30 People Reveal The “Dumbest” Parts Of Their Cultures

Although not unique to the Arab world, this is the most toxic type of culture and value system on Earth. It is soul-crushing and destructive; it is no wonder there is so much violence of all kinds that emanate from areas where it dominates.

I wish this guy good luck to get out of that hateful country. He seems like a fine guy and deserves better than this

This is so powerful being written by an Arab man!

The older I get and the more I travel the world, the more I realize how toxic ALL religions are on society. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hindu, ANY of them turn us into fearful animals! I was born and raised super religious and thankfully am atheist now and I have since become a better, more caring human being, all the while becoming the most free I've ever been in my life!

The thing is that a lot of people that escape those "extremist hellholes" (quote from the post) continue to follow their culture where they escape to. And I may sound racist, islamophobe whatever - but no foreign culture creates as many troubles as the Islam here in middle and western Europe. Of course not everybody, I know a lot of very good people myself that fled or have a migration backround, but the overall situation is very troublesome

Even in Germany it is not as hard. Yes, we learn in school, what our ancestors did, but also, that we are not responsible for what happened and don't have to feel guilt. Yet we shall never forget.

Japan is a mental health disaster. The work culture, the fact that Japanese psychiatric hospitals restrain patients about 100x as much on average compared to western psychiatric hospitals, the whole shame thing and ignoring individuality...

Tradition is peer pressure from dead people.

As someone who has lived in Japan, I get really mad when Westerners see news articles about Japanese people being chivalrous and think it’s easy to live there. They have as many struggles as Westerners; just different ones.

My (Japanese) SIL and Brother hide from her family she is on anti-depressants bc it means her father and brothers could loose their jobs bc it shows "something is wrong with the family" That is how she explained it to me. The only reason why they get away with it is bc they are in the US now and they are far enough away people wont find out

I work for a high school and our district superintendent has banned staff from giving out tampons (that would be given to the schools by many different organizations). He is worried about toxic shock syndrome :/. Like lets make these poor girls run around with practically a diaper on because you are uneducated. SMH

And now we find out that menstrual blood contains stem cells that could cure a whole host of diseases. No wonder the men are afraid of us!

These wouldn't happen to be religious beliefs? How can fantasy novels about fictitious characters still have so much impact. Life would be so much better without all these dumb gods ruining everything.

Is anyone in charge of checking that they are indeed menstruating...?

It's same in many Buddhist temples too :( saw I few signs in Thailand

And people have actually DIED at these idiot events due to some fool explosion.

Gender reveals squick me out. Not even the big parties - just the whole pomp of the “finding out scan”. I don’t know why. I just don’t get it.

Look, I’m glad you’re having a kid and all, and I hope everything comes out fine. But knowing in advance what brand of downstairs plumbing the kid will be sporting is not all that crucial to me.

And what if later (after the parents have spent millions on a gender reveal party) the baby grows up and (like myself) identifies as trans or non binary. Big waste

Gender reveal started fire that caused loss of life, injury and property. thankfully they are getting jail time, community service and order to pay $1.7 in restitution https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/12/california-gender-reveal-party-wildfire-guilty

Sooooooo glad I didn't bite on that!!! Whole wedding was $200 rings and all 🤣

That's not culture specific! Unfortunately, it's a worldwide fact!

As someone who made a decent living running ridiculously expensive weddings at a ridiculously expensive hotel I wholeheartedly disagree with this post 😂 keeping weeding planners, caterers, DJs, bands, florists, dress makers, room decorators, suit rental businesses, tailors, celebrants, hotel & bar staff, chauffeurs, and myriad of other businesses going thanks to insane humans who waste thousands on their (unrealistic) dream wedding. Thanks for the money btw 😀

I don't really remember any of the weddings I've been to. I know I went, grudgingly, but can't recall much. Nice use of $20K or more.

this is why my parents eloped

This is outrageous backward thinking. America has a caste system too, just hidden and sneakier about it! Religious "beliefs" are at the core of both and the main purpose is to keep the rich richer and the poor poorer!

Can someone explain what the caste system is?

Class system too....