What’s a super “normal” thing in your country that would completely confuse or shock someone visiting for the first time?

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What’s a super “normal” thing in your country that would completely confuse or shock someone visiting for the first time?

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  1. LunaTwist77 Avatar

    Only in America do we treat healthcare like ordering from a mystery menu. You get the treatment first and find out the price never. Hope you enjoyed that $7,000 band-aid 😭

  2. CatsBinLaggin Avatar

    Casual alcoholism of Czech people. We love beer. (me included).

  3. MilitantAngeleno Avatar

    People shooting innocent children with automatic rifles.

  4. Numerous-Section-805 Avatar

    Vietnam- crossing the road

  5. lHaveBalls Avatar

    Overcrowded places especially on weekends or during festivals. (India)

  6. dizkopat Avatar

    Stupidly large cars

  7. Fender335 Avatar

    We drink, a lot!!!

  8. QDunis1 Avatar

    How good the food is.

  9. Jus_Caus_SC_Poet Avatar

    How many people drink and drive. It’s noticeable at any restaurant or bar.

  10. Marcysdad Avatar

    Germany- envy is the highest form of compliment.

    Saying phrases like “I’m happy for you” or “good for you” are automatically perceived as sarcastic.

  11. Alert_Green_3646 Avatar

    Not calling an ambulance cause you can’t afford it

  12. Frequent-Lock7949 Avatar

    Drinking in parks as teenagers

  13. km6669 Avatar

    That were not trusted to have electricity in bathrooms but can just step into a road and everything bigger than a bicycle is legally obliged to stop for you.

  14. MangoDry7358 Avatar

    Earthquakes, hobbit holes, the word ‘chur’ and super kind hospitality

  15. Grindelbart Avatar

    Germany:

    Sundays are for silence. No mowing lawns, no working outside, no loud parties, no annoying anoyne with your choices.

    Sundays. Are. For. Silence.

    And it’s the best thing ever.

  16. saggysideboob Avatar

    Selling food on the top of their heads (Ghana)

  17. barbeqdbrwniez Avatar

    Specific to my state, but iguanas falling from trees in the winter.

  18. elrangarino Avatar

    Tying cask wine to a washing line lmao

  19. Tattoo-oottaT Avatar

    Our food practices confuse most people until they try them themselves. For example, we put cheese in our hot chocolate and fruit salads, honey on our fried chicken, and we eat a milk and water “soup” with an egg inside for breakfast

  20. Fun-Interaction8196 Avatar

    I’m from Appalachia and something that always makes outsiders curious is the way we wave to people on the road, even if we don’t know them. It’s just a short acknowledgement, a light lifting of the fingers from the steering wheel. It’s literally just a sign of respect to your neighbors on the road.

  21. I_love_pillows Avatar

    Takeaway coffee or tea in bags

  22. deenali Avatar

    Eating the durian and thoroughly enjoying it.

  23. rowan_damisch Avatar

    In Germany, stores tend to be closed on Sundays (and those who are open need a special permission to be this way).

  24. The_Business_Maestro Avatar

    How often we say Cunt. Ayeee sick cunt, Oi dog cunt, CUNT!!

    It’s a versatile word. Means both mate, and enemy.

    Can you guess the country?

  25. Toucan_Based_Economy Avatar

    We have multiple levels on our the bushfire risk scale.

    “Very high” is in the middle. The final level is “catastrophic”.

  26. Lolakery Avatar

    Winter snowstorm in April

  27. Icy_Membership3657 Avatar

    Swastika sign on the doors and walls.

  28. h1_flyer Avatar

    Fermented herring as a snack.

  29. Wind_Responsible Avatar

    School shootings and other violence against children.

  30. Aggravating-Day-2864 Avatar

    Driving on the right

  31. DirtyPanda Avatar

    Other countries: We cross the street weird and you can’t make noise on Sundays.

    America: School shootings, Going to debt trying to be educated or going to the hospital. WOOF

  32. datura_euclid Avatar

    The tradition of Three Kings (epiphany) in Czechia.

  33. fernandaffp Avatar

    We eat chicken hearts, barbecued. It’s delicious. (Brazil)

  34. Clemen11 Avatar

    Mate 🧉 culture. People cannot comprehend how casually Argentines and Uruguayans will share their drink and the ONE SINGULAR STRAW we drink it from with strangers

  35. DanBelnK Avatar

    Mass shootings.

