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If you're still unsure (or need reminding) that the concept of normal is relative, there's one online thread that should, once and for all, convince you.

It began when Reddit user SackOfPotatoSacks made a post on the platform, asking everyone to share what's considered routine where they live but would probably be seen as something crazy everywhere else.

Immediately, people started describing the peculiarities of their local area that they've grown accustomed to, proving that culture seeps deeper into us than we often realize.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World My city is EXTREMELY bilingual, everyone speaks both English and French. You’ll hear people speak both languages in conversations quite often, sometimes in the same sentence. In stores, most of the time, people greet you with both languages and you reply in one of them, which tells them which language you prefer to talk in. They go "Bonjour, Hi!" And you say Bonjour back if you want to continue in French or Hi if you rather speak English. It’s kinda crazy.

I’m from Montréal, Canada.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World I live in Dublin and when we tell people who live in America that we put crisps in sandwiches they laugh at us. Just try it mate. It’s so good

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Free Sundays (germany)
Everything, literally everything is closed on Sundays which is amazing cuz everyone (except from the most essential like doctors, firefighters and the police) have a free day which is awesome!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! Some bakeries are open on sunday morning but that's it. But if one has to do some urgent shopping on a sunday, there are always fuel stations with slightly overpriced groceries.

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In Austria around Christmas/St Nicholas time we have events called "Krampusläufe" where people, mostly young (drunk) men dress up as demonic devil-like creatures called Krampus with fur suits, creepy masks and cow bells and pull of shows that include lots of fire, smoke, witch burns etc while mainly Ramstein plays in the back. They also like to whip people in the audience with cow tails. And hell yea we enjoy the show while getting drunk on hot punch. We even bring our kids along.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World In Australian rural towns we all had our back doors unlocked; and friends are allowed to go through the back door and make themselves a cup of tea/coffee while they wait for you to get back from whatever you were doing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not just rural towns. I grew up in Melbourne and this was true for everyone we knew in melbourne suburbs. We would come home and my mates would be in the living room or garage watching tv waiting for me to get home. Doors would never be locked...still rarely are to this day.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Experiencing 4 seasons every day. Jacket on, jacket off, it's sunny but it's raining, freezing and windy, then it's hot again... I like to wear shorts and puffer jacket combos for both extremes. Tasmania.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World In the Eifel, germany, on the night to 1st of may, people paint a long line from one house to another. The line means that someone in these households is having an affair. Every year several relationships break up because of this. I love it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am german but i have never heard of this. You truely learn something new every day.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Alligators. Just...everywhere. I live in a swampy area of Florida, and it's pretty normal to come across alligators in small ponds, ditches, around pools, or just chilling in a parking lot. I've nearly tripped on alligators more times than i'd like to admit. Thankfully they're pretty chill and won't really bother you unless you mess with them or go near a nest. The police are even trained to deal with rogue alligator calls.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World I live next to a game reserve in South Africa. It's not that surprising to hear baboons in your back yard, or spot a rhino 10 meters from your fence.

One time a whole troop of baboons ran over our roof. It's only corrugated iron and we all shat our pants.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pretty damn cool to live near game reserve, but for those that don't know SA - Baboons are actually pretty common in quite a few Cape Town suburbs too, mainly those bordering on our mountains. Spotting a baboon is pretty normal, like spotting cows on a road trip.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Madagascar. Every now and then we dig up corpses of our loved ones, bring 'em through the village where they lived for a visit, change the tissues they where covered in (several layers) with new ones and put them back in the grave and all that while partying.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's.... Weirdly.... Very caring though... Replacing the tissues and celebrating them...

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World I live in NJ and it’s illegal here for you to pump your own gas/fuel. All stations are full service by law. I believe Oregon is the only other state in the USA that has this law.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World In Norway it's normal to release two million sheep (read: ***two*** ***million*** ***sheep***) into the *wild*, mostly unsupervised, where an estimated *100.000* of them die to either injuries, illness or predators, with the farmers crying and complaining (usually only to that last one), and then repeat the same process again the next year, and every year after that.

Does Norway kind of have a f****d up and moronic sheep farming practice? Yes, yes we do.

