37 Things That Are Normal In Some Countries, Yet Make The Rest Of The World Confused

In Danmark we watch "Dinner for one" on new years eve too. I like to imitate the butler when serving guests.

When I (British) moved to Germany and everyone kept quoting this at me, I had no idea what was going on. The Germans assumed we Brits must be familiar with it when in fact almost no one has ever heard of Dinner for One in the English-speaking world.

That sounds awfully dark 💀

It’s a must watch on Finnish television too. Every new years eve. Although everybody knows what happens. 😂

It airs in Sweden too.

Disney is HUGE in the Nordic countries, and especially the Duck universe comics (Mickey Mouse not that much). Don't know that much about the other countries, but in Finland Disney entered the market in a bang in 1951, WW2 had ended some six years ago, food rationing were at last ending, war reparations to Soviet Union were already almost paid and life started to look a little bit normalized already, people started buying cars and also the idea of a popular subscription based comic magazine (or Americans would say "comic book" I guess) started seem viable. So, Disney printed some 400 000 copies of sampler of the Donald Duck magazine for Christmas 1951 and sent them to families for free. Not everyone subscribed for the magazine, but it struck and soon it became a the most popular magazine in the whole country with several hundred thousands of subscribers, usually those were families with several children, but also the parents read it top.

I miss that from my childhood. Those special once a year shows that we would plan our week around. The anticipation for it to come on was real!

Same. I absolutely hate this pointless small talk.

Unless you're from the southern United States, not all of us, but a lot of us will talk your ears off

The point is not that they are swearing, it's that every conversation with every second word being a swear word and you get sick of waiting for the point, because they don't have any capability for nuances in their sentences. The vocabulary is so limited. It's tiresome, and pointless. Swearing if you're angry? Fine. Swearing just to prove how cool you are? Give me a break. Literally.

Depends on where you are. People from Rotterdam do this as well. They also use a lot of swear words as words of endearment

Thank you for not moving

It's not just India. My partner's family are Indian, although his parents both grew up in Kenya, and he and his siblings were born in Britain. His parents had a true arranged marriage, his older brother and sister were both introduced to their spouses by their families as a desirable match (so not so much arranged but desired). My partner, who is 8 years younger than his nearest sibling, was not subject to this and met his ex-wife at university

But it is also common for the new wife to move into her in-laws' home. So sometimes the new husband hasn't left at all, except to perhaps get a degree

It's Indian culture to live with your parents. We're not expected to move out when we turn 18. I'm 35, unmarried, and still living at home with my mom and its not considered a big deal at all. It's also Indian culture to not have young women and men mix and many conservatives consider it taboo so sometime it's almost impossible for men and women to meet organically and form relationships. Dating culture exists of course, but mainly in the bigger cities and in a smaller scale. That being said, arranged marriages are/were so common and happen in various parts of the world and parents used to set their kids up to inherit property, titles, land, etc.

It’s even worse. While advertising and pop culture are heavily sexualized, in education, sex is treated as taboo. Nudity is given even stricter age restrictions than violence, creating a perfect recipe for sexual frustration. In many other countries, like the Netherlands, sex education begins before puberty. This doesn’t necessary involve discussions about intercourse but rather topics like intimacy, consent, and body autonomy. By the time kids reach puberty, they have a solid understanding of these subjects. As a result, sex is no longer a giggly taboo but recognized as a natural and fundamental aspect of life. In fact, the Netherlands has the lowest rates of teenage pregnancy due to this approach. Meanwhile, in the US, parents freak out if their child sees a wee-wee.

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In Finland, it is also normal that small children do not have bathing suits on public beaches. Likewise, you may be topless on the public beach, regardless of gender and age. The law does not prohibit it.

It’s finland they don’t feel the cold