  36. alarming_wrong Avatar

    we have carpet in our toilets

  37. rayneedshelpMentally Avatar

    Israel:

    Soldiers and people walking with guns and pistols everywhere at all times

  38. Unicron1982 Avatar

    Quiet talking. Especially people from America (north and south) told me this.
    Here in Switzerland, it is considered rude to disturb others, so you’ll talk in a volume that does not bother others. Especially in public transport. And don’t you dare to talk in a cinema.

  39. sweet_kitty26 Avatar

    Two words: Swooping Season.

    Not unique to our country but I’m not sure it’s as prevalent anywhere else 😂

  40. ripkrustysdad Avatar

    Netherlands. First Monday of the month at 12pm. It’s not an air raid but it sure sounds like it.

  41. N3MO_Sports Avatar

    Putting babies alone outside in their strollers under the winter so they can nap.

  42. Healthy-Tap7717 Avatar

    The courtesy head nod in the UK when someone stops to let you cross the road

  43. Amy_Reddit01 Avatar

    Small kids going to school on their own.

  44. Savings-Pop5025 Avatar

    We say sorry. A lot.

  45. tyates723 Avatar

    Pay to win healthcare

  46. ShesAaRebel Avatar

    That gay people have the same rights as straight people.

    Also how progressive my country is when compared to others, and that it’s not a “new” thing. I grew up with may of the things already being written into law, and I viewed it as normal.

  47. Kimikohiei Avatar

    Beaches are free.

    You won’t find weird ropes in the water that won’t let you swim past them. There won’t be lifeguards watching out for your safety. There aren’t cops patrolling to make sure you don’t swim at night. There’s no guarded entrance to pay a fee to pass. You just lay down your towel and enjoy!
    (You might have to buy a beverage to ‘pay’ for an existing lounge chair though!)

  48. SubAussie_ Avatar

    How we almost never need to wear shoes and most of us end up in even big name brands shops completely shoeless/just casually walking outside shoeless

  49. I_Eat_Chili Avatar

    Here in Belgium we like to eat horse meat.

  50. bigpapichulo_ Avatar

    I’m American. I think a lot of things we do people think might be weird.

  51. The-Seraphim-of-Hell Avatar

    Car guards, calling traffic lights ‘robots’, calling filling stations a ‘garage’

    I don’t think I need to elaborate further

  52. OmaskO Avatar

    Raping little boys in afghanistan

  53. Buffyoh Avatar

    Widespread ownership of firearms.

  54. LessSaussure Avatar

    Idk about the rest of the world, but I think americans will get shocked that in Brasil not only the vote is mandatory, but you need to prove your identity with an official ID and your digital fingerprints before you do it. We vote through a machine and it only works after it validates your digital

  55. Mysterious_Elk_9733 Avatar

    A woman can breastfeed anywhere and anytime. No worries about covering up. Be it public transport, a restaurant, wherever. Baby can even take a rest and the nipple hangs out.
    We just don’t consider feeding your baby as sexual. I know it’s shocking to people from the western world but it’s equally shocking to us that some people, somewhere consider something as basic as feeding babies, sexual and will refuse a baby’s basic needs in public because of this.

  56. _nairual_nae Avatar

    Identifying someone based on apparence or pretty much everything is socially acceptable. For example if you ask someone “hey, who is Mark and where I can find him?” it’s totally normal to get explanations like “the fat guy over there” “the skinny dude” “the priest looking one with big beard” same goes for women “that skinny lady over there” “the fat woman with red shirt” etc

  57. Ariemou Avatar

    You can walk into basically any store and buy a firearm

  58. strictnaturereserve Avatar

    we drive on the left side of the road

  59. g4nt1 Avatar

    Women can’t legally take the name of their husband when they get married. There birth last name needs to be used for everything « legal »

  60. cardboard-kansio Avatar

    Finland: naked in the sauna. But what if it’s in a public pool? Naked. Changing cubicle? Nope, communal space and communal showers. Naked. There are even signs next to the public sauna doors with a picture of a swimming costume and an X over the top.

    In fact, if you go to the Yrjönkatu public pool in Helsinki, you can be naked in the swimming pool during dedicated times. Certainly, at most private homes or cottages, you’ll be naked in the sauna possibly in mixed gender company, and naked into the frozen lake to swim too.

    It’s just human bodies. We all have them.

  61. Neurotic_Good42 Avatar

    Building a major city riiiight next to an active volcano

  62. equixyy Avatar

    usa- Tipping. The idea that your meal costs $20 but you’re expected to leave an extra $5 just because someone brought it to you? That throws a lot of visitors off real fast.