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#13

Where I used to live in Manitoba, nobody had fences, mainly because when the properties were divided up, the town planners left space that belonged to the town behind all of them, that was just a strip of forest and Canadian shield. So almost nobody put up fences because it cut off their view & access to what was essentially a super cool nature trail network throughout the town. Everyone knew once you hit mowed grass, that belonged to someone. Us kids barely ever went anywhere on foot via roads or sidewalks, we always took the trails (we rode bikes on the roads though, there were too many rocks on the trails for a regular kid's bike)

Of course, living in a forest had some unintended consequences. We frequently had bears, so I remember when I wasn't even 5 yet being taught what to do if I saw a bear. And two separate years we had a mountain lion, which was a lot worse. The town would hire someone to trap and relocate these animals but it always took a while. I remember watching a bear lying down under the crabapple tree in our front yard just eating all the windfall apples for ages, not a care in the world.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Important distinction: was the bear a black bear or a grizzly bear? One is significantly more dangerous than the other.

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Driving 3 hours at 100km/h and still being in the middle of nowhere (Australia). In parts of Europe you’d have crossed 3 borders in that time

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Starting college, meeting your class on week 1 and then having introductory sauna the next week, boys and girls all drunk & nekkid. Finland :3

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like a good way to instill a healthier attitude towards the human body.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World People who are 12-14 driving tractors on the roads in rural Ireland. The legal minimum age is 16, but most farmers don't really care.

EDIT: I didn't realise that this is a rural thing. Still comes as a shock to urban people though.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Farmers' kids do that here too. Not much use for a tractor in urban areas though.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Driving over the mountains and shouting "mint sauce" out the window to the sheep....

Wales

( And fellow welshys... Don't lie..you know you've done it)

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#18

Free public transport in the whole country: buses, trains, trams.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this were universal it would make such a difference to so many people, as well as to the planet's carbon budget.

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Having your birthday party look like this:

Your livingroom is transformed so that there's a great circle of chairs with a coffeetable in the center.

If it's an afternoon party, guests will visit between 14:00 and 17:00 or 18:00 - 21:00, but not both! there's 1 timeslot for friends and 1 for family).

As a guest, you arrive, you congratulate the birthday boy or girl, hand over your present. Then you introduce yourself to the group if you don't know them yet. Then, you go over the circle and shake everyone's hand and ALSO congratulate them with so-and-so's birthday.

After making your way through the circle, you take your empty chair and that is now your seat for the rest of the party.

After everyone arrived, the birthday person will bring you a piece of cake and a beverage (usually coffee or tea). Everyone eats their cake and talks to the person sitting next to him/her.

After everyone is done, there'll be a tour of the house and any new things will be pointed out to you. Now is your moment to ask some questions like "oh, was it expensive?" and also compliment the host on how great it is.

After the tour there'll be another round of food and drinks, snacks will be laid out on the coffeetable, but you shouldn't eat much of it. This is the only food that will be brought out and everyone has to share it.

After guests were there for about 3 hours they'll leave again. Everyone knows they're expected to leave but you need to come off as really wanting to stick around longer but you just couldn't because the dog needs to go for a walk or something, make up any excuse that sounds probable.

Then, repeat the cycle again in the evening with the other group. The weekend after that, invite your close friends to come over and have the real party.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amazing how recognizable that is - they just forgot the awkward round of “lang zal die leven” and how there’s always small blocks of cheese.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This sounds so boring to me? I don't mean to be rude, culture is culture, but man. This seems like a job, not a celebration.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is, which is why my husband and I stopped going to birthday parties. When I go to a party, I want to mingle around, talk to anybody I want to talk to, not just the person next to me. And the 9th paragraph is strange to me because the Dutch are known to be open and honest and will just leave if and when they want to, without having to give any excuse. I've seen it happening so maybe this is another cultural trait I never saw.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That sounds like an introverts nightmare. EDIT: It's nice to know I'm not the only one that thinks this.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually I am introverted and like the idea of having this because it lacks randomness, the structure makes the discomfort less

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh gosh I thought, this sounds like my family and then I saw the comments about the Netherlands and that's where my family is from, I never knew! Wow the things you learn from Bored Panda.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Netherlands it is, but a more archaic way you could add is this: women sitting with women and men with men. Let’s also add to this that you talk.. I mean complain about the weather and when silence falls people tend to say; “he he, poe poe, sjonge jonge, nou nou”. These things are said to kill the - for Dutch people seen as very awkward - silence. 🥲 oh what a beautiful and rich culture we have /s

