People Are Sharing 40 Things That Are Completely Normal In Their Culture But Would Be Considered Weird Elsewhere

It's your own fault for not being born rich.

Land of the sick.

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And then they get a gun!

Number 1 of course.

I will do as I wish in my own house, but follow the etiquette in someone else's.

No.

No, I don't ask people to take their shoes off, and I don't take my shoes off when I enter someone's house. If you have pets, how do you ask them to take the shoes off? Your "clean" house means that you have no dogs, or other pets. BTW, I have the PhD in pharmacy.

Speaking for the inland west of the US. I can say that up until very recently (1950s or so) there was very little differentiation between inside and outside. Most people farmed, animals came in and out, often had dirt floors. Taking off shoes wouldn't make any sense when you're coming in and out a thousand times a day. Now that's all changed very rapidly and seems super quaint nowadays, but there are boomers who still remember those times. The shoe thing is just a leftover from then. No one around here takes them off - though that's slowly changing.

Provide slippers and wash them afterwards. My feet get cold.

I'm German and I travelled South-East Asia when I was 20ish. Seeing swastikas literally everywhere weirded me out a little the first couple of days, due to them being illegal symbols over here. It's not my fault history happened, but I'm so sorry for all "my" people have done to the world. I'm just glad "we" are (mostly) at the other end of the spectrum nowadays, although there are still way too many right-wing morons and their number seems to be growing :(

true for buddhists...in fact, the symbol predates most modern religions

Yet, if you really look at the two you will notice the Nazi one is anti clockwise and the Hindo one is clockwise. In Hinduism, the right-facing symbol (clockwise) (卐) is called swastika, symbolizing surya ("sun"), prosperity and good luck, while the left-facing symbol (counter-clockwise) (卍) is called sauwastika, symbolising night or tantric aspects of Kali.

Actually in most of Asia swastikas mean something completely different. The actual meaning is luck and spiritually. Unfortunately here in the West a disgustingly sick group of persons hijacked that symbol and now everybody here only remembers the evil those people spread.

There's a difference between the swastika and the religious symbol, one is two zd's crossed over each other and the other is two ss's. They look similar but are very different a lot of Asia has the two zd's design.

In the US if you're not in sight of your child ( unless at school or whatever ( it's basically abandonment so you could not only get in trouble with the authorities but of course there are plenty of creeps out there who want to kidnap your kids.

Not only in good weather. Snow and rain and sleet and storm is common too, but then you place the pram out of the wind, some times with an extra tarp over the canopy. The children are wrapped up warm and sleep really well.

LIthuanian there, i can confirm. Also witnessed in Estonia and Sweden

It used to be common here in Czechia, but nowadays it's not.

Same in Finland. I'd take my daily trek to the grocery store, the baby would fall asleep and I'd just park him on the balcony to finish the nap. You can tell when they wake up by seeing the stroller start shaking, lol.

Awe so great to see my culture on here ❤️

There is so much intensity to this tradition! This is no ordinary tattoo, for sure! I can't imagine what this must be like. It sound both beautiful and intimidating. Your people must take so much pride in this!

What a lovely tradition!

Awww I love this! I'd be happy to sing to you and fan you! I'm not afraid of tattoos I have one...I just struggle to find things I want permanently on my body. I have a butterfly which for me symbolizes my personal ability to change and adapt.

While I'm not an Islander, I kinda want to see how that feels.