been to the US but a big one for me is the lack of electric kettles. Theyre in basically every home here in the UK.
They're not as common. I think most people either use a coffee maker (for coffee), or their microwaves to heat water. However, I have an electric kettle in my office for tea. One thing you may notice in the US vs Europe in that regard is that the standard outlet is 120V, so most small appliances can't pull as much power as their 240V counterparts in Europe. So my electric kettle is probably a little slower than yours.
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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]Any Vietnamese photos of people doing weird things
Look up cursed images Vietnam and you'll find some good ones I swear
Sorry but here is a reddit post of some of them:
https://old.reddit.com/r/VietNam/comments/18q72y7/vietnams_cursed_images_113/
Not reddit:
https://saigoneer.com/saigon-culture/16779-the-discomforting-poetry-of-vietnamese-cursed-image
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put down knife after cutting your food, move fork to dominant hand
what the fuuck
Yeah, this is not typical.
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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]In Japan, many people obediently follow the dividers between going up and down the stairs at train stations, but in other countries, there don't seem to be any such dividers.
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Losing a ground war against flightless birds.
One of my favorite bits of weird history trivia.
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China is labeled as "Universal Healthcare" but its not "free". They have a system equivalent to the US's "ACA", most people purchase insurance through employers. Unemployed people have no insurance. Its not "free". And insurance doesn't cover a lot of things, just like in the USA.
I know because my parents regularly call our relative in mainland China over wechat, and I just asked my dad today because of a discussion on another Lemmy thread.
Seems like a drastic mislabeling if their “universal” care is the same as the US. That’s like saying we have universal thousand dollar bank accounts. Sure, everyone can get one. You just need to get the $1k first.
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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.
On a brighter note, apparently our casual friendliness with strangers is unusual elsewhere. So we've got that going for us, which is nice
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Thats "American style", while keeping the fork in the non-dominant hand is "European style". Allegedly, it dates back to when meals were served "service à la française", which is when all courses are brought out at once, which is obviously the more common method of home cooking. Restaurants started doing "service à la Russe", which is where courses are brought out one at a time.
With service russe, you have new sets of silverware with each course (or they are arranged in order), so if you are eating a course that doesn't need a knife, you won't be given one, and you'll have your fork in your dominant hand. If you need a knife, that goes in your dominant hand, and you leave it there for the duration of the course.
With service française (or regular home cooking), you just have one set of silverware, and you only use the knife when you need it, so you might switch your fork to your dominant hand when you are done needing the knife.
For example, in America, no one eats a steak switching hands for every bite (cause that would be dumb and inefficient), and in Europe, you probably wouldn't eat a meal that doesn't need a knife with a knife in your dominant hand (cause that would also be dumb and inefficient).
knife is always on the right, not the dominant hand. it's to make sure you don't bump into your neighbor by both doing the same movement at the same time.
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This whole conversation is weird to me. Fork in my dominant hand and knife in the other. Never seen anyone put their knife down or switch grips.
the fork should always be on the left, and the knife on the right, no matter your handedness.
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Apparently Germany is one of the few (the only? Who knows) country to prefer carbonated water.
Austrian here, and it's the default at restaurants etc. as well. I hate it, it hurts my throat. Leitungswasser bitte, danke
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Apparently Germany is one of the few (the only? Who knows) country to prefer carbonated water.
It is everywhere. I prefer water straight from the tap, which is usually better quality anyway (say the labs, not me).
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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.The 7-11 sells (and smells like) herbal tea eggs. That may be more than just here though. I can't remember if this applies in Japan as well. But definitely Taiwan.
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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]Being very touchy and physical.
Cheek kisses are usual for strangers. And it's normal to touch people you barely know or have a small friendship.
Country is Spain.
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I understand, it's just a weird behavior from a southern Europe point of view: when it's cold outside we close the windows to keep it out.
Also weird from my UK point of view: it's fucking freezing out them I'm not opening the windows. I do get that it's nice to have fresh air and you can always put the window in the vent position, but even when it's really cold you can feel it.
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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.Queuing apparently. Which I really don't understand wtf everyone else is doing to wait their turn. Well I guess except Japan.
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Apparently Germany is one of the few (the only? Who knows) country to prefer carbonated water.
When visiting France the carbonated water was ubiquitous. The company I work for have water fountains with the option of carbonated water in all of their French offices.