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been to a baby shower that was like this. I'm in Canada and the host family was Canadian. It was extremely weird to me but my background is European so we all just mingle in the kitchen.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel like this the formula for a baby/wedding shower in my part of the US. It's very structured (in a circle) and usually only women. We get our drinks and sit down. You are passive-aggressively discouraged from getting up from your seat to get another drink (usually mimosas). The bride/mom-to-be is handed a present, opens it and is then told who it's from. Then the individual present is passed around to everyone in the circle and everyone says, oh it's beautiful or oh it's gonna be so useful or oh! I have the same one! And to top it off the maid of honor or grandma-to-be sits to the right of the party girl and sticks all the present bows onto a paper plate so they can be saved for what the F I don't know. Then everyone helps clean up and you go home. I hate them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You forgot one extremely important part of this ritual! The official, second cup of coffee that every Dutch gathering is required, some say by LAW, to provide. Though I am not aware of anyone actually prosecuted for not offering a second cup, there is an old wive’s tale about a woman in 1963, in Utrecht, who forgot the second cup ! It was said that she was shunned out of town, and was forced to move to Belgium, where she eventually went mad.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gotta be honest, that sounds like hell. As host or guest, just.... hell

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As an introvert, with a family that did this for every birthday or other holiday... I'd just go, drop off whatever present I had, eat some cake or cheese cubes and then just leave quietly. My family knows this about me and doesn't mind.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Brazil (no idea why), the host is expected to lay all gifts over their bed and show each guests how many gifts they got before leading them to the actual party. Also, you *HAVE* to cut the first slice of the cake yourself if it is your birthday and give that slice to the friend you love the most! That's unavoidable! While you are cutting, it is common that those around you will start shouting the reasons why you should give THEM that slice (things like "remember that time we did X together?", "remember how you love my massage?" etc), which is a nice way of being remembered of good moments wirh your friends in a humorous tone. If you are too shy, confront adverse, a huge spoilsport or just a coward, you can take the safest, most diplomatic (and by far the most boring) road and give that precious first slice to one of your parents, a significant other or your own kid. People will usually boo that a bit as being super artificial and a coward's choice, but it's all in good fun.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol I’m an American who lived in The Netherlands for like 17 years. This is so accurate. Hahaha

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Deanna Wales
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This sounds so organized, intriguing, sophisticated, and lots of fun!! I would love to have that here (I'm in the southern part of Canada 😋)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was funny. It also sounds like an introvert's nightmare. I don't even have the 'real party' with my close friends. Being expected to do three parties sounds not fun to me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As an introvert (and Dutch) I always tried to just wave at everybody and say hi. I really really didn't want to go and shake everybody's hands or kiss the cheeks of the in-laws. I don't celebrate my birthday anymore and I visit others a week or so after their birthday, just so I don't have to go through the whole hassle.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We actually did something a bit similar growing up. Relatives would usually come over after supper and have some cake and buttered buns. No tour though, but otherwise pretty close

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is one thing that I would like to know: I was in Roermond shortly before new years and every grocery store had letters made of chocolate? Is that a kind of tradition in netherland?

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Carola Mirau
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, it’s for „Sinterklaas“, in German Nikolaus, and you‘ll get your initial in chocolate

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But in the first paragraph you say “there's 1 timeslot for friends and 1 for family”! Who do you invite to the real party???

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Joyce Deering
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isn't a party. It's punishment. Akkk! Boring and wayyyyy too long.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But do the children play games? It sounds a bit restrictive if you have to keep one seat for the whole party. In the UK, I went to a birthday party in someone's house and the house was so full of people I felt claustrophobic. So when I saw some people I knew, I sat down with them. But later I was criticised for not circulating and talking to other people.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I reeeeally hate this practise, and as a Dutch person, that is not ideal. My parents hate it and my sister and I happily went along with that. My mother call this "de lopende band afgaan" which translates roughly to "going along the conveyor", because everyone goes down the same line and sits down at the end, so it's noisy like you would not believe once more than two conversations are going.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember this, but without the tour and talking to the person next to you. Especially for the family part you had the favourite brand of smoke of your aunts and uncles on the table and from behind the smoke-curtain everyone is shouting to everyone. And at three o clock / nine o clock its time for alcohol. "Jenever" for the men, "Port" for the women (except grandma's "advocaatje") and beer for the kids over twelve. Nowadays you can't do any of those things anymore.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Screw that. What a hassle. We do one party that lasts 6 to 8 hours. Invited people can show up or not, whenever they want. Just know if you show up too late most of the food will be eaten. We will always have cake and ice cream left though.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The timeslot of 18.00 till 21.00 is incorrect because 18.00 is dinnertime in the Netherlands and guests are not expected to join dinner. Guests are welcome after 20.00 and leave between 22.00 and 23.00. The next day is work or school, so we have to go to bed early.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have ADHD, and had to persevere reading this before I got distracted. 🙂

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, the Netherlands. Although I've never experienced a tour of any house. And to be honest, I only see this still at parties of older generations. And even there, it's more relaxed. But maybe that's also because I'm from Brabant (?) Just wondering.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is an area in Denmark, where they do at least 7 kinds of cakes and at least 7 kinds of cookies. If you don't help yourself to at least three kinds of cakes and three kinds of cookies, the others will ask you if you're ill. The last cookie to be served is called Nothing because everybody can eat nothing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, with so many rules and restrictions, how do they leave any fun for the rest of us?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How exciting this sounds. (And I married one! We celebrate her birthday a little different now in the States.)

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Brazil: Apparently being in a restaurant for hours and hours and only eating in 1% of the time. We talk for hours before and after eating here, so we don't leave right after eating. Everyone I knew from other country found it strange

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Drinking alcohol for the first time when you're around 14 y/o. In Germany, it is legal to buy beer and wine when you're 16. So the majority of parents don't see it as a problem when the first drunk experience happens a few years earlier. Actually it is hard to find a teenager here that never tried alcohol before.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was one of this rare Teenagers (edit: not drinking Alkohol early... Actually i drank it. Just tried tiny Drops and i hate it. Even in Desserts or so) ... But i'm weird 😄

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Calling an uber instead of an ambulance or going to work while sick during a pandemic.

Gotta love freedom

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Romania. Being a witch/medium is an official job, meaning you need a permit, your profit is monitored and you pay taxes.

When killing a pig, raw skin covered in salt is the first food consumed, as it is considered a delicacy.

We also fill the pig's small intestine with a mixture of meat, rice and garlic and put it in the oven for about an hour. Yum!

Many people believe that if you look at a baby for too long, you can unknowingly put a curse on it, which will make it cry until you pour holy water on the child and pray to make the curse go away. Parents are an exception, they can not curse their own child.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah yes, that well known method of quieting a crying baby, tipping water on them

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Many (but not all) Germans restricting themselves to exactly one hot meal per day. I've heard sentences such as:

"No I can't, I already ate warm at lunch"
"I tried so hard to find a breakfast place that sells cold food"
"Let's just eat bread, I've had hot lunch"
"You can't eat two hot meals, that's too much"

I still don't get why it has to be no more and less than one hot meal? And why do breakfast pancakes not count as hot food?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is one thing I struggle with. I am Asian, born and raised in Germany. While being little i hated having rice every day. Sometimes up to three times. Then I moved in with my ex, with whom I still live with. He has bread for breakfast and bread for dinner, almost every day. If you add two pickled cornichons and two cherry tomatoes and maybe even a soft boiled egg for dinner, it's considered a feast. I couldn't function without proper hot meals and learned to appreciate my rice now 😅

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Today (in Japan)over a hundred people lined up (staggered for social distancing) at 9:00 am on a Saturday. First one hundred get a ticket. At 10:30 we all line up again. One at a time we draw a number; 1 to 5. Then we go over to a big basin of the best quality of rice and take as many scoops as the number we drew. You are encourage to make each scoop heaping. This is not a food bank thing (I hope) just the promise of “good rice” draws a crowd.
It was at a roadside tourist shop/complex.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Israel. Where I live, it is normal.for about 15% of the population not to work and get paid by the government since they are praying to God and that's important too. Off course, the rest of the ppl pay for them. f**k them and their god

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

15% unproductive adults is a hell of a lot for a society to carry. Although, I read, it's just the men that do this. The women are raised to be the workhorses in those cults (sorry, but if you raisechildren into this, it's a cult not a cloister/temple/monestary) and do ALL the work.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Welp, in Lithuania we have hill of crosses with over 200 k. crosses, we have a hotel where you live in a jail cell and ex KGB agents shout at you and dogs bark at you all the time.

labadiena8 , Pierre André Leclercq Report

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Sweden: The government has monopoly on any alcohol above 3.5% and can only be bought at one store dedicated to it.

industrialslave , John Blyberg Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same thing in Pennsylvania. You can only buy hard liquor like vodka, rum and whiskey at 'state stores'

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In Cincinnati we eat spaghetti noodles topped with a soup-like chili and a 1/4 pound of shredded cheddar cheese.

And it’s delicious.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Putting a block of cheese in your hot chocolate. Colombia.

NecroPaCo , frodinc Report

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